The Sixth Joint Japan-US Conference onMathematical Sociology and Rational Choice

Program (Final)

Date: August 19, 2016 (a day before ASA meeting)
Venue: Virginia Room, Fourth Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel (ASA meeting place)
Cosponsors: ASA Section on Rationality and Society, Japanese Association for MathematicalSociology, ASA Section on Mathematical Sociology
Organizers: Jun Kobayashi (Seikei University), Masayuki Kanai (Senshu University), Kikuko
Nagayoshi (Tohoku University), John Skvoretz (University of South Florida), Douglas Heckathorn(Cornell University)
Conference website: http://www.jams-sociology.org/?page_id=1534
Registration: Presenters and participants must register at the conference website.
Notes: Each oral presenter has 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion. Eachtraining workshop presenter has 20 minutes for presentation, 15 minutes for comments fromadvisers, and 10 minutes for discussion. Posters are up to A0 size.
Program:
9:00 am - 9:10 am

Opening Remarks

9:10 am - 9:50 am
Keynote Speech
Douglas Heckathorn (Cornell University)

9:50 am - 10:00 am

Break

10:00 am - 11:30 am
Training Workshop (Presider: Jun Kobayashi)
Marc Höglinger (ETH Zürich), Can Social Norms Help to Overcome a Public Good Dilemma?
The Case of Organ Procurement
Shinya Obayashi (University of Tokyo/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Group
Expansion by Collective Reputation: Game-theoretic Analyses of Collective Action
Advisers: Andreas Diekmann (ETH Zürich), Douglas Heckathorn (Cornell University),
Yoshimichi Sato (Tohoku University)1

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Poster Session
Saburo Akahori (Tokyo Woman's Christian University), Observing Disintegrative Trends ofModern Society: Toward Restructuring of Self-Description
Sean M. Fitzhugh (U.S. Army Research Laboratory) and Arwen H. DeCostanza (U.S. Army
Research Laboratory), Intra-organizational Tie (De)activation During Crisis
Masayuki Kanai (Senshu University), Who is the Reference Point in Judging One's Well-being?:Comparison between Three Types of Relative Deprivation Measure
Jun Kobayashi (Seikei University) and Carola Hommerich (Hokkaido University), Do Happinessand Unhappiness have the Same Causes?: Analyses of SSP 2015 Survey, Japan
Akio Koyabu (Waseda University), Widening the Social Radius of Trust: Results from a
Nationwide Social Capital Survey in Japan
Yunsub Lee (Cornell University), Respondent-Driven Sampling for Unhidden Population
Studies: How to Solve the Problem of Homophilous Selection Bias in Web-based RDS
Akira Motegi (University of Tokyo), Mate Search Behavior of Women in Japan and the UnitedStatesKikuko Nagayoshi (Tohoku University), Impacts of Temporal and Cumulative Social Exclusions
on Social Isolation
Yoshio Sakurai (Kagoshima University), A Defense of Interpretative Sociology by a Viewpoint of
Bio-Darwinism
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm

Break1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Oral Session 1 (Presider: Carter Butts)
Yosuke Kira (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), SocialNorms With and Without a Meta-Norm: Costly Punishment in Repeated Games Sustains
Not Only Cooperation but Also Unpopular Norms
Maoxin Ye (Tohoku University), SNS Usage and Social Capital: The Perspective of Inequality
Kazuhiro Kezuka (Tohoku University / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Late Marriage
and Transition from Arranged Marriages to Love Matches: A Search-Theoretic Approach
Kazuo Yamaguchi (University of Chicago), Substantive Behavioral Theory Building Based on
Thought Experiments: A Case of Ultimatum Game
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Break2

2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
Oral Session 2 (Presider: Atsushi Ishida)
Justin Charles G. See (Ateneo de Manila University) and Emma E. Porio (Ateneo de ManilaUniversity), Quantifying Social Vulnerability and Resilience to Flooding in Metro Manila
Using Principal Component Analysis and System Dynamics Modelling
Tetsuro Okazaki (Takushoku University), Time Consciousness and Punctuality: An Explanationof Cultures from the View Point of Coordination
Guillermina Jasso (New York University), What Can You and I Do to Reduce Inequality?
Yoshiya Shiotani (Tohoku University), Why Nobody Hires Me as a Regular Worker?: TheSelection Mechanism in Japanese Young Labor Market
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

Break

3:40 pm - 4:40 pm
Oral Session 3 (Presider: Arnout van de Rijt)
Yoshimichi Sato (Tohoku University), A Theory of Rationality: Born to Be Rational, Learn to Be
Rational, or Born to Learn to Be Rational?
Wojtek Przepiorka, Lukas Norbutas, and Rense Corten (Utrecht University), Information Sharing
Promotes Cooperation in Illicit Causes: Evidence from an Online Market in the Dark Web
Mito Akiyoshi (Senshu University), Children Are Not for Everyone: A Set Theoretic Analysis ofParenthood and Happiness
Nikki M. H. van Gerwen (Utrecht University) and Vincent Buskens (Utrecht University), Partnerspecific Behavior in Social Networks: Coordination among Actors with HeterogeneousPreferences
4:40 pm - 4:50 pm

Award Ceremony

4:50 pm - 5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

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