Dear colleagues,
below please find an announcement and call for papers for an expert meeting on the "Big Two: Agency and Communion" that will take place in October 2010 in Germany (near Munich), which may be of interest to APA Division 20 members .
Best regards
Frieder R. Lang
Professor of Psychology and Gerontology
Director Institute of Psychogerontology
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naegelsbachstr 25, D-91052 Erlangen, Germany
Phone: +49 9131 85-26526, Fax: +49 9131 85-26554,
Email: flang@geronto.uni-erlangen.de
http://www.geronto.uni-erlangen.de
http://www.izg.uni-erlangen.de
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
GeroPsych -- The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
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Expert Meeting: The ³Big Two² Content Dimensions in Social Cognition and Behavior.
Neuendettelsau, Germany, October 13th to 16th 2010
Sponsored by ESCON and German Research Foundation (DFG)
One of the very significant developments in psychology is the realization that the same two fundamental content dimensions underlie judgments of the self, of others, social groups, nations, and cultures. At the positive end of the warmth/communion dimension are characteristics such as warm, friendly, honest, and caring, while those at the negative end include deceitful, cold, and callous. Positive characteristics associated with the competence/agency dimension include competent, intelligent, ambitious, and self-confident, while those at the negative end included inefficient, indecisive, and lazy. These fundamental content dimensions might constitute a meta-theoretical basis for combining different fields of psychology and beyond.
The conference aims to bring together a group of about 25 scholars who are concerned with the ³Big Two² in their research. We plan to publish conference proceedings.
Sponsored by ESCON and German Research Foundation (DFG)
One of the very significant developments in psychology is the realization that the same two fundamental content dimensions underlie judgments of the self, of others, social groups, nations, and cultures. At the positive end of the warmth/communion dimension are characteristics such as warm, friendly, honest, and caring, while those at the negative end include deceitful, cold, and callous. Positive characteristics associated with the competence/agency dimension include competent, intelligent, ambitious, and self-confident, while those at the negative end included inefficient, indecisive, and lazy. These fundamental content dimensions might constitute a meta-theoretical basis for combining different fields of psychology and beyond.
The conference aims to bring together a group of about 25 scholars who are concerned with the ³Big Two² in their research. We plan to publish conference proceedings.
We invite contributions to the following topics:
- biological basis of processing information belonging to one of the fundamental dimensions;
- measurement issues both within and across languages; psycholinguistic aspects; relationship between both dimensions;
- the Big Two in personality research; self-presentation; self-esteem; relationship to other personality constructs, etc.
- the Big Two in social psychological research; self-other differences, group perception, stereotyping, gender issues, face perception, interpersonal behavior, etc;
- the Big Two in work and organizational psychology; impact on career development; leadership issues; mentoring; relationship to proactivity, core self-evaluations, etc.;
- the Big Two in economic psychology; impact on decision making and choice;
- the Big Two in health psychology; impact on health-related behaviour, on symptom reporting, etc.
- the Big Two in life-span psychology; changes over the life span, relationship to well-being and longevity, etc.
The conference will be held from October 13th to October 16th in Neuendettelsau, Germany. The place is small and quiet and is located Nuremberg and Munich (nearest airport is Nuremberg). Surrounding the presentations the schedule will allow enough time for informal discussions.
Conference participation will be partly funded (accommodation, meals). Please send an extended abstract of the work you would like to present to
expertmeeting@psy.phil.uni-erlangen.de
Deadline for submissions: July, 10th, 2010
After review the scientific committee will notify authors about the acceptance of their submitted abstract by the end of July.
Scientific committee:
Andrea E. Abele, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychology, Bismarckstr. 6, D 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Email: abele@phil.uni-erlangen.de
Charles M. Judd, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309; USA; Email: Charles.Judd@colorado.edu
Frieder R. Lang, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychogerontology, Naegelsbachstr. 49b, D 91052 Erlangen, Germany. Email: flang@geronto.uni-erlangen.de
Deadline for submissions: July, 10th, 2010
After review the scientific committee will notify authors about the acceptance of their submitted abstract by the end of July.
Scientific committee:
Andrea E. Abele, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychology, Bismarckstr. 6, D 91054 Erlangen, Germany. Email: abele@phil.uni-erlangen.de
Charles M. Judd, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309; USA; Email: Charles.Judd@colorado.edu
Frieder R. Lang, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychogerontology, Naegelsbachstr. 49b, D 91052 Erlangen, Germany. Email: flang@geronto.uni-erlangen.de
Bogdan Wojciszke, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warsaw, Poland. Email: bogdan@psychpan.waw.pl
Oscar Ybarra, University of Michigan, USA, Department of Psychology, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Email: oybarra@umich.edu
Vincent Yzerbyt, Université catholique de Louvain, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Institut des Sciences Psychologiques, Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10; B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve; Belgium. Email: vincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.be
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