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13 March, 2014

Educational institutions as mating markets: The case of Sweden

Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University Schools are considered efficient mating markets--that is, structured social settings in which partners meet--and feature prominently in explanations for patterns in

Juho Härkönen, Stockholms Universitet
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10 January, 2014

The Dangers of Ethnocentrism

Giangiacomo Bravo, professor at Linnéuniversitetet Humans often alter their behavior depending on the opponent's group membership, with positive (e.g., support of same-group members) or negative (e.g.,

Giangiacomo Bravo, professor at Linnéuniversitetet
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07 March, 2014

Learning by Imitation in Games: Theory, Field and Lab

Erik Mohlin, Oxford University We exploit a unique opportunity to study how a large population of players in the field learn to play a novel game which has a complicated and non-intuitive mixed strateg

Erik Mohlin, Oxford University
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10 January, 2014

Gender Essentialism in Cross-National Perspective

Karin Halldén, Stockholm University The “gender revolution” is a half-century old, yet gender inequality and segregation remain more resistant to change than many forms of racial and class inequality. W

Karin Halldén, Stockholm University
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10 January, 2014

Family dynamics of immigrants in Sweden

Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University Union formation and entry into parenthood are perhaps the most important transitions to adulthood. While much is known about the family

Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University
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06 March, 2014

Mining everyday life: Interactive visual analysis of event-based data

Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University Event-based data are collections of sequences of ordered events and are encountered daily in a vast number of disciplines. Examples of such data include medical r

Katerina Vrotsou, Linköping University
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13 February, 2018

Money of the future

Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w

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12 April, 2017

A march for science and research!

Alternative facts and fake news. These are phenomenons that March for Science wants to counteract. March for Science will be organized in 400 cities around the World on the 22nd of April, highligting th

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20 February, 2015

The Future of Humans: Moral Bioenhancement

Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century. The greatest problem

Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century.
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