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Newsletter 24: Sep 27, 2010

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at Columbia

 

Monday, September 27

2.40-3.55, Schermerhorn 200C (Psych Dept Social Snack)

Lara Kammrath (Wilfrid Laurier University)

The Limits of Love: How love often fails to help individuals regulate their behavior in relationships

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2.30-4.00, IAB 1101 (Economic Theory Workshop)

Dale Stahl (University of Texas at Austin)

Between-Game Rule Learning in Dissimilar Symmetric Normal-Form Games (with Ernan Haruvy)

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12.30-2.00, Uris 141 (Management Division Seminar: NOTE that time and place is changed)

Tiziana Casciaro (University of Toronto)

The Co-Evolution of Instrumental and Affective Content in Intraorganizational Task-Related Networks

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Tuesday, September 28

 

12:30-2:00, Uris 307 (Marketing Division Seminar)

Bart de Langhe (Erasmus University)

Price as a Cue for Quality: Cue-Outcome Learning under Homo- and Heteroscedastic Outcome Uncertainty
Abstract

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2:15-3:45, Uris 306 (I.O., Organizations, and Strategy)

John Rust (University of Maryland)

A Dynamic Model of Leap-Frogging Investments and Bertrand Price Competition (with Joseph Harrington, Fedor Iskhakov and Bertel Schjerning)

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Wednesday, September 29

 

12:00-1:30 , Knox Hall 509 (New Pathways for the Social Sciences Colloquium Series)

Glenn C. Loury (Brown University)       

“The Challenge of Mass Incarceration”

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4:10-5:45, Schermerhorn 501 (Psychology Department Colloquia Series)

Alexander Todorov (Princeton University)       

“Using Data-driven Methods to Model Social Perception and Explore its Neural Basis”

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4:15-5:45, IAB 1101 (Applied Microeconomics Seminar)

Alice Henriques (PhD Student)   

Does Social Security Claiming Respond to Incentives? Considering Husbands’ Benefits Separately from His Wives

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Thursday, September 30

 

10:00-11:30, the Sergievsky Center Conference Room on the 19th floor of the Presbyterian Hospital Building  (Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar)

Stephanie Cosentino (CUMC Sergievsky Center)        

“Metacognition and decision making in Alzheimer's disease”

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Upcoming seminars of potential interest at NYU

 

Wednesday, September 29

 

4:00-5:30, Room 517, 19 West 4th St. (Microeconomic Theory Workshop)

Ignacio Esponda (NYU Stern)

Information Aggregation, Learning, and Non-strategic Behavior in Voting Environments

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Weblink of the week

 

An economist and a Nobel Laureate economists claim they have found the perfect salary for happiness.

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-for-happiness-75000-a-year/

 

Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford, claim to find a hidden cost of falling in love and that Facebook friends are a form of mate advertising.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11321282

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8006645/Facebook-friends-are-mating-display.html

 


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