Mason’s Center for Social Complexity…

I don’t often brag about our own centers on Advanced Studies, but can’t resist a pointer to the new web site of our Center for Social Complexity, here. And while I’m going there, I might as well jump the shark and offer a pointer to our Department of Computational Social science, here. The faculty of the center and the department overlap to a large extent and represent the Institute’s scientific program in the area of social cognition. Over the years, the Institute’s existing strength in neuroscience has led perhaps to the wrong notion that Krasnow is a pure brain research institute. In fact, we are very much an institute for advanced study and the waterfront of Krasnow research stretches from theoretical physics to poppy farming in Afghanistan…