LOCATION & TIMING:
Unless otherwise noted, we meet
from 4pm-6pm every Monday at the Berkman Center for Internet &
Society, 23 Everett St 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA 02138:
[Map here]
DESCRIPTION:
The Cooperation Seminar is an informal multidisciplinary weekly meeting that discusses issues and reviews emerging research on the underpinnings of cooperation, both online and in the material world. The program combines speaker presentations with discussions of our participants' ongoing research initiatives. Past seminars have covered work in evolutionary biology, computer science, experimental economics, psychology, sociology, neuro-psychology, law, and anthropology.
Our group seeks to bring together people from varied backgrounds who are interested in studying cooperation, promote discussion, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Each meeting we will generally have one speaker give an informal presentation, with many interruptions for questions, discussion, and debate. Last year talk topics included intentions vs consequences in moral judgments, the role of punishment in the evolution of cooperation, collaboration in scientific research, political fundraising, and human systems design, to mention a few.
We welcome new participants, and inquiries from individuals who wish to present their research. To find out about upcoming seminar topics, you may join the seminar email list by emailing Dave Rand and subscribing to our Google group.
Contact: Dave Rand
Visit our Google Group Page (email Dave to subscribe)
SCHEDULE SPRING 2010
2/1/2010
Anna Dreber
KSG Women and Public Policy Program / Institute for Financial Research [SIFR], Stockholm
Gender, development, and preferences for competition and cooperation
2/8/2010
Thomas Pfeiffer
Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Science and the Internet: from Theory to Implementation
2/15/2010
NO MEETING (President's Day)
2/22/2010
NO MEETING
3/1/2010
Michael Manapat
MIT Mathematics
The limits of reputation, the power of irrationality and the evolution of trust
3/8/2010
Liane Young
MIT Brain & Cognitive Science
Mental State Reasoning for Establishing Innocence & Guilt
3/15/2010
NO MEETING (SPRING BREAK)
3/22/2010
Jennifer Shkabatur
Harvard Law School
Digital Citizens: Consumers and Co-Producers of Public Goods
3/29/2010
NO MEETING (PASSOVER)
4/5/2010
Prof. Mike Norton
Harvard Business School
The Benefits of Prosocial Spending, for Individuals and Organizations
4/12/2010
Andy Eggers
Harvard Government
Bargaining in Deliberative Bodies: Evidence from French Municipal Councils
4/19/2010
NO MEETING
4/26/2010
Benjamin Mako Hill & Andres Monroy-Hernandez
MIT
TBA
5/3/2010
Prof. Karim Lakhani
Harvard Business School
Open Innovation Institutions as Governance or Selection Mechanisms? Evidence from a Field Experiment on a NASA Space Life Science Problem
SCHEDULE FALL 2009:
9/14/2009
Kobi Gal
Harvard Computer Science
Cooperative strategies in uncertain domains
9/21/2009
Felix Warneken
Harvard Psychology
The Roots of Human Altruism in Ontogeny and Phylogeny
9/28/2009
Chris Oveis
Harvard Psychology
Power and Compassion: Signals, Intuitions, and Conflicts
10/5/2009
Haoqi Zhang
Harvard Computer Science
A General Approach to Environment Design
10/12/2009
NO MEETING
10/19/2009
Sheen Levine
Singapore Management University
Why Do They Share? Mechanisms of Generalized Exchange (aka Pay it Forward)
10/26/2009
Herb Gintis
UMass Amherst Economics
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
11/2/2009
NO MEETING
11/9/2009
Simon Gachter
University of Nottingham Economics
Costly cooperation and punishment from a behavioral economics perspective
OFFSITE: This talk will happen at PED, 1 Brattle Sq 6th Floor in Harvard Sq
http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/walking.html
11/16/2009
Sam Bowles
Sante Fe Institute
A cooperative species: evolutionary models and the Pleistocene human condition
OFFSITE: This talk will happen at PED, 1 Brattle Sq 6th Floor in Harvard Sq
http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/location/walking.html
11/23/2009
Judith Donath
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
The economics of trust: Signaling theory applied to human Communication
11/30/2009
Jesse Shapins & James Burns
Harvard
Mapping Main Street: Experiments in the New Genre of Collaborative Documentary Media