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Fredrik Björklund

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). Emotions in time: Moral emotions appear more intense with temporal distance. Social Cognition.
  • Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., & Rooth, D-O. (in press). Warm and competent Hassan = cold and incompetent Eric: A harsh equation of real-life hiring discrimination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
  • Björklund, F., & Bäckström, M. (2008). Individual differences in thinking styles: Validity of the Rational-Experiential Inventory. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 439-446.
  • 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. (in press). Company norms affect which traits are preferred in job candidates and may cause employment discrimination. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied.
  • Bäckström, M., & Björklund, F. (2008). The Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates (MCAA): Further testing of structural and criterion related validity. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35, 1398-1410.
  • 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. (in press). Mixed discriminatory judgments of individuals’ warmth and competence related abilities. Social Psychology.
  • Gustafsson, U., & Björklund, F. (2008). Women self-stereotype with feminine stereotypical traits under stereotype threat. Current Research in Social Psychology, 13, 1-13.
  • Strandberg, C., & Björklund, F. (in press). Is moral internalism supported by folk intuitions? Philosophical Psychology.
  • Tellhed, U., & Björklund, F. (2011). Stereotype threat in salary negotiations is mediated by reservation salary. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 185-195.

Other Publications:

  • 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

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

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

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