BEHAVE is glad to announce that the Social Simulation Conference 2022 will take place at the University of Milan on 12-16 September 2022! Organised by ESSA-European Social Simulation Association, the major event for any scholar using agent-based models and computer simulation to study social dynamics and processes since its first edition in 2003, SSC2022 will [...]
The BehaveLab, the Computational Social Science Center (University of Bologna) and the Center for Computational Social Science and Human Dynamics (University of Trento) jointly organise the CSSC-BL-C2S2 Cyber Mondays, a teaser series of short talks and tutorials addressed to students/PhDs/postdocs of the three universities (Milan, Bologna and Trento). The events will be online, on Monday [...]
Online Workshop on «Social infrastructure and cognitive abilities in an ageing population» 1 June 2021 Programme 9.00 - 9.10 AM | Welcome (Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Milan, Behave Director & Marco Castellani, University of Brescia, Sociable PI) 9.10 - 9.30 AM | Social relationships and cognitive abilities in older adults. A meta-analysis (Matteo Piolatto, University [...]
Wojtek Przepiorka (Utrecht University, Department of Sociology/ICS) presents a paper entitled "How norms emerge from conventions (and change)" at a NASP International and Interdisciplinary Seminar, on 9 April 2021, 2.30-4.30PM. The seminar will be held online on Zoom. If you are interested to join the seminar, please contact us here to have the link. Abstract. [...]
BEHAVE is involved in organising a session on "The Lab in the Model, the Model in the Lab" at the Social Simulation Fest 2021, which will take place on Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 1:30-4:45 PM (CET). Below you find the programme. For any info, including the registration (free), please visit the event website here. [...]
This is the inaugural PhD Lecture on "Behavioural Research in Sociology" that Flaminio Squazzoni gave to NASP-ESLS students on 24 November 2020.
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 [...]
