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Akos Szegofi is giving a course about misinformation at the Universidad de los Andes

August 15, 2023

This term (Fall, 2023), Akos Szegofi is teaching in Bogota, Columbia.

Angarika Deb gave a talk on gender inequalities at the O.P. Jindal Global University

August 15, 2023

Angarika Deb gave a talk at the O.P. Jindal Global University, where she was the 100th speaker at the university's Guest Talk series. She spoke about gender inequalities, how they emerge in human populations across the world, and how these inequalities can be managed by social norms, referring to anthropological work on egalitarian hunter-gatherer populations.

Poster on community size and the cultural evolution of norms of fairness

August 1, 2023

Angarika Deb presented a poster at CogSci 2023, the 44th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society ( July 26 – 29, Sydney), critically assessing claims made in

Henrich, J. et al. (2010). Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment. science327 (5972), 1480-1484.

Christophe at the Joint Action Meeting

July 14, 2023

Christophe Heintz contributed with two talks and one poster to 9th Joint Action Meeting (JAM 9), Budapest, Hungary, July 10-12, 2023.

His first talk was called "Smoothing coordination, the Ladyginian way and the Grician way" and presented joint work with Thom Scott-Phillips.

His second talk was called "The commitment loop" and presented joint work with Francesca Bonalumi.

His poster was about precedence and Schelling salience in coodination. It was  presenting joint work with Liuba Voronina.

Angarika is a visiting research student at FLAME University, Pune, India

July 1, 2023

Angarika Deb received a CEU Doctoral Research Grant to conduct research for five months (July - November, 2023) at FLAME University, Pune, India. She will work with Dr Abhishek Sahai on the theory of relative deprivation, and how it modulates perceptions of fairness.