Personality Pre-conference Schedule Thursday, February 3, 2000

(See also the SPSP main conference schedule. For registration information.)

8:50-9:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker: Robert Hogan (Univ. of Tulsa)

Reinventing Personality

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:50 SYMPOSIUM I: Emerging Perspectives in Personality Lisa Feldman Barrett (Boston College)
Personality and Emotion: The Conceptual Value of Variations in Emotion Structure

Brent Roberts, (University of Illinois)
What if personality traits change in adulthood?
Laura King, (Southern Methodist University)
Lost and Found Possible Selves: The role of what might have been in subjective well-being and personality development.
Robert Krueger, (University of Minnesota)
Personality is a vital construct in the study of pressing social problems: The perspective of epidemiological personology

11:50-1:20 LUNCHEON

1:20-3:00 SYMPOSIUM II: Autobiographical Memory and Personality: Breaking New Ground in Content, Context and Function Barbara Woike (Barnard College)

The role of personality motives in determining the content and structure of autobiographical memory
Avril Thorne and Kate McLean (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
Context and consequences of telling self-defining memories in adolescence
Jennifer Pals, (Univ. of California-Berkeley) and Richard Robins (University of California, Davis)
Positive self-transformation in autobiographical memory: Findings from two longitudinal studies
Jefferson Singer (Connecticut College)
Cultural and Functional Aspects of Autobiographical Memories

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15-5:00 SYMPOSIUM III: Type Theory in Personality
Richard Robins (Univ. of California, Davis)
Personality Types, Subtypes, and Their Behavioral Implications
Oliver P. John (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Three personality types in women: Antecedents and life paths
Daniel Hart (Rutgers University)
Personality type and educational achievement
Per Gjerde (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Life paths from preschool through young adulthood: A study of developmental types
Chris Fraley (University of California, Davis)
Reconsidering personality types

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