CFP: Cooperation: Why, How, and With Whom?

Bochum-Aarhus Cooperation III

We are pleased to announce that one poster presenter, to be selected on the basis of a blind review process, will be awarded with a travel bursary of 250 Euros. If you wish to present a poster, and to be eligible for the 250 Euro award, please submit an abstract (approx. 200 words) by February 15th 2013 to: [email protected]

POSSIBLE TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED IN POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

Why?

Cooperation can bring benefits but also entails commitments as well as risks. What are the phylogenetic roots of cooperation? When do we decide to cooperate? Only when it is advantageous? Or also just for fun? Indeed, the motivational benefits that go along with doing something jointly may themselves make cooperation advantageous. Do we assess the likely benefits? The immediate or long-term costs? What processes determine these decisions? How do humans go about making such assessments? What processes underlie this? Indeed, given that a thorough consideration of such factors can be costly, time-consuming, or impossible given limited information, it is likely that we often employ quick and dirty heuristics to simplify such decisions.

How?

Cooperation also imposes tasks not present in doing something alone or
in merely observing others in action, such as assessing the progress
of the partners, their abilities, their current level of commitment.
What processes achieve this (e.g. co-representation, error monitoring,
perspective-taking, giving and receiving signals, modulating one’s
movements and emotional expressiveness in order to make one’s
intentions and attitudes more transparent. Are these processes
reflective and inferential or rather pre-reflective and automatic? How
do we experience coordination with others? Is (some kind of)
cooperation constituted by the social interaction process itself`?
Whether and if so, how does a shared intention two agents pursue
determine their cooperative behavior patterns.

With whom?

In selecting cooperation partners, it can be advantageous to consider the reputations and the interests of potential cooperation partners in order to assess the likelihood of their remaining committed, free-riding, engaging in punishment behavior, etc. Moreover, we may also assess their abilities to contribute (e.g. resources, health, intelligence, physical abilities), and perhaps also personal traits that are relevant in a cooperative endeavour (e.g. empathy, expressiveness, transparency). Does cooperation with a group or with a single cooperation partner make any difference in terms of motivation, cognitive load etc.? What role(s) do cultural differences play?

Call for Participation: Please register by March 1st 2013 to [email protected]

PROGRAM

DAY 1 (08.04.2013)

Why do we cooperate?

9.00-9.15 Introduction

9.15-10.00 Albert Newen (Bochum): The roots of cooperation

10.00-10.45 Alicia Melis (Warwick): tba

10.45.-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-11:45 Sacha Burgeois-Gironde (IJN Paris): Money-emergence among rhesus monkeys

11.45-12.30 Mattia Gallotti (IJN Paris) & John Michael (Copenhagen/Aarhus): Objects in mind: social ontology and social cognition

12.30-13.15 Juliane Kämmer (MPI Berlin): Time-perception in an information-sharing dilemma: how an anticipated future affects cooperation intentions in realistic scenario tasks

13.15-14.15 Lunch

14.15-14.30 1-min Poster Introduction

14.30-15.30 Poster Session

How do we cooperate?

15.30-16.15 Natalie Sebanz (Budapest): Cognitive mechanisms supporting joint action

16.15-17.00 Hanne De Jaegher (San Sebastian): The participatory sense-making view on how we cooperate

17.00-17.30 Coffee Break

17:30-18.15 Stephen Butterfill (Warwick): How to construct cooperative agents

18.15-19.00 Dan Monster (Aarhus) & Dorthe Hakonsson (Aarhus): Emotions and performance in cooperative teams

19.30 Conference Dinner

DAY 2 (09.04.2013)

With whom do we cooperate?

9.00-9.45 Thomas Bugnyar (Vienna): Cooperation and social bonds in ravens

9.45-10.30 Felix Warneken (Harvard): tba

10.30-11.15 Valentina Fantasia (Portsmouth): Towards an embodied approach to cooperation:
implications for Autism and Development

11.15-11.45 Coffee Break

Outlook

11.45-12.45 Anika Fiebich (Bochum), Sarah Schwarzkopf (Cologne), and Nhung Nguyen (Bielefeld): Cooperation and cognition: perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and informatics

12.45-13.00 Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus): Concluding remarks

Scientific Organization: A. Fiebich, J. Michael, A. Newen, A. Roepstorff

Contact: [email protected]