Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution

Abstract: In psychology and neuroscience, the human brain is usually described as an information processing system that encodes and manipulates representations of knowledge to produce plans of action. This view leads to a decomposition of brain functions into putative processes such as object recognition, memory, decision-making, action planning, etc., inspiring the search for the neural correlates of these processes. However, neurophysiological data does not support many of the predictions of these classic subdivisions.

Integration of Personal vs. Social Information for Sustainable Decisions on Climate Action

Some of my past and current research looks at "decisions from  experience,” i.e., decisions based on the personally experienced outcomes of past choices, along the lines of reinforcement learning models and how such learning and updating is related to and differs from the way in which people and other intelligent agents use other sources of information, e.g., vicarious feedback (anecdotal/social and/or in the form of statistical distributions of outcomes) or science- or model-based outcome predictions to make “decisions from description.”  What happens when these differe

Homo sapiens dans la cité

HomoSapiensPourquoi les humains se souviennent-ils d’un visage rencontré cinquante ans plus tôt, mais oublient de payer leurs factures à l’heure ? Pourquoi n’arrive-t-on pas à réduire les émissions de CO2 dans l’atmosphère, alors que nous sommes tous concernés par la survie de la planète ?

Explaining the variability of trust across time, space and social classes: A behavioral ecology approach.

Abstract : Social or interpersonal trust is the belief that people are on average trustworthy, that they cooperate in good faith, without trying to cheat and exploit others. Among other things, it allows unrelated individuals, who may not have aligned interests, to cooperate. It therefore has many benefits at both the individual and societal levels. However, despite its undeniable advantages, social trust is highly variable not only between countries but also between individuals. How can this variability be explained?

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