It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
