Tiber Conferences
TIBER (Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research) is happy to announce the following conferences in 2010:
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General Information
The two keynote speakers for 2010 are Deborah Small (University of Pennsylvania) and Matthias Sutter (University of Innsbruck). The goal of this series of symposia is to establish contact and discussion between researchers of the different fields. We look for empirical contributions from the diverse fields, such as Individual Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Bargaining, Social Dilemmas, Experimental Games, Emotions, Fairness and Justice, Rational Choice and related subjects. Researchers, students, and scholars interested in the topic are kindly invited to join these meetings. Registration starts at Thursday April 15th and closes at Friday August 13th. Look under Registration for a registration form and attendance fees. If you would like to contribute to this symposium by presenting a paper, look under Call for Papers
Registration Call for Papers Conference Program 2010
CV's Instructions for Presentations
Presentations will be grouped thematically in pairs. Ideally, one presentation in each thematic session will be held by a Psychologist/Marketing Scientist and the other one by an Economist. Sessions last 50 minutes (gross time per talk is 25 minutes including discussion). Please, time your papers to be between 15-20 minutes to allow for time for questions. Laptop computers will be available in the rooms. Contact Information
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The Program & Organizing Committee consists of
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This symposium on "multiple selves and sustainable development" was organized in the Royal Academy of Sciences Building ("Trippenhuis"), in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands on April 22-23, 2010. Unfortunately this conference had to be cancelled due to the volcano problems and the closed air traffic, however we were able to move the symposium to a later date and a different location. Period: This symposium on "multiple selves and sustainable development" was organized in the Royal Academy of Sciences Building ("Trippenhuis"), in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands on April 22-23, 2010. Unfortunately this conference had to be cancelled due to the volcano problems and the closed air traffic, however we were able to move the symposium to a later date and a different location. Period: November 18-19, 2010. Location: the NH Hotel Carlton, Vijzelstraat 4, 1017 HK Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Phone number +31 20 622 22 66. Speakers: End notes by: Content: One of the biggest challenges for governments all around the world is to make people "greener", or to put in more precise terms, to "mobilize consumer demand for sustainable development." Doing this is especially challenging because numerous surveys show again and again that people often are "green" in their talk, but not in their "walk." Why does this attitude-behavior gap exist and how can we close it attitude-behavior gap? How can we make people walk their talk? The Dutch government has made funds available (see www.transforum.nl) for scientific efforts designed to answer these questions. Thus, PhD students, postdocs, and senior researchers are working on all kinds of more basic and more applied empirical research projects. However, we think it is also important to reflect on the general issue of attitude-behavior discrepancies (broadly defined) with a number of the world's leading academics. After all, in the relevant literatures, the fact that people do not act on their (good) intentions comes in many forms and has been described in terms of, inter alia, diverging morals (e.g., "inner angles versus inner demons"), roles (e.g., consumer versus citizen roles),identities (e.g., collective versus personal), processing modes (e.g., reflective versus reflexive), different types of social values (e.g., prosocial versus proself), and even as originating in different brain areas (e.g., the emotional versus the deliberative brain). What all these perspectives seem to have in common is that they suggest that the attitude-behavior gap in consumer demand for sustainable products and services originates in what could be called a mild "multiple personality disorder." People have "multiple selves" that do not always nicely correspond and communicate with each other. We think it will be inspiring and refreshing to bring together a large number of divergent scientific disciplines and theoretical approaches to address and explain the multiple selves that drive the attitude-behavior discrepancy in consumer demand for sustainability. Such combined and enriched insights are essential and relevant for scientific progress and should have considerable policy implications. Thus, our aim is to investigate how insights from basic science can be used to mobilizing consumer demand for sustainable development. In doing so, we take the sustainability concept broad to include many forms of pro-social behavior including the fields of health, environmental issues, animal welfare, fair trade, and regional products. |
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