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,