<div dir="ltr">FYI. Some of you might be interested in this. <div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#444444">__________________________________________________________</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Paul Smaldino, Ph.D.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><div style="font-size:16px"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Assistant Professor, </font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Cognitive and Information Sciences</span></div><div style="font-size:16px"><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Member, Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Group</font></div></div><div><font color="#444444" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">University of California, Merced<br></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.smaldino.com/" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#0000ff">http://www.smaldino.com</font></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Vanderschraaf via cis-mts-announce via cis-unit-faculty</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cis-unit-faculty@lists.cogsci.ucmerced.edu">cis-unit-faculty@lists.cogsci.ucmerced.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:47 PM<br>Subject: [cis-unit-faculty] [cis-mts-announce] MTS Seminar October 30<br>To: <a href="mailto:cis-mts-announce@cogsci.ucmerced.edu">cis-mts-announce@cogsci.ucmerced.edu</a><br>Cc: Peter Vanderschraaf via cis-mts-announce <<a href="mailto:cis-mts-announce@lists.cogsci.ucmerced.edu">cis-mts-announce@lists.cogsci.ucmerced.edu</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div>Hello All,<br><br></div>Our upcoming MTS Seminar for Ovtober 30 will be given by Professor Jeffrey Schank of UC Davis.<br><br></div>Please let me know if you would like to meet with Prof. Schank informally between 1:00-2:30 before the seminar or if you would like to join in the post-seminar dinner.<br><br></div>The seminar location will be COB I 110 (our default location) from 3:00-4:30 pm. Seminar title and abstract are below:<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><span class="m_6391046376775535074gmail-im">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Towards a Theory of the Evolution of Fairness</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p>
</span><p class="MsoNormal">Fairness or what may be called fair behavior
is surprisingly common in human and animal societies. By fairness I
mean fair treatment of or distribution of resources to others. Of
particular interest is altruistic fairness in which analyses
of the costs and benefits of fair behavior yield no positive benefit
for behaving fairly. In my talk, I seek to understand how fair
behavior, which lacks benefits at the level of the individual, could
nevertheless evolve. To shed some insight into this problem,
I will present results of three theoretical investigations using
agent-based models into the evolution of altruistic fair behavior: human
behavior in the dictator game, vampire bat blood sharing, and fair play
among juvenile animals of many species. In all
three cases, fair behavior is shown to evolve and do so when multilevel
selection is modeled. I will argue that these three cases strongly
suggest that fair behavior is selected at the social level and that, at
the social level, it is not the expected payoff
of fair behavior that is important but rather the reduction in variance
in payoffs that matters.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="m_6391046376775535074gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter Vanderschraaf<br><br>Professor of Philosophy <br>School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts<br>University of California, Merced<br>5200 North Lake Road<br>Merced, CA 95343<br><br><a href="http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/facultybio.asp?facultyid=126" target="_blank">http://www.ucmerced.edu/<wbr>faculty/facultybio.asp?<wbr>facultyid=126</a></div></div></div>
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