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Pär Bjälkebring
Senior Lecturer
Department of PsychologyAbout Pär Bjälkebring
Pär Bjälkebring on ORCID, Google Scholar and, Research Gate.
Biography
- Postdoctoral researcher, The Ohio State University, 2016-2019
- Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Gothenburg, 2014.
Teaching Methodology, Developmental Psychology, Social psychology, Forensic psychology
Research interests
My research focus on the interplay of affect and deliberation (for example numeracy) in judgements and decision-making. Further, I have an interest of understanding changes in decision making that occurs as people age.
Current research Decision making across the lifespan, understanding the interplay of affect and deliberation in decision-making as well as prosocial behaviors and how these are connected to happiness and life satisfaction.
Collaborations
Current collaboration with University of Oregon (USA), University of Victoria (Canada), Decision Research (DR), Oregon and The Ohio State University (OSU).
Listen to me talk about math and life satisfaction
Science Podcast - The link between math and life satisfaction (2022)
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Well-Being of Older Adults in Sweden: Longitudinal Trajectories from 2015 to
2022
Isabelle Hansson, Marie Kivi, Pär Bjälkebring
British Society of Gerontology 52nd Annual Conference, Norwich, United Kingdom, July 5-7, 2023 - 2023 -
The numeric understanding measures: Developing and validating adaptive and nonadaptive numeracy
scales
M. C. Silverstein, Pär Bjälkebring, B. Shoots-Reinhard, E. Peters
Judgment and Decision Making - 2023 -
Numeracy, numeric attention, and number use in judgment and
choice
Kevin E. Tiede, Pär Bjälkebring, Ellen Peters
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making - 2022 -
Autonomy and loneliness - longitudinal within- and between-person associations among Swedish older
adults
G. Henning, D. Segel-Karpas, Pär Bjälkebring, Anne Ingeborg Berg
Aging & Mental Health - 2022 -
Retirement and Sexual
Satisfaction
G. Henning, D. Segel-Karpas, M. P. Bjork, Pär Bjälkebring, Anne Ingeborg Berg
Gerontologist - 2022 -
Helping Out or Helping Yourself? Volunteering and Life Satisfaction Across the Retirement
Transition
Pär Bjälkebring, Georg Henning, Daniel Västfjäll, Stephan Dickert, Yvonne Brehmer, Sandra Buratti, Isabelle Hansson, Boo Johansson
Psychology and Aging - 2021 -
Money matters (especially if you are good at math): Numeracy, verbal intelligence, education, and income in satisfaction
judgments.
Pär Bjälkebring, Ellen Peters
PLoS ONE - 2021 -
The Counterintuitiveness of Supernatural Dreams and
Religiosity
Andreas Nordin, Pär Bjälkebring
Journal of Cognition and Culture - 2021 -
Ability-related political polarization in the COVID-19
pandemic
Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, Raleigh Goodwin, Pär Bjälkebring, David M. Markowitz, Michael C. Silverstein, Ellen Peters
Intelligence - 2021 -
Basic psychological need satisfaction across the retirement transition: Changes and longitudinal associations with depressive
symptoms
Andreas Stenling, Georg Henning, Pär Bjälkebring, Susanne Tafvelin, Marie Kivi, Boo Johansson, Magnus Lindwall
Motivation and Emotion - 2021 -
Dehumanization During the COVID-19
Pandemic
D. M. Markowitz, B. Shoots-Reinhard, E. Peters, M. C. Silverstein, R. Goodwin, Pär Bjälkebring
Frontiers in Psychology - 2021 -
Up and About: Older Adults’ Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Swedish Longitudinal
Study
Marie Kivi, Isabelle Hansson, Pär Bjälkebring
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences - 2021 -
Towards an active and happy retirement? Changes in leisure activity and depressive symptoms during the retirement
transition
Georg Henning, Andreas Stenling, Allison Bileak, Pär Bjälkebring, Alan J. Gow, Marie Kivi, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, B Johansson, Magnus Lindwall
Aging and Mental Health - 2021 -
Response: Commentary: Measuring Counterintuitiveness in Supernatural Agent Dream
Imagery
Andreas Nordin, Pär Bjälkebring
Frontiers in Psychology - 2020 -
Autonomy, Choice and Control for Older Users of Home Care Services: Current Developments in Swedish
Eldercare
Anna Dunér, Pär Bjälkebring, Boo Johansson
Journal of social service research - 2019 -
Changes in within- and between-person associations between basic psychological need satisfaction and well-being after
retirement
Georg Henning, Pär Bjälkebring, Andreas Stenling, Boo Johansson, Magnus Lindwall
Journal of Research in Personality - 2019 -
Math Anxiety at the University: What Forms of Teaching and Learning Statistics in Higher Education Can Help Students With Math
Anxiety?
