complexity
The Complexity of Mental Integer Addition
in: Journal of Numerical Cognition, Volume 6 (1). AbstractAn important paradigm in modeling the complexity of mathematical tasks relies on computational complexity theory, in which complexity is measur
Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Institutional Complexity and Its Challenges to Effectiveness and Legitimacy
Cambridge University Press Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges
The complexity of crime network data: A case study of its consequences for crime control and the study of networks.
PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119309., doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119309 Abstract The field of social network analysis has received increasing attention during the past decades and has been used to tackle a variety o
Robert Goodin: Structures of Complicity
Structures of Complicity: Consumers, Producers, Suppliers with Professor Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University AbstractUnder certain circumstances, businesses and consumers might be morally
Postdocs at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm
The Institute for Future Studies is looking for three highly qualified postdocs to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research program on modeling social processes. The program is directed by P
Arne Jarrick & Maria Wallenberg Bondesson: The cultural dynamics of law-making – A world history
Prof. Arne Jarrick and PhD. Maria Wallenberg Bondesson, Centre for the study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies.ABSTRACTOur presentation gives significant hig
Chapter 26: The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition
In Zaluski, W., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & A. Dyrda (eds.) Research Handbook on Legal Evolution. Elgar Abstract This chapter maps the evolution of legal positivism (LP) with an eye to both continuous and
The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity
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
A Future of Expulsions
Main speaker: Saskia Sassen Today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, but more accurately in terms of expulsion—from p
Differences in sexual identity dimensions between bisexual and other sexual minority individuals: Implications for minority stress and mental health.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(1), 40-51. DOI: 10.1037/ort0000369 Abstract Bisexual individuals experience poorer mental health than other sexual minority individuals. One explanation for this