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SUMMARY:Fairness\, trust &amp\; reciprocity: insights from decision neuros
 cience - Professor Alan Sanfey\, Donders Institute for Brain\, Cognition\,
  and Behavior
DTSTART:20140124T163000Z
DTEND:20140124T180000Z
UID:TALK49394@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Our lives consist of a constant stream of decisions 
 and choices\, from the mundane to the highly consequential. The standard a
 pproach to experimentally examining decision-making has been to examine ch
 oices with clearly defined probabilities and outcomes\, however it is an o
 pen question as to whether decision models describing these situations can
  be extended to choices that must be made by assessing the intentions and 
 preferences both of oneself and of another social partner. This class of s
 ocial decision-making offers a useful approach to examine more complex for
 ms of decisions\, which may in fact better approximate many of our real-li
 fe choices. I will present both behavioral\, pharmacological\, and neural 
 data from several experiments where we have used existing and novel econom
 ic games to observe how players decide in real\, consequential\, social co
 ntexts\, and will discuss how we can use these brain insights to build bet
 ter models of human social preferences\, incorporating both psychological 
 and neurobiological constructs. \n\n\nBio: Alan Sanfey is a Principal Inve
 stigator at the Donders Institute for Brain\, Cognition and Behavior at Ra
 dboud University Nijmegen\, the Netherlands. Previously he held positions 
 as Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona\, and as
  a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. 
 in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado\, and an undergrad
 uate honors degree in Psychology from University College Dublin\, Ireland.
  He currently heads the Decision Neuroscience group at the Donders Institu
 te\, with his research studying both individual and interactive decision-m
 aking by combining the methods of behavioral experiments\, functional neur
 oimaging\, and formal economic models. A further goal of his group is to u
 se the knowledge gleaned from these studies to inform public policy debate
 s. \n\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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