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Understanding Human Behavior

Understanding Human Behavior

14 episodes

Our multidisciplinary, quantitative lens can help deepen our understanding of perhaps the most complex of complex systems, namely, human behavior. The emergence, persistence, and demise of social institutions and their co-evolution with distinctive human behaviors - such as altruistic cooperation, out-group hostility and adaptive learning - are typically overlooked in standard economic and other behavioral science models. In line with the well-established scientific tradition of the Institute, this research is characterized by (a) its trans-disciplinary nature, (b) its use of nonlinear dynamical systems to study the explicit out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the relevant processes, (c) and sustained interaction between mathematical modeling and well-defined empirical case studies and problems of potentially great contemporary practical relevance. NOTE: Please excuse the production quality of some of our older videos. They were transferred from our video tape archive.

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From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior

Published: July 12, 2011, 7:25 p.m.
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The Penguin and The Leviathan: The Science and Practice of Cooperation

Published: Oct. 22, 2010, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Secrets of the Heart: The Electrocardiogram, Complex Systems Science and Fundamental Laws of Biology

Published: Sept. 14, 2010, 11:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 20 seconds

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Wild and Domesticated Religions: How the Machinery of Religion Evolved

Published: April 1, 2010, 8:40 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 59 seconds

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Stylish Mathematics

Published: Nov. 1, 2009, 8:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 1 second

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Rice Paddies, Coral Reefs & The Goddess of the Lake

Published: Dec. 1, 2008, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 46 seconds

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The Geometry of Consonance: Music and Mathematics

Published: Nov. 17, 2008, 6:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 23 seconds

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'Delight Makers' and 'Delight Takers' in the Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument

Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds

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The Evolution of Altruism

Published: Oct. 30, 2008, 8:47 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 18 seconds

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Growing the Anasazi in a Computer: Creating Alternative Culture Histories

Published: Oct. 29, 2008, 7:13 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Building a Humanoid Robot to Be Human

Published: Oct. 29, 2008, 9:51 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 27 seconds

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The Peculiar Logic of Human Values

Published: Oct. 23, 2008, 8:42 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 47 seconds

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The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies

Published: Oct. 23, 2008, 8:29 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds

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Devil or Angel: Genetic Conflicts in Brain and Behavior

Published: Oct. 23, 2008, 8:11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 21 seconds

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