Anders Flykt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1589783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Flykt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Flykt |
| SIGNATURE | FLYKT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mid Sweden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9554-4478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Psychological health among livestock owners, the potential effect of large carnivores
Sustainable wildlife management should, amongst others, safeguard human health. This study concerns rural residents’ perceived quality of life and the potential effect of large carnivores (LCs) on psychological health outcomes (life satisfaction, anxiety symptoms, and exhaustion). One group of rural residents that appears to be especially vulnerable when the number and range of LCs increase is sheep owners. 279 participants (rural residents witho…
Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings
Wildlife might be important to psychologically restorative values and disvalues of nature, as interactions with wildlife could trigger both positive and negative feelings. Research on positive experiences of human–wildlife interactions has largely involved participants who voluntarily sought out wildlife experiences or it has addressed encounters with non‐threatening animals in urban green spaces. Less is known about the opportunities for psychol…
Vulnerability and fascination with wildlife encounters and psychological restoration in local natural settings
People often visit natural settings for recreation and psychological restoration. This study aims to improve understanding of how exposure to and experiences of mammalian wildlife in local natural settings can permit and promote recreation and restoration. Randomly sampled residents in three regions of Sweden (N = 303) with varying presence of fear-relevant species (wolf, wild boar) and fear-irrelevant species (roe deer, squirrel) completed a que…
Exploring Emotion Recognition and the Understanding of Others’ Unspoken Thoughts and Feelings when Narrating Self-Experienced Emotional Events
Emotion decoding competence can be addressed in different ways. In this study, clinical psychology, nursing, or social work students narrated a 2.5–3 min story about a self-experienced emotional event and also listened to another student’s story. Participants were video recorded during the session. Participants then annotated their own recordings regarding their own thoughts and feelings, and they rated recordings by other participants regarding …
Drivers of intervention use to protect domestic animals from large carnivore attacks
Large carnivores are prioritized in conservation, but their co-occurrence with humans and domestic animals can generate conflict. Interventions preventing carnivore attacks are central to carnivore conservation, but are only effective if implemented. This study investigates drivers of the intention to use interventions among animal owners in Sweden based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, extended with the emotion construct Worry. Additionally, t…
Controlled exposure reduces fear of brown bears
Fear of large carnivores such as brown bears may restrict people’s outdoor activities regardless of experts’ estimated risk of attack. This research study empirically examined three exposure interventions in the form of guided walks intended to give people living in brown bear areas tools for coping with their fear. All interventions significantly reduced fear, decreased people’s perceived vulnerability, and increased their social trust in wildli…
Exposure as an Intervention to Address Human Fear of Bears
People who live in brown bear areas often fear encounters with these animals. This article evaluated the potential effect of exposure to bears and their habitats on human fear of brown bears using the modeling of appropriate behavior when close to bears. In a within-subject design, 25 persons who reported to be fearful of brown bears participated in a guided walk approaching approximately 50 m of a brown bear in its daybed and in a guided forest …
An Evaluation of Information Meetings as a Tool for Addressing Fear of Large Carnivores
Managing authorities in Scandinavia arrange public information meetings when members of the public express fear because wolves or brown bears approach human settlements. This study aimed to increase the understanding of the potential effect of information meetings on self-reported fear of wolves and brown bears. In total, 198 participants completed questionnaires before and after the information meetings. Nine follow-up interviews were held 1 yea…
Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces
Respostas emocionais (verbais e psicofisiológicas) perante imagens de estímulos alimentares
O processamento emocional de imagens com estímulos alimentares foi estudado em quatro experiências, comparando participantes que revelaram ter atitudes pouco saudáveis face à alimentação, dieta e forma do corpo, com grupos de controlo. Todos os participantes eram do sexo feminino e as respostas a imagens de alimentos de baixo e elevado teor calórico foram comparadas às respostas a outros estímulos emocionais. Nas primeiras três experiências foram…
Fear of Wolves and Bears
Human fear is important in wildlife management, but self-reported fear provides only partial information about fear reactions. Thus, eye movements, skin conductance, and changes in heart rate were assessed during picture viewing, visual search, and implicit evaluation tasks. Pictures of bears, wolves, moose, and hares were presented to participants who self-reported as fearful of bears (n = 8), fearful of bears and wolves (n = 15), or not fearful…
Factors Governing Human Fear of Brown Bear and Wolf
This article analyzes people's subjectively experienced fear in areas with presence of brown bear or wolf. Departing from the Human-Environment Interaction Model (Küller, 1991 Küller, R. 1991. “Environmental assessment f.rom a neuropsychological perspective”. In Environment, cognition, and action, Edited by: ärling, T. G and Evans, G. W. 78–95. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]), a hypothetical model of environmental and ind…
Visual search with biological threat stimuli
Twenty-four participants were given a visual search task of deciding whether all the pictures in 3 x 3 search arrays contained a target picture from a deviant category, and heart rate was measured. The categories were snakes, spiders, flowers, and mushrooms. Shorter reaction times (RTs) were observed for fear-relevant (snake and spider) targets rather than for fear-irrelevant/neutral (flower and mushroom) targets. This difference was most pronoun…
Emotion drives attention
Participants searched for discrepant fear-relevant pictures (snakes or spiders) in grid-pattern arrays of fear-irrelevant pictures belonging to the same category (flowers or mushrooms) and vice versa.Fearrelevant pictures were found more quickly than fear-irrelevant ones.Fear-relevant, but not fear-irrelevant, search was unaffected by the location of the target in the display and by the number of distractors, which suggests parallel search for fe…
An Evaluation of Information Meetings as a Tool for Addressing Fear of Large Carnivores
