Fredrik Jansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 341468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fredrik Jansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fredrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Jansson |
| SIGNATURE | JANSSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8357-0276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The emergence of polarised groups through source filtering
Polarisation is a widespread societal issue, dividing populations into opposing groups whose beliefs may span multiple, seemingly unrelated, topics. This phenomenon creates distinct cultural groups with internally consistent yet mutually opposing beliefs, strengthening group identities and deepening societal divides. We develop a mathematical model to investigate how polarisation and emergent associations between unrelated beliefs occur. Unlike p…
Susceptibility to Moral Arguments Among Liberals and Conservatives
An empirical result in Moral Foundations Theory is that liberals and progressives endorse the individualizing factors of care and fairness, while conservatives claim that the binding factors of authority, loyalty, and purity are equally relevant when determining what is moral. Does this translate into persuasiveness of arguments and opinion change? We here test the hypothesis that conservatives can be swayed by binding moral arguments, while ever…
The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852
In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Later, in the 1840s, a narrative depicting the event spread via a travelogue by Xavier Marmier, which was translated and mediated through the Swedish p…
Ógle Wakȟáŋ Kiŋ: Relational materiality and the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890
This article examines the materiality of the Ghost Dance shirt – ógle wakȟáŋ kiŋ – among the Lakota, and its associated symbols and functions. By cross-referencing sources on the Ghost Dance to sources on traditional Lakota belief and ritual, it is shown that the practice of interrituality – the use of established ritual elements and acts in novel contexts – enabled traditional ritual dynamics and ontological understandings to be actualized and m…
Allosemitism and cosmisation: A fruitful combination
In this article, we explore the fruitfulness of seeing allosemitism as an aspect of cosmisation. We explore possible tropes such as creating order from chaos, embracing Christian identity and supersessionism, and legitimising the Bible’s truth claims. Drawing from the Swedish press of the period 1770–1900, allosemitism and cosmisation are explored through the lens of three tenacious myths, all of which date back centuries: Blood Libel, the Wander…
Mediated encounters: Native Americans in Swedish-American newspapers and processes of cosmisation , 1857–1889
Much is known about Swedes in America, but little is known about the portrayals of Native Americans in Swedish-American newspapers. Considering their centrality in Swedish American settler communities, this article explores newspaper portrayals as processes of boundary construction. By utilizing the Eliadean concept of cosmisation it is shown how and argued that newspapers served as canvases for Swedes to articulate, contest, and negotiate the bo…
Aversive medical treatments signal a need for support: A Mathematical Model
The connection between moral positions and moral arguments drives opinion change
Liberals and conservatives often take opposing positions on moral issues. But what makes a moral position liberal or conservative? Why does public opinion tend to become more liberal over time? And why does public opinion change especially fast on certain issues, such as gay rights? We offer an explanation based on how different positions connect with different kinds of moral arguments. Based on a formal model of opinion dynamics, we predicted th…
Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach With Adapted Evolutionary Models
This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. It involves three complementary approaches (frequency tables, transitional graphs, and dependency tables), as well as an established adaptation based on Bayesian dynamical systems, inferring a general system of change. The frequency tables count pairs of values in two variables and transitional graphs depict changes, showing which variable tends to attain…
Diversity preferences among employees and ethnoracial workplace segregation
Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012
What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil rights in authoritarian regimes and especially the gendered aspect of this process. It argues that both men's and women's liberal rights are essential conditions for democratisation to take place: providing both women and men rights reduces an inequality that affects half of the population, thus increasing the costs of repression and …
Modeling the Evolution of Creoles
Various theories have been proposed regarding the origin of creole languages. Describing a process where only the end result is documented involves several methodological difficulties. In this paper we try to address some of the issues by using a novel mathematical model together with detailed empirical data on the origin and structure of Mauritian Creole. Our main focus is on whether Mauritian Creole may have originated only from a mutual desire…
Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism: A Simulation Analysis of the Model of Hammond and Axelrod
Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to behave differently towards strangers based only on whether they belong to the ingroup or the outgroup. It is a widespread phenomenon that can be triggered by arbitrary cues, but the origins of which is not clearly understood. In a recent simulation model by Hammond and Axelrod, an ingroup bias evolves in the prisoner's dilemma game. However, it will be argued here that the model does little to advance our u…
Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012
What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil rights in authoritarian regimes and especially the gendered aspect of this process. It argues that both men's and women's liberal rights are essential conditions for democratisation to take place: providing both women and men rights reduces an inequality that affects half of the population, thus increasing the costs of repression and …
Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach With Adapted Evolutionary Models
This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. It involves three complementary approaches (frequency tables, transitional graphs, and dependency tables), as well as an established adaptation based on Bayesian dynamical systems, inferring a general system of change. The frequency tables count pairs of values in two variables and transitional graphs depict changes, showing which variable tends to attain…
