[CSSSA Webinar] Beyond Collective Intelligence: Collective Adaptation - Dr. Mirta Galesic

We are very excited to host Mirta Galesic presenting "Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation."
Abstract:
I will describe a conceptual framework that we have recently developed for studying collective adaptation: the process of iterative co-adaptation of cognitive strategies, social environments, and problem structures. Going beyond searching for “intelligent” collectives, we integrate research from different disciplines to start understanding why similar collectives can follow very different and sometimes counterintuitive trajectories. This framework can help social scientists to begin understanding and predicting currently puzzling and often unexpected collective phenomena, from conspiracy theories and extreme polarization to difficulties in addressing climate change and pandemics. We propose different approaches to study collective adaptation, including computational models and empirical data collection. The framework of collective adaptation enables the integration and formalization of knowledge about human collective phenomena and opens doors to a more rigorous, transdisciplinary pursuit of important outstanding questions about human sociality.
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Bio: Mirta Galesic is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Resident Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria and at the Vermont Complex Systems Center, UVM. She studies how simple cognitive mechanisms interact with social and physical environments to produce seemingly complex social phenomena. Her projects focus on developing empirically grounded computational models of social judgments, social learning, collective problem solving, and belief dynamics. She is also interested in how people understand and cope with uncertainty and complexity inherent in many everyday decisions.

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