experimentella
Evaluated by a robot. An experimental-ethnographic study of the automation of the recruitment process in a Swedish municipality
In a unique project the researchers will study the differences between an AI-based interview robot's and human recruiters' evaluations of jobseekers in a Swedish municipality during a year.
Moa Bursell: Employment Discrimination Based on Gender and Ethnicity - An Experimental Study
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Moa Bursell, Associate Professor of Sociology and research leader at the Institute for Fu
The scope and limits of implicit bias training: An experimental study with Swedish social workers
Social Science Information Abstract Implicit bias reduction has become an increasingly popular feature of so-called ‘diversity training’ in both public and private organizations. It remains popular, des
Ideology and climate change denial
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 70, Pages 62-65.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.030 Abstract Examining the relation between ideological variables and climate change denial, we found social
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab
Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 206, 2022. Abstract We experimentally test theoretical predictions on equilibrium selection in a two-player coordination (investment) game. Through a minimal visual vari
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation
Political Science Research and Methods Abstract We experimentally explore the role of institutions imposing collective sanctions in sustaining cooperation. In our experiment, players only observe noisy
Completed: Examining and overcoming the psychological barriers to climate action
This project's highly international and interdisciplinary collaboration will create synergies and develop important means to tackle climate change.
Conservative Opposition to Climate Policy May be Partially Threat-Based: A Test and Critique of the Integrated Threat Model of Climate Attitudes
Journal of Applied Social Psychology Abstract One explanation for the link between political conservatism and rejection of the science and solutions of climate change is based on perceived threats. Yet,NNN
Magnus Bygren
I am professor in Sociology at Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. My research currently aligns with three overlapping themes: (1) the existence and degrees of discrimination within differen
Moa Bursell
I am a researcher in sociology and research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also teaching at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. I received my doctorate at Stockholm U
