#718 Moshe Hoffman & Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games; Game Theory and Irrational Human Behavior (Pt. 2)
Dr. Moshe Hoffman is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Lecturer at Harvard’s Department of Economics. He applies game theory, models of learning and evolution, and experimental methods, to try to decipher the (often subconscious and subtle) incentives that shape our social behavior, preferences, and ideologies.
Dr. Erez Yoeli is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he directs the Applied Cooperation Team (ACT). His research focuses on altruism: understanding how it works and how to promote it.
They are both authors of Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior.
This is the second part of our talk about Hidden Games. You can watch the first part here: https://youtu.be/EGEdt6iuSQo.
This time, we cover topics like strategic ignorance; learning, from the perspective of game theory; the hawk-dove game; where rights come from; why apologies work; why people buy luxury items; why people sometimes hide positive traits of achievements; evidence games; repeated prisoner’s dilemma, and human cooperation; how to promote cooperation and altruism; continuous vs. categorical norms, and how they arise; and how and why people develop passions.
Time Links:
Intro
Strategic ignorance
Learning, from the perspective of game theory: reinforcement learning, and social learning
The hawk-dove game, and where (property) rights come from.
Why do apologies work?
Why do people buy luxury items?
Why do people sometimes hide a positive trait or achievement?
Evidence games
Repeated prisoner’s dilemma, and human cooperation
How to promote altruism
Continuous vs. categorical norms, and how they arise
How and why do people develop passions?
Follow Drs. Hoffman, Yoeli, and Burum’s work!
Follow Dr. Hoffman’s work:
Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y7g2ubal
Website: https://tinyurl.com/yboyxvxu
ResearchGate profile: https://tinyurl.com/ybxwknfs
Twitter handle: @Moshe_Hoffman
Follow Dr. Yoeli’s work:
University page: https://bit.ly/3HHH9mg
Website: https://bit.ly/3J4Z3Rz
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/35UHlS2
Twitter handle: @erezyoeli
The book (Hidden Games): https://amzn.to/35WgRPL