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