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Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2016 Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2016 April 28-30 | New York University Conference Chairs Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University-Newark Jay Van Bavel, New York University Program Committee Chair: Lauren Atlas, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH Chair: Chad Forbes, University of Delaware Joshua Buckholtz, Harvard University Luke Chang, Dartmouth College Mina Cikara, Harvard University Molly Crockett, University of Oxford Dominic Fareri, Adelphi University Jon Freeman, New York University Aaron Heller, University of Miami Dean Mobbs, Columbia University Kyle Ratner, University of California, Santa Barbara Daniela Schiller, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Eva Telzer, University of Illinois Local Planning Committee Joe Magee, New York University Veronica Holton, Activities Coordinator SANS Executive Committee Elizabeth Phelps, President Paul Whalen, President-Elect Alexander Todorov, Past-President Kateri McRae, Secretary Emily Falk, Treasurer Andreas Olsson, Member-at-Large Mina Cikara, Member-at-Large Jamil Zaki, Member-at-Large 1 Conference Schedule Thursday April 28 Start End Session 3:30 PM 7:45 PM Registration – Stern School of Business 4:15 PM 5:15 PM Poster Session A & Welcome Reception 5:20 PM 5:30 PM Welcome from the Organizers 5:30 PM 7:00 PM Symposium A: Reward & Decision Making Paul Glimcher: Normalization Models of Subjective Value Representation in Cortex Amanda Utevsky: Low frequency rTMS to monkey STS moderates neuronal sensitivity to social reward Micah Edelson: Responsibility Aversion and Leadership Ability - Behavioral, Cognitive and Neurocomputational Mechanisms Yael Niv: The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in social and affective decision making 7:00 PM 7:45 PM Presidential Keynote: Mahzarin Banaji The Development of Implicit Social Cognition Friday April 29 Start End Session 8:00 AM 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration 9:00 AM 10:30 AM Symposium B: Social Interactions Liane Young: The structure of morality Patricia Lockwood: Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning Suzanne Dikker: Brain synchrony and real-world dynamic group interactions: Evidence from a crowdsourcing classroom EEG study. Leonard Schilbach: Toward a second-person neuroscience & neuropsychiatry 10:30 AM 11:30 AM Poster Session B & Coffee Break 11:35 AM 12:20 PM Distinguished Scholar Address: John Cacioppo Through the Lens of Social Isolation 12:20 PM 2:00 PM Lunch Break 12:30 PM 1:30 PM Special Working Lunch Session: The Grant Process Janine Simmons, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH Betty K. Tuller, National Science Foundation * Requires registration 2 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Symposium C: Emotion Regulation and Stress Wendy Berry Mendes: Affect contagion: Physiological covariation among strangers and close others Elliot Berkman: Me, myself, and (a better) I: Neural systems and behavioral outcomes of an identity-based intervention to improve self-regulation Tae-Ho Lee: Parent-child relationship quality shapes neural pattern similarity between mothers and their child Kevin Ochsner: New perspectives on the regulation of emotion 3:30 PM 4:30 PM Poster Session C & Coffee Break 4:30 PM 5:25 PM Trainee Data Blitz Matthew Apps: The neural basis of economic decisions guided by a social norm Leor Hackel: Instrumental Learning of Traits versus Rewards: Dissociable Neural Correlates and Effects on Choice Jocelyne Whitehead: Specificity of neural responses to processing emotional information across modalities: an fMRI-adaptation study Mariah DeSerisy: Neural Correlates of Language Ability Impacting Emotion Regulation in Young Children Brent Hughes: Wanting to like and be liked: Motivation alters attraction and neural representations of social reward Björn Lindström: Neural and computational mechanisms of social fear learning Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz: Extraordinary altruists demonstrate enhanced self-other overlap in pain processing in anterior insula Alejandra Sel: Heartfelt Self: Cardio-visual stimulation affects self-face recognition and interoceptive cortical processing Robb Rutledge: The social contingency of momentary subjective well-being 5:25 PM 5:45 PM Break: Walk to NYU Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South), Rosenthal Pavilion (10th floor) 5:45 PM 6:30 PM Presidential Keynote: Malcolm Gladwell When smart people do dumb things 6:30 PM 8:00 PM Presidential Reception 3 Saturday April 30 Start End Session 8:00 AM 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration 9:00 AM 10:30 AM Symposium D: Social Cognition & Social Groups Carsten De Dreu: Oxytocin Conditions Human Group- Living Carolyn Parkinson: Brains of a feather: Similarity of neural responses to naturalistic stimuli predicts social network proximity