Contact the Local Congress Secretariat at:
iaccp2004@snnu.edu.cn

Titles of the invited speeches 

Presidential & invited addresses

August 2 (16:00-18:00), Great Meeting Hall, Qujiang Hotel
Chair: Xuqun You

Presidential address
Peter B. Smith: Who are we, where did we come from and where are we going?

Special invited speech
Shichao Zhao: “A hundred schools of thought contending” in the Period of Spring and Autumn and their influence on Chinese cultural traditions and people’s psychological states

Keynote speeches

(All the keynote speeches take place at Meeting Hall, Shaanxi Normal University.)

August 3 (8:00-9:30)
Chair: Deborah L. Best
1. Gisela Trommsdorff: Cross-cultural aspects of parent-child relationships over the life span

August 3 (16:30-18:00)
Chair: Pawel Boski
1. Kaiping Peng: Culture and cognition in Chinese cultural contexts
2. Carl Ratner: The value of Contextualism for cross-cultural psychology: A corrective to positivism

August 4 (8:00-9:30)
Chair: Michael H. Bond
1. Kuo-Shu Yang: Indigenous psychology, westernized psychology, and indigenized psychology: A non-western psychologist’s view
2. Shalom H. Schwartz: Studying basic values: Recent theoretical developments, methodological advances, and findings

August 4 (16:30-18:00)
Chair: Uichol Kim
1. Shinobu Kitayama: Socialized attention: A carrier of culture?
2. Susumu Yamaguchi: An indigenous approach to a possibly etic phenomenon: A case of Amae

August 5 (8:00-9:30)
Chair: Klaus Boehnke
1. Young-Shin Park & Uichol Kim: Paths to academic achievement, delinquency and life-satisfaction: Longitudinal analysis of influences of psychological, relational and cultural factors
2. Lutz Eckensberger: Morality in a cultural psychology perspective

August 5 (16:30-18:00)
Chair: William K. Gabrenya
1. James Georgas: Children's intelligence: Are there cross-cultural differences?
2. Marc Bornstein: Patterns in parenting cognitions across acculturation

Triandis Prize Winners' Speeches

August 4 (19:30-21:30), Room 5101
Chair: Kwok Leung
1. Judit Arends-Toth: Measurement Methods in Acculturation Research
2. Fran Brew: Intercultural Conflict in the Workplace: A Study with Western Expatriates and East Asian Host-Nationals

Titles of the symposia

(All the symposia take place at Building No.5, Shaanxi Normal University.)

August 3 (10:00-12:20)

Symposium SA3A1 (Room 5101): 
Issues in theory and measurement of acculturation: Broaden or narrow the scope?

Conveners: Judit Arends-Toth & Karen Phalet

1. John W. Berry: Assessment of acculturation: Forty years research

2. Karen Phalet: Immigrant and host acculturation profiles: Effects of context and culture

3. Gabriel Horenczyk: The complexity of acculturation orientations and of their assessment

4. Colleen Ward: Assessing acculturation in dual heritage youth

5. Judit Arends & Fons van de Vijver: Measurement methods in acculturation research

6. Saskia Schalk-Soekar: Views of Dutch natives and minority groups on acculturation in the Netherlands

7. Discussant: John. W. Berry

Symposium SA3A2 (Room 5201):  
Cultural change: Bicultural self, values, and consumer choice

Conveners: Sik Hung Ng & Michael W. Allen

1. Michael W. Allen, S. H. Ng, K. Ikeda, J. A. Jawan, A. Sridhara, Anwarul Hasan Sufi, W. Waninara, M. Wilson & K. S. Yang: Cultural value change in nine East Asian and Pacific Island nations (1982 to 2002)

2. Claudio V. Torres: Human values and consumer choice in Brazil and Australia

3. Sik Hung Ng: Bicultural self

4. Ying Zhu, Li Zhang & Sui Jie: Is 'mother' part of the Chinese self? A social cognitive neuroscientific approach

Symposium SA3A3 (Room 5301):  
New directions in refugee psychology: Trauma stress, acculturation, resources, and well-being

