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Abstractbook
Scientific Programme
The programme will cover all aspects and research domains of developmental psychology, with a particular focus on longitudinal studies.
Two major longitudinal studies on child and adolescent development are currently taking place within the host institution of the Congress;
the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, and these will be presented at the Congress.
Research on human development and developmental psychology represents a variety of fields, age groups, populations, theoretical approaches and methodologies.
This stimulating mixture constitutes a huge potential for cross-fertilization, and the scientific and organizing committees aim at providing an atmosphere of curiosity, critique, and sharing within the context of a seam-less organization.
The conference format will include keynotes, symposia, thematic sessions and poster sessions. It is recommended that each participant submit only one abstract as a main author.
Pre-conference workshops with topics of particular interest to young scientists in developmental psychology will be organized.
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Special Event:
Cyber bullying: an over-estimated phenomenom?
Round-table discussion with an introductionary statement from Dan Olweus. Chaired by Christiane Spiel.
Is Piaget still alive? Debate moderated by Francisco Pons. Debate beteween Philippe Rochat and Cintia Ródriguez.
Social Programme:
A varied social and touristic programme will be offered to participants and their accompanying persons.
Thursday August 25 at 18:30:
The Lausanne event is co-organized by the Swiss Embassy in Oslo and the ECDP-2013 Local Organizing Committee.
Important dates:
June 2010 .................... Second Announcement
January 20, 2011 ......... Deadline for abstract submission
March 15, 2011 ............ Notification of acceptance
April 15, 2011 ............... Deadline for early registration
Professor Francoise Alsaker,University of Berne, Switzerland:
Pathways to Victimisation: Lessons learned from Research in Kindergarten
Professor Erica Burman,Manchester Metropolitan University, UK:
Desiring Development
Professor Jacque Eccles, University of Michigan, USA:
The relationship of personal and social identities and group membership
to life-defning activity choices and socioemotional development
Professor Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Leiden University, The Netherlands:
Differential Susceptibility to the Environment: Temperamental, Constitutional, and Genetic Markers in Children and Adults
Professor Çigdem Kagitcibasi, Koç University, Turkey:
Toward Healthy Human Development in A Changing World
Professor Robert Plomin, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK:
DNA and developmental psychology
Professor Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK:
Gene environment interdependance
Pre-conference workshops:
• ESDP-Jacobs Foundation Preconference Workshop in collaboration with ESDP's Early Researchers' Union on "Acculturation and Adaptation of Immigrant Youth in European Context".
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Organizers: professors Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, University of Athens and David Sam University of Bergen.
• Françoise D. Alsaker, University of Bern, Switzerland & Sonja Perren, University of Zürich, Switzerland:
Current methodological issues in bullying research
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• Jim Stevenson, Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of
Bergen School of Psychology, University of Southampton: Current issues in behaviour geneticsh
Invited symposia:
Ottavia Albanese, University of Milano Bicocca, and
Paola Molina, University of Torino:
Social cognition in typical and nontypical development
Jens Asendorpf, Humboldt University Berlin:
Role of personality in adaptation in adolescence and young adulthood.
Bea van den Bergh, Tilburg University:
Where developmental programming starts: evidence from fetus and infant brain-behavior studies
Frédérique Cuisinier, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, and
Jacques Grégoire, Catholic University of Louvain:
Emotions at school
Paul Harris, Harvard University:
When do children trust what other people tell them?
Matthias Reitzle, University of Jena:
Innovative Methods for the Study of Change and Development
Maria José Rodrigo, University of La Laguna:
Evidence-based interventions to promote positive parenting: major outcomes from the
TENERIFE WINTER SCHOOL.
Elsbeth Stern, ETH Zürich Institute for Behavioral Sciences:
Using evidence from the brain sciences for shaping theories of learning and development
Trine Waaktaar and Svenn Torgersen, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health; Oslo:
Genetics, personality and resilience in a longitudinal perspective based on a longitudinal study of adult twins.
Announcement of Jacobs Foundation fellowships for the ECDP11
We would like to announce that Jacobs Foundation will offer a limited number of fellowships of 1200 euro each to young researchers whose submission to present their work at the 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, has been accepted.
Two types of fellowships will be offered. One type of fellowship supports excellence, and is based on the quality of the applicant’s abstract. The second type of fellowship supports young scholars, doctoral and postdoctoral students, who come from developing countries.
The criteria for evaluation in the case of both, fellowships for excellence and fellowships to young researchers from economically developing countries, will be the quality of the applicant’s abstract, their CV, and a letter of recommendation from a senior scientist in developmental psychology. To qualify for the second type of fellowship the applicant must live in a country that is listed in the developing countries list at the ESDP website:
Those interested should send this information to ECDPabstracts@uib.no by April 8, 2011.
Publishing in the 21st century, organized by Willem Koops
On the 26st between 1700 and 1830 there will be a nice and interesting meeting plus discussion on "Publishing in the 21st century". The session will consist of: a presentation by Dr.Anja Smit (international recognized librarian) on "Modern use of Libraries and the future of scientific publications", followed by short presentations of editors of existing journals on developmental psychology about their policies (European Journal of Developmental Psychology; International Journal of Behavioral Development; Child Development and others), ; followed by a discussion with the audience as well as with some of the publishers being present in Bergen (Blackwell, Psychology Press, Wiley and others).