A5061282606- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Media and Politics
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Gender Studies in Language
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Media Influence and Politics
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Psychology of Social Influence
Karolinska Institutet
2016-2025
Lund University
2013-2023
New York University
2018-2023
Princeton University
2022
University College London
2020
University of London
2020
University of Warwick
2020
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2019
Institute for Cognitive Science Studies
2012-2016
Lund Science (Sweden)
2015
Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States. Using geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found US counties voted for Donald Trump (Republican) over Hillary Clinton (Democrat) 2016 presidential election exhibited 14% less physical distancing between March and May 2020. Partisanship was more strongly associated with than numerous other factors, including counties' cases, population density, median income, racial age demographics....
Significance Where people look generally reflects and reveals their moment-by-moment thought processes. This study introduces an experimental method whereby participants’ eye gaze is monitored information about used to change the timing of decisions. Answers difficult moral questions such as “Is murder justifiable?” can be influenced toward random alternatives based on looking patterns alone. We do this without presenting different arguments or response frames, in other techniques...
Abstract The spread of misinformation, including “fake news,” propaganda, and conspiracy theories, represents a serious threat to society, as it has the potential alter beliefs, behavior, policy. Research is beginning disentangle how why misinformation identify processes that contribute this social problem. We propose an integrative model understand social, political, cognitive psychology risk factors underlie highlight strategies might be effective in mitigating However, rapidly growing...
Abstract Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse causal effect negative emotional words on consumption using a large dataset viral stories. Specifically, conducted our analyses series randomized controlled trials ( N = 22,743). Our comprises ~105,000 different variations stories from Upworthy.com that generated ∼5.7 million clicks across more than 370 overall impressions....
Political candidates often believe they must focus their campaign efforts on a small number of swing voters open for ideological change. Based the wisdom opinion polls, this might seem like good idea. But do most really hold political attitudes so firmly that are unreceptive to persuasion? We tested premise during recent general election in Sweden, which left- and right-wing coalition were locked close race. asked our participants state voter intention, presented them with survey wedge...
Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the U.S. Using geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found counties voted for Donald Trump (Republican) over Hillary Clinton (Democrat) 2016 presidential election exhibited 14% less physical distancing between March and May 2020. Partisanship was more strongly associated with than numerous factors, including counties’ median income, cases, population density, racial age demographics. Contrary to our...
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors that associated with people reported adopting public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing stricter hygiene) endorsed policy closing bars restaurants) the early stage of pandemic (April-May 2020). Respondents who...
Moral norms regulate social life in ways that can promote prosocial behavior. Not only directly involved individuals, but also uninvolved third parties judge and punish norm violators. The principles underlying third-party judgments however remain unclear, particularly since moral decisions often involve the interplay of multiple psychological processes. Here, we investigate combined effects two key motivations: Inequality aversion (equal outcomes are seen as more than unequal ones)...
Moral norms regulate social life in ways that can promote prosocial behavior. Not only directly involved individuals, but also uninvolved third parties judge and punish norm violators. The principles underlying third-party judgments however remain unclear, particularly since moral decisions often involve the interplay of multiple psychological processes. Here, we investigate combined effects two key motivations: Inequality aversion (equal outcomes are seen as more than unequal ones)...
Trust is central to social behaviour. When deciding trust individualsmust arbitrate between group-based information as well asdirect about the person they are interacting with. Here weinvestigated how in groups learned and transferred individualsusing a two-stage experiment where participants interacted withrandomly selected members of two arbitrary learnt theirrelative trustworthiness. Next, with four novel individualsfrom these groups. Two members, one from each group, actedcongruently...
Intellectual virtues such as intellectual humility are dispositions to seek out and respond evidence the testimony of others in ways that conducive acquisition, maintenance, transmission knowledge. In recent years there has been a growth interest this topic, with development ten different scales designed capture individual differences related constructs. series studies (N = 5,922), we analyze psychometric properties these measures consolidate them into single inventory five subscales...
