Should I listen to you – or not?
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| free of charge |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| English |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
| Part of: Meet the Scientist |
Should I listen to you? Or should I ignore you when making up my mind? And what factors shape my decision-making?
Questions like these are the field of behavioral researchers from the Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. Here, psychologists, computer scientists, biologists, neuroscientists, educational scientists, philosophers, and physicists work together to find out more about collective intelligence and human rationality.
One of these researchers is Ralf Kurvers. He has developed an interactive survey for the exhibition “After Nature” that aims at finding out more about decision-making processes in social environments – particularly, the value of “social information”. Questions he is trying to answer are, for instance: Do younger individuals use more social information than older generations? Are there differences across cultures in their use of social information? And is it, in general, good or bad to use social information?
In the series “Meet the Scientist”, Ralf Kurvers presents data collected in the Humboldt Lab over the last six months. He will give insights into his findings and the fascinating field of collective psychology.
Ralf Kurvers is a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence” and head of the research area on collective intelligence at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. After graduating in Forest and Nature Conservation (B.A.) and Ecology and Management (Master of Science) in the Netherlands, he received a postgraduate degree in Philosophy from Radboud University. In 2006-07, he was a research associate in behavioural ecology at the Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell. In 2011, he earned a PhD at the Resource Ecology Group at Wageningen University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in 2015, where he has since been focusing on collective and individual decision-making.