The Evolution of Social Psychology, November 7-9, 2008

Friday, November 7, 2008

Friday's talks will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 101
Registration will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 196
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 103

2:45-3:15        Registration and Refreshments (Registration open until 6pm) (LC 196/103)

3:15-3:30        Welcome and Introduction (LC 101)

• Tamar Gendler (Yale, Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
• Brian Scholl (Yale, Psychology and Cognitive Science)
• Laurie Santos (Yale, Psychology and Cognitive Science)

3:30-6:00        Primate Moral Cognition I: Prosociality and Inequity Aversion (LC 101)

• Session Moderator: Stephen Darwall (Yale, Philosophy and Law)
• 3:30 Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State, Psychology)
• 4:00 Ian Gilby (Harvard, Biological Anthropology)
• 4:30 BREAK (Coffee will be served)
• 4:50 Venkat Lakshminarayanan (Yale, Psychology)
• 5:10 Katherine Cronin (Wisconsin, Psychology)
• 5:30 Commentary: Joshua Knobe (UNC, Philosophy)
  

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Saturday's talks will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 211
Registration will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 103
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 103
Lunch will take place at Cosi Restaurant, 338 Elm Street, New Haven

8:30-9:00      Registration and Refreshments (Registration open until 6pm) (LC 103)

9:00-10:05       Primate Moral Cognition II: Helping (LC 211)

• Session Moderator: Lori Gruen (Wesleyan, Philosophy and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies)
• 9:00 Felix Warneken (Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Developmental and Comparitive Psychology)
• 9:30 Jennifer Barnes (Yale, Psychology)
• 9:50 Commentary: Matthew Noah Smith (Yale, Philosophy)

10:05-10:45    Informal Discussion and Refreshments (LC 103)

10:45-12:00     Primate "System I": Emotion and Unconscious Processing (LC 211)

• Session Moderator: Stephen Anderson (Yale, Linguistics and Cognitive Science)
• 10:45 Brian Hare (Duke, Biological Anthropology and Anatomy)
• 11:15 Richard Byrne (St. Andrews, Psychology
• 11:45 Commentary: John Bargh (Yale, Psychology)

12:00-2:00       Lunch (Cosi Restaurant, 338 Elm Street, New Haven)

2:00-4:45         Primate Decision-Making and Irrationality (LC 211)

• Session Moderator: Joseph Simmons (Yale, School of Management/Marketing)
• 2:00 Louisa Egan (Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management)
• 2:20 Michael Platt (Duke, Neurobiology)
• 2:50 Alexandra Rosati (Duke, Biological Anthropology)
• 3:10 BREAK
• 3:30 Daeyeol Lee (Yale, School of Medicine/ Neurobiology and Cognitive Science)
• 4:00 Keith Chen (Yale, School of Management/ Economics and Cognitive Science)
• 4:30 Commentary: Don Brown (Yale, Economics)

4:45-5:15         Informal Discussion and Refreshments (LC 103)

5:15-6:30         Primate In-Group/Outgroup Biases (LC 211)

• Session Moderator: Vivek Sharma (Yale, Political Science)
• 5:15 David Watts (Yale, Anthropology and Cognitive Science)
• 5:45 Neha Mahajan (Yale, Psychology)
• 6:05 Commentary: Kristina Olson (Yale, Psychology and Cognitive Science)

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Sunday's talks will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 101
Registration will take place in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 196
Coffee and refreshements will be available in Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, room 103

9:00-9:30      Registration and Refreshments (Registration open until noon) (LC 196/103)

9:30-11:00       Primate Theory of Mind (LC 101)

• Session Moderator: Brian Scassellati (Yale, Computer Science and Cognitive Science)
• 9:30 April Ruiz (St. Andrews, Psychology)
• 9:50 Drew Marticorena (Duke, Neuroscience)
• 10:10 Josep Call (Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
• 10:40 Commentary: Rebecca Saxe (MIT, Brain & Cognitive Sciences)

11:00-12:00       Open Discussion and Closing Remarks (LC 101)

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