Conference Papers

This page contains listings of papers from past Reversal Theory Conferences back to 2003, with the most recent at the top. Some authors have made their papers/slides available – these are marked with **. Access these files at the Reversal Theory Conference Google Docs Collection. Files are labeled with the year and author.

2011 Reversal Theory Conference Papers/Presentations

Michael J. Apter, Apter Research and Louisiana Technical University: On Human Paradox **
Sophie Bouton, Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (LPN) Paris 8; Nathalie Duriez, Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Neuropsychologie (LPN) Paris 8: Reversal Theory: A New Approach to Antisocial Behaviors in Juveniles **
Joan Craig, University of Windsor; Kathryn D. Lafreniere, University of Windsor; Kenneth M. Cramer, University of Windsor: A Reversal Theory Approach to Understanding Meta-Stereotypes **
Kenneth M. Cramer, University of Windsor: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Six Criteria of a Viable Theory: Putting Reversal Theory to the Test **
Kenneth M. Cramer, University of Windsor; Kathryn D. Lafreniere, University of Windsor; Zachary J. Cramer, University of Windsor; Ryanne K. Hedges, University of Windsor: Metamotivations, Self-Construals and Esteem, and the Elusive Self
Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University; Stephanie Murphy, Louisiana Tech University; Victoria Smoak, Louisiana Tech University: Development of a Comprehensive State Measure
Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University; Ann-Marie Rabalais, Louisiana Tech University; Michael J. Apter, Apter International: Parapathic Emotions: When Unpleasant Emotions Feel Good
Stephanie Ellis, Houston Baptist University; Claudia Escalante Gama, Houston Baptist University: Reversal Theory Motivations in Academic Dishonesty **
Stephanie Ellis, Houston Baptist University; Claudia Escalante Gama, Houston Baptist University: Reversal Theory and Spiritual Experiencing
Linda Hopper, Georgetown University: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Rosetta Stone and Metatheory
Laura T. Jannone, Monmouth University: Highly Tempting Situations in Teen Smoking Cessation **
Rebecca Keele, New Mexico State University: Application of Reversal Theory to Physical Activity Motives and Strategies for Mexican American Adults
Kelli Kramer-Jackman, University of Kansas School of Nursing; Sue Popkess-Vawter, University of Kansas School of Nursing: Online Study of Normal and Overweight Participant Responses on Overeating, Exercise, and Feelings Tension Scales
Kathryn D. Lafreniere, University of Windsor; Rosanne Menna, University of Windsor; Kenneth M. Cramer, University of Windsor; Ashlyne O’Neil, University of Windsor; Gregory K. Tippin, Lakehead University; Stewart Page, University of Windsor: Predicting Academically Risky Behaviours: Learning Orientation, Grade Orientation, and Reversal Theory’s Personality Constructs
Jay Lee, University of Houston; Brian Colwell, Texas A and M University; Dennis Smith, University of Houston: Confirming the Autoceptive, Transactional States in Adolescent Participants in a Tobacco Awareness Program
Gareth Lewis, University of Leicester: A Reversal Theory Perspective on Disaffection with School Mathematics **
Christophe Lunacek, Apter France; Stéphane Baetche, Apter France: Using the Apter Leadership Profiling System (ALPS) as a Teambuilding Tool **
Fathali M. Moghaddam, Georgetown University: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Psychology of Dictatorship
Stephanie Murphy, Louisiana Tech University; Mitzi Desselles, Louisiana Tech University: Lability and Affect: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Approach
Stephanie Murphy, Louisiana Tech University; Victoria Smoak, Louisiana Tech University; Mitzi Desselles Louisiana Tech University: The Big Tent: Reversal Theory as a Higher-Order Theory
Kathleen A. O’Connell, Teachers College Columbia University: The Salience of Reversal Theory Pairs During Smoking Cessation **
Ashlyne O’Neil, University of Windsor; Kathryn D. Lafreniere, University of Windsor; Kenneth M. Cramer, University of Windsor: Metamotivational Constructs, Sociocultural Attitudes, and Risky Eating Behaviours **
George Reese, Georgetown University; Michael J. Apter, Apter Research and Louisiana Technical University: Thriving in the Workplace – A Personal Development Workshop **
Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University: KEN SMITH MEMORIAL LECTURE: The Parapathic and the Greek Ideal: Reflections on “Positive Psychology”
Lydia R. Wilson: Motivational Styles of a Spy: Applying Reversal Theory to Espionage **

