Isabela Hazin

I have a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and a master’s degree in Human Evolution and Biology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. At the Institute , led by and . This project is concerned with the question of how people's opinions on moral issues change over time. More specifically, if this change is mediated by arguments based on Moral Foundations – in a nutshell, whether moral positions (e.g., "against the death penalty") that are more strongly linked to harm and fairness arguments (e.g., "otherwise someone is hurt") spread more easily than those less strongly linked to such arguments. My main job is to help collect, clean, and analyze moral opinion data.

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

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Patrik Lindenfors

I am an Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, where I also got my PhD, but have for the last years mainly worked at the Centre for the Study of

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

Why do some democratic transitions succeed and others do not? We attempt to identify which sequences lead to full and stable democracy and which sequences do not.

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Natuschka Lee,microbiologist and an astrobiologist, with a PhD degree in Biotechnology from Lund Univ

i:  Economics and Philosophy Vol. 36:1 AbstractCritical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnant Conclusion and the Sadistic Conclusion in population

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Abstract The argument from queerness is one of the most important arguments for moral error theory. Moral error theory holds that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed o

An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on