Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University.
Date: December 11, 2008
(Thursday) 10:00-18:00, December 12 (Friday) 10:00-18:00, December 13 (Saturday) 9:30-12:00
Location: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Participants: Nathan Berg (University of Texas, Dallas), Leda Cosmides (University of California, Santa Barbara), Reid Hastie (University of Chicago), Peter Hatemi (Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics), Tatsuya Kameda (Hokkaido University/CASBS), Rose McDermott (University of California, Santa Barbara/CASBS), Mayuko Nakamaru (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Peter Todd (Indiana University), John Tooby (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Contents:
In this working conference, we hope to examine some of the potential endogenous factors related to social decision making. Our goal is to explore some of the ways in which emotion in particular impacts processes of social and political decision making, drawing on animal ethology among other sources. In particular, we seek to analyze the interaction between genetic factors and environmental triggers in cuing social responses, including political attitudes along a conservative-liberal dimension. We plan brief presentations of our relevant past work in this area, followed by an exchange of ideas about how to move the research agenda in this area forward. We hope to explore possible areas for future research collaboration within this cross-cultural community.
Thursday, 11th of December
10:00-2:30 Short lecture by each participant
2:30-4:00 Peter Hatemi
Genetic Inheritance and Culture’s Rebellion: From Mate Selection to Political Defection
4:30-6:00 John Tooby
The Role of “Outrages” in the Evolutionary Psychology of Groups and Intergroup Conflict
Friday, 12th of December
9:00-10:30 Leda Cosmides
Can Race Be Erased? The Evolutionary Psychology of Coalitional Alliances and Social Categorization
10:30-12:00 Discussion
1:30-5:00 Exchange of ideas how to move the research agenda in this area
Saturday, 13th of December
9:30 -12:00 Wrap-up
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