Academic interests
Mainly shared/joint attention, and its consequences in terms of cognition, learning, and capacity for social interaction. Also:
- Collaborative learning
- The architecture of human “Theory of Mind”
- Filter bubbles and social media
- Attention-related learning difficulties
- Practices and ethics of online data collection
Current project
The leader learns it all? Investigating learning consequences of “leading” and “following” attention using an educational game
(With Janne von Koss Torkildsen, Jarl K. Kristensen, Amund Grothe and Anders Lunde)
We have developed (together with Engagelab) a multi-player version of the language (morphology) learning app “Kaptein Morf”, as to enable children to collaborate on language learning tasks through the app. An intervention experiment with 192 third-graders was conducted in the school year of 2024/25. All children played the Kaptein Morf game in three different conditions (within-subject): collaborative while given a leading role, collaborative while given an advising role, and by themselves. Research questions include:
- Is collaborative exercise more effective for learning morphology than individual exercise?
- What is effective in collaborative learning: learning from peers, teaching peers, or both?
- Do the answers to the questions above differ depending on the presence of specific educational challenges, such as
- Attention-related difficulties
- Language learning difficulties
Methods
- Quantitative approaches
- Experiments
- Web-based data collection
Teaching
I teach in the areas of human development and quantitative methods, and supervise theses on both MSc and BSc level.
Academic background
- 2022- Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo (faculty financed). Research area: Digital tools within special needs education.
- 2017-2022 Postdoctoral researcher, Institute Jean Nicod, ENS-PSL, Paris, France (financed by the Swedish Research Council). Grant/project title: Context sensitivity of social gaze.
- 2016-2017 Lecturer (temporary), Department of Psychology and Department of Clinical Sciences, both at Lund University, Sweden. Topics: developmental psychology, research methods in psychology.
- 2010-2016 PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden (faculty financed). Thesis title: From interest contagion to perspective sharing: how social attention affects children’s performance in false-belief tasks