Science & Cocktails: Why Do People Fight?
Ma 27/06 - Amsterdam
Tolhuistuin Amsterdam
19:00 - 01:00
Science & Cocktails is a series of public talks by scientists with live music and smoky dry-ice chilled cocktails in your hand. This event will be in English. Be the first to know when the next Science & Cocktails Amsterdam event(s) will take place by subscribing to our newsletter.
19:30h: doors open for cocktails
19:45h: Cavolo Nero (live music)
20:30h: Carsten de Dreu (talk)
Event in English, semi-seated
19:45h: Cavolo Nero (live music)
20:30h: Carsten de Dreu (talk)
Event in English, semi-seated
Why do people fight?
Why do people start and support violence against other groups? Why do people attack others? How are game theory and evolution biology used to study such phenomena? How is the choice to attack influenced by hormones? With dwindling resources (due to climate change), can we expect more violence?
Why do people start and support violence against other groups? Why do people attack others? How are game theory and evolution biology used to study such phenomena? How is the choice to attack influenced by hormones? With dwindling resources (due to climate change), can we expect more violence?
Group conflicts – from small-scale riots to interstate warfare – are wasteful to a degree that is hard to overestimate. At the same time, humans have extraordinary capacities to empathize and cooperate to mutual benefit. How can we reconcile these two seeming opposites?
Behavioral scientist Professor dr. Carsten de Dreu focuses in this talk on the reasons humans have to fight and engage in violent conflict. He will consider discoveries in evolutionary biology, social neuroscience and behavioral economics. Answers may give us novel tools to prevent wasteful conflict and promote constructive exchange among human groups.
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