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20171 Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel Boston, MA October 12–14, 20171 Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel Boston, MA Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology CONFERENCE PROGRAM Conference Program 3 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017 1B. Bridging Close Relationship Models and Broader • When morality supports prejudice: Centripetal and • Pruning the Tree: Latest Advances in Dual Social Processes: Recent Developments in Four Major centrifugal forces in the moral circle Attitudes Learning Research 3:00pm – 8:00pm Relationship Models Jesse Graham, University of Southern California, Olivier Corneille, Catholic University of Louvain, REGISTRATION Location: Marina Ballroom II Adam Waytz, Northwestern University, Peter Belgium & Christoph Stahl, University of Cologne Location: Harbor Ballroom Foyer Chair: Arthur Aron, Stony Brook University Meindl, University of Pennsylvania, Ravi Iyer, • Evidence for Evaluative Conditioning Effects Under 6:00pm – 9:00pm University of Southern California, & Liane Young, • Perceived Partner Responsiveness, Egoic Boston College Cognitive Load and Among the Unaware RECEPTION (DRINK TICKET, CASH BAR, AND APPETIZERS) Self-Enhancement and Emotion Regulation: Michael A. Olson & Katherine A. Fritzlen, University Location: Harbor Ballroom I and II Bridging Relationship Research and Social- of Tennessee Psychological Theories 9:40am – 9:45am 6:00pm – 10:00pm • Associative and Propositional Processes in EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING AND DINNER Harry T. Reis, Yan Ruan, Karisa Y. Lee, University of BREAK Rochester, & Margaret S. Clark, Yale University Evaluative Conditioning: A Multinomial Modeling Location: Independence Boardroom Approach • Interdependence Theory as a Framework for Bertram Gawronski, University of Texas at Austin & Understanding Social Cognition 9:45 – 10:55am Tobias Heycke, University of Cologne FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 John G. Holmes, University of Waterloo SYMPOSIA SESSION 2 • Dissociating Controllable and Uncontrollable 8:00am – 5:00pm • Two Paths to Belonging Effects of Unconditioned Stimuli on Attitudes and REGISTRATION Margaret S. Clark & Jennifer Hirsch, Yale University 2A. Beyond Intuition: The Need for Evidence-Based Consumption Location: Harbor Ballroom Foyer Approaches to Diversity Mandy Hütter, University of Tübingen & Steven • Self-Expansion Motivation: Beyond Close Location: Marina Ballroom I Sweldens, Erasmus University Rotterdam 7:30am – 8:30am Relationships, New Work on Basic Mediators, Co-Chairs: Brenda Major, University of California Santa CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST and an Overview of Current Status and Barbara; Cheryl Kaiser; University of Washington Location: Harbor Ballroom Foyer Future Directions 2C. Preparedness in Social Judgment and Behavior Arthur Aron, Stony Brook University, Jennifer • The Double-Edged Sword of Diversity: How Location: Marina Ballroom III 8:30am – 9:40am M. Tomlinson, Colgate University, & Gary W. Diversity Make Us Smarter Co-Chairs: Patrick J. Carroll, The Ohio State University-Lima; SYMPOSIA SESSION 1 Lewandowski, Jr., Monmouth University Katherine Phillips, Columbia University Pablo Briñol, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid • Why Some Diversity Initiatives Promote Diversity: • Preparedness and Self-Validation 1A. Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, and Biased 1C. Saving Souls: The Multifaceted Connections Evidence from Corporations Patrick Carroll, The Ohio State University-Lima, Information Processing: Social-Cognitive Insights into between Morality and Prejudice Frank Dobbins, Department of Sociology, Harvard Pablo Briñol, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, & the Underpinnings of Ideological Polarization Location: Marina Ballroom III University, Alexandra Kalev, Department of Richard E. Petty, The Ohio State University Location: Marina Ballroom I Chair: Larisa Heiphetz, Columbia University Sociology, Tel Aviv University Chair: Bertram Gawronski, University of Texas at Austin • Identity-based motivation: Dynamic construction, • The moral threats of whiteness • Diversity Initiatives and White Americans’ action-readiness, and procedural-readiness • Accepting and Sharing Fake News Eric D. Knowles, New York University, Brian S. Perceptions of Racial Victimhood Daphna Oyserman, The University of Southern Norbert Schwarz, University of Southern California Lowery, Stanford University, Rosalind M. Chow, Cheryl R. Kaiser, University of Washington, Brenda California Carnegie Mellon University, & Miguel M. Unzueta, Major, University of California, Santa Barbara, • The Four Horsemen of Conspiratory Thinking: University of California, Los Angeles Tessa L. Dover, Portland State University, Gary Xia, • Planning to Think Carefully Characterizing and Detecting Conspiracy Theories University of