Collaborative Research: Primate and Human Social Decision-Making

尽管有很多关于动物和人类如何解决社会问题的研究，但很少有研究利用可比较的程序、结果或措施，因此对决策行为的进化知之甚少。在这个项目中，首席研究员将调查灵长类动物，包括人类，如何处理与其他群体成员互动中出现的问题。了解结果是什么，以及它们在不同物种之间如何变化，对社会进化理论和我们对社会决策的理解具有重要意义。该研究将检查涉及代价高昂的冲突和信任的战略决策，改变框架的合作或竞争。研究结果将为人类决策行为的进化提供线索。这项研究将有助于澄清非人灵长类动物与人类在社会决策方面的异同，并将更恰当地将非人行为置于人类行为的背景下，并了解人类经济决策产生的根源。除了理论价值之外，这项跨学科研究将被整合到查普曼大学经济科学研究所面向研究生、本科生和高中生的暑期研讨会中，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、研究生和本科生提供培训。

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.