Society Meetings
Preconference 2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel)
We are excited to announce that the Society for Interpersonal Research (SITAR) will be hosting a preconference meeting in conjunction with the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) Convention. This preconference will provide an opportunity for researchers, clinicians, and trainees to connect, share ideas, and advance the study of interpersonal processes. Please mark your calendars—we look forward to seeing you in Toronto!
Click here to register for the preconference!
Final Schedule
- 8:00 – 8:20 = Opening
- 8:20 – 9:20 = Keynote Address (Kevin Meehan)
- 9:20 – 9:40 = Oral Presentation 1
- 9:40 – 10:00 = Break
- 10:00 – 10:20 = Oral Presentation 2
- 10:20 – 10:40 = Oral Presentation 3
- 10:40 – 11:00 = Oral Presentation 4
- 11:00 – 11:20 = Oral Presentation 5
- 11:20 – 11:40 = Poster Flash Talks
- 11:40 – 12:00 = SITAR Business Meeting
- 12:00 – 1:00 = Lunch
- 1:05 – 2:50 = SPA Presidential Address (Nicole Cain)
- 2:50 – 3:00 = Break
- 3:00 – 4:30 = SPA First Session Round
- 4:30 – 4:45 = Break
- 4:45 – 6:30 = SPA Awards Ceremony
- 6:30 – 7:30 = SPA+SITAR Welcome Reception + Poster Session
Presentation Instructions
Oral Presentations are each allotted 20 total minutes, ideally with 10-15 minutes of presentation and 5-10 minutes of Q&A.
Posters should be no longer than 4.0×3.5 ft or 122×106 cm. Each presenter should also prepare a 3 minute “flash talk” to advertise their poster.
Oral Presentations
- Parent-Adolescent Interpersonal Dynamics During Discussions about Alcohol
Christopher J. Hopwood, Nathaniel Joseph Caluda-Perdue, Bernard Pereda, Chase Miceli, & Craig R. Colder - Positioning Prosociality in the Interpersonal Circumplex
Carson R. Schmitz & Jenny M. Cundiff - Affiliation: A Consequential Interstitial Trait
Yanna J Weisberg, Scott D. Blain, David M. Condon, & Colin G. DeYoung - Eye-tracking in the context of Contemporary Interpersonal Theory: A conceptual model and preliminary data
Trevor F. Williams - Designing Interpersonal Prompts for Dyadic Interactions in the Seamless Interaction Dataset
Jeffrey M. Girard
Poster Presentations
- Interpersonal and Self-Organizational Disturbances Across Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Jessica Kopitz & Emily A. Dowgwillo - Paranoia and Interpersonal Problems: Examining Paranoia and Mistrust Scales Across the Interpersonal Circumplex
Caleb J. Hicks & Trevor F. Williams - Examining the Role of Personality Traits and Perceptions of Others on Attributions in Daily Life
JoAnna Molina, Emily A. Dowgwillo, Jared R. Ruchensky, & Michael J. Roche
Q1 Meeting 2026
Our first quarterly meeting of the year will occur virtually on February 13, 2026 from 12:00-1:00pm ET.
Title: Frustration Spillover and Motivation
Authors: Burak Akgun, Deniz Ozer, Ezgi Kara, Ceylan Aksoy, Prof. Bulent Turan
Description: Does stigma frustrate communal or agentic motives more strongly? Does frustration of one motive due to stigma have an effect independent of frustration of the other motive? That is, do frustrations of these two motives contribute independently to the process of stigma? Is it worse to have both motives frustrated? Is the frustration of one of these motives more important in having negative effects on the stigmatized person? Does the frustration of each motive affect different outcomes? For example, does frustrating the agentic motive have a stronger effect on lowering self-esteem or negative mood, whereas frustrating the communal motive is more detrimental to a sense of belongingness and positive mood? Do they lead to different repair behaviors (trying to be more included, making new friends etc. vs. increased self-focus and trying to become better)?
