Confirmed Speakers
We are delighted to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitations to give talks at the conference!
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Brian Little
Senior Fellow, People-Analytics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa
Well-Doing: The Sustainable Pursuit of Core Projects
Kendall Bronk
Professor of Psychology, Division of Behavioral & Social Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, California
The Science of Purpose
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Ken Sheldon
Curator’s Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri
Mitigating the risk of prioritizing collective over individual well-being
William Fleeson
Hultquist Family Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University
Who Are the Most Moral Among Us?
Fiery Cushman
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
The logic of universalization guides moral judgment
Marina Milyavskaya
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa
Proposing an integrative model of goal pursuit
Gillian Sandstrom
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Essex
Talking to strangers: Why you should do it, and why it matters for well-doing
Kristjan Kristjansson
Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the University of Birmingham, U.K.
Four Accounts of Flourishing as the Aim of Education: A Synthesis – and 10 Remaining Problems
Jonathan Passmore
Professor of Coaching & Behavioural Change, Director Henley Centre for Coaching & Behavioural Change, Henley Business School
Coaching Research and Supporting Optimal Personal Development
Igor Grossmann
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo
Training for Wisdom: The Illeist Diary Method
Isabel Thielmann
Postdoc and Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
Increasing self-knowledge to motivate positive trait change in the moral domain
David Reinstein
Distinguished Researcher, Rethink Priorities
Effective Altruism: Research Priorities and Opportunities
Kaitlyn Werner
Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
An introduction to psychological change
Julian Jamison
Professor of Economics & Director of Economics Research, Business School, University of Exeter
CBT for Antisocial Behavior: Know Thyself, Know Others
Robert McGrath
Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Counseling, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Building Human Capacities in the Digital Age
Max Bazerman
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Buisness School
Profiles in Complicity
Milla Titova
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Elon University
The Impact of (Frustrated) Well-Doing on Well-Being
Mikael Klintman
Professor, Department of Sociology, Lund University
Knowledge resistance about society’s urgent problems: Apollonian and Dionysian Remedies
Mirjam Stieger
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University
PEACH: A Smartphone App to Change your Personality
Deborah Schulman
PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Overcoming biased evaluations of ingroup-committed harm via analogical reasoning
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Falk Lieder
Research Group Leader, Rationality Enhancement Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
Life Improvement Science: An Emerging Transdisciplinary Research Area
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