April 20 – 22, 2001
Hall of Graduate Studies Room 211
Yale Unversity
Friday, April 20, 2001
8:30am – 9:00am Coffee and Bagels
9:00am – 9:15am Welcoming Remarks
John Jost
Mahzarin Banaji
Peter Salovey
Stanford University
Yale University
Chair, Department of Psychology, Yale University
9:30am – 12:00pm Attitude change, persuasion, and social influence (Prentice)
Bill McGuire
Richard Petty
Shelly Chaiken
Reid Hastie
Introduction
An Attitude Strength Perspective on Resistance to Persuasion
Reception and Yielding in Social Cognition and Persuasion
Remote Ramifications of Belief Change in Thought Systems
12:00pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30pm – 3:30pm Information processing, affect, and behavior (Banaji)
Bill McGuire
John Cacioppo
Robert S. Wyer
Shulamith Kreitler
Introduction
Asymmetries in Affect-Laden Information Processing
The Cognitive Organization and Use of General Knowledge
The Cognitive Guidance of Behavior
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm Language and the self-concept (Jost)
Bill McGuire
McGuire Family
Gün Semin
Curtis Hardin
Introduction
Bill McGuire: The Man and the Myth (Jim, Anne, & Steve )
The Language of Self and Others in Contexts
On the Pursuit of Self-Contradictions in Self-Theory
7:00pm – 10:00pm Dinner and Reception in honor of William J. McGuire
225 St. Ronan

Saturday, April 21, 2001
9:00am – 9:30am Coffee and Bagels
9:30am – 12:00pm Stereotyping and prejudice in society (Jost)
Bill McGuire
Willem Doise
György Hunyady
Alice Eagly
Introduction
Societal Psychology: New Challenges and Lessons from the Past
Social Stereotypes and “Implicit Social Theory”
The Common-Sense Psychology of Changing Social Groups
12:00pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30pm – 3:00pm Political communication and mass media (Prentice)
Bill McGuire
David Sears
Shanto Iyengar
Introduction
Continuities and Contrasts in American Racial Politics
New Perspectives on American Politics in the Era of Mass Media
3:00pm – 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 6:00pm Theory and meta-theory in social psychological science (Banaji)
Bill McGuire Introduction
Anthony Greenwald The Resting Parrot, the Dessert Stomach, and Other Perfectly Defensible
Norman Anderson
Theories
Unified Theory
Clapping with Both Hands: Generation and Falsification Phoebe Ellsworth
E. Tory Higgins The Eighth Koan of Progress in Social Psychology: A Variable
Annointed as “Special” Will Demand Special Treatment
Sunday, April 22, 2001
9:30a – 10:00a Coffee and Bagels
10:00am – 11:30am Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Social Cognition