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23 January, 2018

The road to civilization goes through threat and punishment

Do you frown at people who sneeze in their hand instead of in a tissue? Would you be prepared to punish that person by frowning at him or her, showing you dislike the behaviour? In that case you are a

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06 February, 2018

Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process

Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , , Mícheál de Barra Eriksson, Kimmo , , Mícheál de Barra
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20 November, 2018

Against lifetime QALY prioritarianism

Journal of Medical Ethics 44: 109-113. doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017-104250 Abstract Lifetime quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) prioritarianism has recently been defended as a reasonable specification o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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14 December, 2022

Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality

Plos Gloal Public Health Abstract Strict norms about hygiene may sometimes have health benefits but may also be a burden. Based on research in the United States, it has been suggested that women traditi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Thomas E. Dickins Strimling, Pontus , & Thomas E. Dickins
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05 March, 2024
Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi

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19 December, 2016

Camilla Nothhaft: Lobbying - Systems and People

Camilla Nothhaft is a researcher and lecturer at Lund University, Department of Strategic Communication. ABSTRACT This seminar will present results from a study on how lobbyists and politicians meet in

Camilla Nothhaft is a researcher and lecturer at Lund University, Department of Strategic Communication.
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26 August, 2021

H. Orri Stefánsson - What is the point of private offsetting?

H. Orri Stefánssonis Associate Professor (Docent) of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and Researcher and Advisor at

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21 March, 2022

Julia Cage: Rethinking Democracy - Steps to Political Equality and Social and Environmental Justice

Research seminar with Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Register Abstract Electoral democracies are in crisis. Turnout is at its lowest point in the history of universal sufand argue that the solution involves a radical rethinking of our system of political finance, participation and representation.

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13 September, 2021
What is the point of private offsetting?

What is the point of private offsetting?

H. Orri Stefánsson is Associate Professor (Docent) of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and Researcher and Advisor a

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27 April, 2020

Myths and truths about "the experiment"

The Swedish response to Covid-19 put in context.

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