9th Biennial Meeting of the

International Society for the Study of Individual Differences

Coast Plaza Hotel at Stanley Park

Vancouver, British Columbia

Canada

July 5 - 9, 1999

 

Last Updated: June 2, 1999

Abstracts to the talks are now available

The following schedule is based on best available information subject to change.

All sessions are held in the Comox Room unless otherwise indicated.

The registration and information desk is located in the meeting room foyer and is open for ISSID registrations starting Sunday, July 4, 1999 at 8:30 AM. The desk will be open every day of the conference from 8:30 AM everyday.

 

MONDAY JULY 5:

9:00 - 9:15: Introductory Remarks: Kerry Jang

9:30 - 10:30: Presidential Address: Nathan Brody

The science and politics of IQ

10:30 - 10:40: Coffee Break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

10:40 - 1:00 PAPER SESSION 1: PERSONALITY Chair: R.M. Bagby
  1. D.L. Paulhus, P.D. Trapnell, & P. Wehr (10:40 - 11:00)

The key to demonstrating birth-order effects: within-family analyses
  1. C. Jackson, A. Furnham, L. Forde, & T. Cotter (11:00 - 11:20)

The dimensional structure and correlates of the Eysenck Personality Profiler

3) H. Moosbrugger & A. Fischbach (11:20-11:40)

Big Three or Big Five? Evaluation of the Eysenck Personality Profiler (German version)

4) R. M. Bagby & J. D. A. Parker (11:40-12:00)

Examination of the dimensional factor structure of the Personality Psychopathology Five
  1. J. Santacreu, O. Garcia, P. Chun Shih, & R. Colom (12:00 - 12:20)

The study of personality from a behavioral point of view
  1. J. Brebner (12:20 - 12:40)

More about extraversion and the psychological refractory period
  1. F. De Fruyt & I. Mervielde (12:40 - 1:00)

The construction and behavioral genetic validation of the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (HiPIC)

1:00 - 2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-4:00: SYMPOSIA 1: Biological Aspects of Human Intelligence Differences

( Ian Deary & Robert Stelmack, Organizers)

Participants: Con Stough: The role of the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine in Inspection Time, Robert Stelmack: Intelligence and ERPs: A pilgrim's progress, Ian Deary: Follow-up studies of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey, Robert Plomin: Quantitative genetics, molecular genetics and intelligence, & Arthur Jensen: Discovering Physical Causes and Modifiers of Individual Differences in Psychometric g.

4:00-4:10: Coffee Break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

4:10 - 6:00: SYMPOSIA 2: New Directions for Research on Cognitive Developments: Modifications of Gf/Gc Theory

(Lazar Stankov and Richard Roberts, Organizers)

Participants: John L. Horn: Recent developments in the theory of cognitive structure and development , Richard Woodcock: Gf-Gc theory applied to the development and interpretation of intelligence and achievement batteries, Lazar Stankov: Structural extensions of a hierarchical view on human abilities, John J. McArdle: An examination of the dynamic predictions of Gf/Gc theory using longitudinal life-span data, Richard Roberts: The armed services vocational aptitude battery (ASVAB), the Bell Curve, and Gf/Gc theory.

6:30 - 8:00: Welcome Reception (Windows on the Bay located on the 35th Floor of the hotel)

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 6:

8:30 - 9:30: Plenary Address: Robert D. Hare

Title to be announced

9:30 - 11:10 PAPER SESSION 2: COGNITIVE ABILITIES I Chair: L. Burton

  1. T. Bates (9:30 - 9:50)

Domain-specific information-processing speed model of emotional intelligence (IQ e)

  1. F.M. Spinath, A.C. Neubauer, R. Riemann, P. Borkenau, & A. Angleitner (9:50 - 10:10)

Covariation of psychometric intelligence and speed of information processing: A multivariate genetic and environmental analysis

3) A.C. Neubauer, G. Sange, & G. Pfurtscheller (10:10-10:30)

Intelligence and neural efficiency: EEG activation patterns during performance of a letter matching task

4) R. Haier (10:30-10:50)