Pär Bjälkebring
Frontiers in Education - 2019 -
Merely a rhetorical promise? Older users' opportunities for choice and control in Swedish individualised home care
services.
Anna Dunér, Pär Bjälkebring, Boo Johansson
Ageing & Society - 2019 -
Predictors of Non-Traditional Pathways to Retirement in US and Swedish
Cohorts
Nathan Lewis, Pär Bjälkebring, Isabelle Hansson, Scott Hofer
International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGG-ER), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23-25, 2019 - 2019 -
Measuring Counterintuitiveness in Supernatural Agent Dream
Imagery
Andreas Nordin, Pär Bjälkebring
Frontiers in Psychology - 2019 -
Emotional Aspects of Risk
Perceptions
Mary Kate Tompkins, Pär Bjälkebring, Ellen Peters
Psychological Perspectives on Risk and Risk Analysis - 2018 -
Psychological health in the retirement transition: Rationale and first findings in the HEalth, Ageing and Retirement Transitions in Sweden (HEARTS)
study
Magnus Lindwall, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Pär Bjälkebring, Sandra Buratti, Isabelle Hansson, Linda Hassing, Georg Henning, Marie Kivi, Stefanie König, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2017 -
Förenklad debatt om LOV missar
målet
Anna Dunér, Boo Johansson, Pär Bjälkebring
Göteborgs Posten - 2017 -
Greater Emotional Gain from Giving in Older Adults: Age-Related Positivity Bias in Charitable
Giving
Pär Bjälkebring, Daniel Västfjäll, S. Dickert, P. Slovic
Frontiers in Psychology - 2016 -
An Experimental Field Study of the Effects of Listening to Self-selected Music on Emotions, Stress, and Cortisol
Levels
Marie Hellsing, Daniel Västfjäll, Pär Bjälkebring, Terry Hartig
Music and Medicine - 2016 -
Regulation of Experienced and Anticipated Regret in Daily Decision
Making
Pär Bjälkebring, Daniel Västfjäll, Ola Svensson, Paul Slovic
Emotion - 2016 -
Happiness and arousal: framing happiness as arousing results in lower happiness ratings for older
adults
Pär Bjälkebring, D. Vastfjall, Boo Johansson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2015 -
Assessment of cognitive performance online: A first report from the “Health, Aging and Retirement Transition in Sweden” – HEARTS
Study
Georg Henning, Pär Bjälkebring, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Sandra Buratti, Linda Hassing, Marie Kivi, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Magnus Lindwall, Boo Johansson
Third International Conference on Aging & Cognition. Dortmund, Germany, 23-25 April. - 2015 -
Regret and regret regulation across the
lifespan
Pär Bjälkebring
Impuls, Tidskrift for Psykologi - 2015 -
Vem Blir En Lycklig
80-åring?
Pär Bjälkebring
Svensk Geriatrik - 2015 -
Psychology of
Longevity
Boo Johansson, Pär Bjälkebring
Encyclopedia of Geropsychology - 2015 -
How to estimate how well people estimate: Evaluating measures of individual differences in the approximate number
system
Dana Chesney, Pär Bjälkebring, Ellen Peters
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics - 2015 -
Multiple Numeric Competencies: When a Number Is Not Just a
Number
Ellen Peters, Pär Bjälkebring
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - 2015 -
Choise and decision-making in Swedish elderly
care
Anna Dunér, Pär Bjälkebring, Boo Johansson
22NKG Gothenburg – 22nd Nordic Congress of Gerontology - 2014 -
Age Differences in Experience and Regulation of
Affect
Pär Bjälkebring
2014 -
Regulation of experienced and anticipated regret for daily decisions in younger and older adults in a Swedish one-week diary
study
Pär Bjälkebring, Daniel Västfjäll, Boo Johansson
GeroPsych - 2013 -
A Lifespan View of Emotions and Emotion Regulation in Decision
Making
Pär Bjälkebring
2013 -
The Experience and Regulation of Regret Across the Adult Life
Span
Ellen Peters, Daniel Västfjäll, Pär Bjälkebring
Emotion Regulation and Well-Being , Part 2 - 2011