17 Jan
2019
17 Jan
'19
11:15 a.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you
to its talk by
Shona Duguid<https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=4if4LjkAAAAJ&hl=en>
(Warwick Business School)
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 17:00-18:30
Location: CEU, Nador Street 15, Auditorium B !!!
Coordinating decisions for cooperation: insights from a comparative perspective
One of the challenges of achieving successful cooperation is coordinating our decisions
and actions. This is a challenge we share with many other social species, including our
closest living relatives, the great apes. The comparison of how great apes and humans
solve coordination problems provide insights into the evolution of human cooperation. Of
particular interest is how communication functions as a coordination tool. A closer look
at how and when individuals communicate, not only informs us about their communication
skills but also about the nature of the cooperative interaction. I will present findings
from behavioural experiments presenting children and great apes with a range of
coordination problems; including situations in which partners have a common goal and those
in which they have to overcome conflicts of interest. These findings show that all species
demonstrate the ability to coordinate their decisions effectively across a range of
situations but that the means to coordinate can differ. Even though chimpanzees and
bonobos have communicative tools to mediate everyday social interactions, communication
appears to play a relatively minor role in facilitating coordination in. I will discuss
why we see this discrepancy, including the potential role of the experimental paradigms.
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
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