The European Network for Positive
Psychology (ENPP) is delighted to invite you to attend the 6th European
Conference on Positive Psychology to be held at the World Trade
Center, Moscow, Russia.
The mission of the ENPP is to promote the science and practice of positive
psychology and to facilitate communication and collaboration among researchers
and practitioners in Europe and around the world who are interested in positive
psychology. ENPP collaborates directly with International Positive Psychology
Association (IPPA) which aims to facilitate the research and application of
positive psychology globally in respect for cultural diversity and regional
interests.
The burgeoning field of positive psychology focuses on the study and practice
of what is right in the world – the positive emotions, well-being, strengths,
and virtues that make individuals, institutions, and communities thrive.
The 6th European Conference on Positive Psychology will gather the world’s most
renowned experts in positive psychology to present their latest findings and
best practices. All attendees will have the opportunity to discuss their
research, insights, and ideas in thematic symposia, workshops, round tables,
oral and poster sessions, and also to interact with like-minded people who
focus on studying what is best in life and how to create more of it.
Join an internationally diverse audience of researchers, clinicians, educators,
students, business owners, coaches, consultants, medical experts – anyone
interested in the science and practice of positive psychology.
Keynote speakers:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management and Director of Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University, California, USA. Starting from research on creativity and intrinsic motivation, he created a widely known theory of optimal experience, or flow theory. He ist the author of numerous publications on creativity, human evolution, psychology of art, personality development, and flow theory and ist applications in various fields, among them: "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience","Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life“, "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention", “Being adolescent“, “Becoming adult“, "The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millenium", “Good Business: Flow, Leadership and the Making of Meaning", and many others, translated and recognized worldwide. Professor Csikszentmihalyi is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Studies. He is recognized as one of the founders of Positive Psychology movement.
Michael Eid
Michael Eid is professor of psychology at the Free University of Berlin. His
main research interests concern longitudinal data analysis, multimethod
assessment, subjective well-being and health psychology. He is associate editor
of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and co-editor of several handbooks, for
example, the The Science of Subjective Well-being (with Randy Larsen) and
Handbook of Multimethod Measurement in Psychology (with Ed Diener).
Dmitry Leontiev
Dmitry A. Leontiev is Professor of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State
University, Russia. He is also Head of Research Lab of Personality Development
of the Physically Challenged at Moscow State University for Psychology and
Education and Head of Research Lab of Positive Psychology and Quality of Life
Studies at Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Director of Institute for
Existential Psychology and Life Enhancement (EXPLIEN), Vice-President of Moscow
branch of Russian Psychological Society. He authored numerous publications on
psychology of personality, motivation and self-regulation, psychology of art
and advertising, personality assessment, including “Introduction to the
Psychology of Art” (in Russian), “Psychology of Personal Meaning” (in Russian),
and a number of edited books, among them “Emotions, Art, and Creativity”,
“Psychology with a Human Face: Humanistic Perspectives in Post-Soviet
Psychology” (in Russian), “Personal Potential: Structure and Assessment” (in
Russian), and “Motivation, Consciousness, and Self-Regulation”. He is associate
editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, an advisor of Great Russian
Encyclopedia, serves on editorial boards of four national professional
journals. Dr. Leontiev is also practicing existential counselor. He is a winner
of 2003 Promotional Award of Victor Frankl Foundation of the City of Vienna.
His recent studies are focused on the issues of self-determined positivity
rooted in autonomy, personal meaning, self-reflection and autoregulation
potential.
Dan McAdams
"The Positive Psychology of Generativity, and the Redemptive Stories
Generative Adults Tell."
Dan P. McAdams is the Chair of the Psychology Department at Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL. He is also Professor of Psychology and Professor of
Human Development and Social Policy, honored as a Charles Deering McCormick
Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern. Author of nearly 200
scientific articles and chapters, numerous edited volumes, and 6 books,
Professor McAdams works in the areas of personality and life-span developmental
psychology. His theoretical and empirical writings focus on concepts of self
and identity in contemporary American society and on themes of power, intimacy,
redemption, and generativity across the adult life course. Professor McAdams is
most well-known for formulating a life-story theory of human identity.
