Association for Research in Personality

2008 Pre-Conference

 

Wednesday Evening, February 6, 2008

Opening Session

 

Keynote Address: What can we hope to learn from the genetics of personality?

Eric Turkheimer, University of Virginia

Introduction by Tom Oltmanns, Washington University

 

Thursday, February 7, 2008 Session

 

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

 

10:40-12:00 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

 

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

 

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?