Presenters & Schedule

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley

Keynote Address: “Order and Disorder in the Emotional Brain”
Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Poster Session and cash bar cocktail party

Coffee and light breakfast

Symposium: Neurobiological Aspects of Emotion

Eddie Harmon-Jones, University of Texas A&M

Wendy Berry Mendes, Harvard University: “Physiological thriving: Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular concomitants of valence and motivation”

Jack van Honk, Utrecht University: “The Frontal Asymmetry of Emotion: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation”

Jim Coan, University of Virginia: “The Social Regulation of Neural Threat Responding”

Eddie Harmon-Jones, University of Texas A&M

Symposium: New Evidence about Positive Emotions

Barbara L. Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Laura King, University of Missouri: “The Role of Mood in the Experience of Meaning in Life: A Competition of Cues Model”

Alice Isen & Eugenia Shmidt, Cornell Univeristy: “Positive Affect Facilitates Incidental Learning and Divided Attention While Not Impairing Performance on a Focal Task”

Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia: “The Pleasures of Uncertainty”

Barbara L. Fredrickson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Positive Emotions, Induced through Meditation, Build Resources”

Coffee Break

Symposium: Intergroup Emotions

Eliot R. Smith, Indiana University, Bloomington

Diane M. Mackie, University of California, Santa Barbara

Angela Maitner, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Inter-Group Emotions”

Colin Wayne Leach, University of Sussex: “The promise (and the problems) of guilt about group inequality”

Agneta Fischer, University of Amsterdam: “I-feel versus we-feel: The distinction between individual, group-based and collective emotions”

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Boston College

Lunch

Symposium: Emotional Development

Joseph Campos, University of California, Berkeley

Linda Camras, DePaul University: “Do Infants Show Distinct Negative Facial Expressions for Fear and Anger? Emotional Expression in European-American, Chinese, and Japanese Infants”

David Witherington, University of New Mexico: “Functionalist and Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotion and its Development”

Carl Frankel, Stanford University: “Disentangling emotions from the goals that emotions subserve: What babies teach us about adult emotions”

Joseph Campos, University of California, Berkeley: “Emotional development: The acquisition of an ecological self and its implications for the ontogeny of fear in infancy”

Brief break; set-up to merge with Culture Pre-Conference

Debate on Culture and Emotion: Going Beyond Universality and Culture-Specificity

This symposium will be jointly held with the Culture Pre-Conference.

David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University

David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University
Batja Mesquita, Wake Forest University
Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University

James Gross, Stanford University