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Will I Fit in and Do Well? The Importance of Social Belongingness and Self-Efficacy for Explaining Gender Differences in Interest in STEM and HEED Majors by Tellhed, Una, Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…Throughout the world, the labor market is clearly gender segregated. More research is needed to explain women’s lower interest in STEM (Science, Technology,…”
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Why Forced-Choice and Likert Items Provide the Same Information on Personality, Including Social Desirability by Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…The forced-choice response format is often considered superior to the standard Likert-type format for controlling social desirability in personality…”
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Fear and anxiety differ in construal level and scope by Mayiwar, Lewend, Björklund, Fredrik

“…The fear-anxiety distinction has been extensively discussed and debated among emotion researchers. In this study, we tested this distinction from a…”
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Emotional reactions, perceived impact and perceived responsibility mediate the identifiable victim effect, proportion dominance effect and in-group effect respectively by Erlandsson, Arvid, Björklund, Fredrik, Bäckström, Martin

“…•Three psychological mechanisms were tested as mediators of three helping effects.•The identifiable victim effect was primarily mediated by emotional reactions…”
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Fear From Afar, Not So Risky After All: Distancing Moderates the Relationship Between Fear and Risk Taking by Mayiwar, Lewend, Björklund, Fredrik

“…A growing line of research has shown that individuals can regulate emotional biases in risky judgment and decision-making processes through cognitive…”
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Dissonance reduction as emotion regulation: Attitude change is related to positive emotions in the induced compliance paradigm by Cancino-Montecinos, Sebastian, Björklund, Fredrik, Lindholm, Torun

“…The aim of this study was to clarify how positive and negative emotions are related to the common attitude-change effect in cognitive dissonance research…”
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The role of ability beliefs and agentic vs. communal career goals in adolescents' first educational choice. What explains the degree of gender-balance? by Tellhed, Una, Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…To reduce the horizontal gender segregation in the labor market, we need to understand gender differences in career choice. The current study followed a large…”
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A General Model of Dissonance Reduction: Unifying Past Accounts via an Emotion Regulation Perspective by Cancino-Montecinos, Sebastian, Björklund, Fredrik, Lindholm, Torun

“…Cognitive dissonance has been studied for more than 60 years and many insightful findings have come from this research. However, some important theoretical and…”
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Stereotype Content at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation by Klysing, Amanda, Lindqvist, Anna, Björklund, Fredrik

“…According to the Stereotype Content Model (SCM), the content of stereotypes differs on two dimensions: communion and agency. Research shows that for…”
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Sure I can code (but do I want to?). Why boys' and girls’ programming beliefs differ and the effects of mandatory programming education by Tellhed, Una, Björklund, Fredrik, Kallio Strand, Kalle

“…In our increasingly digitalized society, it is important to have a grasp of basic programming and therefore, programming was recently made mandatory in Swedish…”
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The Properties and Utility of Less Evaluative Personality Scales: Reduction of Social Desirability; Increase of Construct and Discriminant Validity by Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…Evaluative neutralization implies rephrasing items such that it is less clear to the respondent what would be a desirable response in the given population. The…”
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The Intent and Extent of Collective Threats: A Data-Driven Conceptualization of Collective Threats and Their Relation to Political Preferences by Kahn, Dennis T., Björklund, Fredrik, Hirschberger, Gilad

“…The purpose of the present article is to systematically investigate how people perceive collective threat and how such threat perceptions relate to political…”
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The introduction of ticagrelor is associated with lower rates of recurrent ischemic stroke after myocardial infarction by Henriksson, Robin, Björklund, Fredrik, Mooe, Thomas

“…Previous ischemic stroke is a predictor of recurrent ischemic stroke after an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Dual antiplatelet therapy, including a…”
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Patient Attachment and Reflective Functioning as Predictors for Therapist In-Session Feelings by Falkenström, Fredrik, Bjerén, Jonatan, Björklund, Fredrik, Holmqvist, Rolf, Ekeblad, Annika

“…Therapists' in-session feelings in psychotherapy can be seen as indications of the development of the therapeutic relationship and the therapeutic process. To…”
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Tech-Savvy Men and Caring Women: Middle School Students’ Gender Stereotypes Predict Interest in Tech-Education by Tellhed, Una, Björklund, Fredrik, Kallio Strand, Kalle

“…The labor market is strongly gender segregated with few women working in the tech sector (e.g., IT) and few men working in the care sector (e.g., nursing). We…”
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Is the general factor of personality based on evaluative responding? Experimental manipulation of item-popularity in personality inventories by Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…The general factor of personality (GFP) is understood as a hierarchically superordinate factor, which suggests that it and the subordinate personality traits…”
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Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally by Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik, Larsson, Magnus R.

“…The factors in self-report inventories measuring the five-factor model (FFM) correlate with one another although they theoretically should not. Study 1 showed,…”
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Tools for fairness: Increased structure in the selection process reduces discrimination by Wolgast, Sima, Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…Employment discrimination causes problems at the labor market, and is hard to combat. Can increasing the degree of structure when selecting applicants increase…”
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In the shoes of the other: an educational trip to Auschwitz Birkenau increases high-school students’ perspective taking and identification with Jews by Lindén, Magnus, Björklund, Fredrik, Wilkes, George

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Increasing systematicity leads to better selection decisions: Evidence from a computer paradigm for evaluating selection tools by Bäckström, Martin, Björklund, Fredrik

“…A computerized paradigm was created to allow for testing in the laboratory whether increasing systematicity helps the recruiter make better selection…”
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