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12 April, 2022

The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

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10 March, 2016

Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.

[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo

Type of publication: Books |
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03 May, 2010

Family Policy, Perceived Stress and Work-Family Conflict. A Comparative Analysis of Women in 20 Welfare States

Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st

Type of publication: Working papers | Ingrid Esser and Tommy Ferrarini
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25 January, 2022

Making confident decisions with model ensembles

Philosophy of Science 88(3) 2021 Abstract Many policy decisions take input from collections of scientific models. Such decisions face significant and often poorly understood uncertainty. We rework the s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , R. Bradley, & R. Frigg
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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Jon Elster

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to

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14 December, 2022

AI4People or People4AI? On human adaptation to AI at work

Ai & Society. Curmudgeon paper Abstract There is a disturbing discrepancy between the AI ethics frameworks that highlight the technology’s ability to promote the social good and the relationship bet

Type of publication: Journal articles | Engström, Emma , Jebari, Karim
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08 September, 2023

Cultural systems

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, red. Jamshid J. Tehrani et al. Abstract Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of rel

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jansson, Fredrik , , Buskell, A. & M. Enquist
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09 October, 2020

Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus: Institutional Complexity and Its Challenges to Effectiveness and Legitimacy

Cambridge University Press Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges

Type of publication: Books | Bäckstrand, Karin , , Fariborz, Zelli, Nasiritousi, Naghmeh, Skovgaard, Jakob & Widerberg, Oscar
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23 September, 2024

EU Citizens - Thirty years on. An introduction

Nordisk Socialrättslig Tidskrift/Nordic Social Law Journal 38.2024 Patricia Mindus & Anna-Sara Lind (eds.) Abstract 2023 marked thirty years since European Union citizenship was introduced as the Trea

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mindus, Patricia , Anna-Sara Lind
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10 December, 2024

Environmentalism around the globe. An introduction to the 2020 ISSP environment module and selected country-level findings

International Journal of Sociology Abstract Environmental problems such as climate change, air and water pollution, and biodiversity loss affect humans globally. The International Social Survey Programm

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & M. Hadler et.al.
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