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SPRING CONFERENCE 2003: April 5-6, 2003
The Relationship System and Individual Variation in Functioning: Third Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Life is full of variation. Species vary in their size, structure, ecology, social organization, and behavior. Individuals vary in their ability to direct their own behavior in the face of pressures from the group. The system, working through emotions that drive behavior, can have a profound effect on functioning.

The human family is an emotional system. As automatically as plants turn toward the sun, humans respond to their social systems. Bowen theory’s concept of differentiation of self describes variation in lifelong human functioning and accounts for it through differences in each individual’s degree of emotional separation from their original caretakers.

This third conference on individual variation brings together experts in the behavior of different species, from bacterial plants to humans. The common denominator is an evolutionary perspective and an interest in relationship systems.

CONFERENCE

PART I
Neuroendocrine Stress and the Loss of Functioning - Michael Lumpkin, PhD

Family and Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity - Robert J. Noone, PhD

Are There Sensitive Periods in the Ontogeny of the l-HPA Stress System? - Mark Flinn, PhD

Characteristics of Adolescents With and Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Cynthia Larkby, PhD

Panel One Discussion and Audience Questions

Discussant - Luci Roberts, PhD

PART II
Patterns of Mating Inhibition among Related Chimpanzees - Anne E. Pusey, PhD

Observing Emotional Process in Relationship Systems - Patricia A. Comella, JD

Individual Differences in Social Play Behavior in Domestic Dogs - Barbara Smuts, PhD

Panel Two Discussion and Audience Questions

Discussants - Kathlyn Rasmussen Robbins, PhD and Ann Bunting, PhD

PART III
Variation in Gesture and Body Movement in the Great Apes - Barbara J. King, PhD

Growing Apart: Differences in Emotional Separation of Mother Infant Chimpanzee Pairs - Kathleen B. Kerr, MSN, MA

The Choreography of Offspring Care in Marmoset Families: Endocrinology and Energetics - Jeffrey A. French, PhD

Panel Three Discussion and Audience Questions

Discussants - Jeanne Altmann, PhD and Janet Mann, PhD

PART IV
Human Scents: The Effect of MHC Gene Compatibility and Social Choices - Martha McClintock, PhD

Individual Variation and the Interplay of Self, Anxiety, and Stress - Michael E. Kerr, MD

How Gene-environment interactions Can Shape Individual Differences in Social Functioning Among Rhesus Monkeys - Stephen Suomi, PhD

Panel Four Discussion and Audience Questions

Discussants - Mark Flinn, PhD and Laura Havstad, PhD

PART V
Variability in the Ecology and Social Environment of Wild Baboons - Jeanne Altmann, PhD

Variation in Sibling Response in the Parental Triangle to Deaths of Parents - Selden Dunbar Illick, MSW

Like Mother, Like Calf: Foraging Traditions in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins - Janet Mann, PhD

Family Relationship Patterns Across Generations - Margaret Donley, MSW

Discussion and Audience Questions

Discussant - Barbara J. King, PhD

PART VI
Variation in the Brain and the Family - Priscilla J. Friesen, MSW

Variations in Estrogen Receptors and the Regulation of Male Social Behavior - Bruce Cushing, PhD

Differentiation of Self and Differential Reproduction: Framework for the Study of Reproduction in Nature and the Family - Victoria Harrison, MA

Discussion and Audience Questions Discussants - Stephen Suomi, PhD and Michael Lumpkin, PhD

PART VII
Bowen’s Concept of Differentiation of Self and Individual Variation - Daniel V. Papero, PhD

Smart Cells and Evolution - James A. Shapiro, PhD

How the Emotional System Exerts Control Over the Individuals That Make It Up - Laurie Lassiter Fiscella, PhD

Discussion and Audience Questions - Michael E. Kerr, MD and Barbara Smuts, PhD

Concluding Remarks Patricia A. Comella, JD

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