Seminar: The evolutionary game theory of cooperation, social norms, and modesty

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Christian Hilbe, MPI for Evolutionary Biology

The evolutionary game theory of cooperation, social norms, and modesty
Evolutionary game theory is a formal framework to describe how individuals adapt their behavior in strategic settings.
This framework makes very few assumptions on an individuals' cognitive abilities; thus it is applicable to humans, but also to animals, and even bacteria.

The first part of the talk will provide a gentle introduction to evolutionary game theory. In the second part, I will apply the framework to discuss questions related to cooperation, norms, and modesty.

Christian Hilbe is group leader of the Max Planck Research Group on the Dynamics of Social Behavior, at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology. Before joining the MPI, he had research positions at the University of Vienna, IST Austria, and Harvard University. He and his group use mathematical models, simulations, and behavioral experiments to explore human social behavior, mostly connected to cooperation.

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