北海道大学Global COE「心の社会性に関する教育研究拠点」では、下記の講演会を開催します。話者のPeter Todd氏は、バイオグラフィーにもあるように、Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognitionの副所長を経て、現在、Indiana University, Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychologyの教授をされています。Fast and frugal heuristicsをキーワードに、適応的視点からの意思決定研究者として著名です。奮ってご参加いただけると幸いです。
- 日 時
- 2009年10月2日 13:00〜14:30
- 場 所
- 北海道大学人文社会科学総合教育研究棟 W201
（開催場所は文学部ではありませんのでご注意ください） - 使用言語
- 英語（翻訳はありません）
- 講 演
- Heuristics for mate choice
Peter M. Todd
Professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University, Bloomington
Traditional views of rational decision making assume that individuals use a few powerful mechanisms to solve most of the problems they face. But given that human and animal minds have evolved to be quick and just “good enough” in environments where information is often costly and difficult to obtain, we should instead expect individuals to make use of an “adaptive toolbox” of simple, fast and frugal heuristics that make good decisions with limited information processing. These heuristics typically ignore most of the available information and rely on only a few important cues. Yet they make choices that are accurate in their appropriate application domains, achieving ecological rationality through their fit to particular information structures. We have been studying such heuristics in important adaptive domains such as mate choice, where people may use key pieces of information to guide their choices, including social information gathered from other individuals (in a phenomenon known as mate copying). Furthermore, people may use simple aspiration-level or satisficing heuristics to determine when to stop searching for mates. In this talk I will describe our general research framework and our specific investigation of particular heuristics for mate choice, and how we use novel sources of data such as speed-dating to test for the use of these heuristics.
Biography
Peter M. Todd grew up in Silicon Valley in California, studied mathematics and electronic music at Oberlin College in Ohio, received an MPhil in computer speech and language processing from Cambridge University, and developed neural network models of the evolution of learning for his PhD in psychology at Stanford University. In 1995 he moved to Germany to help found the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC), based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. The Center's work was captured in the book Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (Gigerenzer, Todd, and the ABC Research Group; Oxford, 1999); the sequel, Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World, covering information-environment structures and their impact on decision making, is being finalized. In 2005, Todd moved to Indiana University in Bloomington as Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and Psychology and set up the ABC-West lab there. His ongoing research interests cover the interactions and co-evolution of decision making and decision environments, and the ways that people and other animals search for resources―including mates, information, and food―in space and time. - 参加申込
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