Agenda

February 2024
Talk Dominik Schoebi
Emotions and emotional states in intimate relationships Dominik Schoebi, University of Fribourg Emotions play a crucial role in social...
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Talk Giulio Bernardi (CISA lecture)
Affective processing during (local) sleep and dreams Giulio Bernardi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Sleep plays a critical role in...
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Talk Jens Lange (CISA lecture)
Conceptualizing emotions as networks of causal relations between components Jens Lange, University of Hamburg Most theories of emotions are...
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Talk Claudia Schneider (CISA lecture)
Feeling our way to greener pastures: Understanding the role of emotions in shaping and motivating sustainable behaviour Faced with global...
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Talk John Drury (CISA lecture series)
Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident Collective false alarms – where people...
Find out more »Talk Stefano Palminteri (NEURO-Connect seminar)
Feedback-induced dispositional changes in risk preferences Contrary to the original normative decision-making standpoint, empirical studies have...
Find out more »November 2024
Talk Will Cunningham (NEURO-Connect Seminar)
Unmotivated bias In this talk, I will explore how social affective biases arise even in the absence of motivational factors as an emergent outcome ...
Find out more »Talk Peter Reschke (CISA seminar)
The contextualized nature of emotion perception: How did we get here, what do we know, and where do we go from here? Influential emotion theory...
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Talk Andrea Scarantino (CISA lecture series)
Emotions and Direction of Fit: Descriptive, Imperative or Both? The dominant view about emotions is that they have a descriptive, mind-to-world...
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Talk Marc-Lluís Vives Moya (CISA lecture series)
Coping with internal uncertainty: the semantic-expansion effect Dealing with uncertainty is generally aversive yet an unavoidable aspect of life....
Find out more »Talk John O’Doherty (NEURO-Connect seminar)
The brain as a mixture of experts: the neurocomputational basis of multiple parallel systems for learning and control It has long been suggested...
Find out more »May 2025
Talk Jan Crusius (CISA lecture series)
Is envy adaptive? In both public perception and scientific discourse, envy is typically regarded as a fundamentally destructive and maladaptive...
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