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11 December 2019

Social Science Postdoctoral Researcher to Study the Diffusion of AI

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications”.

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11 December 2019

Postdoctoral researcher studying the psychological significance of online recommendations

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in a project that aims to empirically investigate the psychological impact of on...

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11 December 2019

John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change

Reducing emissions now to stop climate change will be of enormous value for coming generations. In principle this value could...

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26 August 2019

New scientific model can predict moral and political development

Nature Human Behavior, one of the most influential social science journals, is now publishing a groundbreaking study from a S...

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Calendar

29 Jan 2020

David Sumpter: Reasons why we should NOT worry about fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles and Cambridge Analytica
Research Seminar, 29 Jan, 10:00-12:00
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05 Feb 2020

Liberal Nationalism - David Miller, Gina Gustavsson, Yael Tamir, Philippe van Parijs
Open seminar, 05 Feb, 18:00-20:00
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06 Feb 2020

David Miller - TBA
Research Seminar, 06 Feb, 10:00-12:00
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19 Feb 2020

Jeff McMahan: Moral Reasons to Cause Well-Off People to Exist
Research Seminar, 19 Feb, 10:00-12:00
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IFFS Play

Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair in Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
#video, 16 Dec 2019
Thomas Nygren, Uppsala universitet
#video, 16 Dec 2019
Information neglect in judgment and decision-making
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Reasoning like good lawyers or bad philosophers?
#video, 16 Dec 2019
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On revolutions
Journal articles, 2020
Patrik Lindenfors, Armand M. Leroi, Ben Lambert, Matthias Mauch, Marina Papadopoulou, Sophia Ananiadou & Staffan I. Lindberg
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#MeToo, Social Norms, and Sanctions
Journal articles, 2019
Katharina Berndt Rasmussen& Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis
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“There is total silence here”. Ethical competence and inter-organizational learning in healthcare governance
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Erica Falkenström; Höglund, Anna T
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AI Futures

A blog about the social impact of AI

6 Dec 2019

In Search of a PhD Student and a Postdoctoral Researcher to Help Us Predict the Spread of AI in Society

We were very glad to find that our research proposal: "Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications" was one of 16 projects awarded funding…
6 Dec 2019

PhD student position in psychology – Investigating the psychological and social processes that influence the diffusion of AI in society

We are planning to advertise a PhD student position in psychology in collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University in…
3 Dec 2019

Diffusion by Infusion - Has AI Spread by Piggybacking on Mobile Apps?

Figure 1. Piggyback transportation: a train carried by a ferry between Bonn and Oberkassel (1870 - 1914). Source: Stadtarchiv und Stadthistorische Bibliothek,…
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