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Andreas Olsson

Andreas Olsson, Ph.D.

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. & Ochsner, K. N. (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, 310:116-119.

     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, pp. 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., 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., 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.     

     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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