“Emotions and Expressions”
ECOM Workshop
Spring 2018
Schedule

To register for the event: https://www.ecomresearchgroup.com/s2018-workshop-registration1.html

Friday, April 20:

2:00-2:30 Registration & Welcome

2:30-3:45 Andrea Scarantino: “What and how do Emotional Expressions
Communicate?”

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-4:45 Somogy Varga: “Towards a Perceptual Account of Mindreading”

4:45-5:30 Gina Eickers: “Is Emotional Recognition Scripted?: Emotional
Expressions as Social Signals”

5:30-5:45 Break

5:45-7:00 Maria Botero: “Emotions out of Touch: Moving from Vision to Touch to
Further Understanding of Emotion in Human and Non-
human Primates”

7:30 Dinner at Kathmandu Kitchen

Saturday, April 21:
9:15-9:45 Coffee & Bagels

9:45-11:00 Ross Buck: “The Communication of Emotion: Symbolic versus
Spontaneous Communication with Implications for Emotional Education, Emotional Competence, and
Emotional Inoculation”

11: 00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Razia Sahi: “Is Moral Anger Justified?: A Functionalist Defense of
Feeling and Expressing Moral Anger”

12:00-1:15 Jim Sias: “Losing One’s Own Mind and Other’s: Failures of Emotional
Perception in Psychosis”

1:15-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:00 Richard Dub: “Emotional Expression and Irruptive Cognitions”

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 Marie Coppola: “The Development of False Belief Understanding in the
Absence of Linguistic Input: Evidence from Deaf Adult Homesigners”

4:00-4:45 Arina Pismenny: “Expressions of Jealousy in Infants and Adults”

4:45-5:00 Break

5:00-6:30 Jennifer Fugate and Maria Gendron: “Constructing Emotion Through
Language and by Culture: Lab and Field-based Studies”

7:00 Dinner at Chang’s Garden

For more information, contact: Jordan Ochs at jordan.ochs@uconn.edu