An evening of science and music around love and cooperation at the Albion Bookshop.
Trust in a bottle – What molecules rule your social world? (Talk by Diana Prata ***)
What is the secret to end an argument with your partner quicker than ever? Do you believe a popular moral saying can be translated into a mathematical algorithm? What’s happening in your brain when you trust? What can a vampire bat teach you about cooperation and a small rodent about true love? Get ready to accept that nature has your social life under a closer watch than you think!
*** Diana Prata did her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry of King’s College London (KCL), where later she was a Lecturer. She studied how genetic mutations are implicated in mental diseases and was part of the discovery that schizophrenia-risk genes can also predispose to bipolar disorder. She is now head of a research group at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon, which looks into the biological basis of social cognition and its impairment to understand what entices us to cooperate and predict each other’s values and intentions.
With music by the multi-national assemble SAIAS
A mix of Sephardic, Moorish and Iberian melodies with Israeli vocals and flute, Portuguese and Spanish guitars and Galician tambourine.
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