Events

Matt Lasmanis Chief Technology and Innovations Officer Sage Therapeutics   Title forthcoming   Everyone is welcome to attend and can register here: http://bit.ly/nobectalks   NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) Talks showcase interdisciplinary early career and senior researchers working on norms and behavioral change around the world. Organized by the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral […]

SCEW Seminar: Yoav Ram

November 8, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Yoav Ram Mathematical Ecology and Evolution School of Zoology Tel Aviv University   via Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95635439981?pwd=dVRuYVhJU3l4RW1WbDE4NjIrUzFFZz09   Non-vertical cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperation   We use a cultural-evolutionary model to find conditions for the evolution of cooperation under vertical, oblique, and horizontal cultural transmission. These conditions, which have interesting parallels with Hamilton’s rule, […]

20 years of Experimental Pragmatics Symposium   The Symposium is organized for celebrating 20 years since the publication of two seminal works (co)authored by Ira Noveck that contributed to shape the research field of experimental pragmatics:   “When children are more logical than adults: experimental investigations of scalar implicature” (Noveck 2001, Cognition) “The Costs and […]