Rickard Carlsson
Associate professor
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Teaching
I primarily teach grad students in methods and statistics.
Research
My research mainly concerns method development and metascience. I am particurarly involved in applying this to improve teaching in schools. Main interest involve systematic reviews, meta-analysis, bias tests, replicability, open science and statistics.
Commissions
Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Meta-Psychology.
Founder and coordinator of Open Science Community Sweden.
Leader of the method and metascience group at our department of psychology.
My ongoing research projects
My completed research projects
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Bratt, A.S., Marcusson-Clavertz, D., Ozolins, A., Carlsson, R. (2025). Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Swedish Version of the Self-Compassion Scale. Mindfulness. 16. 205-214.
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Kalmendal, A., Henriksson, I., Nordström, T., Carlsson, R. (2024). Protocol: Strategy instruction for improving short‐ and long‐term writing performance on secondary and upper‐secondary students : A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 20 (2).
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Carlsson, R., Batinovic, L., Hyltse, N., Kalmendal, A., Nordström, T., et al. (2024). A Beginner's Guide to Open and Reproducible Systematic Reviews in Psychology. Collabra: Psychology. 10 (1).
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Batinovic, L., Howe, M., Sinclair, S., Carlsson, R. (2023). Ageism in Hiring : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Age Discrimination. Collabra: Psychology. 9 (1).
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Van Den Akker, O.R., Ygram Peters, G., Bakker, C.B., Carlsson, R., Coles, N.A., et al. (2023). Increasing the transparency of systematic reviews : presenting a generalized registration form. Systematic Reviews. 12.
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Rohrer, J.M., Tierney, W., Uhlmann, E.L., Debruine, L.M., Heyman, T., et al. (2021). Putting the Self in Self-Correction : Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 16 (6). 1255-1269.
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Nilvius, C., Carlsson, R., Fälth, L., Nordström, T. (2021). Tier 2 interventions within the RtI-model for developing students' word decoding – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cogent Education. 8 (1).
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Carlsson, R., Sinclair, S. (2021). Selected or rejected : Men and women's reactions to affirmative action procedures in hiring. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 21 (1). 874-888.
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Buchanan, E.M., Crain, S.E., Cunningham, A.L., Johnson, H.R., Stash, H., et al. (2021). Getting Started Creating Data Dictionaries : How to Create a Shareable Data Set. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 4 (1).
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Sinclair, S., Carlsson, R. (2021). Reactions to affirmative action policies in hiring : Effects of framing and beneficiary gender. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 21 (1). 660-678.
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Armeni, K., Brinkman, L., Carlsson, R., Eerland, A., Fijten, R., et al. (2021). Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices : The role of open science communities. Science and Public Policy. 48 (5). 605-611.
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Schimmack, U., Carlsson, R. (2020). Young unarmed nonsuicidal male victims of fatal use of force are 13 times more likely to be Black than White. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117 (3). 1263-1263.
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Lindersson, L., Guntell, L., Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2019). Reassessing the impact of descriptive norms on charitable giving. International Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing. 24 (1). 1-6.
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Carlsson, R., Lindqvist, P., Nordänger, U.K. (2019). Is teacher attrition a poor estimate of the value of teacher education? A Swedish case.. European Journal of Teacher Education. 42 (2). 243-257.
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Silberzahn, R., Uhlmann, E., Martin, D., Anselmi, P., Aust, F., et al. (2018). Many analysts, one dataset : Making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1 (3). 337-356.
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Carlsson, R., Sinclair, S. (2018). Prototypes and same-gender bias in perceptions of hiring discrimination. Journal of Social Psychology. 158 (3). 285-297.
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Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Williams, D., Burns, G.N. (2018). A Primer on the benefits of differential treatment analysis when predicting discriminatory behavior. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology. 14 (3). 193-198.
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Lakens, D., Adolfi, F.G., Albers, C.J., Anvari, F., Apps, M.A.J., et al. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (3). 168-171.
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Durante, F., Fiske, S.T., Gelfand, M., Crippa, F., Suttora, C., et al. (2017). Ambivalent stereotypes link to peace, conflict, and inequality across 38 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114 (4). 669-674.
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Williams, D., Carlsson, R., Bürkner, P. (2017). Between-litter variation in developmental studies of hormones and behavior : Inflated false positives and diminished power. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology (Print). 47. 154-166.
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Carlsson, R., Schimmack, U., Williams, D., Bürkner, P. (2017). Bayes Factors From Pooled Data Are No Substitute for Bayesian Meta-Analysis : Commentary on Scheibehenne, Jamil, and Wagenmakers (2016). Psychological Science. 28 (11). 1694-1697.
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Sinclair, S., Carlsson, R., Björklund, F. (2016). Getting along or ahead : Effects of gender identity threat on communal and agentic self‐presentations. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 57 (5). 427-432.
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Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Nicklasson, L., Guntell, L. (2016). Using descriptive social norms to increase charitable giving : The power of local norms. Journal of Economic Psychology. 52. 147-153.
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Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2016). A closer look at the discrimination outcomes in the IAT literature. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 57 (4). 278-287.
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Sinclair, S., Carlsson, R., Björklund, F. (2014). The role of friends in career compromise : Same-gender friendship intensifies gender differences in educational choice. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 84 (2). 109-118.
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Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M., Rooth, D. (2014). Testing for Backlash in Hiring : A Field Experiment on Agency, Communion, and Gender. Journal of Personnel Psychology. 13 (4). 204-214.
