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December 8, 2006

Symposium on

Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective

 

34th Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research

Hilton of Santa Fe

Santa Fe, New Mexico

February 24-26, 2005

 

Symposium Chair: Douglas Vakoch, SETI Institute

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

8:30am - 10:00am                 Thursday, February 24                             Mesa A

Altruism in Ritual and Religion     

Chair:   Stephen Post (Case Western Reserve University)

Discussant:  William Hurlbut (Stanford University)  

 

¨       Koss-Chioino, Joan (George Washington University), IS ALTRUISM A COMMON INGREDIENT OF HEALING ACROSS CULTURES? 

¨       Chick, Garry (The Pennsylvania State University), Altruism in Animal Play and Human Ritual.

¨       Coe, Kathryn  ( University of Arizona), Altruism: Common origin and cross-cultural commonalities.

¨       Arkhipova, Alexandra  (Russian State University for the Humanities) & Artem Kozmin (Russian State University for the Humanities), The Kind and Unkind Girls: one of the most popular of oral altruistic stories.

 

 

8:30am - 10:00am                  Thursday, February 24                         Mesa C

Special Session on Tsunami Relief              Organizers: Juris Draguns & Doug Vakoch

 

 

 

10:15am - 12:00pm                Thursday, February 24                        Mesa A

Identifying Altruism  

Chair: Gregory Fricchione  (Massachusetts GeneralHospital and Harvard Medical School)

Discussant: Alice Schlegel (University of Arizona)

 

¨       Lynn E. O’Connor (Wright Institute), Berry, Jack W (Virginia Commonwealth University), Patrice Crisostomo (University of California at Berkeley), & Eunice Yi  (Wright Institute), Altruism and empathy-based guilt across five cultures.

¨       Gibbons, Judith (Saint Louis University), ALTRUISM AMONG GUATEMALAN ADOLESCENTS: RELATION TO GENDER, COMMUNITY, AND EDUCATION.

¨       Aptekar, Lewis (San Jose State University), TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE: CULTURAL DETERMINANTS IN THE VALUE OF GIVING TO OTHERS IN GREAT NEED. VIEWS FROM AN ETHIOPIAN REFUGEE CAMP.

¨       Briton, Nancy (Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Inc.), Jennifer Leaning   (Harvard School of Public Health) & Lynn G. Underwood (Research Integration), Altruism in a Local Morality of Violence.

 

 

 

1:30 - 3:45 pm                        Thursday, February 24                           Mesa B

Diverse Disciplinary Views of Altruism

Chair: Douglas Raybeck (Hamilton College)   

Discussant: Joan Koss-Chioino (George Washington University)

 

¨       Draguns, Juris (Pennsylvania State University), Altruism in its psychological, social, and cultural context.

¨      Boehm, Christopher (University of Southern California), FOUR EXPLANATIONS OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR.

¨       Huaco, George (University of New Mexico), Altruism in Marx and Sociobiology.

BREAK 2:45-3:00

¨       Smith, Tom W. (National Opinion Research Center/University of Chicago), Measuring Altruism Across Social Groups and Countries: Findings from the National Altruism Study.

¨       Ember, Melvin (Human Relations Area Files), & Carol R. Ember (Human Relations Area Files), CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH ON ALTRUISM: SOME SUGGESTIONS.

 

 

 

8:30pm-10:00 pm                  Thursday, February 24                   Mesa Ballroom

Altruism and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Chair: Doug Vakoch,  SETI Institute

 

 

 

3:15pm - 5:00pm                   Friday, February 25                                Mesa B

Collectivism, Individualism, and Altruism 
Chair: Judith Gibbons (St. Louis University)
Discussant: Juris Draguns ( Penn. State University).

 

¨       Divale, William (York College, CUNY), Generalized and Pure Altruism in Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies:  Cross-Cultural Tests of Several Hypotheses.

¨         Lee, Yueh-Ting, (Minnesota State University), TAOIST ALTRUISM AND WATERISTIC PERSONALITY: EAST AND WEST.

¨       Schlegel, Alice (University Of Arizona), EGO AND ALTRUISM IN KIN-BASED AND INDiVIDUALISTIC SOCIETIES: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE.

¨       Triandis, Harry C. (University of Illinois), Collectivism and Altruistic Behavior..

 

 

 

8:30 - 10:00 am                     Saturday, February 26                          Mesa A  

Evolution of Altruism in Global Perspective  

Session Chair: Sandi Smith (Michigan State University)
Discussant: Christopher Boehm ( University Of Southern Florida)

 

¨       Henrich, Joseph (Emory University), The Coevolutionary origins of human altruism.

¨       Korotayev, Andrey V.(Russian State University for the Humanities), GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF ALTRUISTIC MOTIFS WITHIN DULAISTIC COSMOGONIES: A CROSS-CULTURAL PERPSECTIVE.

¨       Kozmin, Artem (Russian State University for the Humanities), Ethical rules in fairy tales: altruistic help.

¨       Smith, Sandi (Michigan State University), Application of the Altruistic Behavior Coding Scheme to Cross Cultural Contexts.