Convener: Marta Young

1. Marta Young & Blanka Karanovic: Trauma, religion and well-being in Bosnian refugees

2. Dina Birman, Irena Persky & Joyce Ho Exposure to tauma, acculturation, psychological adjustment and social support in Vietnamese adult refugees in the Unites States

3. Jan P. van Oudenhoven, Job Laefer: Predictors of refugees’ social competence and well-being

4. Saba Safdar & Jan P. van Oudenhoven: A tale of refugees and immigrants living in Europe

Symposium SA3A4 (Room 5106): 
Value of children and intergenerational relations in different cultures (I)

Conveners: Gisela Trommsdorff & Bernhard Nauck

1. Cigdem Kagitcibasi & Bilge Ataca: Value of children: Then and now

2. Daniela Klaus: The structure of value-of-children

3. Bernhard Nauck: Value of children and intergenerational relationships in Germany

4. David L. Sam & Karl Peltzer: The changing values of children in South Africa and their correlates

5. Gang Zheng, Shaohua Shi, Hong Tang & Lesheng Hua: Some characteristics in the value of children of the "floating population" in China

6: Discussant: Leon Kuczynski

Symposium SA3A5 (Room 5206): 
Approaches to culturally responsive therapy, counselling, and social care (I)

Conveners: Antoine F. Gailly & Iain K. B. Twaddle

1. Antoine F. Gailly: Providing culturally responsive care

2. Iain Twaddle, Stephanie Mansfield, Grace Sablan, Jeffrey Mendiola, & Jonathan Lee: Developing culturally appropriate psychological support services for Micronesian University Students in Guam: Two-year study

3. Catherine Love: Indigenous Maori models of counselling and therapy

4. Danny I. Yatim: Counselling special populations in the Indonesian context

5. Elias Mpofu: Use of enactment techniques by Zimbabwean traditional healers to treat psychosomatic illness

6. Charles Watters: Evaluation of a bi-cultural mental health team for refugees in the UK

August 3 (14:00-16:00)

Symposium SA3B1 (Room 5101): 
Approaches to culturally responsive therapy, counselling, and social care (II)

Conveners: Antoine F. Gailly & Iain K. B. Twaddle

1. Qulsom Fazil: Advocacy services for populations from ethnically diverse backgrounds

2. John E. Lewis: Culturally responsive therapy with Latino and Haitian clients in south Florida

3. Susanna Hayes: Cross-cultural counselling in schools

4. Gella Richards: Working intra-culturally and being supervised cross-culturally: The dynamic of self-disclosure, religion and spirituality in a therapeutic treatment setting as an illustration

5. Mohammed Jamalallail: Integrating group counseling with some concepts of existential theory in Saudi Arabia
6. Discussant: Walter J. Lonner

Symposium SA3B2 (Room 5201): 
New extensions and developments in the psychology of acculturation

Convener: Pawel Boski & Gunter Bierbrauer

1. Pawel Boski, Karolina Jedrzejewska, Anna Jedrzejczak & Ela Olczak: Culture learning and competence vs. acculturation strategies: Alternative or complementary paradigms?

2. Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven: Attachment styles and acculturation strategies

3. Karen Phalet & Derya Gungor: Acculturation, ethnic relations and religion

4. Gunter Bierbrauer, Cordula Henke & Michael Jaeger: Acculturation orientations of Russian-Jewish immigrants and host communities in Germany and Israel

5. Saba Safdar: Cultural adaptation of international students in the multicultural society of Canada
6. Discussant: Colleen Ward

Symposium SA3B3 (Room 5106):  
Methodological and content considerations on the measurement of implicit motives in cross-cultural psychology

Conveners: Wolfgang Friedlmeier & Jan Hofer

1. Wolfgang Friedlmeier, J. Hofer, A. Chasiotis, D. Campos, & B. Nsamenang: Comparisons between loglinear models and IRT models to test the validity of projective tests

