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Dear colleagues,
We have a call for submissions for an Expert Meeting on the "Big Two" content dimensions that may interest you. Deadline for submissions: July, 10th, 2010.
Kind regards,
Judith Volmer
*Expert Meeting: The "Big Two" Content Dimensions*
*in Social Cognition and Behavior.*
*Neuendettelsau**, **Germany**, October 13^th to 16^th 2010*
Sponsored by ESCON and 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 "Big Two" 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 13^th to October 16^th 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
<mailto:
expertmeeting@psy.phil.uni-erlangen.de>
*Deadline for submissions: **July, 10^th , 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 <mailto:
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
<mailto:
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 <mailto:
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
<mailto:
bogdan@psychpan.waw.pl>
Oscar Ybarra, University of Michigan, USA, Department of Psychology, 530
Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Email:
oybarra@umich.edu
<mailto:
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
<mailto:
vincent.yzerbyt@uclouvain.be>
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Dr. Judith Volmer
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Institut für Psychologie
Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie
Bismarckstr. 6
D-91054 Erlangen
Telefon: ++49 9131 85 22959
Fax: ++49 9131 24731