Marcus Lindskog
Researcher at National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women
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- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 17
- Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
Researcher at National Centre for Knowledge on Men's Violence Against Women; Research team NCK Gender based violence and health
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 162 30 15
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 17
- Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset
751 85 Uppsala
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-1326-6177
Keywords
- intimate partner violence
- health
- epidemiology
- cognitive psychology
- developmental psychology
- migration
Biography
I am a Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Knowledge on Men’s Violence Against Women (NCK), Uppsala University. My academic background is in psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive psychology (judgment and decision-making) and developmental psychology (early childhood development). In recent years, I have expanded my research interests to include interdisciplinary issues related to mental health, migration, and social vulnerability, typically using quantitative methods. I earned my PhD in 2014 from Uppsala University with a dissertation on the cognitive processes underlying intuitive judgments and was appointed Associate Professor (Docent) in 2017. Since then, I have worked as a researcher, lecturer, and data scientist across academic institutions, research agencies, and private companies, including the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Tobii, and Funnel.
Research
My previous research focuses on how human thinking, behavior, and emotions are shaped by contextual factors and access to information. I have studied intuitive judgments, numerical and mathematical abilities in children and adults, and how affective factors influence learning. In recent years, I have taken a particular interest in how children’s cognitive and emotional development is affected by sociocultural factors such as parental mental health, migration, and trauma. This work has been conducted in both Swedish and international contexts.
At NCK, I lead a research program that maps exposure to violence in the adult Swedish population. The project examines the relationship between exposure to various forms of violence (physical, psychological, sexual, and economic) and individuals’ health and life outcomes. The aim is to provide a knowledge base for future research and evidence-based interventions to prevent men’s violence against women and intimate partner violence.
In collaboration with Professor Gustaf Gredebäck (developmental psychology) and Associate Professor Jonathan Hall (peace and conflict studies), I also conduct research on how traumatic experiences during migration, including intimate partner violence, affect mothers and their children.
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Publications
Recent publications
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Poor maternal mental health is associated with a low degree of proactive control in refugee children
Part of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, p. 1987-1999, 2024
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Recognition of small numbers in subset knowers: Cardinal knowledge in early childhood
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2023
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Part of Learning and instruction, 2023
- DOI for Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency: Development and parallel processes during the early school years
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Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1487-1495, 2023
- DOI for The role of maternal trauma and discipline types in emotional processing among Syrian refugee children
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Infants’ sense of approximate numerosity: Heritability and link to other concurrent traits
Part of Developmental Science, 2023
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Poor maternal mental health is associated with a low degree of proactive control in refugee children
Part of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, p. 1987-1999, 2024
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Recognition of small numbers in subset knowers: Cardinal knowledge in early childhood
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2023
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Part of Learning and instruction, 2023
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Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1487-1495, 2023
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Infants’ sense of approximate numerosity: Heritability and link to other concurrent traits
Part of Developmental Science, 2023
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Maternal postpartum depression impacts infants' joint attention differentially across cultures
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 2230-2238, 2022
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Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood
Part of Infancy, p. 700-719, 2022
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Does mathematics anxiety moderate the effect of problem difficulty on cognitive effort?
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 601-608, 2022
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Part of Cognition & Emotion, p. 452-472, 2022
- DOI for Developmental relations between mathematics anxiety, symbolic numerical magnitude processing and arithmetic skills from first to second grade
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Part of Developmental Science, 2022
- DOI for High quality social environment buffers infants’ cognitive development from poor maternal mental health: Evidence from a study in Bhutan
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Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 1221-1236, 2022
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Predicting children's emerging understanding of numbers
Part of Developmental Science, 2022
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Part of Intelligence, 2022
- DOI for Fluid intelligence in refugee children: A cross-sectional study of potential risk and resilience factors among Syrian refugee children and their parents
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2021
- DOI for Social cognition in refugee children: An experimental cross-sectional study of emotional processing with Syrian families in Turkish communities
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Attentional bias induced by stimulus control (ABC) impairs measures of the approximate number system
Part of Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, p. 1684-1698, 2021
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Maternal childhood trauma and perinatal distress are related to infants’ focused attention from 6 to 18 months
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Can the Brain Build Probability Distributions?