2. Athanasios Chasiotis: Childhood mortality, implicit motives, and reproductive development in Germany, Costa Rica and Cameroon

3. Holger Busch, A. Chasiotis, J. Hofer, D. Campos, & B. Nsamenang: Implicit motives and characteristics of power and cohesion in the family in three cultures

4. Jan Hofer, A. Chasiotis & B. Nsamenang: Effects of implicit achievement motivation on positive and negative affect in Cameroon
5. Discussant: Hans-Joachim Kornadt

Symposium SA3B4 (Room 5206): 
Value of children and intergenerational relations in different cultures (II)

Conveners: Gisela Trommsdorff & Bernhard Nauck

1. Jana Suckow: The different values of children in Israel and Palestine

2. Boris Mayer, Gisela Trommsdorff, Lieke Wisnubrata & Kusdwiratri Setiono: A comparison of Indonesian and German adolescents' family models

3. Young-Eun Kwon: Value of children and fertility rate in Korea: Changes and continuities
4. Discussant: Cigdem Kagitcibasi

August 4 (10:00-12:20)

Symposium SA4A1 (Room 5101): 
Psychological variations in family structure and function across cultures

Convener: James Georgas

1. John Berry: Use of the ecocultural framework in research with family

2. Cigdem Kagitcibasi: A theoretical orientation to the family

3. Ype H. Poortinga: Balancing cross-cultural invariance and variations in functions and roles of families

4. Fons van de Vijver: A cross-cultural analysis of the family

5. James Georgas: Implications of the findings regarding family change in different cultures

Symposium SA4A2 (Room 5201): 
Advances in cross-cultural organization studies: New analysis approaches, new concepts, within-nation variability, intercultural contacts, new contexts

Convener: Mark F. Peterson

1. Sharon Glazer, Ronald Fischer, Terry A. Beehr & Curtis Hansen: A comparison of structural alignment across subsidiaries of a multinational firm

2. Kwok Leung: Social cynicism and job attitudes in cross-cultural perspective

3. Peter B. Smith & Julia Hecker: How do we handle cross-national working relationships?

4. Mark F. Peterson, Tomasz Lenartowicz, Stephanie P. Thomason, Gudrun Curri, Mark Meckler, Betty Jane Punnett & Julie Rowney: Regional cultural variability within English-speaking North America in cultural

5. Julie Rowney & Yaotian Pan: The relationship between Chinese values and managerial practice
6. Discussant: Mark F. Peterson

Symposium SA4A3 (Room 5301): 
Prevention and promotion goals: A cross-cultural perspective

Conveners: Jenny Kurman & Natalie H.H. Hui

1. Jenny Kurman: Self-regulatory goals and common cultural dimensions

2. Natalie H. H. Hui, Jenny Kurman & Tony T. C. Cheng: Parental and familial antecedents of the development of the locus and focus of self-regulation: Exploration with a cross-cultural window

3. Orrie Dan: Initiative, primary and secondary control, and self-regulatory focus

4. Dennis C. M. Hui, Jenny Kurman and Natalie H. H. Hui: Constructive self-criticism and culture: Self-regulatory goals and type of self-criticism

5. Miriam Erez, Yulia Veinberg, Christina Sue-Chan, Carmen Tabernero, & Dina Van-Dijk: Prevention/promotion contexts: How people in different cultures perform under these conditions when working alone or in teams

Symposium SA4A4 (Room 5106):  
The role of culture in the diagnosis and experience of mental health in immigrant and ordinary populations

Convener: David Lackland Sam

1. Melinda A. Jeffs: Cultural factors and unipolar depression

2. Virginia Moreira: The meaning of depression

3. Hildegunn Fandrem: Depressive symptoms among Norwegians and ethnic minority adolescents in Norway: The role of culture

