Workshop Schedule
The Formation of Beliefs
University of California, Irvine
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
Social Sciences Plaza A, Room 2112
Friday, March 10, 2017
9:15 am – 6:00 pm
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9:15 am – 9:30 am Welcome remarks by Don Saari (UCI IMBS) and Jean-Paul
Carvalho (UCI Economics)
9:30 am – 10:15 am Bill Branch (UCI Economics): Restricted Perceptions and Endogenous Volatility
10:15 am – 11:00 am Stergios Skaperdas (UCI Economics): Beliefs and Identity
11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:15 am Elizabeth Loftus (UCI Social Ecology, Law): Illusions of Belief and Memory
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser): Applying 'Theory of Mind': Theory and Experiments
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Michael McBride (UCI Economics): Theory of Mind Ability and Cooperation in the Prisoner's
Dilemma
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Michael Birnbaum (CS Fullerton Psychology): Formation of beliefs based on sources of
evidence: Diagnosticity, bias, and judge's point of view
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm Cole Williams (UCI Economics): Echo Chambers: Disagreement in Bayesian Learning
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Closing remarks and reception