The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) is now
accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, "Social Norms:
Emergence, Persistence, and Effects," to be held April 23-25, 2019, at
the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).
*Objectives:* Human social behavior is controlled by many interacting
factors including material cost-benefit considerations,
genetically-informed social instincts, personality, and culturally
transmitted norms, values, and institutions. A social norm is a behavior
that one is expected to follow and expects others to follow in a given
social situation. Understanding the emergence, persistence, and effects
of social norms is crucial for developing better policies affecting the
life of the society as a whole and of its individual members. This
workshop brings together active scholars interested in various aspect of
social norms in an attempt to stimulate new synergies, insights, and
collaborations. We envision this meeting as a truly transdisciplinary
gathering of researchers from diverse disciplines including sociology,
anthropology, psychology, economics, evolutionary biology, cultural
evolution, neurobiology, political science, history, and experts on
extremism, marketing, communications, as well as policy scholars and
practitioners. Full details at
http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_socialnorms
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**Location:* The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity at
NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
*Co-Organizers: *Michele Gelfand (Psychology. Univ. of Maryland); Nathan
Nunn (Economics, Harvard Univ.); Sergey Gavrilets (Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee)
*Invited Participants: *Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee;
Robert Boyd, Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State Univ.;
Colin Camerer, Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience,
California Institute of Technology; Damon Centola, Annenberg School for
Communication, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Jean Ensminger, Humanities and
Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology; Ernst Fehr, UBS
International Center of Economics in Society, Univ. of Zurich; Jeremy
Ginges, Psychology, New School of Social Research; Joseph Henrich, Human
Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ.; Karla Hoff*, Development Research
Group, The World Bank; Shinobu Kitayama, Culture & Cognition Program,
Univ. of Michigan; Maria Lapinski, Communication, Michigan State Univ.;
Vera Mironova, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs,
Harvard Kennedy School; Karine Nyborg*, Economics, Univ. of Oslo;
Elizabeth Paluck, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International
Affairs, Princeton Univ.; Alan Sanfey, Behavioural Science Institute,
Radboud Univ.; Agnis Stibe, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Arne Traulsen, Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
/*Not yet confirmed/
For more information about the workshop and a link to the online
application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_socialnorms
Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals
with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and
successful applicants will be notified within several weeks after the
application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals,
and lodging is available for workshop attendees.
*Application deadline: December 1, 2018*
The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC)
(http://www.dysoc.org) promotes connections and collaborations between
different researchers using theoretical and empirical methods at the
interface of mathematical, biological, social, and computational
sciences to address the dynamics of social behavior.
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
(NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from
around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to
investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life
sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with
additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.