Thursday, November 2018
Tom Griffiths, “Resource-rational models of decision-making”
Anybody trying to understand human decision-making faces a challenge: the two dominant perspectives on how human minds work are fundamentally at odds with one another. The classic approach of assuming that people are rational agents has the advantage of making it possible to derive generalizable models for any new circumstance, but has been shown to give a poor characterization of actual human behavior. By contrast, the “heuristics and biases” perspective that has replaced it provides explanations for the ways in…
Find out more »Monday, December 2018
Angela Yu, “Faces: A Window into Cognition “
Face processing plays a central role in everyday life. Faces also represent a complex and rich class of stimuli that humans readily process, recognize, and make judgments on. Understanding how the brain represents and processes faces is not only important in its own right, but provides a valuable opportunity for studying how the brain selectively and efficiently implements sophisticated computational processes. In this talk, I will give an overview of our recent work modeling human face processing. We leverage sophisticated…
Find out more »Columbia Political Economy Conference
Faculty Organizers: Suresh Naidu & Carlo Prato If you would like to attend this conference, press here to register by December 1, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Cohen at sc3867@columbia.edu. Program Friday, December 14, 2018 8:45-9:25 Light Breakfast 9:25-9:30 Introductions 9:30-10:35 German Gieczewski (Princeton), "Endogenous Experimentation in Organizations" (with Svetlana Kosterina) Discussion by Navin Kartik (Columbia) 10:35-10:50 Coffee break 10:50-11:55 Nancy Qian (Northwestern), "The Fluidity of Race: "Passing" in the United States, 1890-1940"" (with Nathan Nunn and…
Find out more »Tuesday, March 2019
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