International Travel: European Social Cognition Conference, Lisbon, Fall 2004

首席研究员将参加2004年9月8-11日在葡萄牙里斯本举行的第六届欧洲社会认知网络会议。这次会议由欧洲科学基金会主办。这次访问的主要目的是促进社会认知研究的发展和传播方面的更大的国际互动，并促进美国和欧洲学者在研究社会认知过程方面取得的快速进展的整合。PI将在会议上作专题报告，并将以正式和非正式的方式与大约80名与会者中的许多人进行互动。一个特别的目标是为参加会议的年轻科学家提供建设性的反馈和鼓励。这些目标具有明显的智力价值，因为它们涉及对社会认知中各种各样问题的高质量研究的整合、巩固和刺激，这是一个更普遍的社会心理学核心领域。拟议活动的更广泛影响可能是相当大的，而且肯定会超出会议本身。特别是在加强国际接触和互动以及鼓励青年学者发展的目标方面，像这样的会议可以对科学进步产生重大影响。

The principal investigator will attend the sixth meeting of the European Social Cognition Network in Lisbon, Portugal to be held from September 8-11, 2004. The meeting is sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The primary objective of the trip will be to foster greater international interaction in the development and promulgation of social cognition research and to facilitate integration of rapid progress made by American and European scholars who study social-cognitive processes. The PI will make a featured presentation at the meeting and will interact in formal and informal ways with many of the approximately 80 attendees at the meeting. A special goal will be to offer constructive feedback and encouragement to young scientists in attendance at the meeting. These objectives have clear intellectual merit, as they pertain to the integration, consolidation, and stimulation of high-quality research on a wide variety of issues in social cognition, a field that is central to social psychology more generally. The broader impact of the proposed activity will likely be considerable and will surely extend beyond the meeting itself. Particularly with respect to the goal of enhancing international contact and interaction and encouraging the development of young scholars, conferences such as this one can have a major impact on scientific progress.