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The ability to ascribe minds to others may be a defining feature of our species. By perceiving minds, we can coordinate joint action, understand deception and control the social world around us.

Mind perception encompasses a variety of topics including empathy, perspective-taking, theory of mind, religious belief, mentalizing, agency detection, anthropomorphism, and dehumanization. In this conference, we explore cutting edge research on mind perception and its implications.

Each of the speakers provide a unique persepective on mind percetion, ranging from how children perceive mind to how mind perception is instantiated in the brain. Speakers include eminient professors, junior faculty and New York Times best selling authors.

A copy of the schedule can be found here.

Join us for an exciting day of talks on January 26th in San Diego, sponsored by the Kellogg School of Management.

                                    

 

 

 


Alison Gopnik
UC - Berkley

Theory of Mind as Causal Inference: Using Probab-ilistic Models for Social Cognition

  

Kurt Gray
University of Maryland

Mind Perception as the Essence of Morality

 

Joshua Knobe
Yale University

Mind Perception and the Body

 

  

Jonah Lehrer
Wired Magazine

The Challenge of Knowing Thyself

 

Jason Mitchell
Harvard University

Vicarious Neural Response to Others as a Basis for Altruistic Behavior

  

Ara Norenzayan
UBC

Social Cognitive Found-ations of Religious Belief

 

Rebecca Saxe
MIT

The Happiness of the Fish: Evidence for a Common Theory of One's Own and Others' Actions

  

Adam Watyz
Kellogg School of Mgmt

Zero-sum Social Cognition and the Economy of Mind

 

Thalia Wheatley
Dartmouth College

The Brain's Turing Test: Neural Systems for the Perception of Mind

  

Liane Young
Boston College

When the Mind Matters for Morality

 


Approximately twenty posters will be presented at the conference. Topics include artificial intelligence, morality, individual differences and the neural correlates of mind perception.

You can find a complete list of titles and authors here. The word map gives a quick idea.

 

 

 

     

 


Adam Waytz
Kellogg School of Mgmt

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Kurt Gray
University of Maryland

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We thank the Kellogg School of Management for their generous contribution.


 

Registration (including lunch) is $75 for faculty and $50 for students/post-docs. First authors on accepted posters need not register. Registration officially closed on Nov 15th, but there are still a few slots remaining. Simply click the link below to register - if the link is still active, then there is still space.

https://www.123signup.com/register?id=cmphs