Title: Some topics regarding the evolution of human sociality
This talk will first introduce the behavioural
synchrony model: a two-level agent-based model of collective action
coordination, followed by the overview of three applications: social
stratification, social brain, and language. The second
half of the talk will focus on two empirical questions concerning ego
networks: the universality of close friendship, and the role of
propinquity in storytelling.
Tamas David-Barrett is interdisciplinary
behavioural scientist with a grounding in economics and evolutionary
anthropology. His theoretical work concerns the evolution of social
traits that allow the emergence of large and complex human
societies. His empirical work concerns ego centred social interactions,
in particular the evolution of close friendship, network effects in
pair choice, and friendship-kinship trade-offs. Tamas David-Barrett is a
post-doc in Experimental Psychology of University
of Oxford, and economics fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Neils Bohr Common Room, Schuster Building, All Welcome
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