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News
- 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.
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The dynamics of law-making: A world history
2018-12-06
Researchers at CEK have published a book on the world history of laws, giving a concrete and comprehensive example of cultural dynamics in action.
Seminars and events
- 25 Feb Cultural Evolution Seminar: Predicting moral opinion dynamics: universal and individual Irina Vartanova will present two projects that bring new insights into the understanding of moral opinion dynamics using the moral argument theory.
- 24 Mar Cultural Evolution Seminar: The Problem with Emotions and Morals in Health Care Taking Decisions Gustaf Tinghög will present a series of studies about the role of emotions and morals in health care priority setting and how this can lead to scope neglect and decision avoidance.
- 28 Apr Cultural Evolution Seminar: The role of medical treatments in signalling a need for care What are medical treatments for? The prevalence of ineffective and harmful treatments suggests that they have roles besides reducing symptoms or shortening the illness. The value of many treatments instead lies 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 Human know-how requires precise cultural transmission – our know-how needs to be copied in order to be performed. As a result of repeated copying, modern human know-how culturally evolved to become “supra-individual”. No human could reinvent a laptop computer without cultural access to a vast amount of underlying know-how,
New publications
- 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
- Whatever you want : Inconsistent results are the rule, not the exception, in the study of primate brain evolution
- A Comparison of Individual Learning and Social Learning in Zebra fish Through an Ethorobotics Approach
- Political double standards in reliance on moral foundations