Diversity preferences among employees and ethnoracial workplace segregation
The connection between moral positions and moral arguments drives opinion change
Liberals and conservatives often take opposing positions on moral issues. But what makes a moral position liberal or conservative? Why does public opinion tend to become more liberal over time? And why does public opinion change especially fast on certain issues, such as gay rights? We offer an explanation based on how different positions connect with different kinds of moral arguments. Based on a formal model of opinion dynamics, we predicted th…
The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852
In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Later, in the 1840s, a narrative depicting the event spread via a travelogue by Xavier Marmier, which was translated and mediated through the Swedish p…
Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism: A Simulation Analysis of the Model of Hammond and Axelrod
Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to behave differently towards strangers based only on whether they belong to the ingroup or the outgroup. It is a widespread phenomenon that can be triggered by arbitrary cues, but the origins of which is not clearly understood. In a recent simulation model by Hammond and Axelrod, an ingroup bias evolves in the prisoner's dilemma game. However, it will be argued here that the model does little to advance our u…
Modeling the Evolution of Creoles
Various theories have been proposed regarding the origin of creole languages. Describing a process where only the end result is documented involves several methodological difficulties. In this paper we try to address some of the issues by using a novel mathematical model together with detailed empirical data on the origin and structure of Mauritian Creole. Our main focus is on whether Mauritian Creole may have originated only from a mutual desire…
Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012
What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil rights in authoritarian regimes and especially the gendered aspect of this process. It argues that both men's and women's liberal rights are essential conditions for democratisation to take place: providing both women and men rights reduces an inequality that affects half of the population, thus increasing the costs of repression and …
Investigating Sequences in Ordinal Data: A New Approach With Adapted Evolutionary Models
This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. It involves three complementary approaches (frequency tables, transitional graphs, and dependency tables), as well as an established adaptation based on Bayesian dynamical systems, inferring a general system of change. The frequency tables count pairs of values in two variables and transitional graphs depict changes, showing which variable tends to attain…
Diversity preferences among employees and ethnoracial workplace segregation
Aversive medical treatments signal a need for support: A Mathematical Model
The connection between moral positions and moral arguments drives opinion change
Liberals and conservatives often take opposing positions on moral issues. But what makes a moral position liberal or conservative? Why does public opinion tend to become more liberal over time? And why does public opinion change especially fast on certain issues, such as gay rights? We offer an explanation based on how different positions connect with different kinds of moral arguments. Based on a formal model of opinion dynamics, we predicted th…
Allosemitism and cosmisation: A fruitful combination
In this article, we explore the fruitfulness of seeing allosemitism as an aspect of cosmisation. We explore possible tropes such as creating order from chaos, embracing Christian identity and supersessionism, and legitimising the Bible’s truth claims. Drawing from the Swedish press of the period 1770–1900, allosemitism and cosmisation are explored through the lens of three tenacious myths, all of which date back centuries: Blood Libel, the Wander…
Mediated encounters: Native Americans in Swedish-American newspapers and processes of cosmisation , 1857–1889
Much is known about Swedes in America, but little is known about the portrayals of Native Americans in Swedish-American newspapers. Considering their centrality in Swedish American settler communities, this article explores newspaper portrayals as processes of boundary construction. By utilizing the Eliadean concept of cosmisation it is shown how and argued that newspapers served as canvases for Swedes to articulate, contest, and negotiate the bo…
Ógle Wakȟáŋ Kiŋ: Relational materiality and the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890
This article examines the materiality of the Ghost Dance shirt – ógle wakȟáŋ kiŋ – among the Lakota, and its associated symbols and functions. By cross-referencing sources on the Ghost Dance to sources on traditional Lakota belief and ritual, it is shown that the practice of interrituality – the use of established ritual elements and acts in novel contexts – enabled traditional ritual dynamics and ontological understandings to be actualized and m…
The Baptism of an Indian Juggler: Event and Narrative in the Swedish Press, 1827–1852
In 1827, an Indian juggler named Mooty Madua Samme converted to Christianity in Stockholm, Sweden. This historical event got much attention in the press at the time – as did his succeeding marriage to a Swedish woman named Erica – and was celebrated as a victory for the Evangelical Lutheran faith. Later, in the 1840s, a narrative depicting the event spread via a travelogue by Xavier Marmier, which was translated and mediated through the Swedish p…
The emergence of polarised groups through source filtering
Polarisation is a widespread societal issue, dividing populations into opposing groups whose beliefs may span multiple, seemingly unrelated, topics. This phenomenon creates distinct cultural groups with internally consistent yet mutually opposing beliefs, strengthening group identities and deepening societal divides. We develop a mathematical model to investigate how polarisation and emergent associations between unrelated beliefs occur. Unlike p…
Susceptibility to Moral Arguments Among Liberals and Conservatives
An empirical result in Moral Foundations Theory is that liberals and progressives endorse the individualizing factors of care and fairness, while conservatives claim that the binding factors of authority, loyalty, and purity are equally relevant when determining what is moral. Does this translate into persuasiveness of arguments and opinion change? We here test the hypothesis that conservatives can be swayed by binding moral arguments, while ever…
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