The Relationships of Network Theory and The Psychology of Ego-centered
Network
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014, Agria Media, Eger, Hungary
Library, Room A-213, Eszterházy tér 1.
Schedule
1.
9:00 AM
Speaker 1: Zsolt Unoka
9:45 AM
Speaker 2: Anna Racz
10:15 AM
Speaker 3: Peter Kardos
10:45 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Speaker 4: Isabel Behncke Izquierdo
11:30 AM
Speaker 5: James Carney
12:00 AM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Speaker 6: Janos Kertesz
1:45 PM
Speaker 7: Tamas David-Barrett
2:15 PM
Discussion: Issues in relating macro and micro network research
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:15 PM
Discussion: Issues in relating macro and micro network research
4:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Schedule
9:00 - 10:45 AM Symposia Session 1. Chair: Peter Kardos
Zsolt Unoka: Personality, psychopathology and ego networks
Anna Racz: Methodological issues in assessing ego networks Peter
Kardos: The role of empathy in the ego networks
10:45 -11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 -12:00 AM Symposia Session 2. Chair: Zsolt Unoka
Isabel Behncke Izquierdo: Social network structure in wild bonobos: the role
of grooming, sex and play in building and maintaining relationships
James Carney: The role of counterfactual punishers in ego networks
12:00 -1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 2:15 PM Symposia Session 3. Chair: Csaba Pleh
Janos Kertesz: Human behavior from big data
Tamas David-Barrett: Global online and offline cross-cultural evidence for
gender differences in close friendship
2:15 - 3:00 PM Discussion: Issues in relating macro and micro
network research
- The relations of large scale and Ego-centered network research: strategic
differences and causal continuities.
3:00 - 3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:30 PM Discussion: Issues in relating macro and micro
network research
- The relative importance of emotional/motivational and cognitive factors in
human Ego-centered network formations.
- Continuity between human bonding and animal bonding: Animal models or
evolutionary 'jumps'
- If networks obey biological constraints, how come all the great size
variation in humans?
4:30 - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks