Scientific program: Overview

Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

  Arrival
17:00 - 18:00 Welcome Apéro
18:00 - 19:00 Opening session:
Hugo M. Kehr: Motivation = Implicit Motives x Explicit Motives x Abilities: The Compensatory Model of Motivation and Volition as a Frame of Reference for Research and Practical Application
19:30 - 21:30 Dinner at Eibsee Hotel

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

07:30 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:45 - 09:30 Train ride to the Zugspitzplatt
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome at Zugspitzplatt
10:00 - 12:45 Session 1: Theory Building - Motivated Action and Cognition (Chair: Anna Oostendorp)
  Edwin Locke - Understanding the Relationship Between the Conscious and the Subconscious
  Arie Kruglanski - Food for Thought: The Energizing of Motivated Cognition
11:40 - 11:55 Coffee/tea break
  Rex Wright - Motives to Help and Harm: Their Overlapping Character and Conversion Into Active Goal Pursuit
12:45 - 13:45 Guided tour (Zugspitze summit station)
13:45 - 15:00 Lunch at the summit station
15:00 - 15:45 Explore the summit station, cross border to Austria
15:45 - 16:30 Cable car ride to the hotel
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee/tea break
16:45 - 18:25 Session 2: Motivational Adaptation to Developmental Transitions (Chair: Sophie von Katte)
  Jutta Heckhausen - Goal Engagement and Disengagement in an Age-Structured Field of Action
  Marcel Herrmann - The Action Crisis: A Functional Perspective on the Area of Tension Between Motivation and Volition
18:30 - 19:30 Boat trip (Eibsee)
19:30 - 20:00 Freshen up at Eibsee Hotel
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner at Eibsee Hotel

Friday, July 18th, 2014

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 11:50 Session 3: Motivated Social Cognition and Behavior (Chair: Dorena Amann)
  Matthias Strasser - Achieving Powerful Affiliations: The Reciprocal Influence of Social Motives and Relational Models
  Markus Quirin - Love, Power, Sex, & Achievement: A Blow for Social Motives in Neuroscience
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break
  Jonas Lang - Implicit Leader Motives and Transformational-Transactional Leadership: Toward an Integrative Theory
11:50 - 12:30 Session 4: Poster session (Chair: Matthias Strasser)
  Presenters: Dorena Amann, Anna Oostendorp, Julia Trapp, Sophie von Katte
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Coach ride to Linderhof Castle (including 1 stop)
14:00 - 18:00 IRDFT - Informal Research Discussions Field Trip (location: Linderhof Castle)
16:30 - 18:00 IRDs in Linderhof Castle (including guided tour through the castle)
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner at Restaurant Wildschütz Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Saturday, July 19th, 2014

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 11:50 Session 5: Motivational Value of Incentives (Chair: Julia Trapp)
  Joyce Pang - An Examination of McClelland's Emotion-specificity Hypothesis for Implicit Approach and Avoidant Achievement Motivation
  Oliver Schultheiss - One Person's Poison, Another One's Pleasure: The Fundamental Variability of Motivational Incentives Between and Within Individuals
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break
11:00 - 12:00 Closing discussion
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch at Eibsee Hotel
13:00 Departure