The Preconference on the Self was held on Thursday, October 6th, at the conference hotel (Hyatt Regency Islandia) from 9:00AM to 5:30PM.  There were three separate sessions as well as an address by Claude Steele, winner of the ISSI Lifetime Achievement award.  All were welcomed to attend.  Any questions about the preconference may be directed to the conference organizers:  Bill Klein and Kathy Oleson.  SELF PRECONFERENCE SCHEDULE 8:30: Continental Breakfast 9:00: Introduction 9:15-10:45: SESSION 1: How is the Self Constructed? *  Michael Inzlicht & Joshua Aronson - Impaired self-structure: The costs of stereotype vulnerability to stigmatized            college students *  Allen McConnell - Self-complexity as a framework for self-concept organization: Representation, processes, and implications *  Robert Arkin - Self-doubt 10:45-11:00: Break 11:00-12:00: ISSI Lifetime Achievement Award Address: Claude Steele - Social identity as identity contingencies. 1:15-3:15: SESSION 2: Applying Self-Theories to Health Outcomes *  Traci Mann - The role of attention in the self-control of health behaviors *  Peter Ditto - I did it all for the cookie: Visceral influences on health-related behavior *  Jamie Arndt - Beauty and the Beast: Health implications of self-related defenses against the awareness of creatureliness and death. *  Michael Sayette - A motivated reasoning analysis of the effects of cigarette craving on generation and evaluation of smoking-related information 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:30: SESSION 3: The Influence of Social Cognition on Understanding the Self  *  Sandra Murray - A dyadic perspective on felt security in close relationships *  Arie Kruglanski - The new (cognitive) look on motivation: An anatomy of a trend *  John Bargh - In self defense: The martial arts of social cognition *  Tracy DeHart and Brett Pelham - Origins of implicit self-esteem