4. Ankica Kosic: The socio-cultural cognition of immigrants' acculturation and well-being

5. Valentina C. Iversen: Acute admissions among immigrants and asylum seekers to a psychiatric hospital in Norway

6. Discussant: David L. Sam

Symposium SA4A5 (Room 5206): 
Asian psychologies: Development, progress, and challenge

Convener: William K Gabrenya

1. Kuo-Shu Yang: Lessons from the development of an indigenized psychology for Chinese people

2. Uichol Kim: The future of psychology in Korea, Asia, and beyond: Relational, social, and cultural facilitators and impediments to academic developments

3. John Adair: Beyond indigenization: Asian psychology's contribution to the world of psychology

4. William K Gabrenya: Cross-cultural psychology and the Chinese: A song From a Barbarian reed pipe

5. Shahrenaz Mortazavi: Internationalization of psychology in Iran

6. Discussant

August 4 (14:00-16:00)

Symposium SA4B1 (Room 5101): 
Culture as a multi-level construct: The dynamic interface between levels of culture

Convener: Miriam Erez

1. John Berry: The ecocultural framework, a multilevel approach

2. Evert van de Vliert: Climate-by-wealth niches of culture

3. Miriam Erez & Efrat Gati: Effects of the global work environment on nested levels of culture.

4. Kwok Leung & Michael Harris Bond: Cultural dimensions of social axioms

5. Cigdem Kagitcibasi: Where is culture at the individual level?
6. Discussant: Zhixue Zhang

Symposium SA4B2 (Room 5201): 
Dynamic interaction of culture and social relations

Conveners: Taekyun Hur & Jungsik Kim

1. Taekyun Hur, Cheong-yeul Park, & Sang-chin Choi: New cultural conceptualization of in-group in social relations: Weness versus in-group

2. Jungsik Kim: The influence of expected duration in social relationships on choice of self-presentation strategy: Self-enhancement or self effacement

3. Jung-min Chae, Seong-Yeul Han & Jong-Nam Kim: Influence of minority's psychological acculturation orientation to social relations and psychological adaptation: North Korean defectors

4. Cheong-yeul Park, & Taekyun Hur: Impacts of categorical versus characteristic information on impression formation of social relation

5. Min Han & Seong-Yeul Han: Relative deprivation and social identity: The moderating effects of identity management strategies

6. Toshio Yamagishi: Social institutions as mediators of the micro and the macro

Symposium SA4B3 (Room 5301): 
The Chinese self: Conceptual and empirical analyses in terms of individual- and social-oriented perspectives

Convener: Mei-Chih Li

1. Mei-Chih Li: Co- sleeping as the beginning for the development of an interdependent self in a collectivist culture

2. Chien-Ru Sun: "Self-esteem is dear to me, but dearer still is interpersonal harmony."--- The individual-oriented self and social-oriented self of the Chinese

3. Jia-Ying Weng & Kuo-Shu Yang: Developing a global self-esteem scale and a multi-dimensional self-esteem scale for the Chinese people: Perspectives from individual-oriented and social-oriented views

4. Luo Lu: Individual-oriented and social-oriented SWB: Conceptual analysis and scale development

5. Chung-Kwei Wang: An investigation on factors moderating feelings of trust between Taiwan managers and their subordinate workers in China

Symposium SA4B4 (Room 5106): 
A cross-cultural research project on the work-family interface: Preliminary findings

Convener: Karen Korabik

1. Roya Ayman & Sofiya Velgach: A pilot study of work-family conflict in the U.S.

2. Karen Korabik & Donna S. Lero: The work-family interface in Canada: Preliminary quantitative and qualitative findings

3. Ujvala Rajadhyaksha: Sources of non-institutional support and work family conflict in India

4. Anat Drach-Zahavy & Anit Somech: Work-family conflict from a cross- cultural perspective: The Israeli sample

5. Ting-Pang Huang: Work and family conflict of employees in business organizations in Taiwan
6. Discussant: Catherine Tang

Symposium SA4B5 (Room 5206): 
Immigrants populations: How do they feel and react to health problems. A cross-cultural project

