With my interdisciplinary training in social and natural sciences at the University of California, Davis, I am interested in human social organization, and how a variety of forces influence patterns of cooperation and conflict. I conducted research in Tanzania, East Africa to investigate how culture influences cooperation.  I also have conducted numerous experiments in the area of behavioral economics to understand altruism, fairness, and cooperation.  My teaching experience was diverse: criminology, social psychology, statistics, anthropology, and conflict studies. Most of my work has a foundation in cultural evolutionary theory developed by Peter Richerson.  

After an exciting academic career, I shifted my energy to applied efforts: data science, and medical/technical writing.  Visit my consulting site at www.data-decide.com       Resume

                                                            bmpaciotti@gmail.com
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