SESP Attraction and Relationships Preconference
Holiday Inn By the Bay
Portland, ME
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Pre-Conference Overview
We are pleased to announce that the annual Attraction and Relationships Preconference will continue this year at the Portland meeting, and will again include a diverse set of talks on both attraction and close relationships processes.
Tentative Schedule
8:30am Breakfast 9:05 - 9:45 Art Aron: Falling in Love 9:45 - 10:25 Joy McClure: The Ugly Truth About Attachment Anxiety 10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 11:25 Bill Graziano: Switching to Plan B: New Strategies for Relationship Initiation Research 11:25 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 1:40 John Holmes: A levels of processing perspective on risk regulation in relationships 1:40 - 2:20 Lisa Neff: Putting Marriage in its Context: The Influence of External Stress on Marital Processes 2:20 - 3:00 Nicola Overall: The costs and benefits of trying to improve close relationships 3:00 - 3:20 Coffee break 3:20 - 4:20 Keynote Address: Tory Higgins
Registration ($65) can be completed online via the SESP conference registration site, or by contacting one of the organizers (below.)
If you have any questions, please contact:
Grainne Fitzsimons
Eli Finkel
grainne@uwaterloo.ca
finkel@northwestern.edu