Convener: Roger B. Sages

1. Roger B. Sages & Sarah Johansson: Health: Subjective feelings and objective conditions a Swedish perspective

2. Mohamed Lahlou: Mental and/or physical health of migrants in France: A double perspective

3. Alexandre Kurc: Intercultural mediations between migrant families and medical-social institutions in the Paris region: Semantical net works of intercultural women mediators

4. Jean Moscarola: Contributions of qualitative methods of analysis to intercultural psychological research. Sphinx and MCA

5. Henri Adato: From sampling to total population coverage: The partnership of phenomenological research with lexical analysis

August 4 (19:30-21:30)

Symposium SA4C1 (Room 5106): 
Changing societies, changing cultures: The impact of temporal acculturation on mental health

Convener: Caroline L. Smyth

1. John W. Berry: Mutual acculturation in the larger society and ethnocultural groups

2. Caroline L. Smyth & Malcolm MacLachlan: The impact of temporal acculturation on mental health & suicidality in Irish adolescents

3. Elias Mpofu: Experimentally induced cultural shift in disability stigma among adolescents

4. Michael B. Salzman, Jungsik Kim & Richard Brislin: Walking in two worlds: Bi-cultural navigation strategies
5. Discussant: John W. Berry
6. A round-table discussion

August 5 (10:00-12:20)

Symposium SA5A1 (Room 5201): 
Cross-cultural perspective on responsibility attribution and blame assignment

Convener: Wendy W.N. Wan

1. Shulamith Kreitler: Meanings of the self and responsibility attribution

2. Lad K Valach: Responsibility attribution and blame assignment of psychiatric patients

3. Peiguan Wu: The influences of corporate culture on responsibility attribution and blame assignment

4. Chung-leung Luk & Wendy W.N. Wan: Responsibility attribution and blame assignment by Chinese and Australian consumers

5. Wendy W.N. Wan & Chi-yue Chiu: Responsibility attribution and blame assignment by Chinese and American students
6. Discussant: Gregory Boyle

Symposium SA5A2 (Room 5301): 
Cross-cultural studies of daily experience

Conveners: John B. Nezlek & Richard Sorrentino

1. John B. Nezlek: A cross-cultural study of relationships between daily events and daily well-being

2. Richard Sorrentino, Y. Otsubo, S. Yasunaga, S. Kouhara & P. Shuper : Uncertainty orientation and emotional responses to everyday life within and across cultures

3. Konstantinos Kafetsios: Cross and within culture relationships between day-to day affect and self-construal

4. Susumu Yamaguchi: Planning fallacy among Japanese: Are Japanese optimistic?

5. Yukiko Muramoto: Self-esteem maintenance as an interpersonal process in Japanese culture

Symposium SA5A3 (Room 5106):  
Method bias: Sources and effect

Convener: Chantale Jeanrie

1. Dianne A. van Hemert, Fons J van de Vijver & Ype H.Poortinga: The dual nature of social desire-ability: Cross-national findings

2. Chantale Jeanrie, Jean-Francois Rivard, Kathleen Marceau & Mélanie Boyer: Measuring method bias in personnel selection

3. Deon Meiring & Rothmann Sebastiaan: Bias of psychological tests in South Africa

4. Chantale Jeanrie: Using social desirability scores in personality assessment

Symposium SA5A4 (Room 5206): 
Interdependence or autonomy and cultural styles of talking

Conveners: Tila Tulviste & Heidi Keller

1. Monika Abels, H. Keller, A. Werchan & J. Kaertner: Young and older German adults' childhood memories

2. Tiia Tulviste & B. De Geer: Autonomy orientation in Estonian and Swedish family interactions

3. Nandita Chaudhary & Shraddha Kapoor: Narratives of interdependence

4. Ashley E. Maynard: Sibling talk and play in Maya Mexico: Processes of social organization and adaptation

5. Joscha Kaertner, H. Keller, B. Lamm, M. Abels & A. Werchan: Manifestations of independent and interdependent orientations in verbal discourse
6. Discussant: Nancy Budwig

