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2018 Sep 27

HEB Colloquium: "Third Party Monitoring and the Evolution of Reciprocity"

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Haller Hall, Geological Museum Room 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Professor Robert Boyd

Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

 

Cooperation based on reciprocity is undermined by perception errors, mistakes that cause interacting individuals to disagree about past behavior. Strategies like Win-Stay-Lose-Shift (WSLS) and Generous Tit for Tat (GTFT) can reestablish cooperation following a perception error but only when errors arise infrequently. Here I introduce a strategy that relies on third-party arbitration to resolve disagreements, and show that...

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Dr. Joseph Henrich

Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes...

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