Tisztelettel meghivok minden erdeklodot
az ELTE PPK Pszichologiai Doktori Iskolajan
benyujtott Ph.D. ertekezesem nyilvanos vedesere.
A disszertacio cime:
Domain specificity in cognition and language -
understanding irony in high functioning autism
Temavezeto: Dr. Pleh Csaba, egyetemi tanar, az MTA levelezo tagja
Opponensek: Dr. Csepe Valeria, egyetemi docens, az MTA doktora
Dr. Gergely Gyorgy, egyetemi docens, az MTA doktora
A vedes idopontja: 2004. junius 3., 11 óra
A vedes helye: ELTE BTK, VIII. Muzeum krt 4/B, I. emelet 217. terem.
A disszertacio egy peldanya majus 31-tol megtekintheto
az ELTE Pszichologiai Intezet konyvtaraban,
Budapest, VI. Izabella u. 46.
Gyori Miklos.
Előadás a BME Kognitív Tudományi Központ házi kollokvium sorozata keretében:
Előadó: Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cím: Feeling, thinking and doing: Affective influences on social cognition and behavior
Absztrakt:
The role of affect in social thinking and behavior has been a source of fascination to philosophers and writers since time immemorial. Surprisingly, psychological research on this question is relatively recent. This paper reviews historical and contemporary theories about the role of affect in interpersonal behavior, and argues that affect can influence both the content (valence), as well as the process of social interaction. Further, it is proposed that the presence and extent of affective influences on social cognition and interpersonal behaviors is mediated by the kinds of cognitive information processing strategies people employ in different social situations. Extensive recent evidence is reviewed demonstrating affective influences on social memory and judgments, spontaneous interactions, the production of persuasive messages, on how social behaviors are interpreted, on the use and responses to requests, and on bargaining and negotiating strategies. The applied and theoretical implications of this work for a variety of areas of psychology are discussed, and future directions for this area of research are outlined.
Idő: június 9-e (szerda) 14 óra.
Hely: BME St ép. 426.
Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk.
Jakab Zoltán
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Az alábbi, sokakat érdekelhetõ könyvet szeretném hirdetni:
Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok XX.
Tanulmányok a pragmatika körébõl.
Szerkesztõk: Németh T. Enikõ és Bibok Károly
Sorozatszerkesztõ: Kiefer Ferenc
Technikai szerkesztõ: Siptár Péter
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2003. 326 lap
ISBN 963 05 8095 0
ISSN 0569-1338
bolti ára: 3465 Ft
a kiadónál online rendeléssel: 2945 Ft
Tartalom:
Szerkesztõi bevezetés
<italic>Árvay Anett:</italic> A manipuláció és a meggyõzés pragmatikája a
magyar reklámszövegekben
<italic>Bibok Károly:</italic> A szójelentés lexikai pragmatikai megközelítése
<paraindent><param>out</param><italic>Kecskés István:</italic> Szavak és helyzetmondatok értelmezése egy
dinamikus jelentésmodell segítségével</paraindent>
<paraindent><param>out</param><italic>Kiefer Ferenc:</italic> Morfopragmatikai jelenségek a magyarban</paraindent>
<paraindent><param>out</param><italic>Lerch Ágnes:</italic> A preferenciarendszer a verbális konfliktusban</paraindent>
<paraindent><param>out</param><italic>Lukács Ágnes Pléh Csaba: </italic>Pragmatikai képességek egy
különleges fejlõdési zavar, a Williams-szindróma esetén</paraindent>
<italic></color>Nemesi Attila László: </italic>A túlzás szerepe a személyközi retorikában
<italic>Németh T. Enikõ:</italic> A kommunikatív nyelvhasználat elvei
<italic><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Suszczyñska Malgorzata: </italic>A jóvátevés beszédaktusai a magyarban
<italic>Tolcsvai Nagy Gábor:</italic> Topikaktiválás és topikfolytonosság magyar
nyelvû szövegekben
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G e o r g e G a b o r
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Classical Statistics: Smoke and Mirrors
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TITLE: Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-Nation Study of Sex,
Culture, and Strategies of Human Mating
AUTHORS: David P. Schmitt
ABSTRACT: The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI; J.A. Simpson and S.W.
