Congress Program

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Overview

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

19:00

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21:00

Registration

Aula des Jeunes Rives

19:00

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22:00

Get together

Lake Side Restaurant

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

08:00

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08:30

Registration

Aula des Jeunes Rives

08:30

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09:00

Opening Session

09:00

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10:00

Keynote

Prof. Jim Blascovich, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA:
Virtual Reality: Remaking Human Existence

Aula des Jeunes Rives

10:00

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10:20

Coffee Break

Cafétéria de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

10:20

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11:50

Symposium 1 State and Trait Components in Family Interactions: Family processes from different Methodological Perspectives RN_02	Symposium 2 Individual-differences in organizational settings RE_48	Symposium 3 Facial cues to social interaction RE_42
Symposium 4 Self-Esteem and Narcissism: New Insights into Structures, Processes, and Effects RN_08	Paper Session 1 Health Psychology RN_04	Paper Session 2 Motivation and Emotion RE_46

12:05

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13:05

Lunch Break / Keynote II

Prof. Janet Bavelas, University of Victoria, Canada:
Applying Basic Research on Face-to-Face Dialogue to Psychotherapeutic and Medical Interactions

Aula des Jeunes Rives

13:15

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14:45

Symposium 5 Perceived threat, national identity, and demarcation of national boundaries in Switzerland RN_02	Symposium 6 Emotions, emotion regulation and well-being in everyday social interactions RE_48	Symposium 7 Modern methods and data analyses for psychological research RE_42
Symposium 8 Attentional Modulation of Perceptual and Executive Systems RN_08	Paper Session 3 Work and Organizational Psychology RN_04	Paper Session 4 Individual Differences RE_46

14:55

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15:55

Poster Session I

Atrium RN/Atrium RE

15:55

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16:15

Coffee Break

Cafétéria de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

16:15

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17:45

Invited Symposium 1 Social interactions in clinical settings RN_02	Invited Symposium 2 Social interactions in learning RE_48	Invited Symposium 3 Biological basis of social interactions RE_42
Invited Symposium 4 Social interactions at work RN_08	Invited Spotlights RN_04

18:00

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19:15

SPS-Members Meeting

Aula des Jeunes Rives

19:30

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20:00

Cocktail Reception

Hôtel DuPeyrou

20:00

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01:00

Dinner

Hôtel DuPeyrou

Thursday, August 20, 2009

08:30

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10:00

Symposium 9 Leadership and Motivation in the Swiss Armed Forces RS_38	Symposium 10 Childhood and Adolescent Psychology – Experimental and therapeutic approaches RE_48	Symposium 11 Train the brain – Cognitive training effects in old age RE_42
Symposium 12 Current issues in usability research RN_08	Paper Session 5 Social Psychology RN_04	Paper Session 6 Cognition and Decission Making RE_46

10:00

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10:20

Coffee Break

Cafétéria de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

10:20

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11:20

Poster Session II

Atrium RN/Atrium RE

Poster Symposium 1

Gender Stereotyping

Atrium RE

11:30

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13:00

Symposium 13 Social Discrimination (Part I) RS_38	Symposium 14 Virtual Realities: Bodily Conciousness, Emotions, and Social Interactions RE_48	Symposium 15 Team training in complex technical work environments RE_42
Symposium 16 Motivational and volitional determinants of health behavior RN_08	Paper Session 7 Child Development RN_04

13:00

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14:00

Lunch Break
Young Scientists Award
Robert A. Roe, President of EFPA

Aula des Jeunes Rives

14:00

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15:30

Symposium 17 Social Discrimination (Part II) RN_02	Symposium 18 Current Research on Humor and Laughter RE_48	Symposium 19 Recent Developments in Latent Variable Models RE_42
Paper Session 8 Work and Organizational Psychology RN_08	Paper Session 9 Clinical/Biological Psychology RN_04

15:30

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16:00

Coffee Break

Cafétéria de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

16:00

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17:00

Keynote

Prof. Art Graesser, University of Memphis, USA:
Learning with Animated Conversational Agents

Aula des Jeunes Rives

17:00

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17:30

Poster Award

Aula des Jeunes Rives

17:30

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17:45

Farewell Address

Aula des Jeunes Rives

17:45

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18:30

Farewell Cocktail

Cafétéria de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines