Collaborative Research: Primate and Human Social Decision-Making

合作研究：灵长类动物和人类的社会决策

• 批准号: 1123803
• 负责人: Bart Wilson
• 金额: $ 17.99万
• 依托单位: Chapman University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1123803&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Primate; Human; Social

Despite much research regarding how animals and humans solve social problems, few studies have utilized comparable procedures, outcomes, or measures, thus little is known about the evolution of decision-making behavior. In this project, the Principal Investigators will investigate how primates, including humans, deal with problems that arise in interactions with other group members. Understanding what outcomes are achieved, and how they vary across species, has implications for theories of the evolution of sociality and our understanding of social decision-making. The research will examine strategic decisions involving costly conflict and trust, varying the cooperativeness or competitiveness of the frame. The results will provide shed light on the evolution of human decision-making behavior.This research will help to clarify the similarities and differences between nonhuman primates and humans with respect to social decision-making and will more properly place nonhuman behavior in context with human behavior and to understand the roots from which human economic decision making emerged. In addition to the theoretical merits, this interdisciplinary research will be integrated into summer workshops for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students at the Economic Science Institute at Chapman University and disseminated to the general public through partnerships with schools and Zoo Atlanta. It will also provide training for multiple postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students.

尽管有很多关于动物和人类如何解决社会问题的研究，但很少有研究利用类似的程序、结果或措施，因此对决策行为的演变知之甚少。在这个项目中，主要研究人员将研究灵长类动物（包括人类）如何处理与其他群体成员互动中出现的问题。了解所取得的结果以及它们在不同物种之间的差异，对于社会性进化理论和我们对社会决策的理解具有重要意义。该研究将审查涉及代价高昂的冲突和信任的战略决策，改变框架的合作性或竞争力。研究结果将为人类决策行为的演变提供线索。这项研究将有助于阐明非人类灵长类动物和人类在社会决策方面的异同，更恰当地将非人类行为与人类行为放在一起，并了解人类经济决策产生的根源。除了理论优点外，这项跨学科研究还将被纳入查普曼大学经济科学研究所为研究生、本科生和高中生举办的夏季研讨会，并通过与学校和亚特兰大动物园的合作向公众传播。它还将为多名博士后研究员、研究生和本科生提供培训。