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2/20/08

NaturalRationality - a round-up

A round-up of the most popular posts on NaturalRationality:

  1. The Philosophy of Social Cognition - I - The Other Minds
  2. The Dictator Game and Radiohead.
  3. New Paper in Neuroeconomics
  4. Altruism: a Research Program
  5. The Neuroeconomics of Social Norms: A Neo-Rationalist Account
enjoy !



2/6/08

A few papers on decision, the brain, and morality

A few papers worth reading:

A study on meta-ethics beleifs (how people see ethical claims):

Important for anyone interested in neuroscience: to a non-expert public, seeing a picture of a brain biases people to give more credibility to a piece of information:

Social cognition: it begins with goal recognition

Jesse Prinz's new book (in a nutshell: morality is emotional and relative to a culture)

Forthcoming in the new journal Neuroethics:

A study on Chimpanzee barter behavior:

  • Brosnan, S. F., Grady, M. F., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., & Beran, M. J. (2008). Chimpanzee autarky, PLoS ONE, 3(1), e1518.




1/8/08

A roundup of recent research

Happy new year everybody!

Here are a selection of recent papers you may enjoy:



10/12/07

A roundup of the most popular posts

According to the stats, the 5 mots popular posts on Natural Rationality are:

  1. Strong reciprocity, altruism and egoism
  2. What is Wrong with the Psychology of Decision-Making?
  3. My brain has a politics of its own: neuropolitic musing on values and signal detection
  4. Rational performance and behavioral ecology
  5. Natural Rationality for Newbies

Enjoy!



8/23/07

A round-up of recent papers on natural rationality

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7/24/07

The linguistic basis of social preferences

Surprising (at least to me) finding, published in PNAS today. Young infants display a strong preference for agents that speak their own language. More than smell, look, and sound, social attachment seems to be mediated by linguistic (and accent) similarity. We like those who speak like us. From this findings, researchers draw three conclusions:

First, language provides a cue to social preferences, even in infants who have not begun to produce or understand speech. Second, the tendency to favor otherwise unfamiliar members of one's own social group begins to emerge early in human life and well before children begin to learn about the nature and history of social-group conflicts. The passage from infants' social preferences to adults' social conflicts may be long and circuitous, but such a path may exist and may explain, in part, why conflicts among different language and social groups are pervasive and difficult to eradicate. Third, because human languages vary, and the native language must be learned, the tendency to make social distinctions is shaped by experience. Because language learning is especially adaptable early in development, social preferences also may be malleable at young ages. This early adaptability of preference formation for familiar characteristics of individuals may obtain for many potential indicators of social group membership.



5/31/07

Natural Rationality papers: A round-up