The Behavioral Foundations of Game Theory

Game Theory

Friday, April 22, 2011
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Pacific time
Davidson Conference Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089


If you wish to attend, RSVP to Faculty Services at facserv@law.usc.edu

For more information, please contact Christopher Schnieders at (213) 740-5714

 

PROGRAM
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Rob Boyd
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
"Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare"

10:00 am

Dan Simon
Professor of Law and Psychology, USC
"The Coherence Effect: Reasoning and Decision Making by Constraint Satisfaction"
11:00 am
Gerd Gigerenzer
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
"Heuristic Decision Making"
Noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Mark Turner
Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science,
Case Western Reserve University
"Would You Be Mine? A Cognitive Scientist Daydreams About Game Theory"
2:00 pm
Tom Siegfried
Editor-in-Chief, Science News
"Asimov's Foundation and Beautiful Math"
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Nir Halevy
Acting Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford
"Mind Games: The Mental Representation of Conflict"
4:30pm
Patricia Churchland
Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
"Neurobiological Approaches to Problem-Solving and Self-Control"
 

 

 

THIS CONFERENCE IS PART OF THE GAME THEORY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR SEMINAR SERIES ORGANIZED BY:

 

Mathew McCubbins

Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy & co-director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics

Yu-Han Chang

Assistant Research Professor, USC Information Sciences Institute

Milind Tambe

Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC

 

 

 

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