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Distinguished Lecture Series: Herb Gintis, Santa Fe Institute

Weekly Seminar
Event time: 
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
YINS See map
17 Hillhouse Ave
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

“Principles for the Unification of the Behavioral Science”
Herbert Gintis, Ph.D. of the Santa Fe Institute

The various behavioral sciences have several conflicting models of decision-making and strategic interaction. The failure to adjudicate and resolve the discrepancies among these models indicates a serious breech of the scientific method.  Each of these models is seriously flawed, but all can be modified to produce a unified framework for the behavioral sciences.