2026 Talk Schedule
The talk schedule below satisfied as many preferences as possible, while maintaining the tradition of devoting the first and last days to returning Duckees.
The schedule is tentative because I also have to coordinate with cooking, clean-up and dinner out assignments. Once those are posted, however, speakers are free to swap spots by mutual consent, as long as they are aware of potential conflicts with other assignments, and as long as they inform me in advance.
Because almost everyone wants to give a talk this year, all talks will be 30-minutes. There are 2.5 hours of talks scheduled each day, including my opening and closing remarks.
Those who failed to complete the talks survey are listed as "TBA" as are some folks who have not yet decided what they will be presenting. Please notify me of your actual talk title as soon as possible.
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Sunday
Don Carlston — Opening Remarks
Shira Gabriel — Collective Effervescence, Social Embeddedness, and the Good Life
Allen McConnell — Self-transcendent emotions promote environmental sustainability
Allison Ledgerwood — Dominance Bias Contorts Psychology
Michael J. Bernstein — The impact of the cross-race recognitive deficit on targets
Monday
Abby Scholer — Trade-offs and Consequences of Abstinence versus Moderation in Self-Control
Anjana Lakshmi — Hyper Typicality Effect: The Typical Face is Not Average
Jessica Remedios — Prototypicality biases shape stereotypes of Asian Americans
Chris Agnew — Bystander Intervention in Virtual Reality
Jordan Daley — Skin-Deep Associations... so what?
Tuesday
Keith Maddox — TBA, or not TBA: Planning fallacy and time pressure
Kristina Olson — Self categorization: Stability and change
JJ Togans — Should I Enjoy This? Guilty Pleasures
Jim Wirth — Leaving a Group
Elizabeth Haines — Are Gender Stereotypes Changing?
Wednesday
Eric Hehman — Environment Impressions and Behavior
Mary Murphy — Cultures of Growth
Rebecca Carey — Seeing Status: Social Class Perceptual Accuracy in Interpersonal Interactions
Paul Eastwick — How Can We Capture what is Unique about a Relationship?
Pam Smith — Something about power
Thursday
Manny El-Alayli — Man vs. Bear: Which do Women Find Riskier and Why?
Chris Marshburn — Racial Relating
Emily Balcetis — Seeing the Self in the Feed: The Social Cognition of Racialized Targeted Marketing to Teens on Social Media
Heidi Vuletich — Perceiving Bias in the Built Environment
Don Carlston — Concluding Remarks
Discussants
Thekla Morgenroth, Ximena Arriaga, Franki Kung