Scientific program: Overview

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

  Arrival
17:00 - 18:00 Welcome Apéro
18:00 - 19:00 Opening session:
Hugo M. Kehr: The compensatory model of motivation and volition and its predictions regarding flow, motive discrepancies, volitional depletion, and the corruption effect
19:00 Dinner

Friday, July 30th, 2010

07:15 - 08:15 Breakfast
08:45 - 09:28 Train ride to the Zugspitzplatt
10:00 - 11:30 Session 1: Self-regulation and motives (Chair: Kaspar Schattke)
Nicola Baumann: Self-infiltration: Does a low grip on implicit motives influence verbal communication during a job interview?
Maika Rawolle: The role of implicit motives in understanding the motivational mechanisms of visions
11:30 - 11:50 Coffee/tea break
11:50 - 13:20 Session 1 (continued)
David G. Winter: Taming power: Development of a psychological measure from leaders’ speeches
Veronika Brandstätter: A test of the hidden stressor hypothesis of motive incongruence
13:45 - 15:15 Lunch on the Zugspitz-Summit
15:15 - 15:45 Explore the summit station, cross border to Austria
15:45 – 16:30 Cable car ride down to the hotel
16:30 - 18:00 Session 2: Self-regulation and societal relevance (Chair: Susanne Steiner)
Richard Ryan: The many faces of behavioral regulation: Research from the self-determination perspective
Todd Thrash: The roles of inspiration and effort in the writing process
18:00 - 18:20 Coffee/tea break
18:20 - 19:10 Session 2 (continued)
Bernard Weiner: The morality of helping the poor, political ideology, and questions regarding attributional self-regulation
19:30 – 20:30 Boat trip or walk around the lake
20:30 Dinner

Saturday, July 31th, 2010

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 Session 3: Self-regulation and goals (Chair: Alexandra Strasser)
Peter Gollwitzer: Strategic automation of emotion control
Nils Jostmann: Why sisyphus kept rolling his rock to the top: A functional analysis of action orientation and goal disengagement
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break
10:50 - 11:35 Session 3 (continued)
Gabriele Oettingen: From wishes to goals: Mental contrasting connects future and reality
11:45 - 13:30 Poster session (Chair: Friederike Dislich)
Kaspar Schattke: How does motive incongruence develop?
Anja Schiepe: The winner takes it all - Does a high power motive lead to more flow after defeating someone?
Jörg Seeliger: The impact of visual representations on the evaluation of corporate visions
Susanne Steiner: Rewards are not always bad for fun: Challenging the undermining effect through task-congruent rewards
Alexandra Strasser: Exploring the difference between personal visions and goals: Evidence for a motivational mechanism
Matthias Strasser: Exploring negative consequences of flow in online activities
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Coach ride to Neuschwanstein Castle
18:30-19:30 Guided private tour through Neuschwanstein Castle
20:30 Dinner at Hotel Hirsch in Füssen

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 Session 4: Self-regulation and self-control (Chair: Matthias Strasser)
Brandon J. Schmeichel: Exercising self-control increases approach motivation
Friederike Dislich: Ironic effects of self-control
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee/tea break
10:50 - 12:20 Session 4 (continued)
Rex A. Wright: Fatigue influence on self-regulatory striving
Charles Carver: Serotonergic function and what impulsive aggression and depression have in common
12:20 - 13:00 Closing discussion
13:00 Lunch
  Departure