25th Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology
3-8 July, 2023, Visegrad, Hungary
THE TRIBAL MIND:
UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLLECTIVISM
Convened by
Joseph P. Forgas
The conference seeks to bring together researchers who are
interested in understanding what social psychology can contribute to our
understanding of how human beings manage the inevitable insecurity
and uncertainty that has always been part of human social life. We
hope to invite researchers working in any area of social psychology
that can contribute to our understanding of the nature, functions,
origins and psychological and cultural consequences of human
insecurity in all its manifestations, and the various evolutionary,
psychological, cultural and civilizational strategies humans have
invented to manage insecurity. After two years of living with the
COVID pandemic, this topic seems particularly interesting and
relevant to us.
We believe that most substantive areas of social psychology have an
interesting contribution to make to understanding how humans manage
insecurity, although this topic is rarely placed in the focus of
research, We would like the get contributions from leading
international researchers like yourself whose work has some
interesting implications for understanding the psychological
processes underlying how humans cope with insecurity, including
research from areas such as evolutionary psychology, social
cognition, social influence, conformity, social norms, group
processes and social identity, social motivation, communication,
emotionality, power, persuasion, morality and many others. As always
the topic is broadly defined and we are interested in contributions
from a wide variety of empirical and theoretical backgrounds that
can contribute to our understanding of the nature and role of
psychological processes in managing insecurity.