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04 April, 2024

Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jansson, Fredrik , Enquist, Magnus; Ghirlanda, Stefano & Jérôme Michaud
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10 March, 2016

Moderators of the disapproval of peer punishment

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 1368430215583519. Abstract Recent studies have found disapproval of peer punishment of norm violations. This seems puzzling, given the potential benefits peer

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , , Andersson, P.A. Strimling, Pontus , , Andersson, P.A.
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15 September, 2020

Right-Wing Populism and Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Exclusionary and Anti-Egalitarian Preferences, Conservative Ideology, and Antiestablishment Attitudes

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Abstract Populist right‐wing politicians and voters tend to dismiss climate change. To investigate possible reasons for this, we tested correlations between c

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti
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08 September, 2023

Cultural systems

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, red. Jamshid J. Tehrani et al. Abstract Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of rel

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jansson, Fredrik , , Buskell, A. & M. Enquist
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15 June, 2012

Socioeconomic Persistence Across Generations: Cognitive and Noncognitive Processes

Kapitel 3. http://www.russellsage.org/publications/parents-to-children Abstract This chapter analyses the role of cognitive ability, personality traits, and physical characteristics in transmission of so

Type of publication: Chapters | Mood, Carina , , Erik Bihagen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Erik Bihagen
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30 September, 2016
Corrie Hammar

Corrie Hammar

I belong to serval different functions and research groups at the Institute for Futures Studies. The three main groups I work for are led by Pontus Strimling, Anna Tyllström and Stefan Svallfors. Within t

MSc, Business and Economics
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30 September, 2005

Population Geography Perspectives on the Central Asian Republics

The main traits of the population geography of the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistanare are outlined, and attempts are made to establish if par

Type of publication: Working papers | Michael Gentile
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23 September, 2022

The fast and furtive spread of AI by infusion into technologies that we already in use – a critical assessment

In Hanemaayer, A. (editor) Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents. Palgrave. Abstract AI has often reached individuals covertly, rather than by their own choosing. Standard automatic version update

Type of publication: Journal articles | Engström, Emma
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12 January, 2016
Fredrik Jansson

Fredrik Jansson

Senior Lecturer, Mathematics/Applied Mathematics I am a senior lecturer in mathematics/applied mathematics at Mälardalen University and a research affiliate at the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockho.

Associate Professor in Mathematics
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26 June, 2018

Social Capital, Friendship Networks, and Youth Unemployment.

Social Science Research, Volume 61, pp. 234-250. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.017 Abstract Youth unemployment is a contemporary social problem in many societies. Youths often have limited access

Type of publication: Journal articles | Edling, Christofer , & Martin Hällsten Rydgren, Jens , & Martin Hällsten
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