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ISCON (International Social Cognition Network)

The International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) was formed as a joint enterprise between the European Social Cognition Network and the Person Memory Interest Group to act as an umbrella society to advance the international study of social cognition. Among the objectives of ISCON are to advance the understanding of social cognition by encouraging research and the preparation of papers and reports, holding meetings for the presentation of scientific papers, possibly sponsoring or issuing publications containing scientific papers and other material pertinent to the furtherance of the Network's goals, establishing professional honors and awards to recognize excellence in social cognition research, and cooperating with other scientific and professional societies.

We seek to represent social cognition, broadly defined. We view social cognition not as a content area, but rather as an approach to understanding a wide variety of social psychological phenomena pertaining to many content areas. To borrow from the journal Social Cognition, the major concerns of the approach are the processes underlying the perception, memory, and judgment of social stimuli; the effects of social, cultural, and affective factors on the processing of information; and the behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes.

ISCON is governed by a steering committee that currently consists of:

Irene Blair, University of Colorado

Tanya Chartrand, Duke University

Olivier Corneille, Catholic University of Louvain

Ap Dijksterhuis, University of Amsterdam

Thomas Mussweiler, University of Wuerzburg

Jeff Sherman, Northwestern University

Eliot Smith, Indiana University

Fritz Strack, University of Wuerzburg

ISCON acts as official sponsor of the Social Cognition pre-conference that precedes the annual SPSP conference. It also sponsors a similar pre-conference to precede the tri-annual meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, beginning summer 2005 in Wuerzburg. ISCON also is the official sponsor of the Person Memory Interest Group (PMIG) conference that precedes the annual SESP conference.

ISCON Meetings
2008
ISCON Social Cognition Preconference at EAESP Meeting in Opatija, Croatia, June 10th 2008

Update on Pre-conference (posted May 14th, 2008)

Dear colleagues,

We are getting closer to the 2008 ISCON meeting which will be held on June 10th from 9 am to 4 pm. I would like to share some further information about organizational matters with you.

The preconference will take place at the Milenij Hoteli (www.milenijhoteli.hr), near the General Meeting hotel venues. This is also the conference hotel for the subsequent EAESP meeting. For further information on the hotel as well as on transportation and accommodation please visit the EAESP conference website http://www.eaesp2008.com/index.php?page=/pre-conf_meetings).

Conference fees will amount to 35 Euros payable in CASH at the meeting. This fee also covers the coffee breaks and sandwich lunch.

Each slot is 45 min. of which about 15 min. should be left for discussion.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

We are all very much looking forward to meeting you in Opatija!

On behalf of the ISCON steering committee,

Leonel Garcia-Marques and Olivier Corneille

 

Preliminary Program, ISCON Meeting 2008

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome

9:10 – 9:55 C. Neil Macrae: “Person Perception According to Milne.”

10:00 – 10:45 Michaela Wänke: “The persuasion paradox: How information is turned into a persuasive argument”

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00 David L. Hamilton: “Malleable Group Memberships: The
Inclusion/Exclusion of African Americans in the American Identity”

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 – 13:15 Best Paper Award

13:15 – 14:00 Jeff Sherman: “Attentional Processes in Stereotype Formation: A Common Model for Category Accentuation and Illusory Correlation”

14:05 – 14:50 Silvia Tomelleri: “Electrophysiological studies about the automaticity of social categorization and stereotyping”

14:50 – 15:15 Coffee

15:15 – 16:00 Lucy Johnston: “If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it.”

16:00 Farewell

 

2005

Second ISCON meeting – as part of the Social Cognition Pre-Conference sponsored by ISCON was held on January 20 prior to the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology http://www.barnard.edu/psych/Conference2005.htm

2004

First International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) Meeting

SPSP Social Cognition Pre-conference

January 30, 2004, Austin TX.

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