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06 February, 2018

Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process

Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Mícheál de Barra Eriksson, Kimmo , , Mícheál de Barra
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10 March, 2016

Group differences in broadness of values may drive dynamics of public opinion on moral issues

Mathematical Social Sciences, 77, 1-8. Abstract Here we propose the idea that the success of an argument in favor of an issue position should depend on whether the argument resonates with the audience’s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , Eriksson, Kimmo
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27 June, 2018

Using Register Data to Estimate Causal Effects of Interventions: An Ex Post Synthetic Control-Group Approach

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 45, pp.50-55. Abstract Aims:It is common in the context of evaluations that participants have not been selected on the basis of transparent participation criteria,

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , & Ryszard Szulkin
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10 January, 2019

Perceptions of discrimination against Muslims. A study of formal complaints against public institutions in Sweden.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Published online. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1561250  Abstract While discrimination in the labour market, housing and consumer domains has been studied extensi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa
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04 September, 2020

What to lobby on? Explaining Why Large American Firms Lobby on the Same or Different Issues

Business and Politics Abstract What determines whether or not firms lobby on the same policy issues? Scholars offer two broad answers to this question. Firms that are (1) similar or (2) connected throug

Type of publication: Journal articles | Selling, Niels
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27 February, 2025

Evidence from 43 countries that disease leaves cultures unchanged in the short-term

Nature, Scientific Reports Abstract Did cultures change shortly after, and in response to, the COVID-19 outbreak? If so, then in what way? We study these questions for a set of macro-cultural dimensions

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , , Pasin, G.L., Szekely, A., Guido, A. & E. Polizzi di Sorrentino Andrighetto, Giulia , , Pasin, G.L., Szekely, A., Guido, A. & E. Polizzi di Sorrentino
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17 March, 2021

A patch to the possibility part of Gödel’s Ontological Proof

in Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 2 AbstractKurt Gödel’s version of the Ontological Proof derives rather than assumes the crucial (yet controversial) Possibility Claim, that is, the claim that it is possib

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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14 August, 2024

Public services demokratiska uppdrag. Fri åsiktsbildning och offentligt förnuft

Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 126:2, 355–372 Abstract The democratic significance of public broadcasting corporations has gained renewed urgency as a result of developments in the outside world and the ong

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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30 January, 2020

Book release: Stefan Svallfors - The Inner World of Research

Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess

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19 April, 2017

A popular misapplication of evolutionary modeling to the study of human cooperation

Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 421–427. Abstract To examine the evolutionary basis of a behavior, an established approach (known as the phenotypic gambit) is to assume that the b

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Daniel Cownden. Strimling, Pontus , & Daniel Cownden.
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