Invitation
We would like to invite you to participate in our next,
Nineteenth Annual Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology. The
Symposium will be held in at the Coogee Bay Hotel, one of Sydney’s
attractive seaside suburbs facing the South Pacific Ocean, on the
14-16thth March, 2017.
These meetings are held every year on a different topic, and bring
together leading international researchers in a major field of
social psychology (see our website at
www.sydneysymposium.unsw.edu.au for details, programs, pictures of
past symposia, etc.). These small group meetings have a reputation
of being among the most stimulating, enjoyable and fun conferences
in our field - feel free to check with any of the past participants
(click here
for a list)!! The topic of next year's symposium is
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GOOD LIFE
The conference seeks to bring together researchers who are
interested in understanding what social psychology can contribute to
our understanding of how the ‘good life’ should be lived, in the
broadest sense of this term.
Several substantive areas of social psychology are highly relevant
to this topic, including research on positive psychology,
self-processes, relationships, social attitudes, social motivation,
economic psychology, affective processes. self-control and work on
interpersonal behavior. As always the topic is broadly defined and
we are interested in contribution from a wide variety of theoretical
backgrounds.
Our aim is to survey the latest developments in theory and empirical
research in this exciting and rapidly developing area. Given your
important contribution to this field, we really hope that you will
be able to participate. Contributions will be subsequently published
in a book form by Psychology Press, New York. Invited contributions
should be first authors on the paper, and normally present an
overview of a significant area of research emphasizing especially
the latest theoretical and empirical developments (the target word
length for the eventual chapter is 6000 words, so it is a fairly
concise project).
We very much hope that you will be able to come to Sydney next March. If you can accept our invitation, please -
- Indicate your acceptance or rejection of our invitation in the next few days; and please send us an abstract of your proposed paper within the next ten days, and
- We will also need to receive an advance written draft text of your contribution by the end of December 2016.
Thank you for considering this, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Joe Forgas and Roy Baumeister
Organisers