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Gustaf Arrhenius elected to a council which will help government with sustainability
During the Swedish politician's week in Visby, the government decided to appoint a scientific council for sustainable development. The council will strengthen the link between politics and academia. Th
David Chalmers: From the Matrix to the Metaverse (With a Little Help From AI)
Part of the Problems of Philosophy in VR-conference hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies in May 2023. David Chalmers' book Reality+ takes as its starting point the recent advances in AI and com
Searching for successful integration – presentation of a an assessment of projects which aim to help young adults and immigrants to find employment
A comparison between projects financed by the European Social Fund and Arbetsförmedlingen. The seminar will be held in Swedish at Ingenjörshuset, Malmskillnadsgatan 46 in Stockholm. Breakfast will be s
Denial of anthropogenic climate change: Social dominance orientation helps explain the conservative male effect in Brazil and Sweden
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 98, Pp. 184-187. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.020 Abstract Political conservatives and males are more likely to deny human influence on climate change. In
Modelling as a basis for decisions with Joe Roussos
Policymakers often rely on models in order to help them plan ahead - this has been frequently discussed during the corona pandemic where new facts have changed the prerequisites for the healthcare sys
How and why do we discriminate?
At last Friday’s research seminarKatrin Ausprung from the Department of History and Sociology at Konstanz University in Germany came to talk to us about her reserach on discrimination in housing marke
Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service
Research report 2014/1, 115 p. The European Social Fund (ESF) has complemented the Swedish Employment Service’s work assisting job seekers in finding new jobs, by financing projects specifically design
Completed: Improved health
With the help of big data and AI, children and young people in the risk zone for ill health can be identified for individually tailored efforts. The project is done in Angered.
Social norms and collective threats
Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.
Existential risk to humanity
Existential risks are those risks that threaten the entire future of humanity - not just the present generation, but all future generations. Despite their importance, issues surrounding human extincti
