Program

DAY 1: Friday, June 20

8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.30	Welcome and introduction
9.30-11.30	Session 1: What has the cognitive science of religion accomplished in its first quarter century? Speakers: Armin Geertz, Harvey Whitehouse, Robert McCauley, Dimitris Xygalatas & Joseph Bulbulia
11.30-12.00	Coffee break
12.00-13.30	Session 2:What are the current research agendas? Edward Slingerland: The Cognitive Science of Religion Achievements, Challenges and the Next Decade Forward Case studies (reviewers’ top choices): John Shaver: Wearing Your Beliefs: Men Displaying Cues of Religious Belief are Rated as More Trustworthy and are Entrusted with More Money in Multiplayer Trust Games Christopher Kavanagh: Counterintuitive Progress? A retrospective and prospective examination of 20 years of the MCI theory
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
15.00-16.00	Poster session - presentation and competition
16.00-17.00	Keynote talk, Radu Umbres & Dan Sperber: Rethinking the rationality of religious beliefs and practices
18.00	Reception at Villa Tugendhat

9.30-11.30	Keynote talk Deborah Kelemen: Implications of early-developing conceptual biases for understanding religious belief Maurice Bloch: Why there should not be a cognitive theory of "religion"
11.30-12.00	Coffee break
12.00-13.30	Session 3 Jonathan Lanman: Religious Actions Speak Louder than Words: CREDs Predict Theism Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo: Sacred is in the eye of the reader - source credibility predicts theological reading and eye-movements during Bible reading Paul Reddish: Getting In-Sync With Synchrony: Conceptualising Interpersonal Synchrony and Assessing Its Importance In Ritual
13.30-15.00	Lunch break
15.00-16.30	Session 4 Michaela Porubanova, John Shaver, Benjamin Purzycki: Minimal Counterintuitiveness Revisited Hein Thomas van Schie: The Psychology of Afterlife Beliefs Michiel van Elk: Becoming One: The effect of induced spiritual experiences on the body representation
16.30-17.00	Coffee Break
17.00-18.30	Session 5 Karolina Magdalena Prochownik & Paulo Sousa: CSR, Religion and Morality: A Critical Appraisal of the Triad Michael Buhrmester: For Cause or Kin? Fusion with Christianity Predicts Willingness to Self-Sacrifice Justin Lane: Data “mining” and automated analysis of cultural material: Comparing British and Singaporean social groups

10.00-11.00	Keynote talk - Richard Sosis: The Rewards and Challenges of Polygamy: Assessing the Cognitive Science of Religion at Twenty-Five
11.00-12.00	Coffee break – poster competition
11.30-14.00	General Assembly and Elections