Social Cognition

Departmental Colloquium: Alan Fiske, UCLA: Kama Muta

Type: 
Colloquia
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Date: 
September 14, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Kama Muta:
The Tears-of-Joy, Goosebumps, Heart-Warming Emotion of Holding Your Newborn Baby, Feeling Divine Love, Patriotic Devotion, Social Support, and Pixar Movies

Departmental Colloquium: David Pietraszewski, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Type: 
Colloquia
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Room: 
101
Date: 
November 30, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Towards a mechanistic account of the psychology of groups: Basic theoretical models and empirical tests of the psychology underlying racial categorization. 

 

New project at the Social Mind Center led by Christophe Heintz / Beliefs fostering dishonest behavior: Combining ethnographic and experimental evidence (BFD)

May 12, 2016

The project will investigate the factors that determine people's attitudes toward social rules or norms that are aimed at improving social welfare. Dishonesty can be characterized as failing to respect these rules, and adhering to them can be necessary for stable cooperation and resolving collective action problems. However, against this first operational characterization, ethnographic and experimental data suggest that depending on the context, people may break a rule and still think of themselves as honest.

Dr. John Michael (Social Mind Center) is awarded an ERC Starting Research Grant

April 21, 2016
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We are pleased to announce that the ERC review panels have favorably reviewed Dr John Michael's proposal entitled: " An Integrative Framework for Modeling the Sense of Commitment". The ERC Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council: Seventh Framework Ideas Programme (FP7) provides 1,4 million euros and will help John to continue his research on the highest possible level, and to achieve ground-breaking results. The project is expected to start in July 2016.

We warmly congratulate John on this success! 

‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Type: 
Workshop
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Room: 
101
Date: 
October 15, 2015 - 9:00am to 6:00pm

SOMICS Workshop on

‘Ostensive communication, social learning, and cultural transmission

in small-scale and large-scale societies’

Program

9.00                Tanya Broesch – Social learning in small-scale societies

                        Michelle Kline – How to learn about teaching

10.30              coffee break

Departmental Colloquium: Alex Thornton (Centre for Ecology and Conservation University of Exeter): Social learning and the evolution of culture

Type: 
Colloquia
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Room: 
101
Date: 
June 8, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Social learning and the Evolution of Culture

Alex Thornton

Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter

Workshop on `Modelling Self on Other`

Type: 
Workshop
Building: 
Oktober 6 u. 7
Room: 
102
Date: 
May 18, 2015 - 1:00pm to May 20, 2015 - 5:00pm

Program

Monday 18th May

Historical and systematic views on conceptual issues pertaining to self/other relationships

13.00               Introduction

13.15               Peter Carruthers        

Self & Other: Cognitive architecture, evolutionary function, and development

14.15               Tad Zawidzki