Members - Peter Hammerstein

POSITION AT CILS

Steering Committee, PI, Project Coordinator

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Theoretical Biology

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Project 1: Game Theory

 

Over time game theory lost touch with reality, undermining its scientific relevance. The project aims to explore why game theory has created these illusions and how its concepts can be revised in order to achieve a closer match with reality.

 

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Project 2: Social Decision Making I

 

The nature and level of advice-taking in human societies is unmatched in the animal world. We developed a paradigm to investigate how people combine individual learning with advice. Having begun to investigate the neurobiological basis of following advice, we investigate the adaptive value of more complex social learning and decision-making mechanisms and their neurobiological implication in an interdisciplinary cooperation between theoretical neurobiologists and cognitive neuroscientists.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • (forthcoming) 'Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions' (with McElreath, R. Boyd, G. Gigerenzer, A. Glöckner, R. Kurzban, S. Magen, P. Richerson, A. Robson, J. Stevens), in 'Better than Conscious', eds. C. Engel & W. Singer, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • (2006) 'Broken cogs or strategic agents?' (with E.H. Hagen), Science, 304, 964.
  • (2006) 'The strategic view of biological agents' (with E.H. Hagen & M. Laubichler), Biological Theory, 1, 191-4.
  • (2006) 'Cooperating for direct fitness benefits' (with O. Leimar), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 19, 1400-2.
  • (2006) 'Robustness: A key to evolutionary design', Biological Theory, 1, 90-3.
  • (2005) 'The second wave of evolutionary economics in biology' (with E.H. Hagen), Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20: 604-9.
  • (2005) 'Strategic analysis in evolutionary genetics and the theory of games', Journal of Genetics, 84, 7-12.
  • (2002) 'Ants on a Turing trail' (with O. Leimar), Nature, 418, 141-2.
  • (2001) 'Evolutionary adaptation and the economic concept of bounded rationality – a dialogue', in 'Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox, eds. G. Gigerenzer & R. Selten, pp. 71-81. MIT Press.
  • (2000) 'The role fo animal psychology in evolutionary biology', American Behavioral Scientist, 43, 1015-26.
  • (2000) 'Evolution, learning, games and simple heuristics', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 752-3.