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Lindqvist, P., Nordänger, U.K., Carlsson, R. (2014). Teacher attrition the first five years - A multifaceted image. Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies. 40 (4). 94-103.
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Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2013). Look at yourself! : Visual perspective influences moral judgment by level of mental construal. Social Psychology. 44 (1). 42-46.
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Sinclair, S., Carlsson, R. (2013). What will I be when I grow up? The impact of gender identity threat on adolescents' occupational preferences. Journal of Adolescence. 36 (3). 465-474.
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Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2012). Emotions in time : Moral emotions appear more intense with temporal distance. Social cognition. 30 (2). 181-198.
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Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2012). Warm and Competent Hassan = Cold And Incompetent Eric : The Harsh Equation of Real-life Hiring Discrimination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 34 (4). 359-366.
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Carlsson, R., Björklund, F., Bäckström, M. (2012). Mixed discriminatory judgments of individuals’ warmth and competence related abilities. Social Psychology. 43 (3). 160-167.
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Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2011). Gender differences in implicit moral orientation associations : The justice and care debate revisited. Current Research in Social Psychology. 17. 10-18.
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Carlsson, R., Björklund, F. (2010). Implicit stereotype content : Mixed stereotypes can be measured with the Implicit Association Test. Social Psychology. 41 (4). 213-222.
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Rooth, D., Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Ekehammar, B. (2008). Svenska arbetsgivares implicita stereotyper av arabiska muslimer och överviktiga. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 12 (3/4). 239-256.
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Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Nilsonne, G., Dahlgren, P.M., Eklund, A., Danielsson, H., Carlsson, R., et al. (2023). ”Sluta betala för att få publicera forskning”. Svenska Dagbladet. (2023-03-28).
Status: Published
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Nordström, T., Kalmendal, A., Batinovic, L., Däldborg, P., Dahl, H., et al. (2024). Reproducibility, Open Science, FAIR and Risk Of Bias in Educational Systematic Reviews : A systematic living meta-review of research standards. META-REP 2024, the conference on meta-science and replicability in the social, behavioural, and cognitive sciences. October 28 to 31, 2024 in Munich, Germany.
- Nordström, T., Kalmendal, A., Lucija, B., Däldborg, P., Dahl, H., et al. (2024). FAIR-data adherence in systematic reviews : A closer (meta) view of educational science. Presented at Open Science Community Sweden Conference 2024, Växjö, Sweden, 24/9-26/9 2024.
- Hyltse, N., Carlsson, R., Nilsonne, G. (2023). ROSE (Risk of Statistical Error) : A checklist to assess the risk of errors in statistical reporting and datasets.. .
- Hyltse, N., Carlsson, R. (2023). Showcasing Untapped Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Understanding through Bibliometrics in Learning Analytics and Educational Research. .
- Kalmendal, A., Carlsson, R., Nordström, T. (2023). Visible learning, best practice or boondoggle? : Challenges in assessing a meta-meta-analysis. Presented at Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research, Centre for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States of America.
- Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M., Rooth, D. (2015). Backlash and hiring : A field experiment on agency, communion, and gender. .
- Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2013). Warm and Competent Hassan = Cold and Incompetent Eric: A harsh equation of real-life hiring discrimination. .
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Hyltse, N., Carlsson, R., Nilsonne, G. (2023). ROSE (Risk of Significant Error) : A checklist to assess the risk of errors in statistical reporting and datasets.. .
- Nordström, T., Carlsson, R., Batinović, L., Kalmendal, A., Henriksson, I. (2022). Meta-Review of Systematic Reviews in Educational Research : Risk of Bias and Open Practices. 2022 Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research, Centre for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States of America.
- Carlsson, R., Batinovic, L., Kalmendal, A., Nordström, T., Bergmann, C. (2021). Community Augmented Meta-analysis. Swedish Reproducibility Network (SweRN) and 2nd annual conference of Open Science Community Sweden, Stockholm, November 25, 2021.
Report (Refereed)
Report (Other academic)
- Carlsson, R., Schimmack, U., Williams, D.R., Bürkner, P. (2016). Bayesian evidence synthesis is no substitute for meta-analysis : a re-analysis of Scheibehenne, Jamil and Wagenmakers (2016). Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies. 5.
- Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2015). Methodological issues in predicting discrimination from attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes. Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies. 26.
- Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2015). A closer look at the discrimination outcomes in the IAT literature. Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies. 33.
- Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Nicklasson, L., Guntell, L. (2015). Descriptive social norms and charitable giving : the power of local norms. Linnaeus University Centre for Labour Market and Discrimination Studies. 19.
- Carlsson, R., Sinclair, S., Agerström, J. (2013). The Role of Prototypes and Same-Gender Bias in Attributions to Gender Discrimination in Hiring. Linnéuniversitetet. 64.
- Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M., Rooth, D. (2013). Testing for backlash in hiring : A field experiment on agency, communion,and gender. Linnéuniversitetet. 14.
- Agerström, J., Carlsson, R. (2013). Why does height matter in hiring?. Linnéuniversitetet. 12.
- Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2012). Warm and competent Hassan = Cold and incompetent Eric: A Harsh equation of real-life hiring discrimination. Linnéuniversitetet. 12.
- Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2007). Etnicitet och övervikt : implicita arbetsrelaterade fördomar i Sverige. Uppsala, Institutet för arbetsmarknadspolitisk utvärdering (IFAU). 20.