Cooperation in the natural world can, at first glance, appear puzzling: why should an animal cooperate when doing so is costly, and would benefit a competitor? In this talk, I […]
Valuing things comes naturally to us. But valuing things would be a forbidding task if we lacked the information-processing machinery that enables value computation and that needs to be understood. […]
Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo Edward H. Hagen, Aaron D. Blackwell, Aaron D. Lightner, […]
Several birds and mammals form affiliative relationships with both kin and nonkin that involve multiple forms of cooperation. When individuals form these long-term cooperative relationships, both the causes and consequences of […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntV96u3Dr-M Jenny Tung Duke University http://www.tung-lab.org/
Why are cats everywhere? Grounded on research into the controversy around feral or community cats and 'TNR' (Trap, Neuter, Return) in Los Angeles, we posit that the modern domestic/feral cat […]
What does cognitive development look like in a world without schools or formally educated parents or communities? What if our most fundamental measures of cognitive performance were influenced by small […]
Elizabeth Hobson University of Cincinnati http://hobsonresearch.com/
In his paper on the “human interaction engine”, Levinson famously asserted that, in social interaction, people’s responses “are to actions and intentions, not to behaviors” (2006: 45). Indeed human beings […]
Lisa O'Bryan, Rice University In order to obtain social benefits, individuals must remain cohesive, coordinate their behavior, and collectively process information. The field of collective behavior focuses on understanding how […]
