PROSOCIALWebinar Integrating Principles and Practices for Healthy Power-Sharing: Creating a Federation of Prosocial Tools for Governing an Ecological Civilization What if we could unite our efforts to create a learnable set of practices that…David Sloan WilsonMarch 6, 2023
HistoryPsychology Witch-Hunting: A Lethal Cultural “Virus”? In the late sixteenth century, the region surrounding the German city of Trier experienced an…Steije HofhuisJanuary 26, 2023
PhilosophyPsychology Are Some False Beliefs Good For You? Suppose you could come clean with yourself and have truthful beliefs about everything you care…Maarten BoudryJanuary 24, 2023
PROSOCIALWebinar The State of Prosocial World Prosocial World is at the forefront of applying modern evolutionary science to positive cultural change…David Sloan WilsonJanuary 23, 2023
AnthropologyWebinar Music, Pleasure, and Culture: Soundly Organized People in a Musically Organised Hunter-Gatherer Civilization Western Congo Basin hunter-gatherer groups highly appreciate music for the pleasure it produces among those…David Sloan WilsonJanuary 22, 2023
AnthropologyWebinar Egalitarian Societies Many hunter-gatherer societies today value personal autonomy, sharing, and joy while they reject property, inequality,…David Sloan WilsonJanuary 22, 2023
Psychology The Many Faces of Cognitive Immunology Viewing minds through the lens of cognitive immunology can reveal antidotes to misinformation, disinformation, and…Stephan LewandowskyJanuary 19, 2023
HistoryWebinar Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose In this talk, I will explain the key but largely unknown scientific error made by…David Sloan WilsonJanuary 15, 2023
Psychology Evolving My View on Mental Immunity After initially accepting the metaphor of mental immunity as a useful gift from a cherished…Ed GibneyJanuary 12, 2023
Psychology Changing A Belief Means Changing How You Feel: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Immunology Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there’s no need to do…Steven P. GilbertJanuary 10, 2023
Psychology Bad Ideas Recruit the Mind’s Immune System to Protect Themselves Some bad ideas get past a mind’s defenses and then hijack the mind’s immune system.…Barry MauerDecember 15, 2022
HealthPsychology The Analogy of/and Inoculation Theory to Mental Immunity Models from epidemiology are increasingly used to better understand how misinformation spreads in online networks.1 If…Josh Compton, Sander van der LindenDecember 13, 2022
Biology Cultural Immune Systems as Parts of Cultural Superorganisms When the concept of 'organism' is expanded to include groups as organisms, the concepts of…David Sloan WilsonDecember 8, 2022
Psychology The Science of Mental Immunity Has Arrived The emerging field of “cognitive immunology” may hold solutions to our world’s growing disinformation problems.Andy NormanDecember 6, 2022
BusinessEconomyPolitics The Nordic Third Way: A Conversation with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun The Nordic nations are identified as exemplars of good governance, which avoid the excesses of…Nina Witoszek, Atle Midttun, David Sloan WilsonNovember 30, 2022
BusinessEconomyHistory Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin Our emergence as a species and the last ten thousand years of human history demonstrates…Peter Turchin, David Sloan WilsonNovember 17, 2022
PROSOCIAL Introducing the Prosocial Commons Book Club The only thing more pleasurable and instructive than reading a good book on your own…David Sloan WilsonOctober 31, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar What Happened to Selfish Genes? Dawkins himself calls Agren's book "the most thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have…David Sloan WilsonOctober 26, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Hylo: Prosocial Coordination for a Thriving Planet Technologies are products of the culture in which they emerge, and they guide the emergence…David Sloan WilsonOctober 25, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Evolution of Responses to Homelessness to Reach Functional Zero Rosanne Haggerty has been working with others to end homelessness since 1990.David Sloan WilsonOctober 25, 2022
PROSOCIAL Introducing the Prosocial Commons: The Next Generation The Prosocial Commons is for anyone who wants to further our mission to "consciously evolve…David Sloan WilsonOctober 24, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Building a Caring Democracy: Four Cornerstones Systems scientist, cultural historian, and futurist Riane Eisler will address the urgent question of why…David Sloan WilsonOctober 23, 2022
Conferences & Workshops Evolving A World That Works for All: Fulfilling the Spirit of Humanism in the Internet Age A second Darwinian revolution is in progress.The EditorsOctober 21, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Moving Beyond Naïve Theories of Environmental Property Rights By understanding diversity, we are better equipped to engage with it without dismissing it and…David Sloan WilsonOctober 20, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Envisioning Economies and Cultures Inspired by Living Systems Imagine an economy that is regenerative and adaptive, one that evolves along with the social…David Sloan WilsonOctober 14, 2022
Conferences & WorkshopsWebinar Identifying the Principles of an Ecological Civilization Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require transformation at a foundational level.David Sloan WilsonOctober 12, 2022
Podcast What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren Listen: Spotify - Google - Apple - Stitcher J. Arvid Agren's book The Gene's Eye View of Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2021), is a…David Sloan WilsonOctober 10, 2022
Webinar Living Design: A Novel Interdisciplinary, Interbeing Approach to Regenerating Communities, Organizations, and Ecosystems An online lecture and in-depth discussion with Tamsin Woolley-Barker. Friday, October 7 at 6pm ESTDavid Sloan WilsonOctober 3, 2022
BusinessEconomy Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Development: A Conversation with Scott Peters There is an alternative way to promote development so governments and other agencies can produce…Scott J. Peters, David Sloan WilsonSeptember 29, 2022
Arts Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his…Conor McCloskeySeptember 26, 2022
