Events

Emily Falk Annenberg School of Communication   Neuroscience approaches to understanding how ideas and behaviors are spread   Location: Room 260 Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St.   Each year, the CNS Public Talk Series highlights an issue or theme. The 2019-2020 theme is Penn Research on Neuroscience and Society. We are featuring faculty from […]

Jesse Goldberg Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell University   Male songbirds turn off their self-evaluation systems when they sing to females   Attending to mistakes while practicing alone provides opportunities for learning1, 2, but self-evaluation during audience-directed performance could distract from ongoing execution3. It remains unknown how animals switch between practice and performance modes, […]

Topi Miettinen Professor, Hanken School of Economics   Exploration in Teams and the Encouragement Effect: Theory and Experimental Evidence   This paper analyzes a two-person, two-stage model of sequential exploration, where both information and payoff externalities exist, and tests the derived hypotheses in the laboratory. We theoretically show that evenwhen agents are self-interested and perfectly […]

Devin Singh Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University   Debt, Guilt, and the Foundations of Law   This lecture explores the blurring of economic, moral, and legal categories that takes place through the longstanding association among debt, guilt, and law. Questioning why so often to […]