Within which occupations is discrimination of applicants by ethnicity more common? We examine differences in discrimination and seek knowledge about what mechanisms lie behind this.

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Published online. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1561250  Abstract While discrimination in the labour market, housing and consumer domains has been studied extensi

Kimmo Eriksson, Mälardalen University According to social intuitionist research, moral (or “injunctive”) norms are often not rationally motivated. Where do these norms come from then? We propose that o

Filip Olsson

I work as a researcher in sociology at the Institute for Futures Studies. In the fall of 2024, I defended my dissertation, Culture and Implicit Cognitions, at Stockholm University. My dissertation focu

The Monist, Volume 107, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 176–189 Abstract The possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) exists despite no observed evidence, and the risks and benefits of actively sea

Ethnic stereotypes over time - a Nordic comparison

How has stereotypes of immigrant and minority groups evolved in Finland and Sweden? Comparative text analysis is used to understand how they have changed since 1945.

Göran Duus-Otterström

I received my PhD in political science from the University of Gothenburg 2008. Since 2021, I am a professor in the department of political science at the same university. I work on the theory of justi

Nature Communications  Abstract The health co-benefits of CO2 mitigation can provide a strong incentive for climate policy through reductions in air pollutant emissions that occur when targeting shared s

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.  Research seminar with Bob Goodin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political theory at the Austra for his "acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.wherehowmechanismsJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the .