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Ernst Fehr on the individual and society at seminar
Ernst Fehr On the 7th of December 2012 the tipped Nobel Prize-candidate and Professor of Economics Ernst Fehr came to visit the Institute for Futures Studies in order to hold the seminar "The Weave of
Near-repeat shootings in contemporary Sweden 2011 to 2015
Security Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, pp 73–92, doi:10.1057/s41284-017-0089-y Abstract The concept of near-repeat patterns illustrates how crimes are clustered in space and time, with a crime event often s
Why Wear Blinders? Boonin and the Narrow Approach to the Non-identity Problem
Law, Ethics and Philosophy vol. 7, 102-126 Abstract Boonin endorses reasoning that leads to what he calls the Implausible Conclusion regarding when future-directed choices that at first glance seem to i
Demographically Based Global Income Forecast up to the Year 2050
Demographic projections of age structure and correlations with GDP and GDP growth are used to study the forecasting properties of demographically based models. Extending the forecasts to 2050 suggests
Explosive violence: A near-repeat study of hand grenade detonations and shootings in urban Sweden.
European Journal of Criminology. doi.org/10.1177/1477370818820656 Abstract Hand grenade attacks have increasingly been reported in Sweden. However, to date no research on the topic exists. The present st

Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour
Why do we cooperate? This project studies drivers of cooperation, generosity and pro social behaviour.
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
Is conservative opposition to climate change threat-based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes
British Journal of Social Psychology Abstract Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perce
A Game of Stars: Active SETI, radical translation and the Hobbesian trap
Futures Volume: 101, pp. 46–54. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2018.06.007 Abstract Among scholars dedicated to Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the risks and possibilities of actively contac
Explaining health disparities between heterosexual and LGB adolescents by integrating the minority stress and psychological mediation frameworks: Findings from the TRAILS study
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(9), 1767–1782. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10964-020-01206-0 Abstract Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents experience elevated levels of inteN