Linus Andersson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linus Andersson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linus |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Halmstad University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4697-5394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Latent Profile Analysis of Generic Conspiracy Beliefs‐ Differences in Science Acceptance, Analytical and Intuitive Thinking
The aims of the present study were to (i) identify profiles of belief in conspiracy theories, and to (ii) test whether the obtained profiles differed in analytical (rational ability, rational engagement, Cognitive Reflection Test) and intuitive thinking (experiential ability, experiential engagement), and science denial (vaccine, climate science). In total, 451 participants (Mean age = 30.80, SD = 16.59, 61% female) were recruited from high‐schoo…
Advising the ill-advised: Debiasing the conjunction fallacy through gamified training with outcome feedback
Many real-world decisions involve uncertainty, yet some are governed by logical constraints that make certain outcomes objectively more or less probable. Despite this, people often commit reasoning errors such as the conjunction fallacy, i.e. judging a conjunction of events as more likely than a single constituent event. This fallacy has proven robust across populations and contexts, and difficult to fully mitigate. While previous research has sh…
Cohort Fertility and Couple Educational Pairing
Highlights Cohort fertility rates are decomposed by couples’ educational pairing using Finnish register data. Most births occur in educationally homogamous and hypogamous unions. Most births occur in unions in which at least one partner has tertiary education
Where were you when Facebook went out? Experiences of involuntary disconnection from social media
This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire that collected experiences from the Facebook outage on October 4th, 2021, an event that affected approximately three billion users around the globe. The purpose of the study is to contribute to recent discussions digital disconnection and digital wellbeing by using an extraordinary event of involuntary disconnection as point of departure. Our research questions were: Where were people when…
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland
The decline in marriage and increases in cohabiting unions during childbearing ages represent a major change in family structures and family dynamics. Yet no comprehensive description has covered period trends in the prevalence of marital and nonmarital un
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics: The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates
Partnering behavior is central to understanding fertility. Influential concepts, including singlehood, serial monogamy, and multiple-partner fertility, are frequently used to analyze partnering and childbearing dynamics. These concepts are evoked to understand individual and population-level patterns but are mainly analyzed at the individual level. We propose a measure for gauging the interplay between partnerships and childbearing at the populat…
Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites
This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoreti…
Neurocognitive processes underlying heuristic and normative probability judgments
Oh half-brother, where art thou? The boundaries of full- and half-sibling interaction
Background : Research indicates that both full- and half-siblingships develop enduring social relationships, if the siblings have the opportunity to interact during childhood and adolescence. Objective : To estimate: (1) how much time half- and full-siblings are exposed to each other during childhood and adolescence; (2) how half-sibling exposure is conditional on birth spacing and residency; and (3) how parents' social vulnerability is associate…
Where Technology Goes to Die: Representations of Electronic Waste in Global Television News
This article analyzes how electronic waste (e-waste) gets represented in television news stories. The main objective is to present a perspective on how a “low-frequency” emergency (i.e. a lengthy and ongoing state of environmental emergency) is presented as a newsworthy issue. Drawing on literature on televised “distant suffering,” the article engages in a multimodal text analysis of four news stories about e-waste. The findings show how on-locat…
No Digital “Castles in the Air”: Online Non-Participation and the Radical Left
This article presents results from a study of online presence in activist milieus associated with the radical left in Sweden discussed from a perspective of non-participation. With the aim to further the understanding of digital non-participation as communicative strategy in activism, it builds upon empirical findings and argues that the online practices and use of social media, as could be observed in milieus associated with the radical left, in…
What’s left of the radical left online? Absence of communication, political vision, and community in autonomist web milieus in Sweden
This article presents and discusses results from a study of radical left-wing activism online carried out by the Swedish Media Council, a report that suggested that the Internet (i.e. the web, web 2.0, and social media) is not a prioritized arena for propaganda and recruitment for the radical left in Sweden. The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate some of these findings and add to the discussion on online activity and connectivity in politi…
Gender, family life course and attitudes towards divorce in Sweden
The present study investigates the impact of union formation, parenthood and union dissolution on Swedes' attitudes toward divorce. The results, based on fixed-effects models of longitudinal data from the Young Adult Panel Study (YAPS), suggest a prevalent, albeit small, influence of family life-course events on attitudes toward divorce in Sweden. Attitudes toward divorce are studied using two survey statements: 'It is too easy to get divorced in…
There is No Alternative: The Critical Potential of Alternative Media in the Face of Neoliberalism
The article discusses the concept of “the alternative” and the media through four sections. The first section discusses neoliberalism and the connection between neoliberal doctrine and mainstream media. This connection is described as promoting “public amnesia”, financialization and economization of news journalism, and social divide. The second section discusses alternative media from the perspective of new social movements and symbolic resistan…
Medieförändring och samhällsförändring – Glasnost, massmedier och sociala rörelser
The article applies Piotr Sztompka’s theory of social becoming on a discussion of media change in the Baltic region. Concentrating on three recurrent categories in the literature on the transformat
Gender, family life course and attitudes towards divorce in Sweden
The present study investigates the impact of union formation, parenthood and union dissolution on Swedes' attitudes toward divorce. The results, based on fixed-effects models of longitudinal data from the Young Adult Panel Study (YAPS), suggest a prevalent, albeit small, influence of family life-course events on attitudes toward divorce in Sweden. Attitudes toward divorce are studied using two survey statements: 'It is too easy to get divorced in…
Oh half-brother, where art thou? The boundaries of full- and half-sibling interaction