Individual differences in mild cognitive impairment: a new computerized test

  1. L. Burton (10:50 - 11:10)

A factorial analysis of visual imagery and spatial abilities

11:10-11:20: Coffee Break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

11:20-1:00: PAPER SESSION 3: COGNITIVE ABILITIES II Chair: N. Segal
  1. D. Garlick (11:20 - 11:40)

The nature of the general factor of intelligence

  1. J.P. Rushton (11:40 - 12:00)

Performance on Raven’s Matrices by African and White university students in South Africa

  1. N. Segal (12:00 - 12:20)

Intellectual resemblance of same-age unrelated siblings: new findings

  1. C. Cooper & K. Naumann (12:20 - 12:40)

Memory deficits in schizotypy

  1. M.J. Wright, N.K. Hansell, G.M. Geffen, L.B. Geffen, G.A. Smith & N.G. Martin (12:40 - 1:00)

Genetic influence on the variance in ERP measures of working memory: a twin study

1:00-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00 - 4:00: SYMPOSIA 3: Current Perspectives on Individual Differences in Coping with Stress

( Moshe Zeidner, Organizer) Participants: Marilyn Bowman: Risk and resilience of factors moderating the effects of threatening life events, Norman Endler: Coping, anxiety, depression, and stress, Moshe Zeidner: Individual differences in coping during ballistic missle attack: Israeli field data, Gerald Matthews Personality, coping and vulnerability to driver stress, Vicki Schwean Coping, personality and AD/HD. Discussant: Steven Taylor.

4:00 - 4:10: Coffee Break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

4:10 - 6:00: SYMPOSIA 4: Individual Differences and Forensic Psychology

(Vincent Egan, Organizer) Participants: Vincent Egan: Sensational and lurid interests in mentally disordered offenders, Amber Hills: Group treatment outcome for psychopathic inmates, Gisli Gudjonsson: Individual differences and false confessions, & Julie Evans: Schizotypy and sensational interests .

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

8:30-12:30: ISSID/BGA Joint Session (Comox/Denman)

8:30 - 10:30: SYMPOSIA Organized by Richard J. Rose

Integrating Research Traditions of ISSID and BGA: The Bielefeld-Warsaw Twin Studies

  1. Rainer Riemann

    2. Multi-Modal Measurement of Personality: First results from the German Observational Study of Adult Twins

  2. Jan Strelau

    3. Title to be Announced

  3. Richard J. Rose

Discussant

10:00 -10:30: coffee break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

10:30 - 11:00: INVITED ADDRESS: Eric Turkheimer

Will the Real Nonshared Environment Please Stand Up?

11:00 - 12:30 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:30: ISSID Early Career Awards

1:30 - 2:30: Steven Petrill

Differentiation and Dedifferentiation in Cognitive Abilities across the Lifespan: A Behavioral Genetic Perspective

2:30 - 3:30: Kerry Jang

Title to be Announced

 

3:30 - 6:00: Poster Session over Coffee (Foyer)

(coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

  1. Morrone: Film-induced incentive motivation and positive affect in relation to agentic and affiliative components of extraversion
  2. Caruso: 1) Reliability gerneralization of the NEO personality scales and 2) Reliability generalization of the Eysenck personality questionnaire
  3. Clark et al.: The relationship between attachment and psychopathology
  4. Weiss: Sexual differences in activity patterns of a central Californian hunter-gatherer population
  5. Westerman et al.: Measuring individual differences in mental models
  6. Bucik: 1) Temperament and processing speed: the role of excitation and 2) Are more open, more intelligent and faster examinees more prone to guess?
  7. Lubinski et al.: Educational and vocational outcomes of mathematically talented youth: a 20-year follow-up of students identified before age 13
  8. Kosek: The formation of God’s image throughout Erikson’s eight stages
  9. Jordan et al.: TPQ measurement of extracurricular activities of college students
  10. Schneider et al.: Psychometric properties of the German version of the PTS: factorial validity, situational effects and relations to Eysenck’s EPQ-R
  11. Bates: Personality and information processing speed: separable influences on intelligent performance
  12. Colom et al.: Cognitive abilities and personality: three hypotheses tested with adult subjects; 2) General intelligence defined as g and sex differences in young adolescents and adult populations
  13. Schweizer: The contribution of perceptual and cognitive processes to the speed-ability relationship
  14. Baltissen et al.: 1) Augmenters: are they sensation seekers, extraverts, and strong nervous types? 2) Differences between augmenters and reducers in psychophysiological indicators of information processing; 3) Augmenters are faster than reducers, but less reactive
  15. Jackson et al.: Moderating the effect of learnt components of personality on daily recorded work performance criteria
  16. Endler et al.: Controllability in cognitive and interpersonal tasks: is control good for you?
  17. Bagby et al.: Replicating the Five-Factor model in a psychiatric sample
  18. Celi et al.: The association between the serotonin transporter gene, neuroticism and temperament levels
  19. Krueger: An individual differences perspective on comorbidity among mental disorders
  20. Georgiades et al.: Towards a taxonomy of personality descriptors in the Greek language
  21. Abad et al.: 1) Intelligence and the differentiation hypothesis revisited; 2) Optimal number of options from an Item Response Theory view
  22. Juan-Espinosa et al.: A five-factor model of individual differences in large space orientation
  23. Contreras et al.: Sex differences in two new computerized tests for the assessment of dynamic spatial ability
  24. Acton et al.: Nomological relations of the interpersonal circle and other personality taxonomies; 2) New criteria for circumplex structure; 3) Color discrimination as related to other aptitudes: an analysis of the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test
  25. Goldberg et al.: Information processing, intelligence and impulsivity
  26. Sommer et al.: The Big Five, coping styles and measures of affectivity as predictors of ICD-10 personality disorder traits in clinical context
  27. Evans et al.: Inferential reasoning deficits in schizotypal subjects
  28. Boon van Ostade: Task switching and sustaining: a possible basis for the Big Five factor Agreeableness
  29. Blatny et al.: Structure of the Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale: three factor solution
  30. Heater et al.: Three, five, and seven personality systems and the prediction of spouse abuse across the adult life span
  31. Wolfradt: Depersonalization experiences, the five-factor model and personality disorder traits in nonclinical adults
  32. Wakabayashi: A study on the relation between autobiographical memory and personality
  33. Tomes et al.: The roles of intelligence and individual differences in problem solving ability
  34. Quran et al.: The effect of psychological factors on acceptance of complete dentures
  35. Magos: Monoaminergic activity, visual evoked potential (VEP) and the STO scales
  36. van Kampen: Pathways to self-critical depression
  37. Cohen et al.: Differences in awareness of neuropsychological deficits among three patient populations
  38. Johnson et al.: Individual differences in neuropsychological status following exposure to violent accelerational forces: age effects in non-impact brain injury
  39. De Fruyt et al.: Traits versus interests as predictors of employment status and nature of employment
  40. Rosecrans et al.: Differential behavioural effects of nicotine (NIC) in rats pre-selected for differences in arousal: role of brain nicotinic receptors
  41. Brookings et al.: Confirmatory factor analysis of a measure of intrapersonal empowerment
  42. Samadashvili et al.: Role of individual-specific psychophysiologic reactivity in pathophysiology of CAD
  43. Kurtz et al.: The relationship between participation of sports and school achievement among culturally deprived adolescents in Israel
  44. Coolidge et al.: Heritability and comorbidity of ADHD with executive function deficits and other disorders
  45. Andres-Pueyo et al.: Brain nerve conduction velocity, magnetic nuclear resonance and intelligence: new data
  46. Falconer: Stress reactions to work-related tasks; the predisposing factors
  47. Lissek et al: Sensation seeking as a moderator of the acoustic startle eyeblink reflex
  48. Ruch: On the alleged heterogeneity of P: Some cautions
  49. Erickson: title to be announced
  50. Larstone et al.: Factor structure of a measure of cognition and personality pathology

7:00 - 10:00: Executive Meeting of ISSID Board of Directors (Boardroom)

THURSDAY JULY 8

8:30-9:30: Plenary Address: Robert Plomin

Title to be Announced

9:30-11:10: PAPER SESSION #4: BIOLOGICAL BASES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

