THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

SOCIETY FOR INTERPERSONAL THEORY AND RESEARCH
Monday morning, June 19, 2000.

8:45 - 9:45 Opening Session

Welcome:Aaron L. Pincus (Pennsylvania State University Michael B. Gurtman (University of Wisconsin—Parkside)

Leonard M. Horowitz (Stanford University)
Interpersonal Motives, Psychopathology, and Experimental Studies

9:45 – 11:00 Session A. Complementarity in Everyday Behavior

Marc A. Fournier (McGill University) & D. S. Moskowitz: Evolutionary Models of Interpersonal Transaction in Human  Hierarchies

Michael B. Gurtman (University of Wisconsin—Parkside & Northwestern University):Complementarity at the Level of Behavioral Exchange

Kenneth Locke (University of Idaho):The Effect of Three Types of Imagined Audience on the Exploration of Career Options

11:30 – 12:30 Session B. Personality Disorders

Stephen Strack (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles), James P. Choca, & Michael B. Gurtman: An Empricial Test of Millon's Model of Personality Disorders

Bo E. Vinnars (Huddinge University Hospital), Robert M. Weinryb, Kristina Noren, Barbro Thormahlen, Carol Foltz, Jacques P. Barber, Michael Gurtman, Kaj Forslund, Gunnar Rylander, Marie Asberg: Interpersonal Problems in Patients with and without Personality Disorders

2:00 – 3:15 Session C. Complementarity and Personality Assessment

Emily B. Ansell (Pennsylvania State University), John E. Kurtz, & Aaron L. Pincus: Personality Traits as Possible Mediators or Moderators of Interpersonal Complementarity

Timothy Anderson (Ohio University), Christopher M. Bailey, Mark R. Brown, Swati Shah, & Kimi L. Carson: Social Skills and Interpersonal Complementarity

Donna Shestowsky (Stanford University):Jury Deliberation and Interpersonal Influence

3:15 – 3:40 Session D. Perspective Taking

Kelly R. Wilson (Stanford University):The Effect of Perspective Taking on Personality Attributions

Robert L. Russell (Loyola University Chicago), Fred Bryant, Dan Kruger, Marylouise Jones, & Mary Wandrei: Perspective Taking and Identifying with Characters in Fiction

4:00 – 5:00 WORKSHOP

Lorna S. Benjamin (University of Utah): Demystifying SASB:A Demonstration of Methods and Applications

5:00 – 6:00 POSTER SESSION

Lindsay Ayearst & Krista K. Trobst (York University):Normal and Abnormal Personality Characteristics and ADHD Symptoms in Adults

Dawn Brandlmayr & Krista K. Trobst (York University): Development of the Interpersonal Beliefs Circumplex

Alyssa Bray & Timothy Anderson (Ohio University):Testing Interpersonal Complementarity with Parent-Child Matching in an International Student Exchange Program

Wolfgang Lutz & Klaus Grawe (University of Berne): Interpersonal Predictors of Individual Change In the Treatment of Depression

Fred Bryant, Robert L. Russell, Dan Kruger, Amy Crowther & Matthew Elie:(Loyola University Chicago)

Dispositional Empathy and Readers' Identification with Protagonists in Fiction

Matthew Shaw & Zoran Martinovich (Northwestern University): Patterns of Change in the Therapeutic Bond—Developing an Exhaustive Typology

Bernhard Strauss, Silke Schmidt, & The Working Group on Inpatient Group Psychotherapy (University of Jena): Clinical Validity of the IIP—Interpersonal Problems, Personality Characteristics, Treatment Goals, Symptoms, and Diagnoses  

Tuesday, June 20, 2000.

9:00 – 10:40 Session E. Interpersonal Approach to Axis I Psychopathology

Christopher C. Wagner (Virginia Commonwealth University): Interpersonal Aspects in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

Krista K. Trobst (York University): Personality Changes and Interpersonal Problems Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Kevin E. Kachin (Pennsylvania State University), Michelle G. Newman, & Aaron L. Pincus:Symptom-Based Versus Interpersonal Approaches to Classifying Subtypes of Social Phobia

Carolyn Freedman (Northwestern University) & Richard E. Zinbarg: Social Anxiety and the Perception and Memory of Faces

Tracey Smith (University of Utah) & Lorna Smith Benjamin: Exploring Interpersonal Patterns among Three Axis I Disorders

11:10 – 12:00 Session F. Wanting, But Fearing

David E. Conroy (Pennsylvania State University) & Lorna S. Benjamin: Interpreting Fear of Failure as a Gift of Love

Michael A. Westerman (New York University) & Brian A. Dahmen:Subjects' Anticipated Long-term Outcomes of Defensive Interpersonal Behavior

2:00 – 3:15 Session G: Emotion and Interpersonal Processes:

Edward Bein (The Wright Institute), Timothy Anderson, Kristin L. Nelson, & Hans H. Strupp:Therapists' Initial Emotional Reactions to Patients

Frank Faranda (Adelphi University) & Wilma Bucci:Referential Activity in Prose about Interpersonal Relationships

Virginia Seewaldt (Adelphi University) & Wilma Bucci: Using FRAMES to Identify Maladaptive Emotion Structures in TAT Stories

3:30 – 4:45 OPEN DISCUSSION

Aaron L. Pincus (Pennsylvania State University), Stephen Strack (U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Los Angeles), Christopher C. Wagner (Virginia Commonwealth University), & Emily B. Ansell (Pennsylvania State University):The Scope of Interpersonal Theory and Research

5:00 – 6:00 BUSINESS MEETING