European Social Cognition Network: International Travel to Warsaw, Poland

这笔赠款将用于资助该协会和他的三名研究生参加2009年8月26日至30日在波兰华沙举行的欧洲社会认知网络(ESCON)第11届会议。这次会议为交流社会认知领域的最新科学发展提供了一个国际论坛。这次会议的学术价值是广泛的。首先，该会议在其跨国代表方面具有创新性(将有大约16个国家的代表参加，其中包括欧洲最好的实验室)。作为受邀的全体演讲者之一，他还将有机会向国际观众介绍他的研究成果，并与与会者更广泛和非正式地讨论他的工作。这将使PI和他的学生能够从从不同角度处理社会认知问题的观众那里学习并向他们展示，并接触到当今欧洲国家正在进行的一些最尖端的研究。此外，会议还为年轻研究人员--包括三名研究生，他们的旅费将由这笔补助金资助--提供了一个平台，展示他们的研究想法，并从该领域的各种专家那里获得广泛的反馈。这将极大地刺激他们的专业发展，不仅是在概念上，而且在与国际同事的接触方面也是如此。最后，这次会议的一个更广泛的目标是促进国际研究合作，并为年轻研究人员提供更多融入国际科学界的机会。

This grant is supporting the PI and his three graduate students to attend the 11th meeting of the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) in Warsaw, Poland, on August 26-30, 2009. This conference provides an international forum for the exchange of the most recent scientific developments in the field of Social Cognition. The intellectual merits of this conference are extensive. First, the conference is innovative in its cross-national representation (some 16 countries will be represented, including the best European labs). The PI, as one of the invited plenary speakers, will also be afforded the opportunity to present his research to an international audience and to discuss his work more broadly and informally with attendees. This will allow the PI and his students to learn from, and present to, an audience that approaches social cognition questions from a different perspective, and get exposed to some of the most cutting-edge research being done these days in European countries. Further, the conference provides a platform for young researchers -- including the three graduate students whose travel would be supported on this grant -- to present their research ideas and to receive extensive feedback from a variety of experts in the field. This should greatly stimulate their professional development, not only conceptually, but also in terms of contacts with international colleagues. Finally, one of the broader goals of this meeting is to foster international research collaborations and to develop additional opportunities for young researchers to become integrated into the international scientific community.