Sponsored by the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Riviera Hotel and Casino Convention Center

Capri 105/106

Registration:

To register, please send a completed registration form (or email the requested information) to the address below. For registrants from the United States, please send a check or money order for $50 made out to Steven Stroessner. Registrants from outside the United States may pay the registration fee at the conference site. The fee covers breakfast, breaks, and equipment expenses. To keep the registration fee affordable, lunch will not be provided.

Checks and forms should be mailed to:  

Steven Stroessner
Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, NY  10027-6598

Phone:  (212)854-8272
Fax:    (212)854-3601

Email:  ss233@columbia.edu

Schedule

8:00-9:00                   Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:30                 Session I  Focus on Embodiment in Social Cognition

     Simone Schnall, University of Cambridge

         "The Relationship Between Moral Judgment and Facial Affect" 

      Dana Carney, Columbia University 

         "Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels

           and Risk Tolerance"

      Pablo Briñol, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

          "Embodied Validation: How Our Body Can Not Only Change But Also Validate

           Our Thoughts"

10:30-11:00               Break; Informal Paper Session

11:00-12:00               Session II  ISCON Early Career Award Winners

      Melissa Ferguson, Cornell University

         "Chasing the Invisible: How Goals Nonconsciously Shape Our Behavior" 

      Jason Mitchell, Harvard University

           "The Sovereignty of Social Cognition: Examples from Neuroscience"

12:00-2:00                 Lunch Break

2:00-3:00                   Session III

     Minjung Koo and Ayelet Fishbach, Recipients, ISCON Best Paper Award

            "Dynamics of Self-regulation: How (Un)accomplished Goal Actions Affect

           Motivation"

      Jeff Sherman, University of California, Davis

          "Attention, Stereotype Formation, and Hypodescent: Why Minority

           Stereotypes are Stronger than Majority Stereotypes" 

3:00-3:30                   Break

3:30-4:30                Keynote Address

      David Hamilton, University of California, Santa Barbara

          "Understanding 'Them' and 'Us'"