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Do you think you are prejudiced? How often do you let other people influence your choices? Join us for exciting discussions about how we perceive and judge people, how we are persuaded by politicians and salesmen, and how our brain shapes our society, policies and laws. We will also have games and amazing prices to be won! This event will be held on the ground floor.
How to make a super-smart crowd
Dr Bahador Bahrami
(Crowd Cognition Group Leader)
Crowds have recently been making notoriously controversial collective decisions. We are told that social media are responsible for this by promoting herd mentality and creating echo chambers. I will describe a recent discovery where we found that, if done correctly, herding and mentality can combine to help crowds achieve remarkable accuracy in their collective choice.
Invisible Minds
Dr Lasana Harris
(Senior Lecturer in Social Cognition)
People have the ability to differentiate humans from
non-humans because human perception involves an inference about the other person’s mind. However, people sometimes fail to infer the minds of other people, and can even infer the minds of things that do not have minds. This flexible perception makes human beings unique amongst the animal kingdom, and underlies our complex cultural practices, ultra-social behaviour, and devastating violent behaviour. This talk explores this fundamentally human ability, and discusses implications for economic exchange, policy, and human atrocities.
non-humans because human perception involves an inference about the other person’s mind. However, people sometimes fail to infer the minds of other people, and can even infer the minds of things that do not have minds. This flexible perception makes human beings unique amongst the animal kingdom, and underlies our complex cultural practices, ultra-social behaviour, and devastating violent behaviour. This talk explores this fundamentally human ability, and discusses implications for economic exchange, policy, and human atrocities.
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