Penélope Hernández habla de IBSEN en El País [Spanish]
La investigadora de IBSEN y directora del LINEEX, Penélope Hernández, ha sido recientemente entrevistada acerca del proyecto IBSEN en “Materia”, la sección de ciencia de …
Posts in category Science4all
As Albert Eisntein once said: “You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” Since we really work hard to improve our understanding of this world, in this page we will try to develop rigorous scientific findings and ideas written in a popular style. Enjoy yourself!
Dunbar’s number and the size of companies
IBSEN PI Robin Dunbar is well known among other things for the so called Dunbar’s Number. This number, 150, is a suggested cognitive limit that …
Yamir Moreno on “Aragón TV” (Spanish)
El programa “En ruta con la Ciencia” de Aragón TV, ha realizado un interesantísimo reportaje sobre el comportamiento humano y su estudio a gran escala …
Sinan Aral on social networks (Dutch subtitles)
Sinan Aral, was recently interviewed during ABEE 2016. Now the interview has been released so all of us can enjoy it. Although short in length, …
Interview with Kunal Bhattacharya
Kunal Bhattacharya was recently interviewed by several media outlets for his work “Sex differences in social focus across the life cycle in humans” (Royal Society …
A study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types: Pessimistic; Optimistic; Envious and Trusting
The UC3M has recently published an article about work done by Julia Poncela et al, in which participated IBSEN members Anxo Sánchez, Yamir Moreno and …
Professor Sanjeev Goyal’s interview with INET on ‘The economics of networks’
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has recently released an interview where Prof. Sanjeev Goyal explains his general theory of network formation based on individual …
Expectation formation in markets
Expectations are crucial elements of everyday life. We form expectations in many situations: we decide which queue to stand in based on our expectations of …
Six Degrees of Separation
The next situation might be familiar to you. You are at a party or social event and meet a person you had never met before. …
The Climate Game
Researchers from the IBSEN TEAM, Yamir Moreno, Ángel Sánchez and Carlos Gracia-Lázaro participated in a citizen science public experiment to observe how people balanced their …