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