Andreas Olsson, Ph.D.   Past member
 

Andreas Olsson
 

New York University, Ph.D.
Psychology Department

B.S. Psychology and Philosophy
University of Lund (1997)
M.S. Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Lund (1998)

Andreas is now a post-doctoral research scientist at the Department of Psychology at Columbia University.

Recent Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Olsson, A., Phelps, E. A. (2008).  The relationship between emotion and social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Science. 12:65-71.

  • Olsson, A., Phelps, E. A. (2007). Social learning of fear. Nature Neuroscience. 10:9:1095-1102.

  • Olsson, A., Nearing, K. I., & Phelps, E. A. (2007). Learning Fears by Observing Others: The Neural Systems of Social Fear Transmission. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2:3-11.

  • Delgado, M. R., Olsson, A., Phelps, E. A. (2006). Extending Animal Models of Fear Conditioning to Humans. Biological Psychology. 73:39–48.

  • Olsson, A., Ebert, J. P., Banaji, M. R., & Phelps, E. A. (2005). The Role of Social Groups in the Persistence of Learned Fear. Science, 309, 785-787.

  • Johansson, P., Hall, L., Sikstrom, S., Olsson, A. (2005). Choice Blindness: On the Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task. Science, 310, pp. 116-119.

  •  Olsson, A. & Phelps, E. A. (2004). Learned Fear of "Unseen" Faces after Pavlovian, Observational, and Instructed Fear. Psychological Science. 12:822-828.

  • Stenberg, G., Lindgren, M., Johansson, M., Olsson, A., & Rosen, I. (2000). Semantic Processing Without Conscious Identification-Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Learning, Memory and Cognition, 26:973-1004.

Book Chapters

  • Olsson, A. & Ohman, A. (2008). The Affective Neuroscience of Emotion; Automatic Activation, Interoception and Emotion Regulation, In J. T. Cacioppo & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley and Sons Press.

  • Olsson, A. & Phelps, E. A. (2007). Understanding Social Evaluations: What We Can (and Cannot) Learn from Neuroimaging, In B. Wittenbrink & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Implicit measures of attitudes: Procedures and controversies. New York: Guilford Press.

  • Olsson, A. (2003). Emotion and Motivation in Learning: Current Research, Practical Implications, and Future Directions. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 112.

Conference Presentations

  • Olsson, A. (2008). Beyond association: The role of empathy in vicarious fear learning. Talk to be given at the International Conference of Psychology, Berlin, July 20-25.

  • Olsson, A., Brodbeck, C., Bolger, N., & Ochsner, K. N. (2008). Attributions about others’ intentions affect emotional learning from their actions. Abstract to be presented at the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, April 12-15.

  • Olsson, A. Zaki, J., Phelps, E. A., Bolger, N., & Ochsner, K. N. (2007). The Role of Empathy in Fear Learning through Social Observation. Talk given at the Neural Systems of Social Behavior Conference. Austin, May 11-13.

  • Olsson, A., Carmona, S., Katherine R., Downey, G., Ochsner, K. N. (2007) Perceiving Threat and Learning to Fear: Linking Rejection Sensitivity to biases in social perception and learning. (Abstract) Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 5-8.

  • Olsson, A., Ochsner, K. N., & Phelps, E. A. (2007).  The Role of the Neural Circuitry underlying Empathy and Mental Attribution in Observational Fear Learning. (Abstract) Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 5-8.

  • Navarrete, C. D., Olsson, A., Ho, A., Mendes, W., Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J. (2007). The Role of Gender and Race in the Persistence of Learned Fear. (Abstract) NorthEast Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference, April 13-14.

  • Navarrete, C. D., Olsson, A., Ho, A., Mendes, W., Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J. (2007). The Role of Gender and Race in the Persistence of Learned Fear. Talk given at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, January 20-22.

  • Phelps, E. A., Delgado, M. R., & Olsson, A. (2006). The Neural Systems of Social Fear Learning. Invited Symposium at the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 10-12.

  • Tärning, B., Hall, L., Johansson, P., Sikstrom, S., & Olsson, A. (2005). And Then What Happens? Implicit and Explicit Processes in Preference Change Through Choice. (Abstract). The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Pasadena, June 24-27.

  • Olsson, A., Ebert, J., Brennan, W., Banaji, M. R., Phelps, E. A. (2005). The Influence of Race on Extinction of Conditioned Fear. (Abstract). Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 10-12.     

  • Phelps, E. A. & Olsson, A. (2005). Social Learning of Fear. Invited talk at the 2nd preconference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 10-12.

  • Ebert, J., Olsson, A., Phelps, E. A., Banaji, M. R. (2005). Classical Conditioning Effects during Extinction as a Measure of Race Bias (Abstract). Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, January 20-22.

  • Olsson, A. (2004). Learning From and About Others: Linking Basic and Applied Research on Learning. Emotions, Learning and Education Conference, OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), November 8-9.     

  • Olsson, A., Nearing, K., Zeng, J., & Phelps, E. A. (2004). Learning by Observing: Neural Correlates of Fear Learning through Social Observation (Abstract). Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, October 23-27.

  • Olsson, A. & Phelps, E. A. (2004). The Role of the Amygdala in Observational Fear Learning. Invited Symposium at the Annual Meeting of American Psychological Society, May 27-30.

  • Phelps, E. A., Olsson, A, Banaji, M. R., & Ebert, J. (2004). Fear Learning and Race. First Conference on Social Neuroscience, Chicago University, May 14.

  • Johansson, P., Hall, L., Olsson, A., & Sikstrom, S. (2004). From Change Blindness to Choice Blindness. Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, April 7-11.

  • Olsson, A & Phelps, E. A. (2003) Pavlovian and Instructed Aversive Learning: Skin Conductance Responses to Unmasked versus Masked Stimuli (Abstract). Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 30- April 1.

  • Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Olsson, A (2001). Why so little has been said about Telling More Than We Can Know: On verbal report and mental processes (Abstract). First International Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience, April 26-28.

  • Stenberg, G., Lindgren, M., Johansson, M., Olsson, A., & Rosen, I. (2000). Event-related potentials reveal semantic processing of words without conscious identification (Abstract). International Journal of Psychology, 35 (3-4), 288.

  • Stenberg, G., Lindgren, M., Olsson, A., Johansson, M., Rosen, I. (1998). Semantic processing of words without conscious identification: an ERP-study (Abstract). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 30 (1-2), 97.

  • Stenberg, G., Lindgren, M., Olsson, A., Johansson, M., Rosen, I. (1998). Semantic processing of words without conscious identification: an ERP-study. International Conference of Psychophysiology, September 13-19. 
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