Trust is essential to social interactions and our decisions trustare not only determined with how trustworthy someone but by whatwe believe about their group membership. Here we investigated howparticipants observationally learn trust or distrust one of two eth-nic groups then use that knowledge when interacting novelmembers those groups. Overall found participants quicklyadapted actual trustworthiness partners, irrespective oflearned characteristics ethnic group. However, participantswere...
In times of increasing polarization and political acrimony, fueled by distrust government media disinformation, it is ever more important to understand the cognitive mechanisms behind attitude change. two experiments, we present evidence that false beliefs about one's own prior attitudes confabulatory reasoning can lead lasting changes in attitudes. Experiment 1 (N = 140), participants stated their opinions salient issues, using Choice Blindness Paradigm covertly altered some responses...
Understanding the roots of human cooperation, a social phenomenon embedded in pressing issues including climate change and conflict, requires an interdisciplinary perspective. We propose unifying value-based framework for understanding cooperation that integrates neuroeconomic models decision-making with psychological variables involved cooperation. ventromedial prefrontal cortex serves as neural integration hub value computation during cooperative decisions, receiving inputs from various...
Understanding how information about threats in the environment is shared and transmitted between individuals crucial for explaining adaptive, survival-related behaviour humans other animals, developing treatments phobias anxiety disorders. Research across species has shown that observing a conspecific’s, ‘demonstrator’s,’ threat responses causes strong persistent memories ‘observer’. Here, we examined if physiological synchrony demonstrator observer can serve to predict strength of...
Abstract Decisions in front of a supermarket shelf probably involve mix visually available information and associated memories—and interactions between those two. Several cognitive processes, such as decision making, search, various judgments, are therefore likely to co‐occur, each process will influence visual attention. We conducted two eye‐tracking experiments capturing parts these features by having participants make either judgments or decisions concerning products that had been...
Abstract Mnemonic interference refers to the inability retrieve a goal-relevant memory due from goal-irrelevant memories. Understanding causes of such and how it is overcome has been central goal in science for more than century. Here, we shed new light on this fundamental issue by tracking participants’ pupil response when they encode memories face competing We show that dilation systematically increased accordance with traces participants retrieved previously learned information. Moreover,...
“Nullius in verba (on the word of no one)” – Motto Royal Society since 1660On November 28th, 1660, formed to create world’s first learned society. The society adopted t...
Hen is a Swedish gender-neutral pronoun used for non-binary individuals and as generic singular form. was added to the Academy Glossary (SAOL) in 2015, opponents of hen have argued that pronouns are difficult process, therefore should not be used. As yet, this has been empirically tested. This pre-registered study eye-tracking experimentally test if processing cost by measuring process understanding whom refers (i.e., resolution). Participants (N = 120) read 48 sentence pairs where first...
This study revisited the link between psychological well-being and prosociality during a global crisis from cross-cultural perspective. We surveyed two large samples of Chinese (N₁ = 1,030; 89 regions; May 1-6, 2020) Swedish (N₂ 1,160; 22 14-24, individuals coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Across both countries, we observed that was strongly associated with one's self-reported tendency to perform prosocial behaviors, including actions aimed at relieving burden pandemic (e.g., money donation...
Can scientists be trusted to conduct unbiased science? There is a growing body of papers arguing that psychological research guided by “ideological epistemology”. According this account, people are innately tribal in their political dispositions and these allegiances inevitably produce groupthink guide them away from the truth--leading flimsy or biased research. This serious claim one would likely have far-reaching implications for many fields social sciences, as well branches biology (e.g.,...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is associated with deficits in social cognition, but the relationship between harmful alcohol and processes underlying interactive behavior still unknown. We hypothesized that prosocial decision making reduced AUD individual differences are key to better understanding these reductions. In one laboratory study (Swedish participants, n = 240) confirmatory online (American 260), we compared young adults age-, gender-, education-matched healthy control subjects on 6...