New paper causally identifying cultural variation within Switzerland published in Evolutionary Human Sciences (28 May 2024)
Faessler, L., Lalive, R., and Efferson, C. (2024). How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: Causal evidence at the Swiss language border. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6: e28.
New paper on son bias published in Evolutionary Human Sciences (28 May 2024)
Schief, M., Vogt, S., Churilova, E., and Efferson, C. (2024). Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia. 6: e19.
Vogt co-organizes workshop on "Talking to Machines" in Riga, Latvia, 22 May 2024 (16 May 2024)
https://talkingtomachines.org/events/
Paper published in Nature (29 February 2024)
Efferson, C., Bernhard, H., Fischbacher, U., and Fehr, E. Super-additive cooperation.
Paper published in Evolutionary Human Sciences (29 February 2024)
Lonati, S., Lalive, R., and Efferson, C. Identifying culture as cause: challenges and opportunities.
Paper published at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (22 January 2024)
Efferson, C., Ehret, S., von Flüe, L., and Vogt, S. When norm change hurts. 379: 20230039.
Paper published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (21 November 2023)
Soraperra, I., Köbis, N., Shalvi, S., Vogt, S., Efferson, C., and Offerman, T. A market for integrity: the use of competition to reduce bribery in education.
Sonja Vogt organizes workshop on "Talking to Machines"
Sonja Vogt and Raymond Duch (University of Oxford) organize a workshop titled "Talking to Machines" (19-20 September 2023 at the University of Oxford). The workshop will focus on how to rely on intelligent technologies to provide the tools for optimizing the design of digital content and the development of information interventions for heterogeneous populations. You can find more info on the website.
New working paper on son preferences in the Caucasus (16 August 2023)
Schief, M., Vogt, S., Churilova, E., and Efferson, C. (2023). Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents in Soviet-era Russia.
New working paper on cultural variation at the Swiss language border (16 August 2023)
Faessler, L., Lalive, R., and Efferson, C. (2023). How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: causal evidence at the Swiss language border.
Paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (15 August 2023)
Efferson, C., Richerson, P.J., and Weinberger, V. Our fragile future under the cumulative cultural evolution of two technologies.
Paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (13 November 2023)
von Flüe, L., Efferson, C., and Vogt, S. Green preferences sustain green washing: challenges in the cultural transition to a sustainable future.
Paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (13 November 2023)
Richerson, P.J., Boyd, R.T., and Efferson, C. Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability.
Chapter published in Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution
Efferson, C., Vogt, S., and von Flüe, L. Activating cultural evolution for good when people differ from each other. Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Eds. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, and R. Kendal.
Charles Efferson receives SNF Grant
Charles Efferson receives a grant (783,000 CHF) from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “The Strategy Space Problem in Gene-Culture Coevolution."
Sonja Vogt and Raymond Duch receive SNF Grant
Sonja Vogt and Raymond Duch (University of Oxford) receive a grant (1.2 Mio CHF) from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “Can talking to machines improve financial decision making?” The Project will test and develop edutainment campaigns using chatbots for behavior change interventions in heterogeneous populations in Ghana.
New working paper on super-additive cooperation (12 January 2023)
Efferson, C., Bernhard, H., Fischbacher, U., and Fehr, E. (2022). Super-Additive Cooperation.
Sonja Vogt joins LCHE
Sonja Vogt joins the leadership board of the Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior, and Policy (LCHE).