Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption 2010
The first Biennial Meeting: Mechanisms of Allocating Resources Across Disciplines
MAY 12-15 2010
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI USA
FULL SCHEDULE ONLINE HERE
TITLES AND ABSTRACTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PORTIONS HERE
Consumption is a serious issue that produces environmental waste, unfair labor practices, and negatively impacts human health. Subunits of local and federal government separately struggle to encourage monetary saving, reduce waste, increase recycling, and deal with compulsive hoarding. The conference will focus on mechanisms of resource-allocation decisions such as acquiring and discarding important resources (e.g., money, food, material goods). Speakers from marketing, finance, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, and ecology will come together to share their knowledge on how organisms acquire resources to balance short and long-term needs. Through a careful comparison of the mechanisms underlying these seemingly disparate processes, a unified model of resource allocation can be created that benefits basic science and society.
Click below for additional information about:
- Registration
- Full schedule of events
- Titles and abstracts for scientific portion (13th and 14th)
- Titles and abstracts for student poster session (15th)
- Hotels
- Directions and parking
- The city of Ann Arbor
- The associated Consumption Fair on the 15th
Evening Lectures in Rackham Auditorium (open to the public, May 12th and 13th)
| Frans de Waal (May 12) | Emory University | primatology |
| Robert Frank (May 13) | Cornell University | economics, decision making, emotion |
Plenary Speakers in Rackham Amphitheatre (for registered participants, May 13th and 14th)
| Antoine Bechara | University of Southern California | decision neuroscience, addiction |
| Bruce J. Ellis | University of Arizona | mechanisms of stress |
| Randy Frost | Smith College | compulsive human hoarding |
| Vladas Griskevicius | University of Minnesota | consumer/social psychology and evolution |
| Brian Knutson | Stanford University | decision neuroscience, consumer science |
| Stephen Lea | University of Exeter | economics and evolution |
| Geoffrey Miller | University of New Mexico | evolution and consumer behavior |
| Stephanie Preston | University of Michigan | emotion and decision making |
| Terry Robinson | University of Michigan | neuroscience of addiction, reward |
| David Sherry | University of Western Ontario | food caching, neural plasticity |
| Kathleen Vohs | University of Minnesota | consumer/social psychology |
| Paul Webley | University of London | economics and development |
Consumption Fair on the 4th floor of Rackham (open to the public, May 15th)
| 9:45-11:00 AM | Light refreshments available (Assembly Hall alcove) |
| 10:00-11:00 AM | Student Poster Session (Assembly Hall; titles and abstracts here.) |
| 11:00-12:30 PM | Panel Discussion (Amphitheater): |
| The Human Side of Energy Conservation: It’s Not Easy Being Green(http://www.carss.umich.edu/events/) | |
| 12:30-2:30 PM | Interactive Displays and Activity Stations (East and West Conference Rooms) |
See you there!
This conference was funded by Rackham Graduate School, The Department of Psychology, and CARSS at the University of Michigan.
For more information contact Stephanie D. Preston at prestos at umich.edu
Contact
Ecological Neuroscience Lab
Stephanie D. Preston
University of Michigan
Department of Psychology
3040 East Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel: (734) 764-5264
Fax: (734) 764-3520
Email: prestos at umich.edu