How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

CA✩ FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC Perspectives on Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Are We Collapsing? A Review of Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

se; what distinguishes these experiments is that Plott assigned musical notes to each bid. The higher the bid, the higher the associated note. A bubble sounded like a child plinking at the upper end of a xylophone. Amid this plinking, bidders became edgy and placed extremely low bids. These first few low bids produced deep, primitive drumbeats that appeared to come from a distant source. They p...

Throne Name in the Achaemenid period

The Achaemenid kings after Darius I elected Darius, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes as their throne name, when they were nominating or substituting for succession. Each of these kings has chosen one of these names according to what happen for they before they reached the king's throne, how to achieve the throne and based on their design and program. These names are not personal and real names, but they ...

Adaptive Agents in Dynamic Games : Negotiating in Diverse Societies

We address the problem of creating agents that can negotiate in an environment where adapting to the norms of the society is a significant factor to performing well. We focus on the Social Ultimatum Game, a multi-agent multi-round extension of the Ultimatum Game, a classical game-theoretic problem which has been studied for decades due to the variability of the behavior it elicits. We create te...

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...