Frontiers in Psychology AbstractPeople often justify their moral opinions by referring to larger moral concerns (e. g., “It isunfairif homosexuals are not allowed to marry!” vs. “Letting homosexuals matraditions!”). Is there a general agreement about what concerns apply to different moral opinions? We used surveys in the United States and the United Kingdom to measure the perceived applicability of eight concerns (harm, violence, fairness, liberty, authority, ingroup, purity, and governmental overreach) to a wide range of moral opinions. Within countries, argument applicability scores were largely similar whether they were calculated among women or men, among young or old, among liberals or conservatives, or among people with or without higher education. Thus, the applicability of a given moral concern to a specific opinion can be viewed as an objective quality of the opinion, largely independent of the population in which it is measured. Finally, we used similar surveys in Israel and Brazil to establish that this independence of populations also extended to populations in different countries. However, the extent to which this holds across cultures beyond those included in the current study is still an open question.

Fish and Fisheries, Early view: doi:10.1111/faf.12197. Abstract A substantial amount of scientific effort goes into understanding and measuring compliance in fisheries. Understanding why, how and when f

"Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals", Journal of professions and organizations, Advance Access published September 21, 2016, doi: 10.1093/jpo/jow008 Abstract This

Working Paper 2016 no.1(Published in Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol 4 (1):55-69 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow008) This paper focuses on “policy professionals”, i.e. people whinfluence the course of affairs, while their working-life satisfaction comes from getting their message into the media without becoming personally exposed. The key resource of policy professionals is context-dependent politically useful knowledge, in three main forms: “Problem formulation” involves highlighting and framing social problems and their possible solutions. “Process expertise” consists of understandingthe “where, how and why” of the political and policy-making processes. “Information access” is the skill to be very fast in finding reliable and relevant information. These motivations and skills underpin a particular professionalism based in an “entrepreneurial ethos”, which differs from both the ethos of elected politicians, and that of civil servants, and which has some potentially problematic implications for democratic governance.

How do social norms change?

Social norms change all the time, in all societies. But what determines which norms change and which norms do not?

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, First online, DOI 10.1007/s10964-017-0747-8 Abstract There is limited knowledge on the impact of economic resources on adverse peer relations during adolescence. This st

PLoS ONE 9(6): e97856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097856 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097856 A short summary: Over the past decades many countries have experienced r

Environmental Research Communications Abstract While previous studies on the relationship between political trust and support for climate policy have focused on the evaluative component of trust, namely

Research seminar with Matthew Adler, Duke UniversityREGISTERAbstract The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifica

Maja Fjaestad

I am an expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Crises at KI and Associate Professor at KTH. I previously worked as State Secretary for the Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs and before for strategic development and Nordic cooperation at the Prime Minster’s office. I have also worked as researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. I have also been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Desk officer at the Ministry of Industry and political adviser in energy issues to Minister of Energy, Mona Sahlin.