My research concerns how people perceive themselves and others, and how contextual factors affect social judgments and responses to personality test items. Most of the studies investigate how we come to the judgment that something is morally blameworthy or praiseworthy, or how stereotypes affect our view of ourselves and others, but I am also involved in research on social desirability in personality assessment.

Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Ethics and Morality
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Person Perception
Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Attitudes and Beliefs
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Ethics and Morality
Helping, Prosocial Behavior
Person Perception

Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Agerström, J., & Björklund, F. (2009). Moral concerns are greater for temporally distant events and are moderated by value strength. Social Cognition, 27, 260-281.
Agerström, J., & Björklund, F. (2009). Temporal distance and moral concerns: Future immoral behavior is perceived as more wrong and evokes stronger prosocial intentions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1-11.
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., & Carlsson, R. (in press). Look at yourself! Visual perspective influences moral judgment by level of mental construal. Social Psychology, 44, 42-46.
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., & Carlsson, R. (2012). Emotions in time: Moral emotions appear more intense with temporal distance. Social Cognition, 30, 181-198.
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., & Rooth, D-O. (2012). Warm and competent Hassan = cold and incompetent Eric: A harsh equation of real-life hiring discrimination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 359-366.
Agerström, J., & Björklund, F. (ín press). Why people with an eye toward the future are more moral: The role of abstract thinking. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Björklund, F., Bäckström, M., & Jørgensen, Ø. (2011). In-group ratings are affected by who asks and how: Interactive effects of experimenter group-membership and response format. The Journal of Social Psychology, 151, 625-634.
Björklund, F., Bäckström, M., & Wolgast, S. (2012). Company norms affect which traits are preferred in job candidates and may cause employment discrimination. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 146, 579-594.
Bäckström, M., & Björklund, F. (in press). Social desirability in personality inventories: Symptoms, diagnosis and prescribed cure. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.
Bäckström, M., & Björklund, F. (2007). Structural modeling of generalized prejudice: The role of social dominance, authoritarianism, and empathy. Journal of Individual Differences, 28, 10-17.
Bäckström, M., Björklund, F., & Larsson, M. (2009). Five-factor inventories have a major higher order factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 335-344.
Carlsson, R., & Björklund, F. (2010). Implicit stereotype content: Mixed stereotypes can be measured with the Implicit Association Test. Social Psychology, 41, 213-222.
Carlsson, R., Björklund, F., & Bäckström, M. (2012). Mixed discriminatory judgments of individuals’ warmth and competence related abilities. Social Psychology, 43, 160-167.
Erlandsson, A., Björklund, F., & Bäckström, M. (in press). Perceived utility (not sympathy) mediates the proportion dominance effect in helping decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Jørgensen, Ø., Bäckström, M., & Björklund, F. (2013). Bidirectional correction in social judgments: How a cue to the risk of bias causes more favorable ratings of some groups but less favorable of others. The Journal of Social Psychology, 153, 131-148.
Larsson, M. R., Björklund, F., & Bäckström, M. (2012). Right Wing Authoritarianism is a risk factor of torture-like abuse, but so is Social Dominance Orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 927-929.
Strandberg, C., & Björklund, F. (in press). Is moral internalism supported by folk intuitions? Philosophical Psychology.

Other Publications:

Agerström, J., & Björklund, F. (in press). Temporal construal and moral motivation. In K. Heinrichs, F. Oser & T. Lovat (Eds.) Handbook of Moral Motivation: Theories, Models, Applications. Rotterdam: Sense.
Bäckström, M., Björklund, F., & Larsson, M. (2011). Social desirability in personality assessment: Outline of a model to explain individual differences. In M. Ziegler, C. McCann, & R. D. Roberts (Eds.), New perspectives on faking in personality assessment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Haidt, J., & Björklund, F. (2008). Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology. W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral psychology (Vol 2). The cognitive science of morality: Intuition and diversity (pp. 181-217). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Courses Taught:

Advanced Social Psychology
Social Psychology

Advanced Social Psychology

Social Psychology

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Fredrik Björklund
Department of Psychology
Lund University
Box 213
22100 Lund
Sweden

Phone: +46 46 222 87 75
Fax: +46 46 222 42 09