Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for ...

In his new monograph, Kierkegaard’s Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf in “Either/Or” I, SFI Research Fellow ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

Articulating and Formalizing Theories of Biological Information” met as part of an ambitious project to develop an ...

In the world of science journalism, a variety of fellowships offer opportunities to build skills, network, and find story ...

The hallmarks of “cultural behavior” are consistency within and across individuals, variance between populations, behavioral stickiness, and suboptimal performance. In this paper, we build a formal ...

SFI External Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been elected as a fellow of the American ...

In the past, a person might be diagnosed with hysteria — a mental condition for which no useful treatment could be possible, ...

The study of the evolution of cultural systems has undergone a series of permutations in the course of the past century. Studies of cultural evolution began in earnest with the work of two of the most ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...

Complex language is unique to the human species. It’s part of how we evolved, the backbone of our societies, and one of the primary ways we judge others’ intellect. Is it our intelligence that leads ...