Seminar and Workshop with Hiro Imada (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Centre of Excellence in the Social Sciences (CESS) is pleased to invite you to attend a seminar and workshop led by Hiro Imada from Royal Holloway, University of London.

ISESS SEMINAR:
Title: Intergroup Cooperation and Aggression
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Time: 13:15 – 14:15

Website: https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/isess/seminar/

Location: Old Library, Main Campus, University of Warsaw, Room 308 (Level III), Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

This seminar will be held in English and will take place in person only. There will be no online streaming. No registration is required.

WORKSHOP:
Title: Introduction to Economic Games and oTree
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 10:00 – 14:00
Location: Old Library, Main Campus, University of Warsaw, Room 308 (Level III), Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

Website: https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/isess/workshops/

Registration (until April 13): Registration form

This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to the platform oTree, used for designing online economic game experiments. Please bring a laptop with Python (version 3.1 or above) and your preferred Python IDE (demonstrations will be based on Visual Studio Code).

Given the limited number of spots, we kindly ask that you register only if you are certain you can attend. If you are unable to participate after registering, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your spot to someone else.

More info about events you can find at: https://cess.idub.uw.edu.pl/en/2025/04/workshops-and-seminar-led-by-hiro-imada-from-the-university-of-london/

Speaker Bio:
Hiro Imada is a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a visiting associate professor at the Kochi University of Technology. His research focuses on social and evolutionary psychology, particularly in intergroup contexts. He has worked on various projects exploring indirect reciprocity, intergroup cooperation, and the role of gossip in promoting prosocial behavior. Outside of academia, Hiro is an avid jazz trumpet player and performs regularly with the Runnymede Jazz Orchestra.

Seminar abstract:

Are humans inherently predisposed to cooperate with ingroup members and act aggressively towards outgroup members, even in the absence of instrumental reasons? While it is tempting to assume that ingroup cooperation and outgroup aggression are two sides of the same coin, empirical evidence from psychology, economics, and evolutionary science challenges this view: Research has consistently demonstrated that while people indeed act cooperatively towards those sharing the group membership, outgroup membership does not necessarily provoke aggression. In this lecture, I will discuss recent empirical findings on the psychological processes underlying ingroup cooperation as well as the minimal condition under which outgroup aggression emerges.

This lecture mainly discusses findings from studies using economic games, which are widely used to stylise, abstract, and measure a range of social behaviours such as cooperation and aggression.

Workshop abstract:

In the workshop, I will discuss the applications of economic games and provide a hands-on tutorial on oTree – an open platform for building online interactive economic game studies. Please bring your laptop with Python (v3.1 or above) and a Python IDE of your choice installed (demonstrations will be based on Visual Studio Code).

We look forward to welcoming you to these events.