Akumal Culture Schedule of Activities
Following is the proposed schedule for the Akumal Culture Meeting 2001 and the list of attendees.
Attendees:
Robert Biswas-Diener jayajedi@aol.com
Dov Cohen dcohen@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Ed Diener ediener@s.psych.uiuc.edu
Claude Fischler (accompanied by Bridgitt Fischler) fischler@ehess.fr
Mayumi Karasawa mayumik@twcu.ac.jp
Shinobu Kitayama kitayama@dura.spc.uchicago.edu kitayama@hi.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Melvin Konner antmk@anthro.emory.edu
Joel Kupperman jkupper@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Darrin Lehman dlehman@neuron3.psych.ubc.ca
Hazel Markus hmarkus@psych.stanford.edu
Batja Mesquita mesquita@wfu.edu
Richard Nisbett nisbett@umich.edu
Ara Norenzayan norenzay@uiuc.edu
Shige Oishi soishi@s.psych.uiuc.edu
Phani Radhakrishnan pradhakr@scar.utoronto.ca
Paul Rozin rozin@psych.upenn.edu
Ulrich Schimmack uschimma@s.psych.uiuc.edu
Martin Seligman seligman@psych.upenn.edu
| January 3, Wednesday | |
| 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. | Welcome cocktail party: Brief discussion of our time schedule |
| January 4, Thursday | |
| 9:00am to 10:30am | Ed Diener: Introduction, agenda, and the good society Reports of subjective well-being (SWB) across societies Measurement of SWB and quality indicators Discussion |
| 11:00am to 12:30pm | Discussion leader: Mel Konner Are there universals for SWB? At what level of abstraction? Universalist vs. culture-specific views Are there 'sick' and 'healthy' societies |
| 4:00pm to 4:30pm | Batja Mesquita (with Mayumi Karasawa): Different standards of good: Well-being and coping in the U.S. and Japan |
| 4:30pm to 5:00pm | Paul Rozin: Comforts and pleasures across cultures |
| 5:00pm to 6:00pm | Discussion led by Ara Norenzayan |
| January 5, Friday | |
| 9:00am to 10:30am | Ed Diener: Values and norms for SWB; ideal levels; competition among values Approach and avoidance; the scrim |
| 11:00am to 11:30am | Shige Oishi: Data on differences in correlates across cultures |
| 11:30am to 12:30pm | Discussion leader: Shinobu Kitayama Differences in correlates and causes of SWB across cultures |
| 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Discussion leader: Dov Cohen Goals and standards, and SWB across cultures |
| January 6, Saturday | |
| 9:00am to 10:30am | Informal brief presentations by participants (either data, an argument, or an idea) |
| 11:00am to 12:30pm | Discussion leader: Darrin Lehman Topic open |
| 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Discussion of needed research: Led by Richard Nisbett & Hazel Markus Potential small working groups of researchers |
| 7:00pm | Dinner |
| January 7, Sunday | Depart or at leisure |