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1. By the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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1. By the way ...
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UK Household Longitudinal Study (ESDS)
"UKHLS is a major new household panel study commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council. (ESRC). It will provide valuable new evidence about the people of the UK, their lives, experiences, behaviours and beliefs, and will enable an unprecedented understanding of diversity within the population.  UKHLS will be the largest study of its type in the world.  UKHLS will assist with understanding the long term effects of social and economic change, as well as policy interventions designed to impact upon the general well-being of the UK population."
URL: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ukhls/ 
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: MASTA - 4th Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications, workshop at
13th Portuguese Conference in Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2007, 3-7 . December . 2007
For more information visit: http://epia2007.appia.pt/
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CfP: International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, MA, Oct 28 - Nov 2, 2007
For more information visit: http://necsi.org/events/iccs7/
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Call for Participation: Fourth European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA'07), Toulouse, France.
For more information visit: http://www.irit.fr/essa2007
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Delia Baldassarri and Peter Bearman (forthcoming), Dynamics of Political Polarization, American Sociological Review
URL: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/Baldassarri_Bearman_polarization_ASR.pdf
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Wolfgang Luhan, Martin Kocher and  Matthias Sutter, Group polarization in the team dictator game reconsidered
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:inn:wpaper:2007-12&r=cbe
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Pavel Pelikan, Allocation of scarce resources when rationality is one of them: some consequences of cognitive inequalities for theory and policy
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:3657&r=cbe
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Tobias Lundquist et al., The cost of lying
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:hastef:0666&r=cbe
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Tore Ellingsen et al., Trust and truth
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:hastef:0665&r=cbe
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Javier Rivas, Friendship Selection
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eui:euiwps:eco2007/08&r=cbe
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Joel van der Weele, The Signalling Power of Sanctions in Collective Action Problems
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eui:euiwps:eco2007/10&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Postdoctoral Research position at the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (http://csid.asu.edu): Agent-based modeling, common pool resources and experimental data.
For more information visit: http://csid.asu.edu
Contact: Marco Janssen (Marco.Janssen@asu.edu)
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Graduate-level short class in agent- and individual-based modeling, 8-12 October 2007, The Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences of Technical University Dresden. Lecturers include: Uta Berger of TU Dresden, Volker Grimm, and Steve Railsback
For more information visit: http://www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel
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