24th Annual Group Processes Conference

August 16, 2012
Denver, Colorado

Preliminary Conference Program

(click for PDF version of the conference program)

Group Processes. Organizer: David Schaefer

• "Predicting Status Evaluations from Affective Impressions" Joseph Dippong and Will Kalkhoff
• "The Role of Gender Identity Maintenance in Health Disparities between Men and Women" Sandra Nakagawa and Chris Frank
• "A Prosocial Revolution in the Lab? Revisiting the Collective Action Problem at the Juncture of Social Values and Social Structures" Michael Hahn, Danielle Lewis, Sheldon Sumpter, Mike Peterson, and David Willer
• "Machiavellian Group Process – An Examination of the Relationship between Hierarchy and Performance in Small Groups" Wesley Huey and David Smith
• "Revisiting the Distribution of Participation in Small Groups" Mary R. Rose, Shari Seidman Diamond, Elizabeth Murphy, and Dan Powers

Graduate Student Roundtables. Organizer: D'Lane Compton

• Students from Arizona, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Maryland, New Orleans, Notre Dame, Princeton, South Carolina, Stanford, and Texas A&M (click for details)

Bernard P. Cohen Memorial Session. Organizer: Kathy Kuipers

• Remarks by Buzz Zelditch, Joe Berger, David Wagner, Murray Webster, and Lee Freese

The Legacy of Bernard P. Cohen. Organizer: Martha Foschi

• Presentations by Alison Bianchi, Barry Markovsky, Lisa Troyer, and Henry Walker

Social Psychology of Generosity. Organizer: Jessica Collett

• "Identity and Generosity" Jan Stets
• "Who Gives to Get Ahead? Altruism Versus Status-Seeking in Prosocial Behavior" Robb Willer, Matthew Feinberg, Francis J. Flynn, and Brent Simpson
• "Altruism and Homophily in Social Relations: Green Beard Selection or Dispositional Colorblindness?" Brent Simpson, Matthew Brashears, Eric Gladstone, and Ashley Harrell
• "A Normative Explanation of Antisocial Punishment" Kyle Irwin and Christine Horne