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Sara Landström
Professor
Department of PsychologyAbout Sara Landström
Biography
- Professor of psychology 2022
- Associate professor (docent) of psychology 2014
- Ph.D in psychology 2008
- Member of the research unit for Criminal, Legal, and Investigative Psychology (CLIP)
Teaching
I mainly teach legal and investigative psychology and I am course leader for Legal and Investigative Psychology (30 credits) and Legal and investigative psychology in practice (15 credits). I also teach at the doctoral program and supervise students at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels.
Research interests
My research interest is forensic psychology in general, with a special focus on reliability and credibility assessments, victim blaming, child sexual abuse cases, and interview and interrogation methods. In 2021, I was awarded the Birger Karlsson science prize by the Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg (KVVS) for my research on children's testimonies and investigative interviews of children.
Ongoing research projects
Pictures as communication support in child forensic interviews
The project is financed by The Swedish Crime Victim Authority (Brottsoffermyndigheten) and seeks to explore whether using pictures as communication support could be beneficial in child forensic interviews with child victims and witnesses who have limited verbal abilities. The project includes studies on children’s understanding of pictures, the effects of using pictures in child interviews on the length and accuracy of children’s reports, and the perspectives of legal actors on using pictures in child forensic interviews.
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"There is No Time": Swedish Professionals' Perspective on Rape Victim
Treatment
Arman Raver, Sara Landström, Kerstin Adolfsson, Leif Strömwall
JOURNAL OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE - 2025 -
Kommunikationsstöd i utredande samtal och
förhör
Sara Landström
Fråga, lyssna och förstå: Om att motverka våld mot barn och unga med funktionsnedsättning - 2024 -
When the victim is a boy: Examining possible gender biases in Swedish child sexual abuse cases from 2019 to
2022
Charlotte Löfgren, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN) Congress, 2024 - 2024 -
Social workers’ knowledge about children’s memory and child
interviewing
Charlotte Löfgren, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström
Children and youth services review - 2024 -
Child forensic interviews with pictures? – A study on picture
interpretation.
Linnea Koponen, Mikaela Magnusson, Sara Landström
the World Congress of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN) - 2024 -
The future of forensic psychology. Core topics and emerging
trends
Sara Landström, Pär-Anders Granhag, Peter van Koppen
2023 -
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert
opinions
Timothy Luke, Erik Mac Giolla, Amina Memon , Sara Landström, Pär-Anders Granhag, Saul Kassin
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2023 -
“It doesn't work at all, that's my experience”: Swedish forensic interviewers' views on interpreter-mediated child
interviews
Emelie Ernberg, Mikaela Magnusson, Linnea Koponen, Sara Landström
International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect - 2022 -
Handbok i
rättspsykologi
Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Karl Ask, Sara Landström
2021 -
Experiences and psychological health among children exposed to online child sexual abuse – a mixed methods study of court
verdicts
Malin Joleby, Sara Landström, Carolina Lunde, L. S. Jonsson
Psychology, Crime & Law - 2021 -
Implanting false autobiographical memories for repeated
events
Bruna Calado, Timothy Luke, Deborah Connolly, Sara Landström, Henry Otgaar
Memory - 2021 -
Offender strategies for engaging children in online sexual
activity
Malin Joleby, Carolina Lunde, Sara Landström, Linda S. Jonsson
Child Abuse and Neglect - 2021 -
The effects of drawing on preschoolers' statements about experienced and non‐experienced
events
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Malin Joleby, Lucy Akehurst, Julia Korkman, Karl Ask
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2021 -
Preschoolers' true and false reports: Comparing effects of the Sequential Interview and NICHD
protocol
Mikaela Magnusson, Malin Joleby, Emelie Ernberg, Lucy Akehurst, Julia Korkman, Sara Landström
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2021 -
When a different perspective and contextual knowledge change the conclusions: Commentary on Baugerud et al.
(2020)
Annika Melinder, Mikaela Magnusson, Karl Ask, Livia Gilstrap, Sara Landström
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2021 -
Rättspsykologins
tillämpningar
Leif Strömwall, Karl Ask, Pär-Anders Granhag, Sara Landström
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
Förövarpsykologi
Sara Landström, Malin Joleby, Pekka Santtila
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Viktimologi
Sara Landström, Leif Strömwall
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Förhör med
barn
Sara Landström, Julia Korkman, Mikaela Magnusson
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Förhör med vittnen och
målsägande
Sara Landström, Mikaela Magnusson
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Hur barn minns och
berättar
Sara Landström, Emelie Ernberg
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Utsageanalys och värdering av muntliga
utsagor
Leif Strömwall, Sara Landström
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Trovärdighet
Karl Ask, Sara Landström
Handbok i rättspsykologi (andra upplagan) - 2021 -
Minne för traumatiska
händelser
Pär-Anders Granhag, Leif Strömwall, Sara Landström
Handbok i Rättspsykologi - 2021 -
“All of Me Is Completely Different”: Experiences and Consequences Among Victims of Technology-Assisted Child Sexual
Abuse
Malin Joleby, Carolina Lunde, Sara Landström, Linda S. Jonsson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2020 -
Blame Attributions in Multiple Perpetrator Rape Cases: The Impact of Sympathy, Consent, Force, and
Beliefs
Kerstin Adolfsson, Leif Strömwall, Sara Landström
Journal of Interpersonal Violence - 2020 -
Forensic interviewers' experiences of interviewing children of different
ages
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Lucy Akehurst
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2020 -
Can rapport building strategies, age, and question type influence preschoolers’ disclosures of adult
wrongdoing?
