Erol Akçay Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania Coevolution of social behavior and social networks The evolution of social behaviors is crucially determined by social structure, i.e., the pattern of interactions between individuals in a population. I explore how this social structure itself can evolve through social selection. I present a series of […]
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Tali Sharot Department of Experimental Psychology University College London Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease The ability to use information to adaptively guide behavior is central to intelligence. My work describes the role of affect in this process. In this talk I will present our recent research characterizing the influence of affect […]
Doug Guilbault Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Attractor Dynamics in the Social Construction of Categories It is widely held that communication leads social groups to differ in the cultural traits and linguistic categories they adopt. Because individuals can vary in how they form novel categories, larger population sizes are said to […]