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The 11th International
Workshop
Workshop
on "Information Use and Group Living"
Date:
October
26 (Wednesday) - 28 (Friday), 2005
Location: En'yu Gakusha at Hokkaido University
Speakers:
Luc-Alain Giraldeau (Behavioral
Ecology, University of Quebec)
Mayuko Nakamaru (Mathematical
Biology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Reid
Hastie (Decision Science, University of Chicago)
Richard McElreath (Evolutionary
Anthropology, University of California, Davis)
Tatsuya Kameda (Behavioral
Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University)
Goals of the Workshop
The issue of information use in groups has emerged as one
of the core questions for better understanding of social animals, including
humans. Recently, several integrating themes are emerging from analyses
of information use, backed with common theoretical and methodological
tools (viz., evolutionary game theory, simulation modeling, and behavioral
experiments). These themes include questions about how individuals engage
in information search under uncertainty, how they combine individually-acquired
information and social information to make behavioral choices, how information
is transmitted and accumulated in a common knowledge pool (or "culture"),
just to name a few. Yet, despite potential inter-connections, these results
have been scattered across different disciplines (behavioral ecology,
social psychology, evolutionary anthropology, economics) without much
mutual communication.
The purpose of this 3-day workshop was to bring together active
scholars working on these topics, yet belonging to different disciplines,
to provide
an intensive discussion opportunity. Different from a typical conference,
this workshop was discussion-oriented with only 5 participants.
Each participant had 3 hours to present and discuss his/her research
related to
the themes
above.
Day 1: Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
10:00 - 13:00 Reid Hastie
14:00
- 17:00 Tatsuya Kameda
Day 2: Thursday, October 27th, 2005
9:00 - 12:00 Luc-Alain Giraldeau
14:00 - 17:00 Mayuko Nakamaru
Day 3: Friday, October 28th, 2005
9:00 - 12:00 Richard McElreath
14:00 - 17:00 Joint discussion
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