Association for Research in Personality (ARP)

First Stand-Alone Conference

Evanston, IL

July 17-18, 2009

Program

Friday, July 17

8:30-9:00 Welcome. Bill Revelle, President of ARP.

9:00-9:50 Opening Keynote Address. Personality in Full: The Person as

Actor, Agent, and Author. Dan P. McAdams.

10:00-11:15 Symposia 1 and 2.

Personality in the Magnet: Using fMRI to Study Individual

Differences. Colin G. de Young, Jeremy R. Gray, Angus W.

MacDonald, and Brian W. Haas.

Challenges in Cultural Comparisons of Personality Traits and

Processes: Can We Trust Self-Reports? Laura P. Naumann,

Oliver P. John, Emma E. Buchtel, Nairan Ramirez-Esparaza,

and Joshua Eng.

11:15-11:30 Coffee break.

11:30-12:45 Symposia 3 and 4.

Hierarchical Models of Personality: What’s Up? Ken Sheldon,

Jack Mayer, Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, and Brian Little.

Personality Change and Psychopathology: Effects of Onset,

Persistence, and Environmental Interventions. Brian M. Hicks,

Ana C. DiRago, Wendy Johnson, and Daniel M. Blonigen.

12:45-2:00 Lunch.

2:00-3:15 Symposia 5 and 6.

Investigating the Personality of President Barack Obama. Ed de

St. Aubin, Leslie Hauser, James Anderson, and Alan Elms.

Personality and Economics. Ulrich Schimmack, Richard E. Lucas,

Maike Luhmann, and Frank M. Spinath.

3:15-3:30 Coffee break.

3:30-4:45 Symposia 7 and 8.

Digging Deeper: Probing the Connections between Personality

and Physical Health. Grant Edmonds, Daniel K. Mroczek,

Timothy W. Smith, Sarah E. Hampson, and Robert Wilson.

Advances in Research on Personality and Social Relationships.

Lars Penke, Jaap Denissen, Mitja Back, and Michela

Schroder-Abe.

4:45-6:00 Poster Session 1 (with drinks).

Saturday, July 18

8:30-9:45 Poster Session 2 (with breakfast).

10:00-11:15 Rising Stars Symposium

Jonathan M. Adler (Northwestern University): The Co-Evolution

of Narrative Identity and Mental Health over the Course of

Psychotherapy: Results from a Prospective, Longitudinal Study.

Joshua J. Jackson (University of Illinois): Variation in the

Serotonin Transporter Gene Moderates the Effect of Family

Environment on Negative Emotionality.

Nicholas A. Turiano (Purdue University): Conscientiousness and

Openness as Predictors of Mortality.

Simone Walker (University of Toronto, Mississauga): A Multi-

Method, Multi-Trait Examination of Gratitude and Relationship

Quality.

Discussant: Brent Roberts.

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break.

11:30-12:45 Symposia 9 and 10

New Directions in Genetically-Informed Personality Research.

Kali Trzesniewski, Robert F. Krueger, P. A. Vernon, and Kirby

Deater-Deckard.

Interrelations among Emotion Regulation, Personality, and

Personality Pathology: Multimodal Assessments across the

Life-Span. Robert D. Latzman, Kim L. Gratz, Patricia Z. Tan,

Timothy J. Trull, and Ann M. Kring.

12:45-2:00 Lunch.

2:00-3:15 Symposia 11 and 12

The Mind of the Beholder: What Interpersonal Perception

Research Says about Perceivers and Meta-Perceivers. Sanjay

Srivastava, Jeremy Biesanz, Simine Vazire, and Dustin Wood.

Personality in Developmental Context: Evidence from Early

Childhood to Late Adulthood. Jennifer L. Tackett, C. Emily

Durbin, M. Brent Donnellan, and Thomas F. Oltmanns.

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break.

3:30-4:45 Symposia 13 and 14

Personality, Intelligence, and Economics. Angela Duckworth,

William J. Shadel, Daniel Benjamin, Lex Borghans, and Brent

Roberts.

Future Directions for Linking the Study of “Normal” Personality

with the Study of Personality Pathology. Edward A. Witt,

M. Brent Donnellan, Chrisopher Hopwood, Joshua D. Miller,

Rebecca Shiner, and Robert F. Krueger.

4:45-5:00 Break.

5:00-6:00 Closing Keynote Address

Title? James Heckman.