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My main research interest is how everyday cognition (on a higher level such as problem solving and decision making) should be understood, both from a theoretical and a descriptive perspective.
Research
Research groups
Present projects
Completed projects
- Decisions in front of the supermarket shelf: How familiarity mediates top-down and bottom-up influences on visual attention (research leader)
- LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability
- Values, Decision Making and Risk: current perspectives and future research
About the research
My main research interest is how everyday cognition (on a higher level such as problem solving and decision making) should be understood, both from a theoretical and a descriptive perspective.
Publications
Books (1)
Editorships (1)
- Gärdenfors, P. & Wallin, A. (2008). (Eds.) A Smorgasbord of Cognitive Science. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
Articles (19)
- Persson, J., Vareman, N., Wallin, A., Wahlberg, L. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2019). Science and proven experience : a Swedish variety of evidence based medicine and a way to better risk analysis?. Journal of Risk Research, 22, 833-843. Routledge.
- Bruine de Bruin, W., Wallin, A., Parker, A., Strough, J. & Hamner, J. (2017). Effects of anti- vs. pro-vaccine narratives on responses by recipients varying in numeracy : A cross-sectional survey-based experiment. Medical Decision Making, 37, 860-870. SAGE Publications.
- Gidlöf, K., Anikin, A., Lingonblad, M. & Wallin, A. (2017). Looking is buying. How visual attention and choice are affected by consumer preferences and properties of the supermarket shelf. Appetite, 116, 29-38. Elsevier.
- Pärnamets, P., Johansson, R., Gidlöf, K. & Wallin, A. (2016). How information availability interacts with visual attention during judgment and decision tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 218-231. John Wiley & Sons.
- Wallin, A., Paradis, C. & Konstantinos, K. (2016). Evaluative polarity words in risky choice framing. Journal of Pragmatics, 20-38. Elsevier.
- Persson, J., Sahlin, N.-E. & Wallin, A. (2015). Climate change, values, and the cultural cognition thesis. Environmental Science and Policy, 52, 1-5. Elsevier.
- Wallin, A. & Richard, M. (2015). Strategies for advice taking : the role of epistemic social information. Economics and Philosophy, 31, 67-91. Cambridge University Press.
- Blennow, K., Persson, J., Wallin, A., Vareman, N. & Persson, E. (2014). Understanding risk in forest ecosystem services: implications for effective risk management, communication and planning. Forestry, 87, 219-228. Oxford University Press.
- Gidlöf, K., Wallin, A., Dewhurst, R. & Holmqvist, K. (2013). Using eye-tracking to trace a cognitive process: Gaze behavior during decision making in a natural environment. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6, 3-14. European Group for Eye Movement Research.
- Gidlöf, K., Wallin, A., Peter, M.-H. & Holmqvist, K. (2013). Material distortion of economic behavior and everyday decision making. Journal of Consumer Policy, 36, 389-402. Luchterhand.
- Wallin, A. (2013). A peace treaty for the rationality wars? External validity and its relation to normative and descriptive theories of rationality. Theory & Psychology, 23, 458-478. SAGE Publications.
- Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2012). Why internal validity is not prior to external validity: Paper presented at PSA 2012. Brunswik Society Newsletter, 27, 37-38.
- Wallin, A. (2011). Is egocentric bias evidence for simulation theory. Synthese, 178, 503-514. Springer.
- Sahlin, N.-E., Wallin, A. & Persson, J. (2010). Decision Science : From Ramsey to Dual Process Theories. Synthese, 172, 129-143. Springer.
- Katsikopoulos, K. V., Pachur, T., Machery, E. & Wallin, A. (2008). From Meehl to fast and frugal heuristics (and back) - New insights into how to bridge the clinical-actuarial divide. Theory & Psychology, 18, 443-464. SAGE Publications.
- Garcia-Retamero, R., Wallin, A. & Dieckmann, A. (2007). Does causal knowledge help us be faster and more frugal in our decisions?. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1399-1409. Springer.
- Hertwig, R. & Wallin, A. (2004). Out of the Theoretical Cul-de-sac (Commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 341-342. Cambridge University Press.
- Hanoch, Y. & Wallin, A. (2003). The ‘wicked’ and the ‘kind’. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 121-124. John Wiley & Sons.
- Wallin, A. & Gärdenfors, P. (2000). Smart people that make simple heuristics work. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 765-765. Cambridge University Press.
Book chapters (9)
- McElreath, R., Wallin, A. & Fasolo, B. (accepted/in press). The evolutionary rationality of social learning. In Ralph, H. & Ulrich, H. (Eds.) Simple heuristics in a social world. Oxford University Press.
- Konstantinos, K., Thorsten, P., Eduard, M. & Wallin, A. (accepted/in press). From Meehl (1954) to fast and frugal heuristics (and back): new insights into how to bridge the clinical–actuarial divide. In H, S. (Ed.) Theoretical psychology - contemporary readings. SAGE Publications.
- Wallin, A. (2019). Två roller för beprövad erfarenhet inom hälso- och sjukvård. In Sahlin, N.-E. (Ed.) Vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet : Vård (pp. 31-40). Lunds universitet, VBE programmet.
- Wallin, A. (2018). Science, proven experience and good sense. Science and Proven Experience: Johannes, 115-121. Lunds universitet, VBE programmet.
- Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2015). The (misconceived) distinction between internal and external validity. In Persson, J., Hermerén, G. & Sjöstrand, E. (Eds.) Against boredom: 17 essays on ignorance, values, creativity, metaphysics, decision-making, truth, preference, art, processes, Ramsey, ethics, rationality, validity, human ills, science, and eternal life to Nils-Eric Sahlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 187-195). Fri tanke förlag.
- Wallin, A. (2012). Bedömningar. In Jens, A. & Mikael, J. (Eds.) Kognitionsvetenskap (pp. 263-271). Studentlitteratur AB.
- Wallin, A. (2007). Explanation and environment: the case of psychology. In Persson, J. & Ylikoski, P. (Eds.) Rethinking Explanation (pp. 163-176). Springer.
- Wallin, A. (2007). Om empiriskt grundade påståenden i analytisk filosofi. In Egonsson, D., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (Eds.) Insikt och Handling: Temanummer om filosofins nytta (pp. 135-156), 22.
- Wallin, A. (1999). Can a constructivist distinguish between experience and representation?. In Riegler, A., Markus, P. & von Stein, A. (Eds.) Understanding representation in the Cognitive Sciences: Does representation need reality (pp. 269-276). Kluwer.
Conference contributions (24)
- Gidlöf, K., Holmberg, N. & Wallin, A. (2018). Combining screen recordings and eye movement data to analyze consumers' purchase decisions on dynamic supermarket websites.
- Gidlöf, K., Holmberg, N. & Wallin, A. (2018). Grocery shopping in the digital age : Visual attention and product choices in physical and online supermarkets.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Persson, J., Vareman, N., Wallin, A., Wahlberg, L. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2016). Science and proven experience : a Swedish variety of evidence-based medicine?.
- Gidlöf, K., Wallin, A. & Holmqvist, K. (2013). Visual attention during real-world decision making.
- Gidlöf, K., Wallin, A. & Holmqvist, K. (2012). Central fixation bias in the real world? : evidence from the supermarket. Proceedings from Scandinavian Workshop on Applied Eye Tracking, Stockholm.
- Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2012). Why internal validity is not prior to external validity. Philosophy of Science Assoc. 23rd Biennial Mtg (San Diego, CA) > PSA 2012 Contributed Papers. Phil Sci Archives.
- Wallin, A. (2009). Självbedömningar. In Sonesson, A. & Amnér, G. (Eds.) Proceedings utvecklingskonferens Lunds universitet 2009 (pp. 78-78). Lednings- och kompetensutveckling/CED.
- Wallin, A. (2007). Is egocentric bias evidence for Simulation theory?. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Geneva..
- Bartosz, G., Oliver, V. & Wallin, A. (2006). Robustheit von Entscheidungsmodellen: Eine ökologische Kreuzvalidierung. Beiträge zur 7. Wissenschaftlichen Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 25-25. Hermagoras.
- Bartosz, G., Vitouch, O. & Wallin, A. (2006). Verallgemeinerbarkeit von Entscheidungsstrategien auf wenig vertraute Situationen. In Gula, B., Alexandrowicz, R., Strauß, S., Brunner, E., Jenull-Schiefer, B. & Vitouch, O. (Eds.) Perspektiven psychologischer Forschung in Österreich. Proceedings zur 7. Wissenschaftlichen Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (pp. 30-37). Pabst Science Publishers.
- Konstantinos, K., Wallin, A. & Florian, S. (2006). Weighing words: A new approach to framing effects. Society for Judgment and Decision Making: 27th annual conference, Houston..
- Wallin, A. (2005). Errors in the prediction of preferences: simulation and theory in adult mind reading. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Lund..
- Wallin, A. (2005). Explanation and environment: the case of psychology. Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon..
- Wallin, A., Barbara, F. & Richard, M. (2005). Social information in decision making. Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making: 20th biannual conference, Stockholm..
- Garcia-Retamero, R., Wallin, A. & Dieckmann, A. (2004). Causal content of information and decision-making. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barcelona..
- Katsikopolous, K. & Wallin, A. (2004). Do gains and losses really play a role in the framing effect?. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barcelona..
- Wallin, A., Barbara, F. & Richard, M. (2004). Social information in decision-making. Happiness, economics, and interpersonal relationships. Trento..
- Wallin, A. (2003). Strong and practical domain-specificity. 12th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo.
- Wallin, A. & McElreath, R. (2003). The epistemic nature of conformity. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Lyon..
- Wallin, A. (2002). The informativness of objects. European Congress for Analytic Philosophy. Lund..
- Wallin, A. (2000). Distinguishing appearance from reality – the development of a child’s theory formation?. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Salzburg.
- Wallin, A. (1997). Is there a way for constructivism to distinguish what we experience from what we represent?. In Riegler, A. & Peschl, M. (Eds.) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences - Does Representation Need Reality?. ASoCS Report 97-01.
Working papers (1)
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)
- Wallin, A., Sahlin, N.-E. & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2018). Incontinence affects more than 200m people worldwide, so why isn't more being done to find a cure?. The Conversation.
- Wallin, A. (2011). Högt IQ inget krav för bra beslut. Axess, 2, 46-49. Axess Publishing AB.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Research portal (Lund University)
Teaching
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