1st Workshop

Concept definitions of the phenomena Theory of Mind, empathy, and related social behaviors in interpersonal interactions

October 11th - 12th, 2017

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Organizers:

Dana Schneider & Olga Klimecki

 The workshop aims at discussing the concept definitions of the social interaction phenomena theory of mind, empathy and related social behaviors based on the research from the disciplines of philosophy, psychological science and neuroscience. A particular emphasis will be placed on the definition of the functional domains and the delineation of boundaries between phenomena.

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Speakers:
Shaun Gallagher (Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA)
“Can embodied interaction actually constitute social cognition?”
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Stephanie Preston (Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
"Empathy: Resolving conceptual issues through a cognitive and neural approach"
Video can be found here

Matthias Schurz (Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK)
“On the distinction between Theory of Mind and Empathy: An evaluation of current theories based on a meta analysis of brain imaging studies”

for access to video please contact: matthias.schurz[at]psy.ox.ac.uk


Poster Award Winners:



2nd Workshop

Target agent specificities and relationships across the social interaction phenomena Theory of Mind, empathy,and related social behaviors

February 15th-16th, 2018

Cologne

Organizers:

Anna Welpinghus, Anika Fiebich &

Thiemo Breyer

 

This workshop aims at elucidating the dedicated role that agent-specificities and relationships among the agents may play in social interactions from the perspectives of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and neighboring disciplines. In particular, we will focus on social cognition, including empathy and theory of mind, as well as related social behaviors.

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Speakers:
Pascal Molenberghs (Melbourne)
"Neuroscientific insights into prejudice and intergroup violence"

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Albert Newen (Bochum)
"Understanding Others: Investigating the Relevance of Individuality and Typical Social Relations within the Framework of the Person Model Theory"

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Ryan Murray (Geneva)

"Understanding the Other: A Working Model of Differential Neural Processing for Close and Familiar Others"

 


Poster Award Winners:

  • Zhimin Yan: "How race and group-membership affect face perception: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation"
  • Jeroen Delplanque: "Neural representations of groups and stereotypes using fMRI repetition suppression"
  • Jörn Wiengarn:  "Rationality and agent-specificity in trusting relationships"


3rd Workshop

Methodological issues relevant to testing and measuring Theory of
Mind, empathy, and related social behaviors   

September 13th & 14th, 2018

Dresden

Organizers:

Philipp Kanske & Matthias Schurz

 

This workshop aims at reviewing and discussing current methodological challenges and perspectives for measuring of Theory of Mind, empathy and related social behaviours by bringing together researchers from cognitive, neuroscientific, and philosophical fields.

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Speakers:


Ian Apperly (University of Birmingham)
"The mismeasure of mindreading"

Video can be found here

Mark A. Thornton (Princeton University)

"Modeling the predictive social mind: using multivariate neuroimaging to understand how social knowledge is organized and used for prediction"

 Video can be found here


 

Poster Award Winners:

  1. Irene Sophia Plank (Einstein Center for Neurosciences,Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany)
    "Passing on social competences: developing tasks to measure social cognition in parents"
  2. Serena Marchesi (Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy)
    "Do we explain robot’s behaviour with reference to mental states?"
  3. Irene Trilla (Department of Psychology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
    "Biased by my own emotions? A new measure of emotional egocentricity"

4th Workshop

Technical issues related to real-time social interaction phenomena: Focus on study design and data analysis

March 28th & 29th, 2019

Munich

Organizers:

Tobias Schuwerk & Daniela Mier

 

At the workshop we review and discuss novel design and analysis approaches to study Theory of Mind, empathy, and related social behaviors in actual social interaction. The discussion will range from design and procedural set ups, over employed study equipment to stimulus presentation. Recent philosophical considerations on what it is that we actually intend to measure complement the program.

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Speakers:
Simone Shamay-Tsoory (University of Haifa, Israel)
"A two-brain approach for understanding how empathy contributes to distress regulation"

Video can be found here.


Sebo Uithol (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
"Social Cognition: What is there to understand?"

Video can be found here.

Leonhard Schilbach (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, München, Germany)

"From gaze-contingent faces to full body tracking: Quantifying dyadic interaction to understand social impairments in psychiatric disorders"

 

Stephan de la Rosa (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany)

"From the lab to real life: Using virtual reality to examine social cognitive processes in realistic conditions"

Video can be found here.


 

Poster Award Winners:

 

1. Sebastian Baez (Department of Neurosciences and Clinical Neurology, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

"Witnessing others' suffering is related to changes in subsequent brain activity and connectivity in old age"

2. Haemy Lee Masson (Department of Brain and Cognition, KU Leuven, Belgium)

"Social touch observation in adults with autism: an MVPA study"

3. Halima Rafi (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Neural and behavioral correlates of conflict in romantic relationships"

3. Katja Bertsch (Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Germany)
"The challenge of measuring behavioral and neural correlates of reactive aggression in healthy volunteers and psychiatric patients"

1st Internal Workshop

September 30th - October 2nd, 2019

Bildungshaus St. Ursula, Erfurt

Organizers:

Dana Schneider & Olga Klimecki

 

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2nd Internal Workshop

October 31st - November 2nd, 2019

European Congress on Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, TU Dresden

Organizers:

Philipp Kanske & Dana Schneider

 

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3rd Internal Workshop

March 29th - 31st, 2020

Virtual meeting due to Covid-19 crisis

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4th Internal Workshop

September 17th - 18th, 2020

Virtual meeting due to Covid-19 crisis

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5th Internal Workshop

March 18th, 2021

Virtual meeting due to Covid-19 crisis

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