Niklas Fransson

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Bakgrund
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Bakgrund

Born 1965 in Nässjö, Sweden. Accepted for the graduate program in Psychology at Göteborg University during the autumn in 1990. Defended his doctoral thesis in Psychology in 1997 (Department of Psychology, Göteborg University). Position as lecturer. Teaches Social psychology on different levels of education.

Undervisning

My main area of teaching is within the field of social psychology, but I also teach in general psychology.
I supervise students on basic and advanced level courses.

Forskning

Moral value/emotion research
This research is aimed at explaining what features of events that make involved individuals perceive them as immoral. We also tried to reveal which features are distinct for different moral values (domains). Lastly, I have been studying if events that activate different values also evoke different emotional reactions.

Environmental research
Research aimed at trying to understand how peoples perceptions, performance and well-being are effected by the thermal and acoustic stressors in the environment.
 

Valda publikationer

Biel, A., Fransson, N., & Dahlstrand, U. (1997). Moral values assigned to real-life events. Scandinavian Journal of psychology, 38, 21-28.

Fransson, N. (1997). The experience of immoral events. Published doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, Göteborg University.

Bennulf, M., Fransson, N., Polk, M., & Biel, A. (1998). Bilismen och miljön: Attityder och attitydbildning. KFB-Rapport 4.

Fransson, N., & Gärling, T. (1999) Environmental concern: Conceptual definitions, measurement methods, and research findings. Journal of Evironmental Psychology, 19, 369-382.

Fransson, N., Västfjäll, D., & Skoog, J. (2007). In search of the comfortable indoor environment: A comparison of the utility of objective and subjective indicators of indoor comfort. Building and Environment, 42, (5), 1886-1890.

Bergman, P., Sköld, A., Västfjäll, D., & Fransson, N. (2009) Perceptual and emotional categorization of sound. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126, (6), 3156-3167.

Fransson, N., & Ask, K. (2010). A cognitive-representational account of intuitive moral judgment: Effects of typicality and accessibility. The Open Psychology Journal, 3,67-75.