Programme
Conference: Folk psychology, folk epistemology, and cultural transmission
Friday 11 September 2009
11am to 1pm
Coffee and registration
1 to 2pm
Tamsin German (Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Domain specific mechanisms in theory of mind: Just how dedicated are they?
2 to 2.30pm
Open discussion
45-minute break with coffee
3.15 to 4.15pm
Michael Chandler (Psychology, University of British Columbia)
Surviving Time: Suicide and the persistence of individual and group identities in the face of radical cultural and developmental change. Searching for essentialism where the Enlightenment is brightest.
4.15 to 4.45pm
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
5.15 to 6.15pm
György Gergely (Psychology, Central European University)
Why imitation is not rational: The role of rationality, resonance, and relevance in imitative learning
6.15 to 6.45pm
Open discussion
Saturday 12 September 2009
9 to 10am
Tara Callaghan (Psychology, St Francis Xavier University)
Early social cognition in three cultural contexts
10 to 10.30am
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
11am to 12pm
Barry Hewlett (Anthropology, Washington State University)
Folk psychology and epistemology of human responses to high mortality epidemics (Ebola) and infant care among hunter-gatherers
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
Two-hour lunch break - lunch not provided
2.30 to 3.30pm
Jennie Pyers (Psychology, Wellesley University)
Interactions between language and theory of mind: Evidence from learners of an emerging sign language in Nicaragua
3.30 to 4pm
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
4.30 to 5.30pm
David Lancy (Anthropology, Utah State University)
Pedagogy without teaching
5.30 to 6pm
Open discussion
Sunday 13 September 2009
9 to 10am
Ayse Uskul (Psychology, Essex University)
Eco-cultural basis of cognition: Evidence from farmers, herders, and fishermen in the Black Sea region of Turkey
10 to 10.30am
Open discussion
30-minute break with coffee
11am to 12pm
Douglas Medin (Psychology, Northwestern University)
Cultural processes and psychological distance
12 to 12.30pm
Open discussion
End of conference