The 1st CERSS Young Speaker Series
*This workshop was jointly held with Center for the Sociality of Mind. Speaker: Dr. Kikue Sakaguchi (Tokyo University) Date: June 23th, 2011, 14:00-16:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Participants: Tatsuya Kameda, Toshio Yamagishi, Masaki Yuki, Susumu Ohnuma, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Taiki Takahashi, and other 24 participants (total 30 participants) Title: Testosterone: does it suppress or enhance communication? Abstract: Androgens (male sex hormones) are known to affect dimensions of cognitive abilities which typically show sex differences....
Workshop on Human Nature and Institutions
*The workshop was jointly held by CERSS, Sage Center for the Study of Mind (UCSB), Center for Evolutionary Psychology (UCSB). Date:2011 April 3rd-5th. Place: Sage Conference Room, Building 551, room 1314, Univeraity of California at Santa Barbara This workshop was hosted by Prof. Cosmides and Prof. Tooby, co-directors of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Reserchers from antholopology, psychology, and political science discussed about the functions of social institutions, including non-market social institutions such as...
The 11th Open Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Speaker: Prof. Taksu Cheon （Theoretical Physics Kochi University of Technology） Title: Quantum game theory and quantum decision theory Date: June 7, 2011 (Tuesday) 13:45～15:45 Location: Hokkaido University, The Humanities and Social Science Building, room W506 (W504 after 14:30) Participants: Taiki Takahashi, Toshio Yamagishi, Yoichi Hizen, Mizuho Shinada, and others (Total 21 participants) Content: Recent researches examine the violation of sure-thing principle and conjunction fallacy by quantum...
The 9th Open Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Speaker: Prof. Sobei Oda (Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University) Title:Experimental phylosophy and experimental economics: An econimic experiment of phylosophical experiment for the Knobe effect Date: February 17, 2011 (Thursday) 10:00～12:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Participants: Taiki Takahashi, Keiko Ito, Mizuho Shinada, Keigo Inukai, Nobuhiro Mifune, and others (total 22 participants) Content: We show the results of economic experiment...
The 8th Open Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Speaker: Prof. Shintaro Mori (KITASATO UNIVERSITY) Title: Is the information cascade phase transition? Date:January 27, 2011 (Thursday) 10:00～12:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Participants: Taiki Takahashi, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Syunya Matsushima, Satomi Higuchi, and others (total 24 participants) Content:We examined whether voting behavior is analog or desital, and the information cascade is phase transition or not,...
The 7th Open Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Speaker: Prof. Kenya Kura (Department of Economics and Information, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University) Title: Testosterone and risk preference: Does the concentration change matter? . Date:November 5, 2010 (Friday) 15:00～16:30 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Participants: Toshio Yamagishi, Satomi Higuchi, Motoko Kosugi, Nobuhiro Mifune, Joanna Schug, and others (total 20 participants) Content: We examined the relationships among testosterone level, risk preference, time discounting,...
The 6th Open Workshop
Note: This workshop will be jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Speaker: Prof. Kazuhiro Wada (Division of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Hokkaido University) Title: “Nature and Nurture” from the neurobehavioral perspective: What we can learn, what we can’t learn, and the regulatory mechanisms.. Date: October 14, 2010 (Thursday) 13:30～15:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Participants: Tatsuya Kameda, Susumu Ohnuma, Masaki Yuki, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Taiki Takahashi, Mizuho Shinada,...
The 20th International Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Date: August 24, 2010 (Tuesday) 10:00-12:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Speakers: Yen-Sheng Chiang (Department of Sociology,University of California, Irvine) Title: “Group homophily and the emergence of upstream reciprocity” Participants: Nobuyuki Takahashi, Tatsuya Kameda, Toshio Yamagishi, Masaki Yuki, Taiki Takahashi, and Others (20 participants). Total 25 Participants. Contents: The most pristine definition of reciprocity states that one returns what is received to...
Modern Economics Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Hokkaido Universiy Modern Eonomics Association and Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Date: March 26, 2010 (Friday) 13:00-15:00 Location: Hokkaido University, The Humanities and Social Science Building, room W309 Speaker: Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Osaka University, Japan) Title: A Solution to Prisoner’s Dilemma: 100% Cooperation in the Experiment with Approval StageTatsuyoshi Saijo, Yoshitaka Okano and Takafumi Yamakawa Participants: Yoichi Hizen, Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda, Susumu Onuma, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Mizuho Shiandai, Others:...
The 19th International Workshop
Note: This workshop was jointly held with Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University. Date: September 7, 2009 (Monday) 10:30-12:00 Location: Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, room E204 Speakers: Chyi-in Wu (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Title: “Luminous Shine versus Dark Shadow: The Duality of Late Adolescent’s Friendship Network” Participants: Toshio Yamagishi, Tatsuya Kameda, Masaki Yuki, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Keiko Ishii, Others (7 participants): Total 12 participants Contents: Most previous studies have focused on the positive side of...