Professor McAdams is a leader in the recent emergence within the social
sciences of narrative approaches to studying human lives – approaches that
place stories and storytelling at the center of human personality.
Ragnhild Nes
Ragnhild Nes is a Researcher at the Division of Mental Health, Norwegian
Institute of Public Health in Oslo and a lecturer at the University of Oslo.
She is currently working on a project called Stability and change in mental
health during young adulthood: A longitudinal twin study. The main aim of the
project is to explore genetic and environmental influences on variation and
covariation in mental health and development to broaden our understanding of
the heterogeneity and specificity in individual responses to environmental
factors. Dr. Nes' research uses quantitative genetic techniques to unravel the
genetic and environmental influences on quantitative traits. Her focus is on
stability and change in mental health and happiness and the links between
wellbeing and mental disorders.
Richard
Ryan
"Human autonomy and its functional importance for motivation, well-being and
cultural evolution: Theory and evidence from self-determination
theory."
Richard Ryan is Professor of Psychology & Director of Clinical Training
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology at University of
Rochester, Rochester, NY. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at School of
Medicine and Dentistry and Professor of Education, The Warner School of
Education. Professor Ryan is a widely published researcher and theorist in the
areas of human motivation, development, and well-being, with over 250 articles,
chapters and books. He is co-developer (with Edward L. Deci) of
Self-Determination Theory, an internationally researched framework that has
been applied in hundreds of studies within areas such as human development,
education, work, relationships, medicine, psychical activity and cross-cultural
psychology. Ryan is also an award winning teacher and researcher, who has given
addresses in over 60 universities worldwide. He is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, and
an Honorary Member of the German Psychological Society. He has been a visiting
scientist at the Max Planck Institute, a James McKeen Cattell Fellow, and is
currently a Leverhulme Fellow, and Visiting Professor at the University of
Bath, UK. Recent research interests include: the effects of intrinsic and
extrinsic life goals on wellbeing and communities; mindfulness and
self-regulation; vitality and nature; motivation in virtual environments, and
the effects of stigma on identity and wellness.
Carol Ryff
"Contradiction at the Core of Positive Psychology: The
Essential Role of the Negative in Adaptive Human Functioning."
Carol D. Ryff is Director of the Institute on Aging and Marie Jahoda Professor
of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research centers on
the study of psychological well-being, an area in which she has developed
multidimensional assessment scales that have been translated to more than 25
different languages and are used in research across diverse scientific fields.
Investigations by Dr. Ryff and colleagues have addressed how psychological
well-being varies by age, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic/minority status,
and cultural context as well as by the experiences, challenges, and transitions
individuals confront as they age. Dr. Ryff has generated over 120 publications
in the areas described above, and she currently directs the MIDUS (Midlife in
the U.S.) longitudinal study, which is based on a large national sample of
Americans, including twins. She is also Principal Investigator of MIDJA
(Midlife in Japan), a parallel to the MIDUS investigation, for which she
received an NIH Merit Award.
Shalom Schwartz
"How values underlie and undermine happiness."
Shalom H. Schwartz is the Leon and Clara Sznajderman Emeritus Professor of
Psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Supervisor of the
Socio-cultural Psychology Laboratory at the Higher School of Economics in
Moscow. He is past president of the International Association for
Cross-Cultural Psychology, and a fellow of the American Psychological
Association. He is a recipient of the highest civilian prize awarded by the
State of Israel, the Pras Yisrael in psychology in recognition of his career as
a researcher, mentor, and teacher.
