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Acceptance of group‐based dominance and climate change denial: A cross‐cultural study in Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Sweden
in: Social Psychology Of Climate Change: Special Issue AbstractDespite the importance of overcoming the persistent delay in climate action, almost no research has investigated the psychological underpin
Right-Wing Populism and Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Exclusionary and Anti-Egalitarian Preferences, Conservative Ideology, and Antiestablishment Attitudes
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Abstract Populist right‐wing politicians and voters tend to dismiss climate change. To investigate possible reasons for this, we tested correlations between c
Distributive justice, social cooperation, and the basis of equality
Theoria Abstract This paper considers the view that the basis of equality isthe range property of being a moral person. This view,suggested by John Rawls in hisA Theory of Justice(1971),is commonly dism
Personhood and legal status: reflections on the democratic rights of corporations
Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 47:1, pp. 13-28., doi: 10.5553/NJLP/.000068. Introduction Corporations are regularly ascribed rights and duties, yet few believe they should have the right to part
Demokratiseminarium: Decemberöverenskommelsen
The professors Sverker Gustavsson and Torbjörn Tännsjö discuss "Decemberöverenskommelsen" together with Sanna Rayman and Daniel Suhonen. The seminar will be entirely in Swedish. For more information abo
Anna Dreber Almenberg: Which results can we trust? Using replications, prediction markets and other tools to assess the reproducibility of scientific results.
Anna Dreber Almenberg, Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of EconomicsAbstractWhy are there so many false results in the published scientific literature? And what is the actual share of results
Debating demography
This week the newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning published an article by Joakim Palme, former CEO at the Institute, on how we can meet the challenge of an ageing population. Educating young people is necess
Leading Swedish researchers appeal to research councils: Withdraw support for Plan S
A large number of Swedish researchers are asking the Swedish research councils in coAlition S to withdraw their support from Plan S. Plan S is an initiative to promote the immediate and open access of
Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms Comment on Gelfand and Harrington
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 0022022115605387. Abstract Cialdini has argued that whereas injunctive norms motivate behavior by their promise of social sanctions, descriptive norms motivate beha