California, Irvine, & Laura M. Brady, Peter M. Gollwitzer, New York University Dolores Albarracin, Ryan Palmer, Sally Chan, • Gender stereotyping in performance evaluations: University of Washington University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Emotional and evaluative responses to women’s • The role of dispatch information in strategic • Remedying Unintended Discrimination without preparedness for stereotype inhibition in shooting • Solution Aversion, Ideology, and Motivated and men’s success and failure Monica Biernat, University of Kansas, Claire Worrying about What Caused It decisions (Dis)Belief Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington David Johnson, & Joseph Cesario, Michigan Aaron Kay, Duke University Gravelin, Franklin Pierce University, & Mea Benson, University of Kansas State University • Promoting Mental Virtue to Combat the Motivated • The role of moral cognition in perceptions of 2B. Latest Advances in the Dual Process Approach Seeking and Interpretation of Political Information to Attitude Learning: Testing Associative and 2D. Workshop: Why Social Psychologists Should Use Peter Ditto, University of California, Irvine incarcerated individuals Larisa Heiphetz, Columbia University Propositional Processes in the Evaluative Conditioning Bayesian Statistics Paradigm Location: Marina Ballroom IV Location: Marina Ballroom II Presented by: Niall Bolger, Columbia University and Rich Chair: Olivier Corneille, Catholic University of Louvain Gonzales, University of Michigan 4 5 • Body Camera Footage Decreases Perceived Intent 2:10 – 3:20pm • Accepting Negative Emotions and Thoughts: 10:55am – 11:10am Eugene M. Caruso, University of Chicago, Broderick SYMPOSIA SESSION 4 Laboratory, Diary, and Longitudinal Evidence for COFFEE BREAK Turner, Northwestern University, Mike Dilich, the Benefits of a Fundamental Meta-cognitive Location: Harbor Ballroom Foyer Foresight Reconstruction Inc., & Neal J. Roese, Process Northwestern University 4A. Antecedents, Consequences, Solutions, and Policy Brett Q. Ford, University of Toronto Implications of Dehumanization 11:10 – 12:20 • How To Do Field Experiments in Government: Location: Marina Ballroom I • Wisdom as meta-cognition: Measurement, utility, SYMPOSIA SESSION 3 Results and Lessons From the World’s Largest Chair: Bradford S. Jones and interventions Police Body-Worn Camera Study Igor Grossmann, University of Waterloo David Yokum, The Lab @ DC • Perceptual dehumanization, system legitimacy and 3A. Personal Versus Social Identity: Old Dichotomy, state sanction executions New Insights Katrina Fincher, Columbia University, & Phil Tetlock, 4C. (Mis)communication: When What You Say is Not Location: Marina Ballroom I 3C. The Psychology of Ecology: Key Dimensions of the University of Pennsylvania What They Hear Chair: Bill Swann, University of Texas at Austin Physical and Social World Location: Marina Ballroom III Location: Marina Ballroom III • Why Extremism Appeals to the Excluded: An Chair: Michael I. Norton, Harvard University • What causes group membership to become Exploration of Immigrant Identity Processes personal? The ritual origins of identity fusion Co-Chairs: Oliver Sng & Josh Ackerman, University of Michigan Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Stanford SPARQ: Social • Shooting the Messenger Michael D. Buhrmester & Harvey Whitehouse, Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions Leslie K. John, Hayley Blunden & Heidi Liu, Harvard Oxford University • Going all-in: Unfavorable sex ratios attenuate Michele J. Gelfand, University of Maryland College University • The identity-fused additionally ask, ‘what your choice diversification Park, & Marieke van Egmond, University of Hagen Joshua Ackerman, University of Michigan, Jon • Artful paltering: The risks and rewards of using country can do for you’: Identity fusion promotes • Can perspective-taking induce changes in truthful statements to mislead others self-sacrifice and group-sacrifice Maner, Florida State University, & Stephanie Carpenter, University of Wisconsin-Madison immigrant dehumanization? Todd Rogers, Richard Zeckhauser, Francesca Gino, & Lowell Gaertner & Amy Heger, University of Bradford S. Jones & Jeffrey W. Sherman, University Michael I. Norton, Harvard University, & Maurice E. Tennessee • The Rice Theory of Culture: Japan, Wheat of California, Davis Schweitzer, University of Pennsylvania • Using affirmation theory to further understand Enculturation, and Rice Islands Thomas Talhelm, University of Chicago Booth School • The complexity of humanness: Strategies to • Too much information the distinction between the personal self and the promote social equality Nadav Klein & Ed O’Brien, University of Chicago collective self of Business, Hidefumi Hitokoto, Kyoto University, Alex English, Zhejiang University, & Xiawei Dong, Francesca Prati & Monica Rubini, Alma Mater Richard H. Gramzow & Gaven A. Ehrlich, Syracuse Studiorum University of
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