10th Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture

Can the collapse of the world financial markets be explained in part by human evolutionary history? Are human economic decisions–rational & irrational–determined as much by nature as by intellect? Psychology professor Laurie R. Santos delves into questions about human economic behavior and decision-making through her behavioral studies of capuchin monkeys.

Dr. Santos is an associate professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of Yale University’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory.