Association for Research in Personality
2008 Pre-Conference
Albuquerque Convention Center
Acoma/Tesuque/Zuni Room
Wednesday Evening, February 6, 2008
Opening Session
5:00 Registration & Poster Set-Up, Garden Foyer (outside the Acoma/Tesuque/Zuni room)
6:00 Welcoming Remarks
Program Committee
6:15–7:15 Keynote Address: What can we hope to learn from the genetics of personality?
Eric Turkheimer, University of Virginia
Introduction by Tom Oltmanns, Washington University
7:15–9:00 Posters & Cash Bar, Garden Foyer
Thursday, February 7, 2008 Session
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Psychological Assessment Resources
Thursday, February 7, 2008 Session
7:45–8:10 Coffee & light breakfast
8:10 Announcements
8:15-9:35 Symposium: Temperament and the Development of Personality and Psychopathology
Sam Putnam, Bowdoin College, (co-chair)
Rebecca Shiner, Colgate University (co-chair)
Daniel Klein, Stony Brook University
Low positive emotionality in preschool-aged children and risk for depressive
disorders
Kristin Buss, Pennsylvania State University
Dysregulated fear behavior from two to six years: Effects of context and
parenting
Kirby Deater-Deckard, Virginia Tech
Attention span and task persistence in childhood
Samuel Putnam, Bowdoin College
Approach, inhibition, and self-regulation in relation to behavior problems in
early childhood
9:35-10:20 J.S. Tanaka Dissertation Award Invited Talk: Hierarchies in the structure of personality traits
Kristian Markon, University of Iowa
Introduction by Robert Kreuger, University of Minnesota
10:20 Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 Symposium: Animal Personality
Sam Gosling, University of Texas Austin (chair)
Thomas E. Malloy, Rhode Island College
A novel approach to understanding cross situational consistency in behavior
John P. Capitanio, University of California Davis
The role of personality in health-related outcomes: Evidence from studies with
Rhesus monkeys
Andy Sih, University of California Davis
A behavioral ecologist's view on animal personalities
12:00–1:30 Lunch & Business Meeting, Garden Foyer
President’s Report
Julie Norem, Past President
Bill Revelle, President
JRP Report
Dan Morgan, Publisher JRP, Elsevier
Will Fleeson, Associate Editor
1:00-1:30 SPSP Registration, Garden Foyer
1:30–2:50 Jack Block Award Symposium: Personality, emotion, and well-being
Ed Diener, University of Illinois (honoree, discussant)
Introduction by Lynne Cooper, University of Missouri Columbia
Randy Larsen, Washington University
Emotion and Cognition
Shigehiro Oishi, University of Virginia
Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: A legacy of Ed Diener
Ulrich Schimmack and Ivana Anusic, University of Toronto at Mississauga
Longitudinal stability and change in subjective well-being
2:50 Break
3:10–4:30 Symposium: Idiographic Methods: Advances in conceptualizing and studying the person in personality
William Shadel, Rand Corporation (chair)
Dan Cervone, University of Illinois at Chicago (discussant)
Yuichi Shoda, University of Washington
Patterns of within-person behavioral variation: A case for personality psychology
James Grice, Oklahoma State University
Exploring aggregates and individuals with generalized Procrustes analysis
Greg Mumma, Texas Tech University
Idiographic assessment in clinical case formulation: Where’s the science?
4:30 Adjourn
2008 ARP Pre-Conference Program Committee
Will Fleeson, Wake Forest University, Coordinator
Lynne Cooper, University of Missouri Columbia, Program Planner
Rebecca Shiner, Colgate University, Logistics Planner
Shannon Holleran, Graduate Student Liaison