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22 March, 2024

Potential Institutions for Future Generations: What Do Current Generations Think?

Results from a Six-Country Public Opinion Survey 32 s. Summary Policymakers, civil society organizations, and academics are proposing the establishment of new institutions for better representing the rig

Type of publication: Other | Fairbrother, Malcolm
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13 November, 2025

“AI’s inherent incomprehensibility is a unique flaw.”

Being able to explain how something works has value, but being able to explain whyit works is enormously more valuable, because that knowledge can be built upon. The fact that AI is inherently incompreherecently. In this interview below she explains further.

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12 January, 2016

Courses & conferences

In order to offer more in-depth knowledge in research methodology and application the Institute organizes courses open to researchers and to people who use research in their work. In addition, we orga

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09 June, 2017

Research areas

The Institute for Futures Studies is an institute for social science research focusing on issues deemed important for the future.

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04 July, 2023

Completed: Preferences for coordination - their function and evolutionary foundation

Using behavioral game theory, this project aims to provide a deeper understanding of how collective action decisions are made and why people make the choices they do.

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11 January, 2016

Research

Research at the Institute is structured around a research program, usually conducted over a period of six years. What they all have in common is the futures perspective and the fact that they are all

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15 December, 2021

The bias of adapted patients in practice

Journal of Law and the Biosciences, vol. 8 issue 2 Abstract Current patients seem to be subject to certain biases when it comes to the report of their utility. Eyal’s proposal is to calibrate current pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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25 January, 2016

Calendar

The Institute conducts program activities such as seminars, conferences and training with both current issues and research as a basis. If you want to get invitations to our seminars, sign up to our news. 

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11 January, 2024

Vaccine-hesitant people misperceive the social norm of vaccination

PNAS Nexus, 2023, 2, 1–11 Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is one of the main threats to global health, as became clear once more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination campaigns could benefit from appeals

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , Vriens, E. & L. Tummolini
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11 January, 2016
Carina Mood

Carina Mood

My research concerns poverty, inequality, integration and the welfare of children and youth. At the Institute for Futures Studies I am one of the researchers leaders of the current reseach program's t

Professor, Sociology
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