Symposium SA5A5 (Room 5101): 
Past Presidents' Reflections: Past, Present and Future of Cross-Cultural Psychology and IACCP

Convener: Cigdem Kagitcibasi

1. John Berry: The immediate prehistory of IACCP

2. Walter J. Lonner: The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology at 35: Past, present, and future

3. Ype H. Poortinga: Reconsidering current perspectives on the cultural organization of behavior

4. Cigdem Kagitcibasi: Human development and societal development: Linking theory and application

5. Janak Pandey: Cross-cultural collaborative research: Some new approach

6. Michael Harris Bond: The third stage of cross-cultural psychology: Some personal prescriptions for our future

7. Deborah L. Best: Reflections on cross-cultural psychology: Influences from developmental psychology and from women

August 5 (14:00-16:00)

Symposium SA5B1 (Room 5301): 
The functioning of social axioms in various nations

Convener: Michael Harris Bond

1. Aikaterini Gari, Penny Panagiotopoulou, & Vassilis Pavlopoulos: Dimensions of social axioms: A cross-cultural perspective

2. Charles Harb: Social axioms and self-construals

3. Jenny Kurman: The dimension of reward for application

4. Jan Pieter Van Oudenhoven: Social axioms, attachment styles and attitudes towards immigrants

5. Anjali Ghosh: Social axioms and individualistic - collectivist orientations

Symposium SA5B2 (Room 5201): 
How do"we" perceive the relations with "them": Let me count the ways.

Conveners: Sonia Roccas & Halevy Nir

1. Bonacossa Alain, Sonia Roccas & Emanuele Castano: Intergroup images in the context of immigration

2. Halabi Samer & Jenny Kurman: Intergroup helping relations: Effect of status and ingroup commitment

3. Sonia Roccas & Alain Bonacossa: Relational models in the context of intergroup relations

4. Halevy Nir, Sagiv Lilach & Bornstein Gary: Using mixed-motives games as organizing schemas for perceiving intergroup relations

Symposium SA5B3 (Room 5106): 
International comparative study of ethnocultural youth

Convener: Gabriel Horenczyk

1. John W. Berry: Goals and research framework

2. Paul Vedder & Fons van de Vijver: Method: How and with whom we worked

3. Jean S. Phinney: Cultural identity and acculturation attitudes

4. David L. Sam: Psychological and sociocultural adaptation

5. Fons van de Vijver & P. Vedder: Evaluating the model

6. Lena Robinson & C. Ward: Special themes: Perceived discrimination

Symposium SA5B4 (Room 5206): 
Culture and sexuality: Quantitative and qualitative studies

Convener: William K Gabrenya

1. Robin Goodwin: High risk behaviours and beliefs and knowledge about HIV transmission amongst school and shelter children in Eastern Europe

2. William K Gabrenya & Angelia McCormack: Culture and personality predictors of cybersex and online pornography attitudes

3. Olufemi Adigun Lawal: Psychocultural impact of cybersex on the sexuality of Nigerian youth

4. Pawel Boski: Sex life of characters in novels: Preferences for love and lust among Poles, Polish immigrants in the USA, Americans and American sojourners

5. Carl Ratner: Sexuality in sociohistorical perspective

6. Paul G. Schmitz: Love styles and sexual behavior: Cross-cultural similarities and differences

August 5 (15:00-16:00)

Symposium SA5B5 (Room 5101):  
Cross-cultural comparability of emotions: Findings and implications of research on shame and guilt
Convener: Ype H. Poortinga
1. John Fontaine: The impact of situation and person variation on appraisal processes: A cross-cultural perspective

2. Ype H. Poortinga & Seger Breugelmans: Narrowing the gap between relativist and universalist accounts of appraisal

3. (Round table discussion on possible future cross-cultural research on emotions, with emphasis on appraisal)