2009 Reversal Theory Conference Papers/Presentations

Michael Apter (Keynote Lecture): Reversal Theory and Ideology.**
Kim Archer, Stephanie Jevas, & Dean Culpepper: Overweight Preoccupation and Body Satisfaction in Division I and Division III Collegiate Athletes from a Reversal Theory Perspective.
Ken Cramer, Kathryn Lafreniere, & Keren Escobar: Teleducation II: Maintaining Lecture Engagement by Paratelic Distraction.
Ken Cramer, Kaitlin Stefanovich, & Kathryn Lafreniere: Reversal Theory Measures among Sorority and Fraternity Students: My Big Fat Greek Study!
Ken Cramer, Laurie Freeman-Gibb, Craig Ross, & Kathryn Lafreniere: Understanding Academic Entitlement with Personality and Reversal Theory Measures.
Mitzi Desselles: Motivational Styles of Managers: Differences across Time and Space.
Mitzi Desselles(Keynote Lecture): The Apter Metamotivational Style Profile: Psychometric Update.
Mitzi Desselles: Optimism, Pessismism, and Metamotivation.
Stephanie Ellis: Linguistic Analysis of Writings about Trauma: Differences in Dominances and Across States.
Daniel C. Hughes, George P. Baum, Heidi Perkins, & Karen Basen-Engquist: Metamotivational States and Exercise Behaviors in Previously Sedentary Endometrial Cancer Survivors.
Albert Kai Toh: The Religion of John Calvin: A Psycho-theological Interpretation.
Bryce Kaye: Disinhibiting adaptive reversals in couples therapy: Sleuthing in the Land of Oz.
Katherine Lafreniere, Rosanne Menna, Ken M. Cramer, & Jennifer W. Out: Metamotivational and temperamental predictors of adolescent risk taking.**
Jay Lee, Brian Colwell, & Dennis Smith: Results of an Adolescent Smoking-Cessation Intervention Provides Support for the Autoceptive and the Alloceptive States.
Fabien Legrand: Telic dominance influences affective response to a heavy-intensity 10-min treadmill running session.
Lonzozou Kpanake & Etienne Mullet: Why most Togolese people do not seek care for malaria in health care facilities: A theory-driven inventory of reasons.
Eric Loonis: Theoretical bridges between reversal theory and psychoanalysis: Reversals in the Child. (Access PDF file).
Catalin Mamali: Reversal theory and character’s transformation.
Daven Morrison: Bringing Freud to Fraud: Understanding the mind of the CEO Fraudster.
Kathy O’Connell (Keynote Lecture): Relapsing to Reversal Theory.
George Reese: Observations on Music and Reversals.
Maria Rosario-Sim & Kathleen O’Connell: Actual and imagined first smoking experiences.
Jennifer Tucker: Influencing the Decision to Share Scientific Data.
Lydia Wilson: Motivational Styles of a Spy: Applying Reversal Theory to Espionage.
Jon Wright, Sharon Wright, Gaynor Sadlo, & Graham Stew: Flow is dead! Long live flow! (With some help from reversal theory).
Tony Young: Multilevel (Dynamic) Factor Analysis of Day Reconstruction Method RT items.

