The Dissenter · 2026-08-06 · 74 min · 9,466 words

#1289 Wataru Toyokawa: Social Learning, Collective Decision-Making, and the Wisdom/Madness of Crowds

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Wataruto Yokawa. He is unit leader at the computational group dynamics collaboration unit at RECAN CBS Tokyo. His research focuses on the computational underpinnings and eco evolution eco evolutionary implications of human social learning and their relationships with group. decision making and collective behavior. And today we're going to explore topics like social learning, collective decision making, the wisdom of crowds and

other related topics. So Doctor Toyokawa, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Hi, Ricardo. Thanks for having me. This is such an honor to talk to you. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. So Лет мі старт від з У і сошолени

uh which aspects of it are you most interested in and perhaps also uh tell us or if uh perhaps I can a ask you uh it as a second in uh as a second question, but uh tell us also a little bit about the methodology that you you use to study social learning. Right, right, yeah.

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