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Dunbar’s number deconstructed – you can have more than 150 friends
2021-05-05
Contrary to 'Dunbar's number', that people can maintain stable social relationships with at most 150 people, a new study from CEK indicates that claims of such a cognitive limit do not hold.
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New interdisciplinary master's courses in cultural evolution
2020-11-18
Are you interested in a broad interdisciplinary perspective on cultural change, integrating the humanities, social and natural sciences? Then these courses are for you!
- Cultural Evolution Symposium: Animal intelligence 2020-09-29 Interdisciplinary symposium on animal intelligence: theoretical concerns, replications crisis, and future directions.
- Thinking about thinking 2019-11-19 Watch the presentations from an interdisciplinary two-day symposium on thinking in humans and other animals – what it is, how it works, how it evolved, and what sets human thinking apart from animal thinking.
New publications
- Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe
- Birth order and alcohol-related mortality by ethnic origin and national context : Within-family comparisons for Finland and Sweden
- Modelling cultural systems and selective filters
- Underappreciated features of cultural evolution
- Impact and Design of a National-scale Professional Development Program for Mathematics Teachers
- Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies