The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk as part of the Departmental Colloquium series by David Pietraszewski<https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/david-pietraszewski>, Max-Planck Institute Host: Christophe Heintz When: November 30, Wednesday, at 5 pm in Oktober 6 street 7, 1st floor, room 101. Title: Towards a mechanistic account of the psychology of groups: Basic theoretical models and empirical tests of the psychology underlying racial categorization. Abstract: The cognitive revolution can be understood as a commitment to describing psychological processes as mechanistically as possible, without intervention from an intentional agent or homunculus. This talk presents an overview of a research program committed to describing the psychology of groups in this way. Two primary veins of research will be described: First, a body of work will be presented that suggests we may have discovered the function of the cognitive mechanisms responsible for producing the phenomenon of racial categorization. Second, a task analysis will be presented that describes the invariances of n-person conflict and suggests a way to define the construct "group" in purely mechanistic terms. Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2016-11-30/departmental-colloquium-… We are looking forward to see you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu