Nora Sánchez Gassen, political scientist and demographer, Nordregio.AbstractThe presentation will analyse how demographic trends such as population aging and international migration have influenced th

in: Nature Communications 12, 1481. AbstractNorm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violation

PNAS Nexus, 2023, 2, 1–11 Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is one of the main threats to global health, as became clear once more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccination campaigns could benefit from appeals

Philosophical transactions A. Royal Society Publishing Abstract Social norms have been investigated across many disciplines for many years, but until recently, studies mainly provided indirect, implicitresearch may move beyond unequivocal praising of social norms as the missing link between selfinterestedbehaviour and observed cooperation or as the explanation for (the lack of) social tipping. It provides the toolkit to understand explicitly where, when and how social norms can be a solution to solve large-scale problems, but also to recognize their limits. This article is part of the theme issue ’Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies’. 

Climate Crisis Norm Entrepreneurs - How successful are they?

Recently, researchers have tried to identify various positive social tipping points that could help societies shift rapidly toward a sustainable, post-carbon future. One of the social tipping interven

USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September 2020. AbstractScholars have long studied the correlation between democracy and development; yet, there is no

Postdoc to do research on social norm change

Norms can be a driver for change, so in order to understand how our societies will develop over time it is important to understand how norms form and change. We are now searching for a postdoc with extra interest in studying this with us at the Institute for Futures Studies!

Social norms may be enforced by individuals informally punishing each other for norm transgressions. But how does society really perceive these informal punishers?

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Viktoria Spaiser and Nicole Nisbett. REGISTERAbstractRecently, researchers have tried to identiJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the.

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora