Prof. Dr. Vincent Buskens has been a Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Utrecht University since 1 May 2011. On 13 February 2014, he gave his inaugural lecture titled "Cooperation in Context: Experimental Sociology 2.0." Buskens leads the research line Cooperation in Social and Economic Relations at the Department of Sociology and he is a member of the national research school ICS. His most prominent research focuses on the various forms of cooperation within our society. More specifically, he researches the impact of social networks on cooperation. Some networks facilitate cooperation better than others. He tries to explain what exactly makes one network show itself more suitable than the other.
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Game Theory
Social Networks
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Experimental Sociology
Mathematical Sociology
Theoretical Sociology
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Prof. Dr. Vincent Buskens has been a Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Utrecht University since 1 May 2011. On 13 February 2014, he gave his inaugural lecture titled "Cooperation in Context: Experimental Sociology 2.0." Buskens leads the research line Cooperation in Social and Economic Relations at the Department of Sociology and he is a member of the national research school ICS. His most prominent research focuses on the various forms of cooperation within our society. More specifically, he researches the impact of social networks on cooperation. Some networks facilitate cooperation better than others. He tries to explain what exactly makes one network show itself more suitable than the other.
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