Social Cognition Preconference 2012

Sponsored by the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON)

Thursday 26 January 2012, in Room 25B, Upper Level of the San Diego Convention Center
Talks begin at 9 a.m. (breakfast at 8 a.m.) and conclude at 4:30 p.m.

Conference organizer is Allen McConnell, Department of Psychology, Miami University

Conference details and registration:

We are excited about this year's social cognition preconference, being held in beautiful San Diego, California. In addition to recognizing the Best Paper of the Year in Social Cognition and the Early Career Award in Social Cognition recipients, this year's conference will feature talks focusing on two important themes in the field: recent advances in automaticity and nonconscious goals, and recent advances in stereotype threat and its underlying processes (see preliminary program, below).

To register for the conference, please complete a registration form and mail it to the address below. For registrants from the United States, please send a check or money order for $50 (U.S. funds) made out to Allen McConnell. Registrants from outside the United States may pay the registration fee at the conference site (again, in U.S. funds). The registration fee provides for the continental breakfast, break refreshments and snacks, and equipment expenses. In order to keep the registration fee affordable, lunch is not provided (though numerous restaurants are available within a few blocks walking to the north and east from the convention center).

Checks and completed registration forms should be mailed to:

Allen McConnell
Social Cognition Preconference
Department of Psychology
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056 USA

For more information, please email Allen McConnell

This year's presentations and tentative schedule:

Continental Breakfast (8-9 a.m.)

Morning session (tentatively scheduled from 9-10:30 a.m.)

Lawrence E. Williams, University of Colorado, "Only a diamond can cut a diamond: Conscious and nonconscious emotion regulation differentially modulate specific negative emotions"

Tanya L. Chartrand, Duke University, "Impact of behavioral mimicry"

Pamela K. Smith, University of California at San Diego, "The social distance theory of power"

Awards session (tentatively scheduled from 11-12 noon)

Jens Forster and Laura Dannenberg (ISCON Best Paper in Social Cognition Award), University of Amsterdam, "GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global versus Local Processing"

Robert J. Rydell (ISCON Early Career Award Winner), Indiana University, "Bringing together stereotype threat research on learning and performance"

Lunch break (tentatively scheduled from 12-2 p.m.)

Afternoon session (tentatively scheduled from 2-4:30)

Sapna Cheryan, Univ. of Washington, "Double isolation: Why STEM stereotypes are a barrier to inclusion for women"

Amanda B. Diekman, Miami University, "Another piece in the STEM puzzle: Communal goal processes and STEM interest"

Toni Schmader, University of British Columbia, "Keynote address: Stereotype threat deconstructed"