Kahl Hellmer
Education coordinator at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 21 04
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 79 57
- E-mail:
- kahl.hellmer@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I work as an Education Coordinator and am the Programme Director for the Bachelor's Programme in Behavioural Sciences at the Department of Psychology. I serve as the Director of Studies with responsibility for the department's staffing, Pedagogical Coordinator for Developmental Psychology, and I lecture and supervise theses at both undergraduate and advanced levels.
Biography
PhD, Psychology, 2021, Uppsala University
MSc, Audio Technology, 2005, Luleå University of Technology
Research
My research primarily concerns social and developmental psychology, with a particular focus on gender identity development and behavior; children's understanding of and attitudes toward social groups, such as gender and ethnicity; as well as the role of preschool in children's social development. I also conduct research on children's living conditions in families affected by substance abuse. In addition to this, I am involved in collaboration efforts between the university and the wider community, in both research and education.

Publications
Selection of publications
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender-Typed Predictions for Others
Part of Social development (Oxford. Print), 2025
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Part of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, p. 315-335, 2020
- DOI for Right-Wing Populism and Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Exclusionary and Anti-Egalitarian Preferences, Conservative Ideology, and Antiestablishment Attitudes
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Preschoolers' conformity (and its motivation) is linked to own and parents' personalities
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 573-588, 2018
Part of Developmental Science, 2018
Part of Personality and Individual Differences, p. 29-37, 2018
Itsy Bitsy Spider...: Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
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Part of Cognition, p. 1-8, 2015
Recent publications
Children's gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour
Part of European Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 729-744, 2025
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Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender-Typed Predictions for Others
Part of Social development (Oxford. Print), 2025
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How Does Preschoolers’ Conformity Relate to Parental Style, Anonymous Sharing, and Obedience?
Part of International journal of developmental science, p. 49-59, 2022
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To be right or to be liked?: Correlates of preschoolers’ informational and normative conformity
2021
Part of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, p. 315-335, 2020
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All publications
Articles in journal
Children's gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour
Part of European Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 729-744, 2025
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Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender-Typed Predictions for Others
Part of Social development (Oxford. Print), 2025
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How Does Preschoolers’ Conformity Relate to Parental Style, Anonymous Sharing, and Obedience?
Part of International journal of developmental science, p. 49-59, 2022
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Part of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, p. 315-335, 2020
- DOI for Right-Wing Populism and Climate Change Denial: The Roles of Exclusionary and Anti-Egalitarian Preferences, Conservative Ideology, and Antiestablishment Attitudes
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Preschoolers' conformity (and its motivation) is linked to own and parents' personalities
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 573-588, 2018
Part of Developmental Science, 2018
Part of Personality and Individual Differences, p. 29-37, 2018
Itsy Bitsy Spider...: Infants React with Increased Arousal to Spiders and Snakes
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
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Part of Best Practice, 2017
Part of Medical Hypotheses, p. 64-66, 2017
Part of Archives of Sexual Behavior, p. 783-784, 2016
- DOI for Contradicting Data and Comments on Oldmeadow and Dixson's (2015) "The Association Between Men's Sexist Attitudes and Facial Hair"
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Part of Cognition, p. 1-8, 2015
Part of Medical Hypotheses