Status Reversal and Its Discontents
Date & Time: 2024.3.18(Mon)10:00-11:30 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, room E304 Speaker: Professor Michael Hechter(School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University) Title: Status Reversal and Its Discontents Abstract: The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialization, economic inequality, immigration, and the rising fortunes of ethnic, racial, religious, and gender and sexual minorities. These explanations...
動物の暮らしを観て、心を探る、ヒトを知る
Date & Time: 2024.2.15(Thu) 10:00-11:30Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Speaker: Masayuki NAKAMICHI (Osaka University Professor Emeritus)Title: 動物の暮らしを観て、心を探る、ヒトを知る Participants：22
The adaptivity of human search
Date & Time: 2023.11.30(Thu) 13:00-14:00Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Zoom: Please click here.Speaker: Andreas Wilke(Department of Psychology, Clarkson University, Professor)Title: The adaptivity of human search Abstract：Humans and other organisms must search effectively for the resources they need, whether these are physical (e.g., food or shelter) or informational (e.g., patterns in the world, or concepts stored in memory). Most human search studies have focused on brief (static) laboratory tasks, but being...
Food for thought: The potential of a social approach to promote heal thy, sustainable eating.
Abstract:Unbalanced nutrition and related diseases are currently among the biggest challenges to public health in industrialized societies. Many behavioral change interventions have had limited success in long-term change of nutrition and eating behaviors. One possible explanation is that past interventions have conceptualized eating as individual behavior. Yet, eating is a social activity: Over the course of evolution, humans have used food to establish social bonds; by the age of 20, a person has eaten...
Enriching environmental psychology with cross-national comparisons.
Date & Time: 2023.8.8(Tue) 10:00-12:00Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Speaker：Kevin Kim-Pong Tam准教授(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)Title：Enriching environmental psychology with cross-national comparisons. Abstract:Humans’ interactions with their surrounding environments are embedded in national contexts. A complete rendition of environmental psychology herefore necessitates sensitivity to the influence of contextual factors and the possibility of cross-national variations. In this talk, I will demonstrate that mainstream research in our field currently...
音楽文化の知能科学への機械学習と進化過程のモデルに基づくアプローチ
Date & Time: 2023.7.31(Mon) 13:00-14:00Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304Zoom: Click hereSpeaker: Eita Nakamura (Kyoto University, The Hakubi Project, Assistant Professor)Title: 音楽文化の知能科学への機械学習と進化過程のモデルに基づくアプローチ
Neurocognitive foundations of how “ways of seeing the world” converge -Toward the elucidation of conditions for conviviality.
Date & Time: 2023. 2. 16(Thu) 14:45-16:15 Location: Onsite & Online Hybrid MeetingHokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304（Zoom）https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84129588474?pwd=aU9zZ1lEOVA2bnp5SDdab2NMc1M1UT09 Title: Neurocognitive foundations of how “ways of seeing the world” converge -Toward the elucidation of conditions for conviviality. Speaker: OGURA Yukiko (Japan Science and Technology Agency;Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences,Specially Appointed Assistant Prof.) Abstract:Recently, together with the development of social networking services, it is said that “the societal divide” is becoming...
Towards Hyper-Democracy: Construction of the platform for supporting consensus building in the large-scale society by AI agents.
Date & Time: 2023.02.15 (Wed) 13:00-15:00 Location: Onsite & Zoom Hybrid MeetingHokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86417108218?pwd=UThrejJ1aDVSR0ZyOTZ3M1lMaFNwZz09 Title: Towards Hyper-Democracy: Construction of the platform for supporting consensus building in the large-scale society by AI agents. Speaker: ITO Takayuki (University of kyoto, Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics Professor) Invited lecture：Hokkaido University Data-Driven Research Emergence Department(D-RED)the Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences（co-host) Participants: 45 Susumu Ohnuma, Director, Center...
Methods for describing social phenomena with mathematical models.
Date & Time: 2022. 12. 12 (Mon) 13:00-14:00Location: Onsite & Online Hybrid MeetingHokkaido University, Faculty of Humanities and Human Scieces, room E304 Title: Methods for describing social phenomena with mathematical models. Speaker: ITAO Kenji (The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Basic Science,Section of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences；Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Masanori Takezawa (Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences)e-mail: m.takezawa*let.hokudai.ac.jp (please replace * with @)
Evolutionary Game Theoretical Rationality, Relative Deprivation, Social Intelligence, and Inequality of Transaction-Role Opportunity – Reconsidering Yamagishi’s Theory through the Thought Experiments of the Ultimatum Game.
Date & Time: 2022. 10. 3 (Mon) 10:30-12:00Location: Room W409Zoom: Title: Evolutionary Game Theoretical Rationality, Relative Deprivation, Social Intelligence, and Inequality of Transaction-Role Opportunity – Reconsidering Yamagishi’s Theory through the Thought Experiments of the Ultimatum Game. Speaker: Kazuo Yamaguchi (Division of the Social Sciences, the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology) PowerPoint file is here (in Japanese). Participants: 105 (online: 84) Nobuyuki Takahashi (Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences)e-mail: ntakahas*let.hokudai.ac.jp (please replace * with @)
