Diagnoses for psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and various depressive disorders are steadily climbing in Sweden and other developed nations. This is particularly worrisome in populations of school chil

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Completed: Predicting the diffusion of artificial intelligence

A framework for predicting the spread of AI applications.

Proceedings of the royal society Biological Sciences Abstract Cultural evolution typically studies how ideas and behaviours spread and change depending on how we learn and from whom. A new model suggest

The new pattern in demographic behavior in the industrialized world, i.e. the “second demographic transition”, appeared in the mid-1960s and spread more recently to the Eastern parts of Europe. This o

Completed: How do human norms form and change?

Many societies are dominated by norms that are, in the long run, harmful to their members. How can these norms change?

2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most

Social norms and collective threats

Do social norms help dealing with collective threats? This project studies the behavior of people in the face of risk, and asks how social norms can motivate people to cooperate.

Completed: Cultural Evolution in Digital Societies

This project will build on evolutionary models and insights to study how conditions change with new information pathways, and technologies capable of acting with increasing authonomy from human control.