FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING

SOCIETY FOR INTERPERSONAL THEORY AND RESEARCH
Friday, May 18, 2001.

8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00 - 10:00 Opening Session

Welcome: Chris Wagner (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Debbie Moskowitz (McGill University) Dynamic Phenomena within the Interpersonal Realm

10:10 – 11:30 Interpersonal Behavior and Social Interactions

Leonard M. Horowitz (Stanford University) Tina Huang & Christi Burnett
How Emotional Suppression Frustrates the Communal Motive in Dyadic Interaction

Robert Gifford & Amrit Dhariwal (University of Victoria)
Social Evaluation Theory and the Commons Dilemma

Karl H. Hennig & L.J. Walker(University of Western Ontario)
Care or Sociotropy?: An Interpersonal Examination of the Domain

Robert L. Russell, Marylouise Jones, and Steven A. Miller (Loyola University Chicago)
Predicting Empathy: Gender, Personality, and Scriptedness of Situations

1:00 – 1:20 Executive Committee announcements

1:20 – 2:00 Complementarity

Elizabeth Foley, Marc A. Fournier, Debbie Moskowitz & David Zuroff (McGill University)
The Climate of Interpersonal Complementarity

Terence J.G. Tracey (Arizona State University)
Interpersonal Rigidity as a Moderator of Complementarity

2:10 – 3:10 Interpersonal Aspects of Personality

Kenneth Locke (University of Idaho)
Imagined Reactions and Interactions in Everyday Life

Jennifer Achambault & Debbie S. Moskowitz (McGill University)
Behavioral Concordance as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Connectionist Perspectives on Intraindividual Processes

Emily B. Ansell (Pennsylvania State University) & Aaron L. Pincus
The Interpersonalness of the Big Five Personality Traits from the Rater's Perspective

3:30 – 4:00 SITAR Website Demo and Discussion (Chris Wagner & Ken Locke)

4:00 - 4:30 Poster Descriptions

4:30 - 5:30 Poster Session

G. Scott Acton (University of California, San Francisco) and William Revelle (Northwestern Univeristy)
Circumplex Structure in Interpersonal Personality Measures: Testing Five Instruments Using New Criteria

Lynn Alden (University of British Columbia), Andrew Ryder & Delroy Paulhas
Acculturation and Interpersonal Adjustment: The Influence of Context and Cultural Identity

Carolina Cristi, Paula Ravitz & Molyn Leszcz (University of Toronto)
Incorporating Interpersonal Theory into Interpersoanl Therapy: A Preliminary Manual

Michelle Dennis & Mary Wandrei (Marquette University)
The Relationship between Interpersonal Problems and Violent Conflict Resolution Tactics

Michael Gurtman (University of Wisconsin - Parkside)

Karl Hennig R.A.Martin, G. Larsen, & P. Puhlik-Doris (University of Western Ontario)
Self-Report Measures of Humor: Distinguishing Interpersonal and Maladaptive Forms

Steven Miller, Robert Russell & Jeanne Zechmeister (Loyola University of Chicago)
Self-Evaluations by Depressed and Non-Depressed Individuals: Situational Valence and Scriptedness

Kate Strauss & Aaron Pincus (Pennsylvania State University)
Interpersonal Dependency and Depression and the Moderating Effect of Socially Desirable Responding

Kelly Wilson & Leonard Horowitz (Stanford University)
Perspective Taking and the Role of Interpersonal Boundaries in Perceiving Others.

Saturday, May 19.

9:00 - 9:10 President's Remarks (Aaron Pincus)

9:10 - 9:30 Interpersonal Theory

Michael A. Westerman (New York University)
What is Interpersonal Behavior?

9:30 - 10:10 Attachment and Intimacy

Oren Amitay, Myriam Mongrain (York University) & Norman Fazaa (University of Windsor)
Love and Control: Self-Criticism from Parents to Daughters and Consequences for Relationship Partners

Lisa Vettese York University) & Myriam Mongrain (York University)
Insecure Attachment: Implications for Interpersonal Behaviours, Perceptions and Rejection in Roommate Relationships

LONG BREAK

10:30 - 11:50 Attachment and Intimacy (continued)

Erica Jarrett (Penn State), Louis Castonguay, Leonard Horowitz & Alexander Shut
Attachment Disturbances & Interpersonal Problems in Indivdiuals with Panic Disorder/Agoraphobia

David Conroy (Penn State University)
The role of Fantasies in Fear of Failure Dynamics

Rimma Danov (Derner Institute) & Wilma Bucci
Attachment Processes in Violent Minority Youths

Claudia Pimental & Aaron Pincus (Penn State University)
My Problem or Yours? Actor and Partner Effects in the Self-Report and Perceptions of Spouses' Interpersonal Problems on Marital Satisfaction and Intimacy

1:00 - 2:20 Interpersonal Problems, Pathology and Psychotherapy

Stephen Soldz (Simmons College), Helen Reinherz & Garrett Fitznaurice (Harvard)
Adolescent Moderators of the Course of Intimacy Problems in Young Adulthood: A Growth Curve Analysis

Lindsay E. Ayearst, Krista K. Trobst, (York University) & Randall T. Salekin (University of Alabama)
An Interpersonal Analysis of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire

Mark Ruiz (Psychological Assessment Resources), Aaron Pincus & Kelly Dickinson (Penn State)
The Devil in the Details: The Relationships between Alcohol Pathology and Interpersonal Facets of the Five-Factor Model of Personality

Chris Wagner (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Content, Process and Relationship in Interpersonal Psychotherapy

2:30 - 4:00 Business Meeting and Open Discussion