Organisers: Michael Kernis and Mark Leary

PROGRAMME

8.30 - 9.30: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9.00 - 10.30: In Defence of the Self

Prejudice and performance: Dealing with self-image threats
Steven Fein - Williams College

On self-defensiveness: How is self-inconsistent information processed?
Constantine Sedikides - University of Southampton

Rankian, Jungian, and Rogerian dualities of self:
Some empirical inroads in the study of psychological defence
Jeff Greenberg - University of Arizona

Overcoming defensiveness and other obstacles to self-assessment
Yaacov Trope - New York University

10.30 - 11.00: BREAK

11.00 - 12.30: Self-Regulation

Deautomatizing unwanted behaviour: The process of regulating the self out of its ruts
Margo Monteith - University of Kentucky

Illegal, immoral, or fattening: Affect regulation undermines self-regulation
Diane Tice - Case Western Reserve University

Some thoughts on principles underlying behavioural self-regulation
Charles Carver - University of Miami

Comparing nonconscious and conscious goal pursuit
John Bargh - New York University

12.30 - 2.00: LUNCH

2.00 - 3.30: Perspectives on Esteem and Identity

Is the need for self-esteem universal?
Steven Heine - University of Pennsylvania

Ideographic management of self-esteem
Michael Strube - Washington University

The impostor phenomenon: Disentangling self- from social evaluations
Mark Leary - Wake Forest University

Studying stigmatized identities using the Implicit Association Test
Antony G. Greenwald - University of Washington
with Mahzarin R. Banaji, Jane E. Swanson, Brian A. Nosek, and Deborah S. Mellot

3.30 - 4.00: BREAK

4.00 - 5.00: KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The self in action: A functionalist perspective on personality, motivation, and social behaviour
Mark Snyder - University of Minnesota