Title: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis   Abstract: This talk will cover work integrating theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis to examine how people track, encode, and are influenced by the social networks that they inhabit. One set of studies tests if, when, […]

Speaker: Scott E. Page (University of Michigan, Santa Fe Institute). (website) Title: Organizations and Cultural Coherence Abstract: I construct a mathematical framework to elucidate and analyze the interdependence between structural features of an organization and some of its cultural attributes.  By the structure of an organization, I mean whether individual actions are assigned hierarchically, agreed upon through […]