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The 2nd CEFOM/21 International Symposium
Culture, Norms, and Evolution


Date: August 6 (Wed) - 8 (Fri), 2003
At: The Humanities and Social Science Building, Hokkaido University
Speakers:
  Clark Barrett (Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles)
  Christine Horne (Sociology, Brigham Young University)
  Keiko Ishii (Cultural Psychology, Hokkaido University)
  Tatsuya Kameda(Social Psychology, Hokkaido University)
  Robert Kurzban (Evolutionary Psychology, University of Pennsylvania)
  Noah Mark (Sociology, Stanford University)
  Ara Norenzayan (Cultural Psychology, University of British Columbia)
  Mark Schaller (Evolutionary Psychology, University of British Columbia)
  Nobuyuki Takahashi (Social Psychology, Hokkaido University)
  Toshio Yamagishi (Social Psychology, Hokkaido University)
  Masaki Yuki (Social Psychology, Hokkaido University)
  Joseph Whitmeyer (Sociology, University of North Caroline, Charlotte)


For the second international symposium, we invited top researchers in various fields, and provided an opportunity for them to present their latest findings regarding mutual mechanisms of society and the mind, and to openly discuss the theoretical issues involved. Anthoropologists, Sociologists, Cultural Psychologists, Evolutionary Psychologists, and Social Psychologists actively discussed various issues during the three days.

Day 1: Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

10:00 - 11:00
Introductory remarks by each participant


11:00 - 12:00
Session 1: Toshio Yamagishi
"The Role of Reputation in Open and Closed Groups: An Experimental Study of Online Trading"





13:00 - 14:30
Session 2: Christine Horne
"Cohesion, Collective Interests, and Social Norms"





14:45 - 15:45
Session 3: Tatsuya Kameda
"An Evolutionary Game Approach to Culture: Illustration by an Adaptive Norm Development"





16:00 - 17:00
Poster Session



[Poster Presentations]

Kosuke TAKEMURA & Masaki YUKI
"Are Intergroup Relations Competitive in Japan?: A Test of Discontinuity Effect in a 'Collectivist' Society"

Daisuke NAKAMA & Motoki WATABE
"Belief and Institutional Change: An Experimental Study"

Takafumi TSUKASAKI & Tatsuya KAMEDA
"Robust Beauty of the Majority Rule under Uncertainty: An Evolutionary Computer Simulation and an Experimental Test"

Rie MASHIMA & Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI
"The Emergence of Indirect Reciprocity"

Ryo TAMURA & Tatsuya KAMEDA
"Collective Vigilance and Anxiety Contagion: Exploring Adaptive Basis of Our 'Anxiety-resonant' Minds"

Mayumi MIYAHARA & Toshio YAMAGISHI
"Social Construction of Groups: A Preliminary Study of Imposed Social Identity"

Chisato Takahashi, Shigehito Tanida & Toshio Yamagishi
"Is Beauty Skin Deep?: How Physical Attractiveness Affects Behavior in Social Exchange"

Mizuho SHINADA, Yu OHMURA, & Toshio YAMAGISHI
"Why Do Third Party Punish?: Altruistic Punishment and Social Exchange in Groups"

Toko KIYONARI, Margaret FODDY, & Toshio YAMAGISHI
"Group-based Trust in the Minimal Group Situations: Comparison of Indirect and Direct Exchange Relations in Japan and Australia"

Naoto SUZUKI & Toshio YAMAGISHI
" 'Preference' for Conformity as a Default Decision Rule"

Kunihiro YOKOTA & Masaki YUKI
"Intragroup Cooperation and Intergroup Defense: Distinguishing Two Kinds of Ingroup Favoritism in the Minimal Group Paradigm"

Shigehito TANIDA & Toshio Yamagishi
"The effect of empathy on accuracy in the prediction of behavior in social exchanges"




17:30 -
Reception






Day 2: Thursday, August 7th, 2003

9:30 - 10:30
Session 4: Nobuyuki Takahashi
"Indirect Reciprocity in the Selective Play Environment"





10:45 - 11:45
Session 5: Noah Mark
"Examining How Sanctioning Behavior and Status Behavior May Promote the Evolution of Cooperation"





13:30 - 14:30
Session 6: Joseph Whitmeyer
"Hierarchy form Exchange"





14:45 - 15:45
Session 7: Mark Schaller
"Evolution --> Cognition --> Communication --> Culture"





16:00 - 17:00
Session 8: Clark Barrett
"How Do We Understand the Behavior of Others? The Agency System"






Day 3: Friday, August 8th, 2003

9:30 - 10:30
Session 9: Ara Norenzayan
"Mortality Awareness and Belief in Supernatural Agents"





10:45 - 11:45
Session 10: Keiko Ishii
"Culture, Communication Practices, and Cognition: Selective Attention to Content Versus Context"





13:30 - 14:30
Session 11: Robert Kurtzban
"Perceptions of Race"





14:45 - 15:45
Session 12: Masaki Yuki
"Category-Based Collectivism Versus Network-Based Collectivism: Identifying Two Types of Individual-Group Relations in the West and East"





16:00 - 16:30
General Discussion

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