Colloquium – Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Peter Bearman
Date:Lincoln NE 68508
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This talk considers a set of findings from our research program that captures neural and social network data at multiple time points for different groups, most importantly, a group of students who volunteered to organize workers in very difficult social situations on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, in the Summer of Respect project. We first identify a neural mechanism for the reproduction of hierarchy. We then identify a neural mechanism for the emergence of affective reciprocity, the building block of social solidarity. We show that we can predict from neural signatures who group members will like five months in the future. We extend this work to a discussion of transitivity, or balance, and therefore identify neural signatures for the three features of human social structure — hierarchy, pair-formation, and balance — which, together, distinguish us from other social animals.
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