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- POSTPONED to September! Cultural Evolution Symposium: Animal intelligence 2020-03-26 The Centre for Cultural Evolution invites to an open symposium on Animal intelligence: theoretical concerns, replications crisis, and future directions. This is an interdisciplinary symposium with speakers from the humanities, social- and natural sciences.
- 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.
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New scientific model can predict moral and political development
2019-08-28
How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? A new study answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues.
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A new computational theory of social learning in animals
2019-03-13
Associative processes supported by genetic predisposition can account for most types of social learning processes found in nonhuman animals.
Seminars and events
- 27 Apr POSTPONED to September! Cultural Evolution Symposium: Animal intelligence The Centre for Cultural Evolution invites to an open symposium on Animal intelligence: theoretical concerns, replications crisis, and future directions. This is an interdisciplinary symposium with speakers from the humanities, social- and natural sciences.
- 28 Apr Cultural Evolution Seminar: The role of medical treatments in signalling a need for care Mícheál de Barra on how whe value of many harmful medical treatments may lie in their ability to honestly "advertise" one's need for support during illness.
- 19 May Cultural Evolution Seminar: The late cultural evolution of human know-how Claudio Tennie on cultural transmission via copying of know-how and on how it may have evolved much later in our lineage than is currently assumed.
New publications
- On revolutions
- Cultural Variation in the Effectiveness of Feedback on Students' Mistakes
- Using Models to Predict Cultural Evolution From Emotional Selection Mechanisms
- Are Young Swedes Moving More? A Cohort Analysis of Internal Migration by Move Order
- Period and Cohort Measures of Internal Migration
- The connection between moral positions and moral arguments drives opinion change