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Sven Å. Christianson

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#1660

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Social Psychology

#404

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#419

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Cognitive Psychology

#568

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#596

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Sven Å. Christianson's Degrees

PhD Psychology Stockholm University
Masters Psychology Uppsala University
Bachelors Psychology Uppsala University

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According to Wikipedia, Sven Åke Christianson is a Swedish professor of psychology. He is also a psychologist and writer. His research primarily concerns the function of human memory, crime and mental trauma and interview methods. He is widely discredited and his methods are considered pseudoscientific and unreliable.

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Sven Å. Christianson's Published Works

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Emotional stress and eyewitness memory: a critical review. (1992) (1065)
The Handbook of Emotion and Memory : Research and Theory (1994) (622)
Remembering emotional events: the fate of detailed information (1991) (407)
Memory for traumatic events (1987) (307)
Flashbulb memories: Special, but not so special (1989) (227)
Murderers' and sexual offenders' experiences of police interviews and their inclination to admit or deny crimes. (2002) (219)
Emotional events and emotions in autobiographical memories (1996) (174)
Tunnel memory for traumatic events (1998) (143)
Some characteristics of people’s traumatic memories (1990) (137)
Hands up! A study of witnesses' emotional reactions and memories associated with bank robberies (1993) (126)
The relationship between induced emotional arousal and amnesia. (1984) (107)
Remembering details of emotional events: A comparison between psychopathic and nonpsychopathic offenders (1996) (104)
Remembering Emotional Events: Potential Mechanisms (1992) (99)
Functional amnesia as induced by a psychological trauma (1984) (92)
Memory and Emotional Consistency: The MS Estonia Ferry Disaster (1999) (73)
The phenomenology of traumatic experiences in police work (2003) (69)
Emotion and implicit memory. (1992) (51)
Does simulating amnesia mediate genuine forgetting for a crime event (1999) (49)
A sexual abuse case study: Children's memories and reports (2007) (45)
Justice Needs a Blindfold: Effects of Gender and Attractiveness on Prison Sentences and Attributions of Personal Characteristics in a Judicial Process (2009) (42)
Gender effects in eyewitness accounts of a violent crime (1998) (42)
Adrenaline, emotional arousal and memory. (1985) (40)
Hysterical amnesia: A case of aversively motivated isolation of memory. (1989) (38)
Is Justice Really Blind? Effects of Crime Descriptions, Defendant Gender and Appearance, and Legal Practitioner Gender on Sentences and Defendant Evaluations in a Mock Trial (2010) (35)
The fate of traumatic memories in childhood and adulthood (1998) (35)
Organization of Emotional Memories (2005) (34)
Remembering and forgetting traumatic experiences: A matter of survival. (1997) (33)
Internet-Initiated Sexual Abuse: Adolescent Victims' Reports About On- and Off-Line Sexual Activities (2008) (32)
Children exposed to obscene phone calls: what they remember and tell. (2005) (32)
From crime scene actions in stranger rape to prediction of rapist type: single-victim or serial rapist? (2012) (31)
Offenders' memories of violent crimes (2006) (29)
Affect and accuracy in recall: Do flashbulb memories differ from other types of emotional memories? (1992) (27)
Effects of positive emotional events on memory (1986) (27)
The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts: Crime-related amnesia as a form of deception (2004) (27)
Hemisphere memory differences in Sodium Amytal testing of epileptic patients. (1990) (27)
The role of age on reactivity and memory for emotional pictures. (1990) (26)
Characteristics of malingered amnesia: Consequences of withholding vs. distorting information on later memory of a crime event (2002) (25)
