Psychology Colloquium: Tim Hackenberg, Ph.D., Reed College
Thursday, October 9, 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Psychology 136
This event is open only to current Reed students, faculty, and staff.
"Working with and for one another: What laboratory research with rats can teach us about social behavior"
Tim Hackenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Reed College
Social behavior is a topic of enormous scientific importance that spans disciplines from neuroscience to anthropology. In this talk I will describe how research from my field of comparative cognition is contributing to a scientific understanding of social behavior, using some recent work from my lab with rats for illustration. I will focus primarily on three aspects of social behavior – cooperation, reciprocation, and social reward value – and will show how economic/cost-benefit models have fruitfully been applied to such behavior. I will also discuss why rats are especially well suited to a laboratory-based comparative approach to social behavior.
Snacks provided
For more information, contact Dan Reisberg or visit:
http://reed.edu/psychology/colloquium.html.
Submitted by Joan Meyer.
Posted on Oct 1, 2014
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