Social decision making: from neuroscience to culture
（社会决策制定：从神经科学到文化）
主讲人：George Christopoulos 职务/职称：助理教授
单位：新加坡南洋理工大学 参加对象：心理系全体师生
举办地点：阳光房 举办时间：2016.12.19
内容摘要：
Decision-making is a central function of the human brain and social life overall. Understanding this complex function necessitates the integration of multiple methods and approaches, ranging from neuro-computational methods, game theory and lab experiments to social psychology and culture science. In my lab, we adopt such an approach allowing us to understand decision making at multiple levels. Firstly, (i) I will present evidence describing human brain signals that are sensitive to basic decision making parameters (money and risk). Subsequently, (ii) additional neuroimaging studies explain how competition and cooperation are represented in the human brain; how trust is a form of “social risk”; and how social influence impacts risky decision making.Finally, (iii) I will present more recent work examining how culture can act as a maternal attachment figure and how Asian culture affects decision making. I will finish with a call for the establishment of a multi-disciplinary network of Asian-based researchers aiming in the improvement of mental health via a better understanding of the interaction between the built environment, culture and human neurobiology.
决策制定是人类大脑和社会生活中的一个中心功能。了解这项复杂的功能，需要整合多种方式与方法，包括神经计算方法、博弈论、实验室实验、社会心理学及文化科学。在我的实验中，我们采用以下方法，让我们能够了解多层次的决策制定。首先，（一）我将提出证据，描述对基本决策参数（货币和风险）敏感的人类大脑信号。随后，（二）补充的神经影像学研究解释了人类大脑如何进行竞争与合作；信任如何成为一种“社会风险”；以及社会影响如何影响风险决策的制定。最后，（三）我将提出更多的最新研究，研究文化在母亲与孩子之间的依恋关系中如何产生作用以及亚洲文化如何影响决策制定。文末，我将呼吁通过更好地理解建筑环境、文化与人类神经生物学之间的关系，以改善心理健康为主旨，建立亚洲研究人员的多学科网络。