2007 Reversal Theory Conference Papers/Presentations

Toshihiko Amemiya & Yoshie Ikuta: The development of the Japanese telic-paratelic dominance scale.
Michael Apter: Keynote Lecture: The reversal process: Going to the heart of Reversal Theory.**
Michael Apter: Six ways of dealing with stress.**
Steve Carter: Keynote Lecture: Me, you, we, them: Transforming the key relationships of work through Reversal Theory.
Kenneth Cramer, Kathryn Hodwitz & Kathryn Lafreniere: Teleducation: Tracking telic states and lecture engagement.**
Mitzi Deselles: A new approach to qualitative research based on Reversal Theory.
Stephanie Ellis & Tony Young: Pilot of eight rooms writing technique.
Guido Geisler & Larry Leith: A cross-cultural perspective on metamotivational states in intercollegiate soccer.
Kathryn Hodwitz, Kenneth Cramer & Kathryn Lafreniere: Evolutionary psychology meets Reversal Theory: Dancing with Darwin.**
John Kerr (Keynote Lecture): Twenty years of Reversal Theory sports and exercise research: A critical review.
John Kerr: Workshop: Rugby Union’s 2003 World Cup Final: Reversal Theory insights into a game balanced on a knife-edge until the very end.
Klabber, Bosma, van den Akker, Boxtel, Kempen, Mark McDermott & van Eijk: Measuring rebelliousness and conformity: Psychometric evaluation of the Social Reactivity Scale.
Sven Svebak (Keynote Lecture): The psychobiology of reversal theory: Implications for morbidity and mortality.
Kelli Kramer & Sue Popkess-Vawter: Psychometric evaluation of computer-administered tension scales for weight management in rural telehealth settings.
Yusuke Kuroda, Joanne Thatcher & Rhys Thatcher: Metamotivational dominance and state in relation to stress, emotion and cortisol during exercise.
Kathryn Lafreniere, Kenneth Cramer, Donna Winch & Keith Rivard: Motivational and personality predictors of positive exercise outcomes in a personal training setting.
Juliette Lloyd & Michael Apter: Motivation in extreme environments: The case of Pen Hadow, polar explorer.
Ioannis Makris & Etienne Mullet: The decision to become an orchestra conductor: A systematic inventory of motives.
Denny Mallows: Using Reversal Theory to improve the management of behaviour in school.
Richard Mallows: The Telic Dominance Scale (TDS), Negativism Dominance Scale (NDS) and the Apter Motivational Style Profile (AMSP): Do they relate where one might expect?.
Richard Mallows: Emotion at the cinema.
Rod Martin: Ken Smith Memorial Lecture: Humour and mental health: A Reversal Theory perspective.**
Michelle Pain & Randall Braman: A case history of burnout in an elite tennis player.**
Rob Robson & Steve Carter: The Apter Leadership Profiling System (ALPS): Internal consistency and prediction of employee engagement.**
Rob Robson: When all is not what it seems: Two contrasting tales of parental pressure and anxiety in youth sport.**
Bianca Segatto, Kathryn Lafreniere & Kenneth Cramer: Reversal Theory predictors of exercise motivation and body esteem in university students.
Cindy Sit, Koenraad Lindner, Michael Apter, Gregory Michel & Richard Mallows: Further development of the Motivational Style Profile for Children.
Joanne Thatcher, Yusuke Kuroda & Rhys Thatcher: Psychophysiological responses to exercise in relation to metamotivational dominance.
Blythe Williams, Kenneth Cramer & Kathryn Lafreniere: Exercise dependence and social functioning: Aerobic erosion.**
Volodymyr Xhomyk: Motivational colours of student-activists in the orange revolution.
Tony Young & Stephanie Ellis: Using the day reconstruction method to explore and map RT state changes through a day.**

2005 Reversal Theory Conference Papers/Presentations

Michael J. Apter: Reversal theory as a superordinate theory of motivation.
Michael J. Apter: Going beyond the dominance concept.
Michael J. Apter: Peak Experiences.
Randall Braman Sr., Jay Lee: Reversal theory in the light of Charles Peirce’s theory of chaos and in the light of modern chaos theory.
Randall Braman Jr., Koenraad Lindner, John Kerr, Cindy Sit: Academic Performance and Metamotivational Profile of Hong Kong Secondary School Students.
Kenneth M. Cramer and Kathryn D. Lafreniere: Reversal Theory Construct Psychometrics by Respondent Trait Self-Focus.
Kenneth M. Cramer, Kathryn D. Lafreniere & Jessica Sartori: Identifying Reversal States by Cluster Analysis in Three Canadian Samples.
Mitzi Desselles: The AMSP as a tool for counseling.
Briget Tyson Eastep, Edward J. Ruddell: Fostering ecological understanding and affinity toward nature in fourth grade students: An application of reversal theory and a generative teaching method.
Guido Geisler, John H. Kerr: Stress, Emotions, and Metamotivational States in Canadian and Japanese Soccer.
John H. Kerr: New perspectives on aggression and violence in sport.
Kelli Lee Kramer and Sue Popkess-Vawter: Development of Three Tension Measures— Overeating, Exercise, and Esteem.**
Kathryn D. Lafreniere, Kenneth M. Cramer, & Jennifer W. Out: Telic/Paratelic Dominance and the Perception of Health Risks.**
Jay Lee: What is ‘psychodiversity’ and how will we recognize it?.
Jay T. Lee, Dale G. Pease, Lee Branum-Martin, John Heil: Cognitive and affective interactions of elite female foil fencers: A Reversal Theory Approach.
Koenraad Lindner and Cecilia Au: Analysing MSP data sets: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Brian R. Little: Ken Smith Memorial Lecture: Personal Projects and Reversal Theory: Itching, Switching and Twitching.
Denny Mallows: Switch to Better Behaviour Management: Reversal Theory in Practice.
Richard Mallows: The Motivational Style Profile for Children – the UK experience.
Sue Popkess-Vawter and Kelli Lee Kramer: Overeating, Exercise, and Esteem Tension in Weight Management.**
Paul Robinson, Beverley Hale, Terry McMorris, Tim Holder and Iain Greenlees: Metamotivational Dominance in Military Personnel and Sports Students.**
Cindy Sit & Koenraad Lindner, Gregory Michel & Eloïse Etave: Reliability of the MSP-C and initial comparison of French and Hong Kong data.
Sven Svebak: Mortality and sense of humor as paratelic coping: five-year prospective study of survival in a non-selected adult county population and in a sub-population diagnosed with cancer.
Joanne Thatcher, John Kerr, Kristy Amies: A reversal theory interpretation of psychological and emotional responses to sports injury.
Jennifer Tucker: Reversing Disciplines: Reversal Theory as a New Tool for Sociologists.**
Tony Young, Mitzi Deselles, Jay Lee, Michael Apter: Measuring Reversal Theory States in Real Time: Developing the Reversal Theory State Inventory.

