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24 November, 2017
Completed: Climate ethics and future generations

Completed: Climate ethics and future generations

What should the current generation do about climate change when our decisions do not only affect how future generations will live, but also who and how many people will exist?

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11 September, 2020

Spatial Numerical Associations by Modality: the Differences Between Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Numerical Representations

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72 (10), 2423-2436 Abstract During the last decades, there have been a large number of studies into the number-related abilities of humans. As a result, we kn

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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17 August, 2018

Children and the right to vote

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
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30 June, 2013

Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (3) 2 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/2.html Abstract Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to behave differently towards strangers based only on

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fredrik Jansson
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14 September, 2022

Democracy and values in science

Political philosophy meets philosophy of science Philosophers of science have long discussed whether the core activities of science can be free from non-epistemic values (this term is used broadly to i

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05 May, 2023

Dunbar’s number deconstructed

Biology Letters 17: 20210158 Abstract A widespread and popular belief posits that humans possess a cognitive capacity that is limited to keeping track of and maintaining stable relationships with approxi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , ; Wartel, A & J Lind
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11 January, 2016

World Values Survey

The World Values ​​Survey (WVS) is a worldwide network of researchers studying values ​​and their impact on social and political life. The network mainly collects data on people's values ​​via extensi

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16 November, 2017

Poor Kids? Economic Resources and Adverse Peer Relations in a Nationally Representative Sample of Swedish Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, First online, DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0747-8 Abstract There is limited knowledge on the impact of economic resources on adverse peer relations during adolescence. This st

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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24 March, 2023
Household-distributed national accounts: New perspectives on the distribution of income and wealth in Sweden, 1930-2020

Household-distributed national accounts: New perspectives on the distribution of income and wealth in Sweden, 1930-2020

This project examines new perspectives on economic inequality in Sweden.

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24 March, 2022

Policy brief: 300 000 from Ukraine wants to come to Sweden

According to a new Policy Brief by Swedish Delmi, a third of all Ukrainians - 12 million - wanted to move permanently to another country when asked by Gallup World Poll in summer 2021. 300 000 of them

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