The First International Workshop on the Neurobiology of Social Influence : 30—31st of August, 2015

The First International Workshop on the Neurobiology of Social Influence: 30—31st of August, 2015

For a long time cognitive neuroscience primarily investigated single individuals in order to uncover neuronal mechanisms of individual decision making. Importantly, our decisions are often affected by decisions of others. For example, humans demonstrate various forms of herding—alignments of the thoughts or behaviors of individuals in a group (herd) without centralized coordination. It is only relatively lately that the profound role of social influence was acknowledged by new fields of neuroscience social neuroscience and neuroeconomics. The workshop will cover various topics: from the social influence on our memory and attitudes to various forms of persuasion. The workshop aims to stimulate multidisciplinary discussion. 

We invite you to the first international workshop on the Neurobiology of Social Influence. The workshop keynote speakers: Keise Izuma (University of York), Ale Smidts (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Emily B. Falk (University of Pennsylvania), Micah Edelson (University of Zurich),Vasily Klucharev (HSE), etc. 

Abstracts are encouraged from any relevant area of social sciences and neuroscience. All submissions will be evaluated by a Program Committee before the 1st of June.

Place: Moscow, Higher School of Economics

Date: 30—31st of August, 2015
Site: http://nsi_2015.neurobiotech.ru/
Submit at http://nsi_2015.neurobiotech.ru/submission


Program-In-Brief

Day 1.  30th of August (Room 330, 9/11, Myasnitskaya Street) Note: 10.00 – 14.00 – Informal program for invited speakers (meeting point will be announced)

14.00 - 15.00 – Emily B. Falk (University of Michigan)  "Neural predictors of behavior change and idea propagation"
15.00 - 16.00 – Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn (University of Sussex)  The “Value” of Social Learning

16.00 - 16.20 – Coffee break

16.20 - 17.20 – Keise Izuma   “The neural basis of cognitive consistency and attitude change”
17.20 - 18.20 – Vasiliy Klucharev   "Reinforcement learning mechanisms of social influence"

19.00 – 22.00 – Informal evening program for speakers (meeting point will be announced) 

Day 2.  31st of August (Room 330, 9/11, Myasnitskaya Street)

10.00 – 11.00 – Micah Edelson  "The Nature of Mnemonic Processing in Dynamic Social Environments"
11.00 – 12.00 – Jan Engelmann  "Emotional influences on social preferences"
12.00 - 13.00 – Ale Smids  “Brain mechanisms of persuasive communication”

13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch

20-min presentations: 
14.00 – 14.20 –  Ivan Zubarev  "Correlates of social conformity in spontaneous MEG: an exploratory analysis of the resting state data"
14.25 – 14.45 –  Lei Zhang  "Modeling Social Influence on Human Decision-Making with Reinforcement Learning Theory"
14.50 – 15.10 –  Yukihito Yomogida  "The Neural Basis of Changing Social Norms through Persuasion"
15.15 – 15.35 –  Marco Colosio  "EEG signatures of cognitive dissonance"
15.40 – 16.00 –  Martinez-Saito Mario   "The effect of social competition on the neural signatures of price-mechanism"

16.00 - 16.20 – Coffee break

16.20 - 18.00 – Round table discussion, closing of the workshop

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