Λόρι Σάντος: Μια μαϊμουδίσια οικονομία, παράλογη όσο και η δική μας.
About this talk
Η Λόρι Σάντος ψάχνει για της ρίζες του ανθρώπινου παραλογισμού, ερευνώντας τον τρόπο που οι συγγενείς μας τα πρωτεύοντα παίρνουν αποφάσεις. Μια σειρά έξυπνων πειραμάτων πάνω στα "πιθοικονομικά" δείχνει ότι κάποιες από τις ανόητες επιλογές που κάνουμε εμείς, τις κάνουν και οι μαϊμούδες.
About Laurie Santos
Laurie Santos studies primate psychology and monkeynomics -- testing problems in human psychology on primates, who (not so surprisingly) have many of the same predictable irrationalities we do.Why you should listen to her:
In elegant, carefully constructed experiments, Santos and CapLab have studied how primates understand and categorize objects in the physical world -- for instance, that monkeys understand an object is still whole even when part of it is obscured. Going deeper, their experiments also search for clues that primates possess a theory of mind -- an ability to think about what other people think.
Most recently, the lab has been looking at behaviors that were once the province mainly of novelists: jealousy, frustration, judgment of others' intentions, poor economic choices. In one experiment, Santos and her team taught monkeys to use a form of money, tradeable for food. When certain foods became cheaper, monkeys would, like humans, overbuy. As we humans search for clues to our own irrational behaviors, Santos' research suggests that the source of our genius for bad decisions might be our monkey brains.
"Through a series of groundbreaking experiments, Santos has seen in her primates a humanlike propensity for hoarding, larceny, and competitiveness. By exploring the inner lives of primates, she has offered persuasive evidence that monkeys are capable of sophisticated insight, complex reasoning, and calculated action."Linda Marsa, Discover
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