Social Understanding: Evolution, Culture and Development

The conference will focus on the evolution and development of social understanding as well as the cultural differences in understanding others. A further focus will be on the mechanisms underlying social understanding and their explanatory theories.

Program

27.09.  Thursday Evolution of social understanding

09.00-10.00 Dan Sperber (Budapest/Paris), Morality and reputation in an evolutionary perspective

10.00-11.00  Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen), The evolution of higher-order theory of mind.

11.00-11.30  Break

11.30-12.30  Albert Newen (Bochum), Cooperation and Social Understanding.

12.30-14.00  Lunch

14.00-15.00  Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki), Collective Intentionality and Social Groups: A Culture-Gene Based Evolutionary Argument

Cultural differences in social understanding

15.00-16.00  Gary Bente & Thomas Dratsch (Cologne), Analyzing Cultural Patterns in the Production and Perception of Nonverbal Behavior.

16.00-16.15   Coffee

16.15-17-00   Katharina Krämer (Cologne), Behavioural and Neural Differences in Social Engagement during Cross-Ethnical Interactions 

17.00-18.00   Shinobu Kitayama (Michigan), Understanding the self and other in social context:  A cultural neuroscience approach 

28.09. Friday

Development of social understanding

09.00-10.00  Philippe Rochat (Atlanta), The Gaze of Others in Development

10.00-11.00  Ulf Liszkowski (Nijmegen), Using theory-of-mind

11.00-11.30  Coffee break

11.30-12.15    Leon de Bruin (Bochum), The development of intentional understanding.

12.15-13.30  Lunch

Mechanisms of social understanding

13.30-14.45  Poster Session with Coffee

14.45-15.45  Shihui Han (Peking), How do we understand and share others' pain? The effect of social group relationship.

15.45-16.30  Piotr Winkielman (San Diego), Emotion, Imitation and Embodied Social Cognition.

16.30-17.30  Kai Vogeley (Cologne), Neural correlates of social understanding

19.30          Conference Dinner

29.09. Saturday

Theories of social understanding

09.30-10.30  Shaun Gallagher (Memphis), Why all understanding is social.

10.30-11.30  Tobias Schlicht (Bochum), Social skills. A defense of Enactive Representationalism

11.30-12.00  Coffee break

12.00-13.00  Corrado Sinigaglia (Milan), Action experience and goal ascription.

end of the workshop

The attendance is free, if you're interested, please register by writing an email to sekretariat-newen@rub.de.

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