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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

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen
www.iffs.se Part 2: Comment by Tore Ellingsen In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster replies
www.iffs.se Part 4: Jon Elster answers to comments from Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual age

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster Q&A
www.iffs.se Part 5: Questions from the audience In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated th

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Bengt Hansson
www.iffs.se Part 3: Comment by Bengt Hansson In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than
Social Investment in the Ageing Populations of Europe
Pp. 261-284, Chapter 10 in Morel, Nathalie, Palier, Bruno & Joakim Palme (eds), Towards a social investment welfare state?. Policy Press, Bristol.
Agent-based social simulations for health crises response: utilising the everyday digital health perspective
Frontiers in Public Health Abstract There is increasing recognition of the role that artificial intelligence (AI) systems can play in managing health crises. One such approach, which allows for analysin

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores
How can we understand life on the former Swedish Caribbean colony Saint-Barthélemy? This project aims to add to our undestanding using artistic methods as a complement to the juridical documents available in archives.

Reducing populations' vulnerabilities to mis-disinformation related to scientific content
The purpose of this project is to develop evidence-based strategies to address populations’ vulnerabilities to scientific mis-disinformation.
Different Populations Agree on Which Moral Arguments Underlie Which Opinions
Frontiers in Psychology AbstractPeople often justify their moral opinions by referring to larger moral concerns (e. g., “It isunfairif homosexuals are not allowed to marry!” vs. “Letting homosexuals matraditions!”). Is there a general agreement about what concerns apply to different moral opinions? We used surveys in the United States and the United Kingdom to measure the perceived applicability of eight concerns (harm, violence, fairness, liberty, authority, ingroup, purity, and governmental overreach) to a wide range of moral opinions. Within countries, argument applicability scores were largely similar whether they were calculated among women or men, among young or old, among liberals or conservatives, or among people with or without higher education. Thus, the applicability of a given moral concern to a specific opinion can be viewed as an objective quality of the opinion, largely independent of the population in which it is measured. Finally, we used similar surveys in Israel and Brazil to establish that this independence of populations also extended to populations in different countries. However, the extent to which this holds across cultures beyond those included in the current study is still an open question.