Author: Alberto Acerbi

As I am finishing the work on the submission of a modelling paper about cultural attraction theory (the preprint, quite different from the current version, is here), I…

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Together with Lotty Brand, we wrote a piece for aeon about the paper: Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? The piece was then…

One of my secret passion (or not-so-secret, if you know me a bit) is cooking. Last weekend was devoted to the new edition of Fuchsia Dunlop’s The Food…

Here a situation that may have occurred to some of you: your R script (a model analysing a big dataset, a simulation where you test many parameter combinations)…

I started my academic career as a modeller (in fact, as an artificial life/robotics researcher: this is my first publication ever), and I continue to believe that computational…

I am interested in the analysis of large, naturally occurring, datasets to investigate (especially modern) human cultural dynamics. For example, I used data on dog registrations to analyse…

In the last years, I became interested in how cultural evolution can contribute to the study of cultural dynamics in the digital age, and, at the same time,…

I am interested in the theoretical debate between cultural attraction theory and “standard” cultural evolution theory. While I have argued that the two approaches are not necessarily in…