Second Conference of the Second Cohort of the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’

Situated Affectivity & Social Understanding

Online via Zoom, 10/12/2021

9:00Welcome
Event is going to be online only (use Zoom link below)!
09:05 – 10:20Keynote
Dr. Lewis Chuang (LMU Munich)
Humans & Technology: Mind the Gap
10 minutesDiscussion Break
10:30 – 11:10PhD
Presentation
Shadi Derakhshan (University of Osnabrück)
Head Position as a Robust Prediction for the Technology Acceptance
Model (TAM) in Self-Driving Vehicles – A Large Scale Virtual Reality Study
5 minutesCoffee Break
11:15 – 11:55PhD
Presentation
Felix Schreiber (Ruhr University Bochum)
The Role of Guided Affective Episodic Foresight for Proactive Behavior
in 5-Year Olds

1 hourLunch Break
13:00 – 14:15Keynote
Dr. Daniel Dukes
(University of Fribourg & Swiss Center for the Affective Sciences)
Two illustrations of the explanatory power of emotions
10 minutesDiscussion Break
14:25 – 15:05PhD
Presentation
Maja Griem (Ruhr University Bochum)
Profiles of Animal Empathy
5 minutesTea Break
15:10 – 15:50Postdoc
Presentation
Dr. Julia Wolf (Ruhr University Bochum)
Pretend Play and the Paradox of False Belief Understanding
10 minutesSnack Break
16:00 – 17:15Keynote
Prof. Simone Shamay-Tsoory (University of Haifa)
The Empathic Brain: The Neural Underpinning of Human Empathy
17:15 – 18:15Informal Breakout Sessions