CharlesEfferson
@EffersonCharles
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Gene-culture, policy, cooperation. Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne.
Joined March 2021
New paper, "When norm change hurts," w/ @s_ehret, @lukas_vonfluee, and @sb_vogt. Special issue of PTRSB on norm change edited by @giulia_ndr, @seregavr, @MicheleJGelfand, @tavitonst, and @VriensEva.
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Social norms research is booming. In recent years, several experts have recommended using social norms (unwritten rules that prescribe what people ought or ought not to do) to confront the societal,...
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RT @tavitonst: The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics @Journal_EHS @EffersonCharles and Son….
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The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics - Volume 7
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Does twitter still exist? Just in case, I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on the evolution of human cognition and behavior @heclausanne. Begin fall 2025. Big lake, pretty mountains, Swiss largesse, and science to boot!
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RT @unil: Une nouvelle recherche de la @heclausanne délie les relations complexes entre culture et survie de l’espèce humaine. Des résultat….
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RT @prof_joe_: Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) are like chainsaws: used well, they slice through heavy tasks; used poorly, and you mi….
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Methods in causal inference. Part 1: causal diagrams and confounding - Volume 6
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Big congratulations to Dr. @lukas_vonfluee! Yesterday, he successfully defended his PhD research @heclausanne on social learning under cognitive load + the unanticipated consequences of recruiting cultural evolutionary processes for social good. 🔥🇨🇭🗻.
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RT @IASToulouse: Succeeding to @ingelaalger, @JFBonnefon senior Researcher @CNRS_Toulouse has been appointed as director of @IASToulouse an….
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RT @Journal_EHS: UPCOMING WEBINAR: Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences . Join us October 3rd 2PM BST | 3PM CEST . Register No….
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Yesterday, Dr Lisa Faessler (@LisaFaessler) successfully defended her PhD thesis on cultural evolution with an emphasis on organizational applications. Congratulations, Lisa! Thank you to @mmuthukrishna and Christian Zehnder. @heclausanne.
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RT @RebeccaSear: Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by @OpenBookPublish 🎉 32….
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With spatial RDD, @LisaFaessler, @rlalive, and I examine how cultural variation within Switzerland shapes support for policies affecting fertility and health. Special issue of @Journal_EHS on causal inference.
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How culture shapes choices related to fertility and mortality: Causal evidence at the Swiss language border - Volume 6
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RT @Journal_EHS: Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia | Evolutionary Human….
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New paper in @Journal_EHS. With archival data from the final Soviet census of 1989, we use the epidemiological approach to isolate the causal effect of a son-biased culture on behavior. Schief, @sb_vogt, Churilova, Efferson.
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Isolating a culture of son preference among Armenian, Georgian and Azeri Parents in Soviet-era Russia - Volume 6
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RT @RayDuch: #takingtomachines has an opening for Oxford-based Project Engineer - join our group of researchers in….
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RT @SarahMathew1: Have you felt that after hundreds of papers published on the evolution of cooperation, there’s nothing surprising left to….
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New paper, "Super-additive cooperation," out in Nature. Coauthored with Helen Bernhard, Urs Fischbacher, and Ernst Fehr. Also a great News & Views piece by @SarahMathew1.
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New paper w/ Sirio Lonati and @rlalive in Evolutionary Human Sciences. Guide to formidable empirical challenges when isolating culture as one among many potential reasons people differ.
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Identifying culture as cause: Challenges and opportunities - Volume 6
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RT @jaredcrubin: The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy is finally out … it looks great!!. Yes, five copies stacked on each ot….
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I'm recruiting a PhD student to conduct interdisciplinary research on evolution, human behavior, and computational social science @heclausanne. The successful candidate will go through PhD program in economics or management. 🏔️🚠🇨🇭.
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