Implicit Mind: Implicit Cognition and Self-Perception with Petter Johansson

Recording from the Implicit Mind Workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, May 2015.

I am Professor of Analytical Sociology at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University. I am also Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. Before coming to Linköping I was

2011. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106: 028702. We investigate a game-theoretic model of a social system where both the rules of the game and the interaction structure are shaped by the behavior of the agents. We ca

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

If we wish to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse and equitable world, we urgently need a diversity of perspectives to imagine – and to build – better futures. The problems we face today arBased on experiments made at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, this presentation will show how positive futures can be prototyped to inspire change. Using key techniques, processes, methodologies, mindsets and tools, you too can become an active participant in shaping preferred futures!Welcome to a seminar with Marcela Sabino, a foresight strategist, creative director and innovation designer.This seminar is organized by Positive Future and is free upon registration. .

in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason

Do good and do it better. Interview with William MacAskill

Gustaf Arrhenius, director at the Institute for futures studies in Stockholm, interviews philosoper William MacAskill about effective altruism, doing good better.

Peter Hedström has been appointed as Consulting Editor for  Sociological Science (see www.sociologicalscience.com).

How can we in a systematic way understand what is causing better health in people? And how can we most efficiently use the resources of the public sector to turn around the development towards greater

Frontiers in Psychology Abstract The number of books at home is commonly used as a proxy for socioeconomic status in educational studies. While both parents’ and students’ reports of the number of books