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Cody Moser – Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence

352 Haines Hall

Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence Cody Moser Cognitive and Information Sciences, UC Merced The field of collective intelligence focuses on how group communication, interaction, and organization shape collective outcomes. Computational models of collective systems have been instrumental in identifying which structures promote optimal group performance. While these models often […]

Irene Godoy – Kinship as constraint: Social aging in kin-structured groups

352 Haines Hall

Kinship as constraint: Social aging in kin-structured groups Irene Godoy Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB), University of Exeter The dramatic increase in human life expectancy poses new challenges for health care systems. Among those challenges is that social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for mortality are highest among the elderly. We know […]

Gary Brase – How to incite a scientific revolution: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration [Note special time and location]

Haines 332 (Discourse Lab)

How to incite a scientific revolution: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration Gary Brase Kansas State University If science is about the pursuit of truth, why do so many scientists disagree? Everyone should agree, at least on most things, according to the idea that there is a consistency of sciences. Others […]