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02 February, 2018
Patrik Lindenfors

Patrik Lindenfors

I am an Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, where I also got my PhD, but have for the last years mainly worked at the Centre for the Study of

Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology
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15 January, 2014

From grasshoppers to human group behavior – interview with David Sumpter

On January 12th, Dagens Nyheter published an interview with David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics. David , who is currently working at both Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures St

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19 March, 2021

Emmanuel Anati: The Origins of Religion. A Study in Conceptual Anthropology

in: Human Ecology 48. Book review of Emmanuel Anati: The Origins of Religion. A Study in Conceptual Anthropology  Read more

Type of publication: Other | Lindenfors, Patrik
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01 January, 2011

Emergent hierarchical structures in multiadaptive games

2011. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106: 028702. We investigate a game-theoretic model of a social system where both the rules of the game and the interaction structure are shaped by the behavior of the agents. We ca

Type of publication: Journal articles | Sungmin Lee, Petter Holme, Zhi-Xi Wu
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01 January, 2011

Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts

2011. PLoS Comp. Bio. 7(3):e1001109. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001109 Abstract Sexual contact patterns, both in their temporal and network structure, can influence the spread of sexually transmitted inf

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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06 September, 2019

Luke Russell: What is Forgiveness?

Luke Russell, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney. Abstract There are many contexts in which people are encouraged to forgive. Forgiveness is praised by Christians, b

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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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02 October, 2024
Felicia Fahlin

Felicia Fahlin

I work as a research assistant in the collaborative, art-based projectGhost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics,a projectwhich aims to illuminate the hidden human r

MSc Human Ecology
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06 September, 2019

Patrik Lindenfors: Sequences of democratization

Patrik Lindenfors, Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology. Abstract What explains successful democratization? We present a suggestion for a new solution that identifies the discrete beginning of a li

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05 May, 2021
Julia Steinberger: Is it possible to live well within planetary limits?

Julia Steinberger: Is it possible to live well within planetary limits? Evidence and modelling from the LiLi project

Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and

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