Marcus Lindskog

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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