Lucile Gamond: In-group advantage in emotion recognition: The causal role of the mentalizing network assessed by TMS Emily Falk: New approaches to understanding the spread of ideas 10:30 AM 11:30 AM Poster Session D & Coffee Break 11:35 AM 12:50 PM Faculty Flash Talks June Gruber: Affective Neuroendocrinology Approach to Positive Emotion Disturbance in Bipolar Disorder Manos Tsakiris: Racial bias in a heartbeat: cardiac afferent activity modulates the expression of racial stereotypes Leah Somerville: Do incentives help or hurt adolescent self-regulation? Elizabeth R. Losin: Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying ethnic differences in pain report Peter Sokol-Hessner: The Actor’s Benefit: Interoception and Metacognition in Actors Anne Krendl: Stigma on the mind: Neural response to mental health stigma predicts attitudes toward treatment Frank Krueger: Mortality salience attenuates the in- group bias of costly punishment: a functional MRI investigation Rebecca M. Jones: Social development trajectories as a predictor of outcome in autism Daniela Schiller: A map for social navigation in the human brain 12:50 PM 2:40 PM Lunch Break 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Special Working Lunch Session: The publication process: Nature Neuroscience Sasha Devore, Associate Editor: Nature Neuroscience Jean Mary Zarate, Associate Editor: Nature Neuroscience * Requires registration 4 2:40 PM 4:10 PM Symposium E: Methodological Approaches to Social Neuroscience John O’Doherty: Computational approaches to social neuroscience Tessa West: Moving beyond the individual to the interpersonal: Psychophysiology in dyads and small groups Tor Wager: Generalizable representations in social and affective neuroscience 4:10 PM 5:10 PM Poster Session E & Coffee Break 5:15 PM 6:00 PM Farewell & TED Style Talk Matt Lieberman: If on a winter's night, a social neuroscientist KIMMEL Talks are held at Paulson Auditorium UC50 -- 40 West 4th Street. Saturday night keynote is held at Kimmel Center -- 60 Washington Square North. Poster sessions will be held outside Paulson Auditorium. 5 2016 Awards Distinguished Scholar Award John Cacioppo, University of Chicago Innovation Award Rachael E. Jack, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasglow Dynamic Facial Expressions of Emotion Transmit an Evolving Hierarchy of Signals over Time Rachael E. Jack, Oliver G.B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schyns. Current Biology, 2014, 24(2) SANS Poster Awards1 Jojanneke A. Bastiaansen Sonia Betti Robert Chavez Xiaoxue Gao Amy R. Krosch Laura Niemi Christin Scholz Jenifer Z. Siegel Yin Wang Julio A. Yanes SANS 2016 Logo - Created by Marianne Reddan 1 In recognition of the top 10 most highly rated abstracts that will be presented as posters. 6 Special Pre-Meeting Town Hall Luncheon Thursday, April 28th – 1-3pm The Kavli HUMAN Project (KHP), a joint initiative between NYU's Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (NYU IISDM) and the Kavli Foundation, is holding a town hall luncheon at the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Conference in NYC on Thursday, April 28th, from 1-3pm. The goal of the KHP is to create a massive interdisciplinary discovery dataset for use by scholars to conduct their own original research using the already collected measurements, rather than the traditional approach of conducting one-off studies. The luncheon, open to SANS conference attendees, will provide a venue for KHP leadership to educate our community about this 20-year, 10,000-person bio-behavioral longitudinal survey and solicit feedback from our members to ensure that the KHP meets your research needs. The town hall luncheon, which will take place at the NYU Global Center's Grand Hall (near our conference venue), will feature KHP Director, Paul Glimcher. Admission is FREE, but registration is required! For more information and to register: http://kavlihumanproject.org/event/khp-town-hall-nyc-at-sans2016/ 7 Thursday, April 28 2016 _____________________________________________________________________ Posters Poster Session A & Welcome Reception 4:15 – 5:15 PM See page 29 for abstracts Welcome from the Organizers 5:20 – 5:30 PM _____________________________________________________________________ Symposium Reward & Decision Making Thursday, April 28, 2015 5:30 – 7:00 PM Chaired by: Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University-Newark Paul Glimcher, New York University 5:30-6:00 Amanda Utevsky, Duke University 6:00-6:15 Micah Edelson, University of Zurich 6:15-6:30 Yael Niv, Princeton University 6:30-7:00 A B S T R A C T S NORMALIZATION MODELS OF SUBJECTIVE VALUE REPRESENTATION IN CORTEX Paul Glimcher, New York University – Over the last 5 years there is growing evidence that we now understand the basic mechanisms by which decision-variables are represented in the brain. Like perceptual and motor variables, decision-variables seem to employ a highly efficient
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