  1. R. F. Krueger (9:30 - 9:50)

An individual differences perspective on comorbidity among mental disorders

  1. G. E. Barnes, R.P. Murray & R. A. Anderson (9:50 - 10:10)

Personality and alcohol use and abuse: a seven year longitudinal study

  1. D. Saklofske & P.J. Greenspoon (10:10 - 10:30)

The position of neuroticism within a dual-factor model of mental health

  1. N. Gillespie, K.M. Kirk, C. Andrew, A.C. Heath, N.G. Martin, I. Hickie (10:30 - 10:50)

Somatic distress as a distinct psychological dimension

  1. N. Endler & N. Kocovski (10:50 - 11:10)

Anxiety: Dimensionality vs. Typology

11:10-11:20: Coffee Break (coffee, tea, water, juices and cookies are served in the foyer)

11:20-1:00: PAPER SESSION #5: PSYCHOPATHOLGY Chair: K. M. Kirk

  1. G. Becker, C. Schneider, D. Bartussek, & E. Naumann (11:20 - 11:40)

Stimulus analysis and response organization in a CNV paradigm: effects of extraversion

  1. A. Strobel (11:40 - 12:00)

Association between the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) exon III polymorphism and measures of novelty seeking in a German population

  1. N.G. Martin, J.B. Whitfield, G.Zhu, K.M. Kirk, P. Whitfield, A.C. Heath, P. Madden (12:00-12:20)

Joint linkage and association analysis of dopamine receptor D4 with alcohol and tobacco use and aspects of personality

  1. P. Netter, A. Rogausch, A. Doerr, J. Hennig, & S. Rohrmann (12:20 - 12:40)

Craving for nicotine after blockade of cortisol production in high and low novelty seekers

  1. K. M. Kirk & N.G. Martin (12:40 - 1:00)

Cholesterol and symptoms of depression in a community-based sample of twins

1:00-2:00: Lunch Break

2:00-3:00: Business Meeting with ISSID membership and officers

3:00-3:50: TELECONFERENCE WITH F.O.P.P.P., Darwin, Australia

Dr. Gordon Claridge

Title to be Announced

3:50-4:00: Coffee Break

4:00-6:00: SYMPOSIA 5: Defining and Measuring Aggression: Three Approaches (Dr. Ernest Barratt, Organizer)

Participants: Marvin Zuckerman: Kicking for kicks: sensation seeking and aggression, Emil F. Coccaro: Impulsive aggression: a new target for treatment intervention, & Ernest Barratt: Impulsive versus premeditated aggression: implications for therapy

7:00-10:00: Banquet (Denman/Nelson Rooms)

 

FRIDAY JULY 9:

8:30-9:30: Plenary Address: W. John Livesley

Title to be Announced

9:30-11:10: PAPER SESSION 6: ADJUSTMENT Chair: P.C.L. Heaven

1) R. E. Anderson, G. E. Barnes, & R. P. Murray (9:30 - 9:50)

The Addiction-Prone Personality Scale as a prospective predictor in the development of alcoholism in a general population sample

2) S. Kleitman, L. Stankov & R.D. Roberts (9:50 - 10:10)

Cognitive strategies and overconfidence

3) W. Ruch (10:10 - 10:30)

Personality, robustness of mood, and coping with stress

4) P.C.L. Heaven & M. Virgen (10:30 - 10:50)

Personality, parental discipline style, and companionship: influences on male delinquency

5) G.L. Flett, P.L. Hewitt, N.S. Endler & S. Macdonald (10:50 - 11:10)

Perfectionism, coping, and postpartum adjustment

6) D.T. Olason & D. Roger (11:10 - 11:30)

Optimism, pessimism, and ‘fighting spirit’: adaptation and persistence

  1. R. Thayer (11:30 - 11:50)

Title to be Announced

11:50 - 1:00: Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30: SYMPOSIA 6: Interactions between intelligence and personality

(Elizabeth Austin and Ian Deary, Organizers) Participants: E.J. Austin: Interactions between intelligence and personality in three groups of elderly people, P.L. Ackerman: Trait complexes among cognitive, affective, and conative constructs, P.T. Costa: Cautions and considerations for the links between cognition and personality, G. Matthews: Confidence: a neglected component of stress and anxiety.