Dear all,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by:
Raoul Bell (University of Dusseldorf)
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 - 17:00-18:30
Host: Gergely Csibra
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101.
Title: Remembering Cheaters: The Importance of Memory in Social Cooperation
Evolutionary psychology postulates that cognitive mechanisms have emerged as solutions to
specific adaptive problems during the evolution of the human mind and brain. Cooperation
in social groups has been such an important adaptive problem for humans. Reciprocal
cooperation requires the ability to detect, remember, and recognize cheaters to know when
to refuse cooperation, and when to punish cheating. How does the human brain solve this
problem? A popular hypothesis in evolutionary psychology is that evolutionary selection
has favored human brains equipped with a cheater recognition module that enables the
individual to learn particularly well from previous negative experiences with cheaters.
Consistent with this assumption, source memory for faces associated with cheating has been
found to be superior to source memory for faces associated with trustworthy or irrelevant
behaviors. However, this memory advantage is not special for cheating because it can also
be observed for faces associated with other types of threatening behavior. Furthermore,
source memory is not always enhanced for negatively arousing information, but is instead
better for information that stands out because it violates expectations. This memory
advantage for expectancy-incongruent information is complemented by strong
expectancy-congruent guessing biases. Based on these and other findings, it will be
discussed whether human memory should better be conceived of as adaptive in the general
sense that the human mind makes efficient use of memory resources.
See more at:
https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2018-03-07/departmental-colloquium-…
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1051 Budapest
Oktober 6 utca 7.
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