"Social Emotions from the Lens of Social Neuroscience: from Empathy to Egocentricity"
Tania Singer, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
Pre-Conference Symposium
General Meeting
European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
Stockholm, Sweden -- 2011
Mind & Its Potential is a vibrant and stimulating conference experience which will attract 1,000+ delegates! We are committed to bringing together the world's preeminent scientists, researchers, philosophers and creative thinkers in order to offer you an experience second to none.
Mind and its Potential Conference, 2011 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.
YOUR POTENTIAL TO LEARN
We feel, therefore we learn: the neuroscience of social emotion • What is emotion, and why do we have it? • Teaching and learning with the brain in mind • How do our feelings impact on learning? • The importance of healthy emotional processing in making use of knowledge • What are the implications for child and adult development and for schools? Dr Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Assistant Professor of Education, Rossier School of Education; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, USA.
Exploring Relationships and Reflection in the Cultivation of Well-Being.
Daniel Siegel, MD, is Clinical Professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of Mindful Awareness Research Center, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute, author, and recipient of numerous awards and honorary fellowships.
This talk examines how relationships and reflection support the development of resilience in children and serve as the basic '3 R's" of a new internal education of the mind.
Renowned academic, author, and director of the Mindsight Institute Dan Siegel, visits the RSA to reveal an extremely rare thing -- a working definition of the mind.
On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health
(HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang,
Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who
studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and
their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of
the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
From neurons to brain wiring, Dr. David
Walsh gives an easy-to-understand tour of children's and teens' brain
development and the impact of experience on the "wiring' of their
brains. Children are shaped by the stories they see and hear from
parents, relatives, and teachers which pass on values, attitudes, and
affect emotional and physical well-being. More than ever, media has
become a powerful storyteller in children's lives and raising healthy
kids in the media age involves making wise media choices.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is an assistant professor of education at the Rossier School of Education and an Assistant Professor of Psychology for the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. She studies the bases of the brains emotions, social interaction, culture and its implications for development and learning and is also the inaugural recipient for the Award of Transforming Education through Neuroscience. The award is co-sponsored by the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) and the Learning and the Brain conference. Immordino-Yang lectures nationally about how the arts foster creativity and the latest in neuroscientific and developmental evidence of what creativity is and how it is grounded in emotional and cognitive processing.
Recent advances in neuroscience are highlighting connections between socio-emotional feelings and learning that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the role of affect in creativity. In this talk I will discuss our new work on the neurobiology and psychology of admiration and compassion, demonstrating how these emotions can be inspirational, how they appear to influence biological and sociocultural development, how they may differ across cultures, and how they may promote social, intellectual, and artistic creativity. We will also discuss how these emotions reveal connections between the mind and body in learning and creating, and what they may teach us about the neurobiology of self awareness and the importance of internal reflection to these processes. Possible implications for children and adolescents living in unsafe or urban environments, and for children who overuse technology, will be discussed.
On the 10th of
November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a
workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a
cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the
brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their
implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3
hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Southern California delivers
keynote entiteld Human Decisions at the INET's Paradigm Lost Conference
at the Axica in Berlin April 2012. The human brain relies on three
devices for its decisions: emotion controls; addictive learning; and
intellectual processing. Understanding the conditions under which the
three devices are engaged is essential for conscious decision-making.
Why are we so terrible at predicting what will make us happy? How do we maintain such stalwart optimism about our future in the face of so many modern threats?
Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive outlook on life. Now it looks as though optimism may, in fact, be crucial to our existence. But does unrealistic optimism also threaten it as well?
People tend to overestimate their odds of professional success, expect their children to be extraordinarily gifted, believe they will live longer than they do, and hugely underestimate their chance of divorce, cancer and unemployment.
Acclaimed neuroscientist Tali Sharot’s experiments and research in cognitive science have shed new light on the biological basis of optimism, and she visits the RSA to take an in-depth look at how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails.
On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
On the 10th of November 2011 the Hunter Institute of Mental Health (HIMH) hosted a workshop with special guest Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a cognitive neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. This is a recording of the 3 hour workshop presentation titled Embodied Brains, Social Minds.
Talk title: Embodied brains, social minds: How admiration inspires purposeful learning
The science of neurobiology is changing our understanding about social emotions, showing us how inspiration is intertwined with our biological survival as a species. People feel deeply moved when they hear inspirational stories about other human beings, for instance stories of hardship and tragedy overcome by virtue of hard work, determination, smarts and grit. Science is showing that when we hear these extraordinarily inspirational stories, more blood flows to our brain stem - the very part of our brain that makes our heart beat, regulates our breathing and keeps us alive. You are literally feeling inspiration on the very substrate of your own biological survival.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is a neuroscientist and human development psychologist. In her work she studies the neural, psychophysiological and psychological bases of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications for development and schools. A former junior high school teacher, Mary Helen earned her doctorate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is an Assistant Professor of Education at the USC's Rossier School of Education and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute. She's also the inaugural recipient of the Award for Transforming Education through Neuroscience.
Professor John Cacioppo, author of the bestselling book Loneliness and co-founder of the study of 'social neuroscience' outlines the vital importance of altruistic behaviour, social connection, and inclusive communities.
John Cacioppo, one of the founders of social neuroscience, presented his pioneering research on the ways in which isolation or a sense of rejection deeply impacts both mental and physical wellbeing.
Loneliness disrupts not only thinking ability, will power and perseverance but also key cellular processes within the human body, potentially leading to high blood pressure, decline in immune response, and dramatic increase in the corrosive effects of stress. Using sophisticated tools, including fMRI, Cacioppo has documented how social isolation, distinguished from physical isolation, profoundly affects our body and behavior, suggesting that chronic loneliness could be considered as dangerous to health as risk factors such as smoking.
Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and the director of the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago.
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Berns, G.S., Chappelow, J., Zink, C.F., Pagnoni, G., Martin-Skurski, M.E., and Richards, J. (2005) 'Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation' Biological Psychiatry, 58(3), pp.245-253.
Weaver, K., Garcia, S.M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D.T. (2007) Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(5), 821-833.
This interactive talk will examine two major questions: What is the mind? and How can we create a healthy mind? We'll examine the interactions among the mind, the brain, and human relationships and explore ways to create a healthy mind, an integrated brain, and mindful, empathic relationships. Here is one surprising finding: the vast majority (about 95%) of mental health practitioners around the globe, and even many scientists and philosophers focusing on the mind, do not have a definition of what the mind is! In this talk, well offer a working definition of the mind and practical implications for how to perceive and strengthen the mind itself—a learnable skill called mindsight. Then well build on this perspective to explore ways that the mind, the brain, and our relationships are influenced by digital information flow and also how they can be moved toward healthy functioning.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
