Programme
Conference: Norms and moral psychology
Friday 15 April 2011
11am to 1pm
Coffee and registration
1 to 2pm
Ori Friedman (Psychology, University of Waterloo)
Principle-based reasoning about ownership in young children
2 to 2.30pm
Open discussion
45-minute break with coffee
3.15 to 4.15pm
Robert Layton (Anthropology, Durham University)
Continuity and innovation in the transmission of traditional Chinese culture
4.15 to 4.45pm
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
5.15 to 6.15pm
Susan Gelman (Psychology, University of Michigan)
The non-obvious basis of ownership: Tracing the history and value of owned objects
6.15 to 6.45pm
Open discussion
Saturday 16 April 2011
9.30 to 10.30am
Gergely Csibra (Psychology, Central European University)
Cognitive resources for learning about artefacts in human infants
10.30 to 11am
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
11.30am to 12.30pm
Nurit Bird-David (Anthropology, University of Haifa)
Setting or mind-setting? A study of a South Indian hunter-gatherer camp
12.30 to 1pm
Open discussion
Two-hour lunch break - lunch not provided
3 to 4pm
Emma Flynn (Psychology, Durham University)
Investigating social learning and cultural transmission in young children
4 to 4.30pm
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
5 to 6pm
Barbara Malt (Psychology, Lehigh University)
Naming artefacts: Patterns and processes
6 to 6.30pm
Open discussion
Sunday 17 April 2011
9.30 to 10.30am
Aimee Plourde (Philosophy, University of Sheffield)
Artefacts as signals of strength in political competition; a case study of landscape monuments from the late Bronze Age Anatolian Plateau
10.30 to 11am
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
11.30am to 12.30pm
Jamie Tehrani (Anthropology, Durham University)
Phylogenetic approaches to the transmission of material culture: Current trends and future directions
12.30 to 1pm
Open discussion
End of conference