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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Social and emotional contexts predict the development of gaze following in early infancy
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2020
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Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 477-491, 2020
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Play enhances visual form perception in infancy-an active training study
Part of Developmental Science, 2020
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The social foundation of executive function
Part of Developmental Science, 2020
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Editorial: Approximate Number System and Mathematics
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
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Discrimination of Small Forms in a Deviant-Detection Paradigm by 10-month-old Infants
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
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Grouping effects in numerosity perception under prolonged viewing conditions
Part of PLOS ONE, 2019
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Two-step actions in infancy—the TWAIN model
Part of Experimental Brain Research, p. 2495-2503, 2019
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Part of Journal of experimental psychology. General, p. 845-862, 2019
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Action Prediction Allows Hypothesis Testing via Internal Forward Models at 6 Months of Age
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
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Infants distinguish between two events based on their relative likelihood
Part of Child Development, 2018
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Individual differences in nonverbal number skills predict math anxiety
Part of Cognition, p. 156-162, 2017
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Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 4-12, 2017
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Encoding of Numerical Information in Memory: Magnitude or Nominal?
Part of Journal of Numerical Cognition, p. 58-76, 2017
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Arithmetic Training Does Not Improve Approximate Number System Acuity
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
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Part of Psychological Science, p. 1600-1610, 2016
- DOI for An Embodied Account of Early Executive-Function Development: Prospective Motor Control in Infancy Is Related to Inhibition and Working Memory
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No evidence of learning in non-symbolic numerical tasks: A comment on Park & Brannon (2014)
Part of Cognition, p. 243-247, 2016
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Part of Psychological Science, 2016
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Where did that come from?: Identifying the source of a sample
Part of Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, p. 499-522, 2015
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Part of Cognition, p. 282-303, 2015
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A Swedish validation of the Berlin Numeracy test
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 132-139, 2015
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The association between higher education and approximate number system acuity
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 462, 2014
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 851, 2014
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Are all Data Created Equal?: Exploring Some Boundary Conditions for a Lazy Intuitive Statistician
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Are there rapid feedback effects on Approximate Number System acuity?
Part of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, p. 270, 2013
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 510, 2013
- DOI for Measuring acuity of the approximate number system reliably and validly: the evaluation of an adaptive test procedure
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Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, p. 782-800, 2013
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Calculate or wait: Is man an eager or a lazy intuitive statistician?
Part of Journal of Cognitive Psychology, p. 994-1014, 2013
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Reducing cognitive biases in probabilistic reasoning by the use of logarithm formats
Part of Cognition, p. 248-267, 2011
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Comprehensive licentiate thesis
Conference papers
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Development of Geometric Acuity in Infants
2015
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Within-Subjects Measurement of Numerosity Discrimination in Infants
2015
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A Measure of Individual Differences in Numerosity Discriminaton in Infants Using Eye-tracking
2015
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Big Data from Small Children - Collecting and Analyzing large within-subjects data sets from infants
2014
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Optimal predictions without knowledge of empirical priors
2014
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Can approximate number system acuity improve with arithmetic training?
2014
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2014
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The role of ANS-acuity and numeracy for the accuracy of subjective probability judgments.
2013
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Is it Time Bayes went Fishing?: Bayesian Probabilistic Reasoning in a Category Learning Task
Part of Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 906-911, 2013
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Effects of Response and Presentation Format on Measures of Approximate Number System Acuity
Part of Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 2908-2913, 2013
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Is it possible to train the approximate number system?
Part of Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of theCognitive Science Society, p. 2760, 2012
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Covariation estimates of continuous variables
2012
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Measuring the Approximate Number System
2012
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Covariation estimates of continuous variables.
2012
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Knowledge of statistical properties of numerical variables.
2011
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Covariation estimates of continuous variables.
2011
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Dissociative Knowledge of Distributions.
2010
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Intuitive information integration with Bayes' Theorem.
2009