Gangestad, 1991) is a self-report measure of individual differences in human
mating strategies. Low SOI scores signify that a person is sociosexually
restricted, or follows a more monogamous mating strategy. High SOI scores
indicate that an individual is unrestricted, or has a more promiscuous
mating strategy. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project
(ISDP), the SOI was translated from English into 25 additional languages and
administered to a total sample of 14,059 people across 48 nations.
Responses to the SOI were used to address four main issues. First, the
psychometric properties of the SOI were examined in cross-cultural
perspective. The SOI possessed adequate reliability and validity both
within and across a diverse range of modern cultures. Second, theories
concerning the systematic distribution of sociosexuality across cultures
were evaluated. Both operational sex ratios and reproductively demanding
environments related in evolutionary-predicted ways to national levels of
sociosexuality. Third, sex differences in sociosexuality were generally
large and demonstrated cross-cultural universality across the 48 nations of
the ISDP, confirming several evolutionary theories of human mating.
Fourth, sex differences in sociosexuality were significantly larger when
reproductive environments were demanding, and were reduced to more moderate
levels in cultures with more political and economic gender equality.
Implications for evolutionary and social role theories of human sexuality
are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Culture, Gender, Mating, Reproduction, Sex Differences, Sex Roles,
Sexual Strategies, Sociosexuality
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Language: English
T a m a r S z a b o G e n d l e r
Department of Philosophy, Cornell University
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Imaginative Resistance Reconsidered
Abstract: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/May-June/#2
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link to the forthcoming BBS target article:
Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-Nation Study of Sex,
Culture, and Strategies of Human Mating
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David P. Schmitt
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open
Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the
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TITLE: Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-Nation Study of Sex,
Culture, and Strategies of Human Mating
AUTHORS: David P. Schmitt
ABSTRACT: The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI; J.A. Simpson and S.W.
Gangestad, 1991) is a self-report measure of individual differences in human
mating strategies. Low SOI scores signify that a person is sociosexually
restricted, or follows a more monogamous mating strategy. High SOI scores
indicate that an individual is unrestricted, or has a more promiscuous
mating strategy. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project
(ISDP), the SOI was translated from English into 25 additional languages and
administered to a total sample of 14,059 people across 48 nations.
Responses to the SOI were used to address four main issues. First, the
psychometric properties of the SOI were examined in cross-cultural
perspective. The SOI possessed adequate reliability and validity both
within and across a diverse range of modern cultures. Second, theories
concerning the systematic distribution of sociosexuality across cultures
were evaluated. Both operational sex ratios and reproductively demanding
environments related in evolutionary-predicted ways to national levels of
sociosexuality. Third, sex differences in sociosexuality were generally
large and demonstrated cross-cultural universality across the 48 nations of
the ISDP, confirming several evolutionary theories of human mating.
Fourth, sex differences in sociosexuality were significantly larger when
reproductive environments were demanding, and were reduced to more moderate
levels in cultures with more political and economic gender equality.
Implications for evolutionary and social role theories of human sexuality
are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Culture, Gender, Mating, Reproduction, Sex Differences, Sex Roles,
Sexual Strategies, Sociosexuality
FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Schmitt-01122003/Referees/
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would like to see accorded BBS multiple book review.
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3 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54Language: Hungarian
M u n d K a t a l i n
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Hogyan hisznek a biológushallgatók?
(How do biology students believe?)
Vallás és evolúció viszonya a XIX. század óta aktuális
kérdés. Az evolúciós polémia az elmúlt évtizedben
Magyarországon is egyre ero"södni látszik, ezért úgy
gondoltam, érdemes megvizsgálni, miként vélekednek a
kérdésro"l azok, akik konkrét ismeretekkel is
rendelkeznek a témáról (ti. akik tisztában vannak az
evolúció fogalmával, tanulnak róla, laboratóriumokban
figyelemmel kísérhetik, stb.), akiknek attitu"djét tehát
nem egyszeru"en valamely világkép iránti elkötelezo"dés formálja.
