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08 July, 2021
Isabela Hazin

Isabela Hazin

I have a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and a master’s degree in Human Evolution and Biology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. At the Institute , led by and . This project is concerned with the question of how people's opinions on moral issues change over time. More specifically, if this change is mediated by arguments based on Moral Foundations – in a nutshell, whether moral positions (e.g., "against the death penalty") that are more strongly linked to harm and fairness arguments (e.g., "otherwise someone is hurt") spread more easily than those less strongly linked to such arguments. My main job is to help collect, clean, and analyze moral opinion data.

Master's degree in Human Evolution and Biology
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26 June, 2018

The need for nuance in the null hypothesis significance testing debate

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 77 (2017), 4, p. 616-630. Abstract Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) provides an important statistical toolbox, but there are a number of ways i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Häggström, Olle
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07 October, 2025

Perceived costs and benefits and public support for climate policies

npj Climate Action Abstract Public support for climate policies remains limited, partly due to perceived economic costs. However,using survey data from four European countries, we show that support is mperceived benefits than costs. This suggests that public discourse has overemphasized costs. Tobuild broader support, advocates should focus on communicating the benefits and effectiveness ofclimate action, rather than merely addressing concerns about economic burdens.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , & A. Kudrnác
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11 September, 2020

National Culture Diversity in New Venture Boards: The Role of Founders' Relational Demography

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 13(3), 410-434. Abstract This study explains the conditions under which new venture boards are less or more culturally diverse in terms of their directors' country of b

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15 June, 2012

Family Formation and Men’s and Women’s Attainment of Workplace Authority

2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g

Type of publication: Journal articles | M. Bygren, M. Gähler
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20 November, 2018

Committing to Priorities: Incompleteness in Macro-Level Health Care Allocation and Its Implications

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43: 724-745. Abstract This article argues that values that apply to health care allocation entail the possibility of “spectrum arguments,” and that it is plausible that

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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17 June, 2019

Is risk aversion irrational? Examining the “fallacy” of large numbers

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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19 March, 2021

Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries

Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Vartanova, Irina
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10 June, 2015

Value Superiority

in: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory Eds. Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford University Press.DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199959303.013.0013  Suppose that A and B are two kinds of goods such that more

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Rabinowicz , Wlodek
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28 February, 2014

The Future of Inequality

The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl

The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
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