This is the opening lecture given by Prof. Squazzoni at his Master class in Behavioural Sociology on 23 September 2020. It presents the course and illustrates the approach of behavioural sociology to social research. For any info, see here.
BEHAVE has been presented in an International Symposium on Social Simulation (ISSS 2020) organised by the Macro Agriculture Research Institute in Wuhan, China on 6 August 2020. Flaminio Squazzoni gave an keynote on the integration of behavioural experiments and agent-based modelling.
Our director, Flaminio Squazzoni presents a paper entitled "No evidence of any systematic bias against manuscripts by women in the peer review process of 145 scholarly journals" at the Behavioral Studies Colloquium, ETH, Zurich on 5 May 2020 (1.15PM). The presented paper can be downloaded here. Due to the current situation regarding the Corona virus [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni, BEHAVE's director, will discuss on mechanisms and explanation with Andrew Bennett (Georgetown University) and Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Deaborn) at the MeMa - Methodology Matters Seminar on 17 January 2020 at the University of Milan. Chaired by Prof. Maurizio Ferrera, the workshop will begin at 1.30PM in Room A, at the NASP Graduate [...]
Dimitry Rtischev (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and University of Trento, Italy) will talk on "Dissipation of productivity gains through socioeconomic competition: Comparing inflationary consequences of wage hikes and income grants" in an SPS-BEHAVE Seminar on 3 March 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Discussant: Prof. [...]
Brilliant economist, entrepreneur and author, Paul Ormerod (Volterra partner and visiting professor at UCL) will give an SPS-BEHAVE seminar on "Big data, machine learning and measuring economic welfare" on 4th February 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Paul will present a paper co-authored with [...]
BEHAVE is proud to announce that the 2020 Social Simulation Conference will take place at the University of Milan on 14-18 September 2020. Supported by BEHAVE and hosted by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, SSC is the main annual event of ESSA-The European Social Simulation Association, the largest association connecting all scholars interested [...]
Joshua M. Epstein (New York University) will give the inaugural lecture of the BEHAVE Summer School on ABM on Sept 2, 9AM 2019. He will talk on "The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling". The talk will be recorded and published on the BEHAVE website after the school. Stay tuned! One of the pioneers [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave head) will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019. In the seminar, he will discuss the pros and cons of open peer review and transparency in periods of academic hypercompetition. The full programme of the IAS seminars is available here.