Managing authorities in Scandinavia arrange public information meetings when members of the public express fear because wolves or brown bears approach human settlements. This study aimed to increase the understanding of the potential effect of information meetings on self-reported fear of wolves and brown bears. In total, 198 participants completed questionnaires before and after the information meetings. Nine follow-up interviews were held 1 yea…
Emotion drives attention
Participants searched for discrepant fear-relevant pictures (snakes or spiders) in grid-pattern arrays of fear-irrelevant pictures belonging to the same category (flowers or mushrooms) and vice versa.Fearrelevant pictures were found more quickly than fear-irrelevant ones.Fear-relevant, but not fear-irrelevant, search was unaffected by the location of the target in the display and by the number of distractors, which suggests parallel search for fe…
Visual search with biological threat stimuli
Twenty-four participants were given a visual search task of deciding whether all the pictures in 3 x 3 search arrays contained a target picture from a deviant category, and heart rate was measured. The categories were snakes, spiders, flowers, and mushrooms. Shorter reaction times (RTs) were observed for fear-relevant (snake and spider) targets rather than for fear-irrelevant/neutral (flower and mushroom) targets. This difference was most pronoun…
Factors Governing Human Fear of Brown Bear and Wolf
This article analyzes people's subjectively experienced fear in areas with presence of brown bear or wolf. Departing from the Human-Environment Interaction Model (Küller, 1991 Küller, R. 1991. “Environmental assessment f.rom a neuropsychological perspective”. In Environment, cognition, and action, Edited by: ärling, T. G and Evans, G. W. 78–95. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]), a hypothetical model of environmental and ind…
Fear of Wolves and Bears
Human fear is important in wildlife management, but self-reported fear provides only partial information about fear reactions. Thus, eye movements, skin conductance, and changes in heart rate were assessed during picture viewing, visual search, and implicit evaluation tasks. Pictures of bears, wolves, moose, and hares were presented to participants who self-reported as fearful of bears (n = 8), fearful of bears and wolves (n = 15), or not fearful…
Respostas emocionais (verbais e psicofisiológicas) perante imagens de estímulos alimentares
O processamento emocional de imagens com estímulos alimentares foi estudado em quatro experiências, comparando participantes que revelaram ter atitudes pouco saudáveis face à alimentação, dieta e forma do corpo, com grupos de controlo. Todos os participantes eram do sexo feminino e as respostas a imagens de alimentos de baixo e elevado teor calórico foram comparadas às respostas a outros estímulos emocionais. Nas primeiras três experiências foram…
Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces
Exposure as an Intervention to Address Human Fear of Bears
People who live in brown bear areas often fear encounters with these animals. This article evaluated the potential effect of exposure to bears and their habitats on human fear of brown bears using the modeling of appropriate behavior when close to bears. In a within-subject design, 25 persons who reported to be fearful of brown bears participated in a guided walk approaching approximately 50 m of a brown bear in its daybed and in a guided forest …
An Evaluation of Information Meetings as a Tool for Addressing Fear of Large Carnivores
Managing authorities in Scandinavia arrange public information meetings when members of the public express fear because wolves or brown bears approach human settlements. This study aimed to increase the understanding of the potential effect of information meetings on self-reported fear of wolves and brown bears. In total, 198 participants completed questionnaires before and after the information meetings. Nine follow-up interviews were held 1 yea…
Controlled exposure reduces fear of brown bears
Fear of large carnivores such as brown bears may restrict people’s outdoor activities regardless of experts’ estimated risk of attack. This research study empirically examined three exposure interventions in the form of guided walks intended to give people living in brown bear areas tools for coping with their fear. All interventions significantly reduced fear, decreased people’s perceived vulnerability, and increased their social trust in wildli…
Drivers of intervention use to protect domestic animals from large carnivore attacks
Large carnivores are prioritized in conservation, but their co-occurrence with humans and domestic animals can generate conflict. Interventions preventing carnivore attacks are central to carnivore conservation, but are only effective if implemented. This study investigates drivers of the intention to use interventions among animal owners in Sweden based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, extended with the emotion construct Worry. Additionally, t…
Exploring Emotion Recognition and the Understanding of Others’ Unspoken Thoughts and Feelings when Narrating Self-Experienced Emotional Events
Emotion decoding competence can be addressed in different ways. In this study, clinical psychology, nursing, or social work students narrated a 2.5–3 min story about a self-experienced emotional event and also listened to another student’s story. Participants were video recorded during the session. Participants then annotated their own recordings regarding their own thoughts and feelings, and they rated recordings by other participants regarding …
Wildlife and public perceptions of opportunities for psychological restoration in local natural settings
Wildlife might be important to psychologically restorative values and disvalues of nature, as interactions with wildlife could trigger both positive and negative feelings. Research on positive experiences of human–wildlife interactions has largely involved participants who voluntarily sought out wildlife experiences or it has addressed encounters with non‐threatening animals in urban green spaces. Less is known about the opportunities for psychol…
Vulnerability and fascination with wildlife encounters and psychological restoration in local natural settings
People often visit natural settings for recreation and psychological restoration. This study aims to improve understanding of how exposure to and experiences of mammalian wildlife in local natural settings can permit and promote recreation and restoration. Randomly sampled residents in three regions of Sweden (N = 303) with varying presence of fear-relevant species (wolf, wild boar) and fear-irrelevant species (roe deer, squirrel) completed a que…
Psychological health among livestock owners, the potential effect of large carnivores
Sustainable wildlife management should, amongst others, safeguard human health. This study concerns rural residents’ perceived quality of life and the potential effect of large carnivores (LCs) on psychological health outcomes (life satisfaction, anxiety symptoms, and exhaustion). One group of rural residents that appears to be especially vulnerable when the number and range of LCs increase is sheep owners. 279 participants (rural residents witho…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (7 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Intervention (counseling (3 works)