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18 September, 2024

Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy

Regulation & Governance Abstract As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generisand have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make indu

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & Tim Bartley
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11 December, 2019

Postdoctoral researcher studying the psychological significance of online recommendations

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in a project that aims to empirically investigate the psychological impact of online recommendation systems.

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11 December, 2019

Social Science Postdoctoral Researcher to Study the Diffusion of AI

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Predicting the diffusion of AI-applications”.

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21 January, 2014

New method brings clarity to global economic and political change

Researchers at the Institute for Futures Studies and Uppsala University have developed a new method for studying complex social processes. The method makes it easy to discover dynamical patterns and re

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23 January, 2020

Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid

Plats: Hazeliussalen på Hasselbacken, Hazeliusvägen 20, StockholmPris: 100 krKöp biljett här: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demokratin-i-klimatkrisens-tid-tickets-90980901325 “Även de bästa demokratier f

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16 September, 2024

Managing values in climate science

Plos Climate Abstract Climate science has been deeply affected by social and political values in the last fifty years [1]. If we focus on climate denial and obfuscation, we might see the influence of va

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe
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02 October, 2024

The refinement paradox and cumulative cultural evolution: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity

PLOS Computational Biology Abstract Social learning is common in nature, yet cumulative culture (where knowledge and technology increase in complexity and diversity over time) appears restricted to huma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Miu, E., Rendell, L., Bowles, S., Boyd, R., Cownden, D., Enquist, M., et al
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09 June, 2014

The Dynamics of Democracy, Development and Cultural Values

PLoS ONE 9(6): e97856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097856 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097856 A short summary: Over the past decades many countries have experienced r

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spaiser, Viktoria; Ranganathan, Shyam; Mann, Richard P.; Sumpter, David J.T.
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10 September, 2020

Whatever You Want: Inconsistent Results is the Rule, Not the Exception, in the Study of Primate Brain Evolution

PLoS ONE Abstract Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Lind, Johan & Wartel, Andreas
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23 November, 2022

The social values of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden

Plos One Abstract Concerns have been raised that immigrants coming to Europe bring fundamentally different social values, affecting the more liberal receiving societies negatively. However, the topic of

Type of publication: Journal articles | Vartanova, Irina , , Tibajev, Andrey, Puthoopparambil, Soorej & Birgitta Essén Strimling, Pontus , , Tibajev, Andrey, Puthoopparambil, Soorej & Birgitta Essén
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