Psychological versus physiological determinants of emotional arousal and its relationship to laboratory induced amnesia. (1986) (24)
Initial memory deficits and subsequent recovery in two cases of head trauma. (1987) (22)
Observations on verbal, pictorial and stereognostic memory in epileptic patients during intracarotid Amytal testing (1984) (22)
Judges', Lay Judges', and Police Officers' Beliefs About Factors Affecting Children's Testimony About Sexual Abuse (2007) (21)
Hemisphere Inactivation and Mood-State Changes (1993) (21)
Police officers and civilians as witnesses: intergroup biases and memory performance (1997) (20)
Intergroup biases and eyewitness testimony. (1998) (18)
Police personnel as eyewitnesses to a violent crime (1998) (17)
Hemisphere memory of concrete and abstract information determined with the intracarotid Sodium Amytal test (1987) (16)
Children as Witnesses to Homicidal Violence: What They Remember and Report (2013) (14)
Preoperative and postoperative memory testing of epileptic patients (1984) (14)
Memory, Arousal, and Mood: A Theoretical Integration (2014) (13)
Searching for Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes (2008) (12)
Remembering Emotional Events: The Relevance of Memory for Associated Emotions (2008) (11)
Emotional and autonomic responses to visual traumatic stimuli. (1987) (11)
Remembering and forgetting traumatic experiences (1997) (11)
Children's Reports of Verbal Sexual Abuse: Effects of Police Officers' Interviewing Style (2009) (11)
Emotional Memories in Laboratory Studies versus Real-life Studies: Do they compare? (1992) (10)
Police officers involved in a manhunt of a mass murder: Memories and psychological responses. (2006) (10)
Autobiographical Memory and Emotional Disorders (2014) (9)
Recognition of previous eyewitness testimony from an altered interrogation protocol: Potential effects of distortions (2007) (8)
Pre- and postoperative memory of dichotically presented words in patients with complex partial seizures (1989) (7)
Crime-related amnesia (2006) (7)
The right hemisphere recognises the bad guys (1995) (7)
Children's reporting patterns after witnessing homicidal violence – the effect of repeated experience and repeated interviews (2014) (7)
Stressful Event Exposure is Related to Police Officers' Attitudes to Interviewing Crime Victims and Suspect (2004) (6)
Stress, Trauma, and Memory (2001) (5)
Affect, Neuromodulatory Systems, and Memory Storage (2014) (5)
[Complex memory function for mental trauma. Memory and forgetting ae necessary for the emotional adaptation process]. (1997) (4)
Recall of unpleasant emotion using memory-enhancing principles (2000) (4)
Hemispheric asymmetry effects in children studied by dichotic listening and visual half-field testing. (1992) (3)
Professionals’ Experiences With and Perceptions of Children Exposed to Severe and Homicidal Violence in Sweden (2017) (3)
Memory for emotional events (1987) (2)
Emotion as Memory: Anatomical Systems Underlying Indelible Neural Traces (2014) (2)
Amnesia and emotional arousal (1984) (2)
A Model of Diverse Effects of Emotion on Eyewitness Memory (2014) (1)
Exploring Claimed Crime-Related Amnesia in Homicidal Violence: Genuineor Feigned, Investigators Strategies, and Risk for Violent Recidivism? (2020) (1)
The accuracy of the dichotic, the visual half‐field, and the intracarotid sodium amytal memory tests in preoperative neuropsychological investigation of epileptic patients (1988) (1)
Police officers' reactions to and memories of a mass shooting incident (2005) (0)
A cat-and-mouse game : Media Manipulation (2016) (0)
EC PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY Mini Review Exploring Claimed Crime-Related Amnesia in Homicidal Violence: Genuine or Feigned, Investigators Strategies, and Risk for Violent Recidivism? (2020) (0)
Using Stranger Rapists' Pre-Assault and Initial-Attack Behaviors to Predict Likely Offender Characteristics (2013) (0)
Obscene Phone Call Perpetrator's Questionnaire (2013) (0)
Predicting sexual re-offending from stranger rapists’ behavior at their first crime scene. (2011) (0)
Landmark Life Events and the Organization of Memory: Evidence From Functional Retrograde Amnesia (2014) (0)

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