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Keynote Address: Integrating Knowledge in Psychological Science Using Ontologies
Susan Michie presents the “Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology,” which has the potential to dramatically enhance evidence integration and knowledge development using hybrid human-computer systems, thereby accelerating scientific advancements.
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Keynote Address: The Human Quest for Fairness and Equality: Evolutionary Origins and Socio-Political Consequences
Ernst Fehr shows that individuals cluster around three global, fundamentally distinct, preference types characterized as altruistic, inequality averse, and predominantly selfish—with the selfish type typically comprising a minority of individuals.
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Keynote Address: Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Human Social Chemosignaling in Health and Disease
Noam Sobel describes his findings on mechanisms of human chemosignaling in both health and disease. Based on these findings, he argues that, in contrast to common notions, humans are highly olfactory animals, and body-odors dominate our social behavior.
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Future of Work
This symposium covers key issues associated with the “future of work,” including globalization and culture change, workplace technology, employee withdrawal/turnover, and virtual and remote work arrangements.
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Improving Addiction Treatment Through Better Understanding and Targeting Cognitive Motivational Mechanisms
New training methods have been developed to improve addiction treatment. This symposium provides an overview of these developments and introduces new methods inspired by emerging insights into working mechanisms.
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The Psychology of Anti-Science Beliefs and Attitudes
This symposium focuses on understanding the psychological underpinnings and consequences of these beliefs and attitudes. Speakers also examine the role of disinformation and conspiracy theories.