A kutatást a Vallás és evolúció a XX. századi és a
jelenkori Magyarországon címu" NKFP keretében
(témavezeto": Kampis György) folytatom, melynek elso"
lépéseként a 2003-as tanév o"szi féléve során az ELTE
TTK hallgatói között végeztem kérdo"íves felmérést. A
kérdo"ívet 369 diák töltötte ki, elso"s és negyedéves
hallgatók, akik közül 306 biológiát tanul, 63 fo" pedig
a TTK valamely más szakára jár. A kutatás során a
következo" kérdésekre kerestünk választ:
1. Hogyan vélekednek a hallgatók a tudományról
általában, azaz úgy gondolják-e, hogy a tudomány
biztos ismereteket szolgáltat, avagy kétségek is
felmerülhetnek ezzel kapcsolatban? Minthogy a kutatás
elso"sorban a biológushallgatókra irányult, a kérdést
tovább pontosítottuk, és az evolúcióra vonatkozó
vélekedésükre is rákérdeztünk.
2. Mennyire és milyen módon vallásosak a hallgatók?
Feltételeztük, hogy a vallásosság és a tudomány
megbízhatóságába vetett hit összefügg, azaz a
vallásos hallgatók kevésbé tartják kizárólagos
érvényu" világmagyarázatnak a tudományt, mint a nem
vallásos hallgatók. Különösen ero"s negatív attitu"dre
számítottunk az evolúció elméletével kapcsolatban.
3. Végezetül azt kívántuk megtudni, milyen fokú
inkonzisztencia jelenik meg a vallásos hallgatók
gondolkodásában, amikor az evolúcióról vagy általában
a tudományról elmélkednek. Jelent-e problémát
számukra, hogy a két látszólag ellentmondásban álló
világmagyarázatot összehangolják? Egyáltalán látnak-e
ellentmondást a két magyarázat között? Valamint:
Miféle módon kísérelik meg a két rendszer
összebékítését, ha egyáltalán tesznek ilyen kísérletet?
Az elo"adásomban a kutatás eddigi eredményeit
ismertetem.
10 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54Language: English
T a m a r S z a b ó G e n d l e r
Department of Philosophy, Cornell University
and Collegium Budapest
Imaginative Resistance Reconsidered
In general, an author can make something true in a
story by a simple actof stipulation, and thereby bring
the reader to imagine that thing. So,for example, when
Conan Doyle writes that Sherlock Holmes lives at
221bBaker Street, he thereby makes it true in the
context of the Holmesstories that Holmes lives at that
address, and, under normalcircumstances, he thereby
does everything it takes to bring thecooperative reader
to imagine such a scenario. But, interestingly,
thereseem to be cases where this sort of authorial
prerogative breaks down.One such class of cases,
noticed by Hume, and discussed more recently bya number
of authors (Moran 1990, Walton 1994, Gendler 2000), are
casesinvolving deviant morality: while for the most
part, we have no troublefictionally entertaining all
sorts of far-fetched and implausiblescenarios, we seem
to encounter certain impediments when we are asked
toimagine fictional worlds that we take to be morally
deviant. This puzzlehas come to be known as the
<i>puzzle of imaginative resistance.
In earlier work, Gendler 2000, available at
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tsg3/imagresist.pdf
defended an account of this puzzle which traced the source of
ourunwillingness to imagine morally deviant scenarios
to a general desirenot to be manipulated into taking on
points of view that we would notreflectively endorse as
authentically our own. Since then, a largeliterature
has emerged on the topic, which has brought out a
number ofways in which my initial account was radically
inadequate to thephenomena at hand. In this paper, I
will try to offer a new account ofimaginative
resistance that deals with these objections.
