Monday, April 26

9:00-10:00: Registration

10:00-10:15: Official Opening

10:15-12:00: Prof. John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

• Autonomic, endocrinological, and immunological responses to acute stress

13:30-15:00: Open Discussion

• Stress and its conceptualization, measurement, and consequences as well as its underlying neural organization

15:30-17:00: Prof. John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

• Why do lonely people suffer greater morbidity and mortality? How the social world gets under the skin

• Psycho-neuro-endocrine interactions in emotion and stress, and their modulation by personality and social factors

Tuesday, April 27

9:00-10:30: Prof. John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

• The psychophysiology of emotion

11:00-12:30: Open Discussion

• Continuous flow, somatovisceral activation, information processing

14:00-15:30: Prof. John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

• The architecture of the affect system

16:00-18:00: Open Discussion

• Psychobiological approaches to studying emotion and stress

9:00-10:30: Prof. Hermann Haken, Universität Stuttgart

• Synergetics in biopsychological systems

11:00-12:30: Prof. Roland Fivaz; Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

• Morphodynamics and consciousness

14:00-15:30: Open Discussion

• The promise of nonlinear dynamics approaches for the study of emotion and stress

16:00-18:00: Methods illustrations and open discussion

• Dr. P. Vanger. Application of synergetics on computer recognition of facial expressions of emotion in psychotherapy

9:00-10:30: Presentation of current research projects by the Geneva group

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Podium Discussion (Faculty members)

• The relationships between stress and emotion

14:00-15:30: Prof. Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco

• Was Darwin wrong in using the term "Expression of emotion"?

16:00-18:00: Open Discussion

• Expression, regulation, and communication of emotion

9:00-10:30: Prof. Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco

• Individual Differences in Emotional Response

11:00-12:30: Open Discussion

• Individual and cultural differences in emotion and stress elicitation and reaction

14:00-17:30: Small group discussions

• Visit of the Geneva labs