2003 Reversal Theory Conference Papers/Presentations

Michael J. Apter: The State of the State: Reversal Theory in 2003.
Michael J. Apter: Reversal Theory, Learning and Development.
Cecilia Au and Koenraad Lindner: Participation in Types of Physical Activity: Specific Reasons, Life Metamotivational Orientations, and Situational State Balances.
E. L. Boddington & M. R. McDermott: Predicting Acceptance and Rejection of Health Promotion Messages about Cannabis Use.
O. Randall Braman: Testing a Revised Set of Rorschach Indices of Telic/Paratelic States and Dominances.
Corinne S. G. Adams & Malcolm J. Cook: Reversal Theory: Opening the Door to Creativity in Critical Incident Management?.
Betsy Craig: From Nothing to Something and Back Again: Reversal Theory in the Theatre.
Ken M. Cramer, Kathryn D. Lafreniere, J. Stewart Page, Larissa Goertzen, & Bob R. Orr: Assessing Whether Clusters of Reversal Theory Construct Scores are Predictive of Membership to Astrological, Seasonal, or Elemental Sign.
Ken M. Cramer, Kathryn D. Lafreniere, Jessica Sartori, Larissa Goertzen, & Robert Orr: Psychometric Properties of the Motivational Style Profile in Three Canadian Samples.
Gene Crozier: Putting the Kick into Innovative Leadership.
Mitzi Desselles: Using the Apter Motivational Style Profile.
Mitzi Desselles: The Use of Video Clips in Reversal Theory Workshops.
Anna T Dimsey and George V Wilson: Understanding Electronic Gaming Machine Play: The Role of Reversals.
Christine Doyle and Steve Carter: The Reversal Theory Perspective on Stress at Work.
Michael Ford: Reversal Theory and Children: the Motivational Style of 7 year olds.
John Kerr, George Wilson & Sven Svebak: Changes in Tension and Effort Stress Inventory Scores Induced by Running and Basketball in Low and High Serious-mindedness Dominance Groups.
Volodymyr Khomyk & Nadiya Burmaka: Metamotivational States of Adolescents in Aggression Provoking Incidents.
Kathryn D. Lafreniere, Ken M. Cramer, & Lori Robichaud: Relationships among Reversal Theory Constructs and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale.**
Gail Lincoln: A Reversal Theory perspective of person-environment fit: Is mismatch predictive of commitment outcomes in front line housing and social service staff?.**
Jonathan Males, Jo Thatcher & Emma Bellew: Reversal Patterns in Team Sports; Implications for Performance Enhancement.**
Jonathan Males: Dangerous edge or safe space? The role of micro-climates in business coaching.**
Richard Mallows: Negativity and the Motivational Style Profile.
Denny Mallows: Investigating and Applying Reversal Theory: Behaviour Management.**
Miharu Matsuura: Observation of Arousal Modulations and Reversals using Differential Digital Photoplethysmograms while Listening to Music.
Kathleen A. O’Connell, Joseph E. Schwartz, Deepthi Prakash, Vanessa L. Hosein, and Saul Shiffman: The Role of Anger in Negativistic States During Smoking Cessation.
Jennifer Out, Kathryn Lafreniere, & Lori Buchanan: Using State Measures of Motivation to Explore Possible Associations Between Cortisol Reactivity and Task Performance.
Jessica A. Sartori & Kathryn D. Lafreniere: A Reversal Theory Approach to Predicting and Explaining Attitudes Toward and Use of Marijuana in University Students.
Marie Shelton & Andrew Kerry: The Search for Control and the Emotions of Change.
Cindy Sit, Koenraad Lindner and Michael Apter: Development of the Motivational Style Profile for Children (MSP-C).
Joanne Thatcher and James Pratt: A case study of changes in metamotivational state salience and emotion during rehabilitation from sports injury.**
Jennifer Tucker & Hile Rutledge: Connecting Reversal Theory with Psychological Type: The Apter Motivational Style Profile Meets the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® Assessment. (Access full research paper).
Paul Walsh: A Method of Responding to Challenging Behaviour: The application of Reversal Theory in the field of Learning Disability.**
Tony R. Young and Adrian Thomas: Paratelic/Telic States Compared to Mood and Anxiety States: An Experience Sampling Study.
Tony R. Young: Evidence Found for Significant Relationships Between Theoretical Notions of Human States.