17 May 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54Language: English
G e o r g e G a b o r
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Classical Statistics: Smoke and Mirrors
Classical (orthodox, frequentist) statistics is, and
has been for acentury, the ruling inferential paradigm
in statistical thinking and thesciences that make use
of statistical methods. In its present form, it isan
incoherent mélange of Neyman-Pearsonian rigidity made
palatable by someFisherian sanity. At its foundation
lie a misguided physicalisticinterpretation of
probability as frequency; two well hidden but,
whenrevealed, simple mistakes, and a never explicitly
spelled out dogma thatthe two mistakes combined would
somehow lend the logic on its feet. In thefirst half of
the talk, I will try to show that
probability-as-frequencyis untenable, and that the
fundamental dogma is fatally flawed. Characteristically
perhaps, it was not so much statisticians but a groupof
physicists who attempted to address and redress these
problems byrethinking the concepts of probability and
inference (their work is stilllargely unknown by
statisticians). In the second half of my talk, I
willpresent the result of their work which identifies
probability as anextension of Aristotelian logic, and
Bayesian inference as the onlyreasoning consistent with
a few very weak and eminently reasonabledesiderata.
4 June 2:00 (!!!) PM 6th floor 6.54Language: Hungarian
I s t v á n K a r s a i
Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee
State University
Megjeleno" mintázatok rovartársadalmakban
(Emergent Patterns in Insect Societies)
A rovartársadalmak komplex önorganizált rendszerek. A
rovaregyedek intelligenciája megleheto"sen mérsekelt,
ugyanakkor a kolónia mint egész mégis képes komplex
épitményeket létrehozni és optimális, nagyléptéku"
döntéseket hozni. Az igazi kihívás olyan elemi ("bottom
up") modellek megépítése, amelyek képesek áthidalni ezt
a látszólagos ellentmondást. Az eloadó az
önorganizációs megközelítés rövid áttekintése után
saját kutatásait mutatja be ezen a tudományterületen.
Abstracts: http://hps.elte.hu/seminar/2004/May-June
___________________________________
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are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The
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The organizer of the colloquium for the academic year 2003/2004: Miklós
Rédei (email: redei(a)hps.elte.hu)
--
L a s z l o E. S z a b o
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
phone:(31)70 512 2700 fax:(31)70 511 7162 http://www.nias.knaw.nl
on leave from
Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo
Előadás a BME Kognitív Tudományi Központ házi kollokvium sorozata keretében:
Előadó: Miklósi Ádám (ELTE Etológia Tanszék): Egyik kutya ugatja a másikat
Cím: Egyik kutya ugatja a másikat
Absztrakt:
A kutya evolúciója egyelőre sok rejtélyt tartogat a kutatók számára. A "legelveteműltebbek" még azt is felvetik, hogy az ember kialakulásában kutyának is fontos szerep juthatott, s az ember-kutya vonatkozásában koevolúciót emlegetnek.
Az ELTE Etológia tanszékének munkatársai azt vizsgálják, hogy az ember közelében élő kutya evolúciója során miképp változott meg a viselkedése olymódon, hogy alkalmassá tette ezt a fajt az emberi csoportokba való beépülésre. Másfelől megközelítve feltételezzük, hogy a kutya bizonyos viselkedésformái az idők folyamán konvergens evolúciós folyamatok révén az emberi viselkedéshez vált hasonlóvá. Számos kísérleti vizsgálat utal arra, hogy a kutya kötődési, kommunikációs illetve szociális tanuláson alapuló képességei valóban összevethetők az emberével.
Jelen "hipotézisgeneráló" előadásomban azt a lehetőséget szeretném megvizsgálni, hogy milyen párhúzamok lelhetők fel a kutyaugatás illetve az emberi beszéd között. A korábbiak nyomán arra gondolunk, hogy a kutyaugatás, mint viselekedésforma olyan evolúciós változásokon megy keresztül, amelyek megkönnyítik az emberrel való kommunikációt. E feltételezésre az ad kiindulási alapot, hogy (1) az emberek jól felismerik és megkülönböztetik a kutyaugatást, (2) a különböző helyzetben a kutyaugatások jól megkülönböztethetőek néhány akusztikus paraméter alapján, (3) az ugatás "jelentésében" szerepe van a ritmusnak, illetve (4) az ugatás tonális-atonális folyamatos átmeneteket képes kifejezni.
Az előadás az eddigi eredmények bemutatásán túl igyekszik a további kutatási irányt kijelölni.
Hely és idő:
BME St épület, 426-os terem, 2004 május 3. 16 óra.