Workshop on Gossip, Reputation, and Honesty
17-18 May, 2018
Budapest, Hungary
http://recens.tk.mta.hu/en/gossip-workshop-2018
Venue:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences
Address: 1097 Tóth Kálmán street 4., Budapest, Hungary
T wing, 2nd floor meeting room
17 May, 2018 Thursday
9.00-9.10 Opening by Tamás Rudas, General Director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Centre for Social Sciences
9.10-10.10 Invited lecture 1: Dan Balliet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: How Norm Violations
Damage Reputation Yet Boost Social Power
10.10-11.10 Presentation selected from abstracts: Reviews
Bianca Beersma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: How gossip shapes the functioning and
performance of organizational groups: Towards an integrative theoretical framework
Szabolcs Számadó, HAS CSS RECENS: TBA
Gordon Patrick Dunstan Ingram, University of Andes: False gossip, fake news, witchcraft, and
terrorism: The role of negativity bias in social control
11.10-11.30 Coffee and tea break
11.30-12.50 Presentation selected from abstracts: Experiments
Paul van Lange, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Reputation and Religiosity
Peter Bednarik, Vienna University of Economics and Business: Reputation-based partner choice
enhances indirect reciprocity
Flóra Samu, HAS CSS RECENS: Exchange of reputational information and cooperation: A
laboratory experiment
Elena Martinescu, University of Groningen: A double edged sword: negative gossip promotes
strategic contributions from targets
12.50-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.30 Invited lecture 2: Francesca Giardini, University of Groningen: TBA
15.30-15.50 Coffee break
15.50-17.10 Presentation selected from abstracts: Simulations and Text of Gossip
Károly Takács, HAS CSS RECENS: Social Closure and the Evolution of Cooperation via
Indirect Reciprocity
Zeynep Büşra Çınar, Bogazici University: Human Dispositions Effects on Trust Estimations for
Extended Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (IPD) Game
Júlia Galántai, HAS CSS RECENS: The Content of Informal Communication: Topic Modeling
on a Spontaneous Speech Corpus
Cristian Manuel Santibañez Yañez, Diego Portales University / Catholic University of Chile,
Santiago: Gossip, self-deception and persuasion
17.10-18.00 Group discussion in multidisciplinary groups
20.00-23.00 Workshop dinner, M Flat Restaurant
18 May, 2018 Friday
9.10-10.10 Invited lecture 3: Gerben van Kleef, University of Amsterdam: TBA
10.10-11.10 Presentation selected from abstracts: Qualitative Studies of Gossip
Judit Durst, UCL and HAS CSS: The role of gossip and rumour publics in migration
decision-making among Hungarian Roma
Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky, HAS CSS RECENS: Blue-collar perceptions about workplace gossip
Erzsebet Fanni Toth, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna: Gossip as a stepping-stone in
immigrant communities of women
11.10-11.30 Coffee and tea break
11.30-12.50 Presentation selected from abstracts: Gossip in Organizations and Schools
Maria Dijkstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Rumor has it. Or does it? Uncertainty and
organizational trust and their relationship with perceived quality change-related information
and rumors
Tanja Sliskovic, University of Zagreb: Do Brokers Gossip Less? Investigating Information
Sharing and Control in Organizational Gossip Networks Using Exponential Random Graph
Models
Asami Shinoara, Nagoya University: When do children begin to utilize gossip to evaluate others?
Dorottya Kisfalusi, HAS CSS RECENS: Negative Gossip and Competition for Reputation
among Adolescents
12.50-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.30 Invited lecture 4: Dirk Semmann, University of Göttingen: TBA
15.30-15.50 Coffee break
15.50-16.20 Group presentations
16.20-17.00 Future directions, business meeting, summary of the conference
Support:
• Consolidator Grant (acronym: EVILTONGUE, PI: Károly Takács) of the European
Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (grant agreement No 648693)
• Conference and Workshop Fund of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (NKSZ
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