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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
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

Andreas Gustafsson
I work as a research assistant in the SEMI project. I study integration and education with a focus on study choice and study outcomes among youth and young adults with Swedish and foreign backgrounds. . I have BSc in Biology, with focus on ecology and evolutionary biology, and a MSc in Sociological Demography from Stockholm University. I also work at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
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
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
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
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

Hernan Mondani
I work at the Department of sociology, Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. My previous appointments are: Research assistant and doctoral student at Department of sociology,

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.

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