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Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution
Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest
Bo Malmberg: Spatial polarization in Sweden: Patterns, driving forces and consequences
Research seminar with Bo Malmberg, Professor of Geography at Stockholm University. RegisterAbstractAt this seminar, Bo Malmberg discusses what polarization looks like in Sweden, what is driving polariz
Family Formation and Men’s and Women’s Attainment of Workplace Authority
2012. Social Forces, 90, 795-816.
Interaction domains and suicides: A population-based panel study of suicides in the Stockholm metropolitan area, 1991–1999
2009. Social Forces 87(2): 713–740.
Julie Jebeile: Technological innovation facing climate change
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Julie Jebeile, SNF professor at the Institute of Philosophy of Universität Bern. She is a philosophe
Family Formation and Men’s and Women’s Attainment of Workplace Authority
2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g
International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP)
Many wealthy societies face challenges and developing countries tend to attempt to imitate their solutions in order to end poverty and hardships instead of finding new models. Can we hope for a better society in the future?
Declining willingness to fight for one’s country: The individual-level basis of the long peace
Journal of Peace Research, vol. 52, no. 4, p. 418-434. Abstract The Democratic Peace thesis suggests that the absence of war between major powers since 1945 is caused by the spread of democracy. The
Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals
"Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals", Journal of professions and organizations, Advance Access published September 21, 2016, doi: 10.1093/jpo/jow008 Abstract This
The Origins and Maintenance of Female Genital Modification across Africa
Bayesian Phylogenetic Modeling of Cultural Evolution under the Influence of Selection Human Nature, 27(2), 173-200. DOI 10.1007/s12110-015-9244-5 Abstract We present formal evolutionary models for the oristratification appear to play a more important role in the cross-cultural distribution of FGMo. To explain these cases, one must consider cultural evolutionary explanations in conjunction with behavioral ecological ones.We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our study for policies designed to end the practice of FGMo.
