<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are very pleased to announce a pre-conference workshop on Affective Cognition (website <a href="https://affcog.github.io/" class="">here</a>) at the 2021 annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society (<a href="https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2021/" class="">CogSci 2021</a>). In addition to invited talks, we would love <i class="">you</i> to present your research during our poster session! See below for information about submitting abstracts. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">About the workshop:</b></div><div class="">Affect is often considered the opposite of cognition: Cognition is rational while affect is irrational; cognition is cold while affect is hot. This workshop, however, will introduce an emerging domain of work that brings the two together: Affective Cognition. This new domain investigates how humans reason about affect using interdisciplinary approaches, including developmental, computational, neural, anthropological, and machine learning methods. We will bring together a stellar lineup of speakers who are leading scholars on affective cognition and introduce this young, interdisciplinary domain to our scientific community.</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Workshop Title: Interdisciplinary Advances in Affective Cognition</li><li class="">Invited Speakers: Drs. <a href="https://people.ceu.edu/gyorgy_gergely" class="">György Gergely</a>, <a href="https://idlab.ucmerced.edu/node/17" class="">Eric Walle</a>, <a href="https://dukes.space/" class="">Daniel Dukes</a>, <a href="https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/pollak-seth/" class="">Seth Pollak</a>, <a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/vanessa-lobue" class="">Vanessa LoBue</a>, <a href="https://kgweisman.github.io/about.html" class="">Kara Weisman</a>, <a href="https://pbs.dartmouth.edu/people/mark-thornton" class="">Mark Thornton</a>, <a href="https://scholars.huji.ac.il/perrylab" class="">Anat Perry</a>, and <a href="https://saxelab.mit.edu/" class="">Rebecca Saxe</a></li><li class="">Organizers: Drs. <a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~yangwu1/Research.html" class="">Yang Wu</a>, <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~dco/" class="">Desmond Ong</a>, <a href="http://sll.stanford.edu/" class="">Hyowon Gweon</a></li><li class="">Workshop Website: <a href="https://affcog.github.io/" class="">https://affcog.github.io/</a></li><li class="">Time & Format: July 26th, 2021, Virtual</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Call for Abstracts: </b></div><div class="">To maximize the engagement of students and early-career researchers, the workshop features a poster session, in the format of 5-minute pre-recorded talks. We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines (psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, education, primatology, sociology...) on topics broadly related to how humans/animals generate, perceive, or understand emotion. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interested researchers are encouraged to submit the following:</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">A title</li><li class="">All authors (identifying the presenting author) and corresponding affiliations</li><li class="">An abstract of no more than 250 words</li></ul></div><div class="">For full consideration, please submit your abstract by <b class=""><i class="">Monday, June 14th, 2021</i></b> at midnight (last time zone on earth) using <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuDDMSpqfvgtBw_VLBrH2mckJ7eZJsN4A42IOoGz4n_gI0Lg/viewform?usp=sf_link" class="">this form</a>. If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact <a href="mailto:yangwu1@stanford.edu" class="">yangwu1@stanford.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:dco@comp.nus.edu.sg" class="">dco@comp.nus.edu.sg</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class="">Yang Wu, Desmond Ong, Hyowon Gweon</div></body></html>