Events

Upcoming seminar: Szabolcs Számadó (ELTE) – The Complexity of Human Cooperation and the

Where: CEU-CNS, Gellner Room

When: May 20th, 2014.

Abstarct:

The complexity of human cooperation is unparalleled in nature. Humans readily cooperate with non-kin, form huge societies based on cooperation and their cooperative networks can reach across the globe. Cooperation can be classified into five categories: kin selection, direct reciprocity, indirect reciprocity, network reciprocity and group selection. I would like to discuss each type, indicate their strength and weaknesses as far as modelling concerned; and discuss their relevance to human cooperation. Last but not least I would like to highlight the link between gossip and reputation on the one hand and human cooperation on the other hand.