We announce the following Cognitive Science Colloquium visit.
Monday, March 23, 2009
4:00-5:30 p.m.
PY 101
Tatsuya Kameda, Stanford University, will present, "Groups as Adaptive Devices: Free-Rider Problems, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Evolutionary Games."
Abstract:
The behavioral ecology literature has shown that adaptive benefits accrued from group life include the reduction of predation risk, increased efficiency in the acquisition of food and other vital resources, opportunities for social learning, etc. These findings suggest that, despite inherent conflicts of interest among members, groups consequentially serve as adaptive devices for individual survival in natural environments. Although psychological research on small groups has addressed conceptually parallel issues including the efficiency of group performance, the linkage to behavioral ecology has never been explicit. This talk explores the applicability of behavioral ecological theory in the study of human group behavior.
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