Herfstsymposium 2009
Embodying Social Psychology: Emerging Perspectives from Grounded Cognition
ASPO Fall Symposium 2009
Universiteit Utrecht
Chairs: Daniël Lakens & Hans IJzerman
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Utrecht University
Ongeveer 45 deelnemers hebben zich aangemeld voor het symposium, dat op 25 november 2009 plaats zal vinden in de Maskaradezaal in het Academiegebouw in het centrum van Utrecht. Het Academiegebouw is gelegen aan Domplein 29, ongeveer 15 minuten wandelen vanaf Utrecht Centraal Station. Hieronder vindt u een overzicht van het programma.
9.30 – 10.00 Welkom & Koffie & Thee
10.00 – 10.15 Introductie (Lakens & IJzerman)
10.15 – 11.00 Rolf Zwaan
11.00 – 11.45 Asifa Majid
11.45 – 12.30 Pablo Briñol
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Thomas Schubert
14.15 – 15.00 Natalie Sebanz
15.00 – 15.30 Koffie & Thee
15.30 – 16.15 Nicolas Vermeulen
16.15 – 17.00 Gün Semin
17.00 Afsluiting & Borrel
In just the last two decades, the grounding perspective has inspired research and new theoretical ideas across a wide swath of the behavioral and cognitive sciences. Much of the appeal underlying this impact arises from the simple insight upon which the core idea of grounding rests: that nervous systems evolved for the adaptive control of action – not for abstract cogitation. This idea immediately has several significant implications which are often ignored in new paradigms based on the grounding assumptions. With six keynote addresses, each followed by a plenary discussion, this symposium is designed to provide a roadmap for (social) psychologists based on the grounding assumptions.
In order to achieve a fully interdisciplinary perspective on grounded cognition, keynote addresses are delivered by researchers from various disciplines, including Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Cultural Cognition, Cognitive and Neuroscience, and Social Psychology. This seminar will offer new perspectives and a guiding framework from grounded cognition to researchers from diverse areas, but social psychology in particular.
To participate in this symposium, please pay 35 euro’s in cash at the door.
Symposium Guests
ASIFA MAJID
Asifa Majid is the Coordinator of the Language and Cognition Group at the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her research focuses on how
language structures cognition and more recently on how experience, in terms
of food, action, and body parts, is mapped onto language. Personal Homepage:
http://www.mpi.nl/people/majid-asifa
THOMAS SCHUBERT
Thomas Schubert is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa. His research evolves around perceptual
symbols, embodiment, and bodily feedback of power and ingroup-outgroup
relations. One of his most recent studies focuses on effects of embodiment
of power on self-related concepts. Personal Homepage:
http://www.igroup.org/schubert/
NATALIE SEBANZ
Natalie Sebanz is an Associate Professor at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
She recently started a 5-year project on Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of
Joint Action. Her research interests evolve around how perception, action,
and cognition contribute to social interaction in humans and other animals.
Department Homepage: http://web.mac.com/gknoblich/page2/page2.html
GÜN SEMIN
Gün Semin is an Academy Professor at the Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences. His most recent research focuses on how social behavior is
situated and how psychological processes are embodied. Within these
parameters, his empirical research is driven by an interest in
communication, social cognition, and language. Personal Homepage:
http://www.cratylus.org/people/gun-semin
NICOLAS VERMEULEN
Nicolas Vermeulen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Université catholique de
Louvain. His most recent research focuses on whether properties from
different sensory modalities produces processing costs and whether embodied
cognition of emotional information is involved during emotional regulation.
Personal Homepage:
http://www.ecsa.ucl.ac.be/personnel/vermeulen/content.html
ROLF ZWAAN
Rolf Zwaan is a full professor in Biological and Cognitive Psychology at
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. His most recent research investigates motor
resonance and simulation in language comprehension. Personal Homepage:
http://www.psyweb.nl/homepage/rolf_zwaan#CurriculumVitae