He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the European Social Survey
and serves on the editorial boards of five international journals. He has
published six books and over 160 articles on his research in international
journals in social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, political psychology,
sociology, education, law, and economics. His recent research builds on his
theories of values on both the individual and the cultural level. On the
individual level, he studies the nature of basic human values and their role as
determinants of attitudes and behavior. On the culture level, he seeks to
understand both the roots of cultural value differences and their consequences
for social policy and societal functioning. He coordinates an international
project applying his theory and methods for measuring values in over 75
countries, with the participation of some 180 collaborators. His value theory
and instruments are part of the ongoing, semi-annual European Social
Survey.
Abstract submission
The Scientific Committee invites abstract submissions from faculty, researchers, practitioners and students in any and all fields of positive psychology. Presentation proposals can be focused on theoretical models or on empirical research studies.
The conference program will be organized around the following tentative topics (but not limited by them):
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Theory and Methodology of PP
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Positive Personality Development
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Quality of Life and Well-being
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PP at Work & Organizations
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Positive Side of Human Relationships
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Positive Resources and Life Challenges
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Positive Psychology in Society and Communities
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Beyond Psychology: Culture and Positive Humanities
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Health and Wellness
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PP in Family and Education
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Positive Interventions
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Meaning, Values and Spiritual Accomplishments
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Human Strengths, Psychological Capital and Personal Potential
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Self-regulation, Autonomy, and Self-determination
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New Frontiers of Flourishing
Your original research can be presented in symposia, oral or poster sessions and in workshops All these forms provide an opportunity to cover areas that may not be included in the plenaries, symposia, and workshops with invited speakers.
Abstracts should be uploaded not later than January 15th, 2012 (earlier submission is strongly encouraged).
Please ensure that your abstract contains a maximum of 500 words. After you upload your personal data you will be able to choose the preferred type of presentation and to upload your abstract.
- the background
- the aims of study
- the methods used
- a succinct summary of the results obtained / theoretical advancements
- the conclusions reached.
The remainder of the extended abstract should provide
sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity,
quality, and relevance of the contribution.
Note: Please avoid abbreviations in the title. Abbreviations may be used in the
text if they have previously been defined.
If you have any questions regarding abstract submission, please do not hesitate to contact us: ecpp2012@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please indicate ‘submission’ in the Subject field.
Types of presentation
Symposia
Symposia should include presentations on a specific theme and integrate
findings from different research projects. Symposia are organized by a
convener, and will be scheduled for one hour and a half. They will include 4 or
5 presenters (normally speaking for about 20 minutes each), plus 15 minutes for
a discussant stimulating interaction with the audience.
In order to submit a symposium we need to receive an
overarching abstract by the convener(s) referring to the individual
contributions within the symposium. Also, the convener provides the names of
presenters and titles of their individual presentations.
In addition all contributors are to submit individual abstracts. Before sending
an abstract authors should refer to the relevant symposium and its convener
(the abstract must be approved by the convener).
Oral presentations
Oral presentations are individual statements presenting original research
and/or research reviews. They will be grouped into thematic sessions, according
to their topic. Speaking for about 15 minutes.
Round Tables
Some of the thematic sessions might
be organized as round tables, with a discussant that chairs the session and
invites the presenters to illustrate and debate their findings in the
interactive way.
Posters
Poster presentations will be organized into poster sessions.
The technical requirements and guidelines for posters will
be publicized in March 2012.
Workshops
Workshops offering practical illustrations of best, evidence-based practice are
invited.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed. The Scientific Committee will consider your preferred form of presentation (oral or poster), but expecting a high number of submissions we encourage to present very specific narrow-context data, preliminary ideas and pilot studies in poster, rather than oral form, and in some cases will probably recommend changing the form.
Important dates:
| July 2011 | Information Website Opens, Questions Are Welcome |
| September 2011 | Abstract Submission and Registration Opens |
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15 January 2012 |
Abstract Submission Deadline |
| March 2012 | Acceptance Notifications |
| March 31, 2012 | Early Bird Registration Deadline |
| June 26-29, 2012 | 6th European Conference on Positive Psychology |