Organizers: Jeff Greenberg and David Dunning

PROGRAM

Symposium I: Self-Regulation

Dianne Tice & Ellen Bratslavsky, Case Western Reserve University
If you feel bad, do it!: Regulating emotional distress takes precedence over impulse control

Gabrielle Oettingen, New York University
Turning hopes and fears into rational behavior

Peter Gollwitzer, New York University
Becoming a better person without changing the self

Daniel Wegner, Harvard University & Lea Winerman, University of Virginia
The participants who mistook others' arms for their own

Symposium II: Construction of the Self-Concept

Justin Kruger, University of Illinois
The road to self-enhancement is paved with good intentions

Penelope Lockwood, University of Toronto
Could it happen to you? Predicting the impact of downward comparisons on the self

Mark Alicke, Ohio University
Does anything we do matter?

Abe Tesser, Ohio State University
The real self: A biosocial approach

Symposium III: Self and Others

Jamie Arndt, University of Missouri
To be or not to be...affiliated with the ingroup: Identification and disidentification as terror management defenses

Dov Cohen, University of Waterloo
The syndrome of honor and the re-creation of cultural patterns

Brenda Major, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cognitive and emotional implications of concealing a stigma

Daniel Batson, University of Kansas
What happens to our self when we care for others?

Keynote Address

Ed Diener, Shige Oishi, & Robert Biswas-Diener, University of Illinois
Culture and positive experience

A Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30. The formal program begins at 9 am. Lunch will be provided, as will coffee, tea, and assorted snacks during breaks. Registration cost is $65. To register, please fill out the following form and return to the listed address. Registration must be received by September 22, 2000.

Registration for Self Preconference, SESP, 2000

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Please return this form, along with a check for $65, to Amber Story at Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC 29801. Please make checks out to the International Society for Self and Identity (or "ISSI"). Deadline: September 22, 2000.