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Call for Posters

International Symposium
"Foundations of Human Social Behavior"

June 18-21, 2008, University of Zurich

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Presentation

This small, invited symposium will bring together key scientists from
different social science and biomedical disciplines to address the
actionable knowledge needed to answer crucial questions associated
with adaptive and maladaptive human social behavior. The symposium
will have sessions on Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior,
Understanding Others, and Social Behavior in Cross-Cultural and Cross-
Species Perspective.

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Symposium speakers

Symposium speakers are: C. Daniel Batson, James Blair, C. Sue Carter,
Richard J. Davidson, Jon Elster, Simon Gächter, Shaun Gallagher,
Joseph Henrich, Rolf Loeber, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Jesse J. Prinz,
Adrian Raine, Joan B. Silk, Michael Tomasello, and Dan Zahavi.

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Call for posters

The Organization Committee hereby invites young scientists (doctoral
or postdoctoral students with less than five years' postgraduate
experience) from relevant fields to submit an abstract of their
research to be considered for an invitation to attend the symposium as
well as present their research in a poster session. Those interested
should submit a poster abstract (400 words max.) and CV as an e-mail
attachment to Tamara Herz (therz@iew.uzh.ch) by January 31, 2008. The Organization Committee will review the submissions and send invitations to selected applicants by February 29, 2008.
Travel Award: The Organization Committee will review the young
scientists' CVs and poster abstracts and, based on these, confer
Travel Awards of 500 Swiss francs each to ten doctoral or postdoctoral
students (with less than five years' postgraduate experience).

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Organization committee

Ingolf Dalferth
Ernst Fehr
Urs Fischbacher
Markus Heinrichs
Michael Kosfeld
Tania Singer

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The University Research Priority Program "Foundations of Human Social Behavior,"

The University Research Priority Program "Foundations of Human Social
Behavior," founded in 2005, focuses on the investigation of human
social behavior from the perspectives of neuroscience, economics,
psychology, philosophy, and evolutionary anthropology. Its main goal
is to understand the factors which determine prosocial and antisocial
behavior in humans. The program concentrates not only on the social
and biological bases of altruistic and egoistic behavior, but also on
the economic and ethical consequences of people displaying this
behavior.

University Research Priority Program
"Foundations of Human Social Behavior"
Blümlisalpstrasse 10
CH-8006 Zurich
www.socialbehavior.uzh.ch

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Official web site

Please check the Symposium's official web site for updates and further details.

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