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Malin Joleby, Lucy Akehurst
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology - 2020 -
Beliefs about suspect alibis: A survey of lay people in the United Kingdom, Israel, and
Sweden
Shiri Portnoy, Lorraine Hope, Aldert Vrij, Karl Ask, Sara Landström
The International Journal of Evidence & Proof - 2020 -
Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock-witness
interviews
A. D. Vilar, R. Horselenberg, Leif Strömwall, Sara Landström, L. Hope, P. J. vanKoppen
Legal and Criminological Psychology - 2020 -
The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice
Contexts
Vincent Denault, Pierrich Plusquellec, Louise M. Jupe, Michel St-Yves, Norah E. Dunbar, Maria Hartwig, Siegfried L. Sporer, Jessica Rioux-Turcotte, Jonathan Jarry, Dave Walsh, Henry Otgaar, Andrei Viziteu, Victoria Talwar, David A. Keatley, Iris Blandón-Gitlin, Clint Townson, Nadine Deslauriers-Varin, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Miles L. Patterson, Igor Areh, Alfred Allan, Hilary Evans Cameron, Rémi Boivin, Leanne ten Brinke, Jaume Masip, Ray Bull, Mireille Cyr, Lorraine Hope, Leif Strömwall, Stephanie J. Bennett, Faisal Al Menaiya, Richard A. Leo, Annelies Vredeveldt, Marty Laforest, Charles R. Honts, Antonio L. Manzanero, Samantha Mann, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Fiona Gabbert, Jean-Pierre Guay, Alexandre Coutant, Jeffrey Hancock, Valerie Manusov, Judee K. Burgoon, Steven M. Kleinman, Gordon Wright, Sara Landström, Ian Freckelton, Zarah Vernham, Peter J. van Koppen
Anuario de Psicología Jurídica - 2020 -
Lyssna på barnen – om barnens
rättssäkerhet
Sara Landström
Vi måste börja med barnen - 2020 -
Prosecutors’ experiences investigating alleged sexual abuse against
preschoolers
Emelie Ernberg, Mikaela Magnusson, Sara Landström
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2020 -
Interviewing Child Witnesses: Proceedings of the 2019 theoretical
course
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The impact of lying about a traumatic virtual reality experience on
memory
Tameka Romeo, Henry Otgaar, Tom Smeets, Sara Landström, Didi Boerboom
Memory and Cognition - 2019 -
“I think you did it!”: Examining the effect of presuming guilt on the verbal output of innocent suspects during brief
interviews
Shiri Portnoy, Lorraine Hope, Aldert Vrij, Pär-Anders Granhag, Karl Ask, Carly Eddy, Sara Landström
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling - 2019 -
The memory‐impairing effects of simulated amnesia for a mock
crime
Tameka Romeo, Henry Otgaar, Tom Smeets, Sara Landström, Marko Jelicic
Applied Cognitive Psychology - 2019 -
Credibility judgments in context: effects of emotional expression, presentation mode, and statement
consistency
Sara Landström, Karl Ask, Charlotte Sommar
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2019 -
Maybe you can draw it? The effects of using drawings during investigative interviews with
preschoolers
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Malin Joleby, Lucy Akehurst, Julia Korkman
The 15th Meeting of the Nordic Network for research on Psychology and Law, Tallinn, Estonia, September 27-28, 2019 - 2019 -
Sexualbrott på nätet – hur mår de barn som
drabbats?
Malin Joleby, Carolina Lunde, Sara Landström, Linda S. Jonsson
Barnrättsdagarna 2019, Örebro - 2019 -
Pressuring strategies used by offenders when targeting children for online sexual
abuse
Malin Joleby, Sara Landström, Carolina Lunde, Linda S. Jonsson
the 15th meeting of the Nordic Network for research on Psychology and Law (NNPL), Tallin, Estonia, September 27-28, 2019 - 2019 -
Perpetrator strategies for sexually abusing children
online
Malin Joleby, Sara Landström, Carolina Lunde, Linda S. Jonsson
the Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law abstract book, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17-20 July 2019 - 2019 -
Does a longer rapport-building phase improve preschoolers’ witness capabilities during investigative
interviews?
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Malin Joleby, Lucy Akehurst, Julia Korkman
2019 Annual conference of the European association of psychology and law abstract book - 2019 -
Police Suspect Interviewing: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs in
Europe
Jenny Schell-Leugers, Miet Vanderhallen, Renate Volbert, Sara Landström, Trond Myklebust, Jaume Masip, Lara Gil Jung, Saul Kassin
The 12th Annual Conference of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG), Stavern, Norway - 2019 -
Psykologer i rätten: Vad kan vi (inte) bidra
med?
Sara Landström
Psykologikonferensen 2019 - 2019 -
Taking the stand: Defendant statements in court cases of alleged sexual abuse against infants, toddlers and
preschoolers
Mikaela Magnusson, Emelie Ernberg, Sara Landström, Pär-Anders Granhag
Psychology, Crime and Law - 2018 -
Hur får vi barn att berätta vad de har varit med om och hur bedömer vi vad vi får
veta?
Sara Landström
Temadag: Barn och unga som brottsoffer – forskning som ger praktisk nytta. 19 november, Göteborg - 2018 -
Värt att veta om… Hur barn minns och berättar om
övergrepp
Sara Landström
"Värt att veta om..." - 2018 -
”Så fort hon skickat bilden stängde hon av mobiltelefonen och började gråta”
- Barn utsatta för sexuella övergrepp på
nätet
Malin Joleby, Sara Landström, Carolina Lunde, Linda Jonsson
Oral presentation at Barnafridskonferensen, Linköping, Sweden, November 14-15, 2018 - 2018 -
Prosecutors’ experiences investigating alleged sexual abuse against
preschoolers
Emelie Ernberg, Mikaela Magnusson, Sara Landström
Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law 26-29 juni 2018 - 2018
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