Festschrift in Honor of Paul Rozin-postponed due to severe weather related to Hurricane Irene

The Omnivore's Feast:
Celebrating the Ideas and Research of Paul Rozin

Postponed  until later in the fall due to severe weather related to Hurricane Irene.  Date TBD
 

On the occasion of Paul’s 75th birthday, we are delighted to invite you to a
festschrift in his honor, to be held on Monday, August 29, 2011.
 

Presentations, scientific and otherwise, will take place in a Stiteler lecture hall
(tentatively Room B21).
 

9:00AM – 9:10AM Introduction
 

9:10AM Rob DeRubeis, Chair, Department of Psychology U of Pennsylvania
Title: Welcome, and opening remarks
 

9:30 AM Gordon Bermant, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A New Look for Psychology and Religion
 

9:50 AM Norman Adler, Yeshiva University
Title:  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Paul Rozin’s Generating a Comparative Neuromechanistic Adaptive/Evolutionary BioCultural Psychology ….He Did
 

10:20AM Clark (Rick) McCauley, Bryn Mawr College
Title: Humiliation: "The Atom Bomb of Intergroup Emotions"
 

10:40AM – 11:10AM – Coffee Break
 

11:10AM Jeff Galef, McMaster University
Title: The Molecular Substrate of Social Influence on the Food Choices of Animals: Psychology + Biology = Progress"
 

11:30AM Morris Moscovitch, University of Toronto and Rotman Research Institute
Title: The Immediacy of Episodic Memory or Why Paul can be so Vividly Present even when he is not with you.
 

11:50AM Patty Pliner, University of Toronto,
Title: Eating and Social Influence
 

12:20PM Jay McClelland, Stanford University
Title: Explorations in Explicit and Implicit Memory
 

12:30PM Debra Zellner, Montclair State University
Title: Cognitive Influences On Stimulus Relatedness Can Modulate Hedonic Contrast
 

12:50PM Break for lunch
 

Afternoon Session

2:00PM Marci Pelchat, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Title: Of Human Bondage: Wanting, craving, and addiction
 

2:20PM Amy Wrzesniewski, Yale University
Title: On the Meaning of Work
 

2:40PM Claude Fischler, Centre Edgar Morin, EHESS & CNRS, Paris
Title : Comparing French and American Views on Food and Eating: Commensal Rules vs. Individual Nutrition
 

3:00PM Jim Kalat, North Carolina State University
Title: TBA
 

3:20PM Carol Nemeroff, University of Southern Maine
Title: Nice Guys Infect Us Last (or at Least, Less)
 

3:40PM ‐ 4:00PM Coffee Break
 

4:00PM Jon Haidt, University of Virginia
Title: Morality isn’t all about Food, but it's a Good Place to Start
 

4:20PM Adam Cohen, Arizona State University
Title: Culture, Religion and Rozin
 

4:40PM Sydney Scott, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Nudge to Nobesity: Environmental Influences on Eating Decisions
 

5:00PM Henry Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania
Title: What you did or who you are
 

5: 20PM Closing Remarks: Paul Rozin
 

Organizing committee:
Morris Moscovitch, Rob DeRubeis,
Jon Haidt, Patty Pliner, Marcia Pelchat, Debra Zellner