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Event
- Title:
- ZSL Communicating Science series: Making good decisions
- When:
- 09.02.2010 - 09.02.2010 18.00 h - 19.40 h
- Where:
- Meeting Rooms, ZSL London Zoo - Camden
- Category:
- Lectures
Description
The study of decisions is to ask how and why individuals decide to act in a certain way.
Biologists tend to focus on the why questions: for example, why does a bird looking for food choose to switch between different foraging patches and why does it spend as long as it does at each patch?
Psychologists tend focus their efforts on understanding how: what information does the bird use to decide when to leave and how does it get this information? Current research will be described with the aim of producing practical applications.
By taking an evolutionary perspective on decision-making can we help laypeople and professionals make better decisions? Can we better understand how our 'old brains'—which evolved in a very different environment—respond to our new world? Can understanding the function of behaviour and the psychological mechanisms that underlie it help our conservation efforts?
Organised by Dr Andrew King, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.
ZSL Science and Conservation Events
This event in the 'Communicating Science' series will begin at 6.00pm (doors from 5.00pm) and talks are scheduled to finish at 7.30pm; admission is free and open to everyone (no advance booking or registration required). This event will be held in the ZSL Meeting Rooms and seats will be on a first-come, first-served basis. A dinner with the speakers will follow this event and places must be booked in advance. Please download dinner booking form from ZSL website for further information.
http://www.zsl.org/science/scientific-meetings
Venue
- Venue:
- Meeting Rooms, ZSL London Zoo - Website
- Street:
- Outer Circle
- ZIP:
- NW1 4RY
- City:
- Camden
- State:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
Access is from the Outer Circle, Regent's Park, not through the zoo. However, if you also plan to visit the zoo, please note that zoo opening is from 10:00 every day except Christmas Day. Zoo closing time varies from 16:00 in winter to 17:30 in summer. Please see zsl.org for full details and please note that the zoo may close before the access is open to events in the Meeting Rooms.
Nearest tube stations are Camden Town (15 minute walk); Regent's Park (20 minute walk) or Baker Street (30 minute walk). Bus 274 runs from Marble Arch and Baker Street to Ormonde Terrace or from Oxford Circus or Great Portland Street to Gloucester Gate. Nearby overland train stations are at Euston or Camden Road. Parking is also available on-road outside the venue and ZSL London Zoo is outside the congestion charge area.
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