Background : Research indicates that both full- and half-siblingships develop enduring social relationships, if the siblings have the opportunity to interact during childhood and adolescence. Objective : To estimate: (1) how much time half- and full-siblings are exposed to each other during childhood and adolescence; (2) how half-sibling exposure is conditional on birth spacing and residency; and (3) how parents' social vulnerability is associate…
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics: The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates
Partnering behavior is central to understanding fertility. Influential concepts, including singlehood, serial monogamy, and multiple-partner fertility, are frequently used to analyze partnering and childbearing dynamics. These concepts are evoked to understand individual and population-level patterns but are mainly analyzed at the individual level. We propose a measure for gauging the interplay between partnerships and childbearing at the populat…
Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites
This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoreti…
Medieförändring och samhällsförändring – Glasnost, massmedier och sociala rörelser
The article applies Piotr Sztompka’s theory of social becoming on a discussion of media change in the Baltic region. Concentrating on three recurrent categories in the literature on the transformat
There is No Alternative: The Critical Potential of Alternative Media in the Face of Neoliberalism
The article discusses the concept of “the alternative” and the media through four sections. The first section discusses neoliberalism and the connection between neoliberal doctrine and mainstream media. This connection is described as promoting “public amnesia”, financialization and economization of news journalism, and social divide. The second section discusses alternative media from the perspective of new social movements and symbolic resistan…
No Digital “Castles in the Air”: Online Non-Participation and the Radical Left
This article presents results from a study of online presence in activist milieus associated with the radical left in Sweden discussed from a perspective of non-participation. With the aim to further the understanding of digital non-participation as communicative strategy in activism, it builds upon empirical findings and argues that the online practices and use of social media, as could be observed in milieus associated with the radical left, in…
What’s left of the radical left online? Absence of communication, political vision, and community in autonomist web milieus in Sweden
This article presents and discusses results from a study of radical left-wing activism online carried out by the Swedish Media Council, a report that suggested that the Internet (i.e. the web, web 2.0, and social media) is not a prioritized arena for propaganda and recruitment for the radical left in Sweden. The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate some of these findings and add to the discussion on online activity and connectivity in politi…
Gender, family life course and attitudes towards divorce in Sweden
The present study investigates the impact of union formation, parenthood and union dissolution on Swedes' attitudes toward divorce. The results, based on fixed-effects models of longitudinal data from the Young Adult Panel Study (YAPS), suggest a prevalent, albeit small, influence of family life-course events on attitudes toward divorce in Sweden. Attitudes toward divorce are studied using two survey statements: 'It is too easy to get divorced in…
Where Technology Goes to Die: Representations of Electronic Waste in Global Television News
This article analyzes how electronic waste (e-waste) gets represented in television news stories. The main objective is to present a perspective on how a “low-frequency” emergency (i.e. a lengthy and ongoing state of environmental emergency) is presented as a newsworthy issue. Drawing on literature on televised “distant suffering,” the article engages in a multimodal text analysis of four news stories about e-waste. The findings show how on-locat…
Neurocognitive processes underlying heuristic and normative probability judgments
Oh half-brother, where art thou? The boundaries of full- and half-sibling interaction
Background : Research indicates that both full- and half-siblingships develop enduring social relationships, if the siblings have the opportunity to interact during childhood and adolescence. Objective : To estimate: (1) how much time half- and full-siblings are exposed to each other during childhood and adolescence; (2) how half-sibling exposure is conditional on birth spacing and residency; and (3) how parents' social vulnerability is associate…
Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites
This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoreti…
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland
The decline in marriage and increases in cohabiting unions during childbearing ages represent a major change in family structures and family dynamics. Yet no comprehensive description has covered period trends in the prevalence of marital and nonmarital un
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics: The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates
Partnering behavior is central to understanding fertility. Influential concepts, including singlehood, serial monogamy, and multiple-partner fertility, are frequently used to analyze partnering and childbearing dynamics. These concepts are evoked to understand individual and population-level patterns but are mainly analyzed at the individual level. We propose a measure for gauging the interplay between partnerships and childbearing at the populat…
Where were you when Facebook went out? Experiences of involuntary disconnection from social media
This paper presents findings from an online questionnaire that collected experiences from the Facebook outage on October 4th, 2021, an event that affected approximately three billion users around the globe. The purpose of the study is to contribute to recent discussions digital disconnection and digital wellbeing by using an extraordinary event of involuntary disconnection as point of departure. Our research questions were: Where were people when…
Latent Profile Analysis of Generic Conspiracy Beliefs‐ Differences in Science Acceptance, Analytical and Intuitive Thinking
The aims of the present study were to (i) identify profiles of belief in conspiracy theories, and to (ii) test whether the obtained profiles differed in analytical (rational ability, rational engagement, Cognitive Reflection Test) and intuitive thinking (experiential ability, experiential engagement), and science denial (vaccine, climate science). In total, 451 participants (Mean age = 30.80, SD = 16.59, 61% female) were recruited from high‐schoo…
Advising the ill-advised: Debiasing the conjunction fallacy through gamified training with outcome feedback
Many real-world decisions involve uncertainty, yet some are governed by logical constraints that make certain outcomes objectively more or less probable. Despite this, people often commit reasoning errors such as the conjunction fallacy, i.e. judging a conjunction of events as more likely than a single constituent event. This fallacy has proven robust across populations and contexts, and difficult to fully mitigate. While previous research has sh…
Cohort Fertility and Couple Educational Pairing
Highlights Cohort fertility rates are decomposed by couples’ educational pairing using Finnish register data. Most births occur in educationally homogamous and hypogamous unions. Most births occur in unions in which at least one partner has tertiary education
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)