Q2 Meeting 2026
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Q3 Meeting 2026
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Q4 Meeting 2026
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Q1 Meeting 2025
Our first quarterly meeting of the year occurred virtually on February 7, 2025 from 1:00-2:00pm ET. It featured the following invited presentation.
Title: The Interpersonal Situation – Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, Assessment, and Psychotherapy
Presenter: Dr. Christopher Hopwood (University of Zurich)
Description: The Interpersonal Situation: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, Assessment, and Psychotherapy (Pincus & Hopwood, American Psychological Association) provides a comprehensive presentation of the Interpersonal Situation for students and clinicians interested in applying CIIT to their own work and practice. It consists of two major sections. The first is focused on presenting the history and assumptions of CIIT and describing how psychopathology and psychotherapy are understood within the framework. The second is focused on how to implement the principles and techniques of CIIT for assessment, diagnosis, and psychotherapy. The goal is to provide a single resource for clinicians and students interested in bringing one of the most well-researched pantheoretical and transdiagnostic models of personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy to bear on their work with clients.
Q2 Meeting 2025
Our second quarterly meeting of 2025 occurred virtually on May 28 from 12:00 to 1:00pm ET. It featured an invited panel discussion on the possible applications of generative artificial intelligence tools in Interpersonal Research and Practice. Panelists included Dr. Jeffrey Girard (University of Kansas), Dr. Whitney Ringwald (University of Minnesota), and Dr. Aidan Wright (University of Michigan).
Q3 Meeting 2025
Our third quarterly meeting of 2025 occurred virtually on August 21 from 4:00 to 5:00pm ET. How do you employ the circumplex to change unhealthy workplaces? Quentin Jones and Margherita Larné-Jones joined us from Australia for this virtual event. They are the founders of Culture Capital Group, a firm that has been employing the circumplex culture scan and circumplex team scan to help organizations transform unhealthy workplaces into places where “people do meaningful work and have meaningful relationships.”
Q4 Meeting 2025
Our fourth quarterly meeting of 2025 was on November 21 at 1:00 to 2:00pm ET. Sidney Scott-Sharoni presented her research on anthropomorphism in AI voice agents. Her results indicate human-sounding voice reduce conformity but elicit higher subjective ratings, indicative of high warmth. On the other hand, robotic voices elicit conformity but lower subjective ratings, indicative of high agency. These results have implications for the design of optimal AI voice agents. Chris Martin presented his research in collaboration with Ken Locke on the measurement of interpersonal norms within a work team using a brief scale.
2020-2024
- 26th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2023) in Evanston, USA
- 25th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2022) in Virtual Online
- 24th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2021) in Virtual Online
- 23rd Annual Meeting (SITAR 2020) in Seattle, USA [Cancelled]
2010-2019
- 22nd Annual Meeting (SITAR 2019) in Grand Rapids, USA
- 21st Annual Meeting (SITAR 2018) in Montreal, Canada
- 20th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2017) in Pittsburgh, USA
- 19th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2016) in Berlin, Germany
- 18th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2015) in Toronto, Canada
- 17th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2014) in New Haven, USA
- 16th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2013) in Park City, USA
- 15th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2012) in Montreal, Canada
- 14th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2011) in Zurich, Switzerland
- 13th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2010) in Philadelphia, USA
2000-2009
- 12th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2009) in Toronto, Canada
- 11th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2008) in Tempe, USA
- 10th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2007) in Madison, USA
- 9th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2006) in Philadelphia, USA
- 8th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2005) in Montreal, Canada
- 7th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2004) in Toronto, Canada
- 6th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2003) in Vancouver, Canada
- 5th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2002) in Toronto, Canada
- 4th Annual Meeting (SITAR 2001) in Montreal, Canada
- 3rd Annual Meeting (SITAR 2000) in Chicago, USA
1998-1999
- 2nd Annual Meeting (SITAR 1999) in Madison, USA
- 1st Annual Meeting (SITAR 1998) in Salt Lake City, USA