Michael J. Beran, Language Research Center, Georgia State University
Behavioral Economics from the Chimpanzee's Perspective
Wednesday March 26, Psychology Auditorium, 6.00 PM
Michael J. Beran is a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia State University and the Associate Director of the Language Research Center. He has published over 120 journal articles over 25 edited books, including the recent Foundations of Metacognition (Oxford University Press). One the foremost experts on primate cognition, he will be discussing recent work with chimpanzees on a range of judgment, reasoning, and decision making tasks designed to illuminate commonalities with human behavior. The results of these studies provide important insights into the evolutionary origins of human behavior and cognition, and illustrate the cross-species utility of behavioral economics.