Per A. Andersson

Assistant Professor

My research interests include prosocial behavior, energy saving as well as pro-environmental behavior, social norms, cultural differences and discrimination.

Publications

2025

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Irina Vartanova, Brent Simpson, Minna Persson, Khalid Ahmed Abdi, Neta Ad, Alisher Aldashev, Habib Mohammad Ali, Maurizio Alì, Khatai Aliyev, Yasser M. H. A. Alrefaee, Alberth Estuardo Alvarado Ortiz, Per A. Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Gizem Arikan, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Christian Lutete Ayikwa, Jonatan Baños-Chaparro, Davide Barrera, Justina Barsyte, Birzhan Batkeyev, Azma Batool, Elizaveta Berezina, Stéphanie Ngandu Bimina, Marie Björnstjerna, Sheyla Blumen, Paweł Boski, Eva Boštjančič, Yap Boum, Marie Briguglio, Kagonbe Bruno, Huyen Thi Thu Bui, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Yanyan Chen, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibáñez, Dinka Čorkalo, Christian E. Cruz-Torres, Andrea Czakó, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Zsolt Demetrovics, Bojana M. Dinić, Saša Drače, Rita W. El-Haddad, Jan B. Engelmann, Ignacio Escudero Pérez, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang (2025)

Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures Communications Psychology, Vol. 3, Article 145 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00324-4

Camilla Strömbäck, Per Andersson, Erkin Asutay, Hulda Karlsson-Larsson, Daniel Västfjäll (2025)

Positive anticipated affective reactions increase pro-environmental behavior iScience, Vol. 28, Article 112389 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112389

2024

Per Andersson, Irina Vartanova, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög, Pontus Strimling, Junhui Wu, Isabela Hazin, Charity S. Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-Brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Bjornstjerna, Pawel Boski, Inna Bovina, Bui Thi Thu Huyen, Dorde Cekrlija, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibanez, Rui Costa-Lopes, Micheal de Barra, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Angela R. Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Jan B. Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang, Susann Fiedler, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Marta Fulop, Ragna B. Gardarsdottir, C. M. Hew D. Gill, Andreas Gloeckner, Sylvie Graf, Ani Grigoryan, Vladimir Gritskov, Katarzyna Growiec, Peter Halama, Andree Hartanto, Tim Hopthrow, Martina Hrebickova, Dzintra Ilisko, Hirotaka Imada, Hansika Kapoor, Kerry Kawakami, Narine Khachatryan, Natalia Kharchenko, Toko Kiyonari, Michal Kohut, Lisa M. Leslie, Yang Li, Norman P. Li, Zhuo Li, Kadi Liik, Angela T. Maitner, Bernardo Manhique, Harry Manley, Imed Medhioub, Sari Mentser, Pegah Nejat, Orlando Nipassa, Ravit Nussinson, Nneoma G. Onyedire, Ike E. Onyishi, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Lorena R. Perez-Floriano, Minna Persson, Anna-Maija Pirttila-Backman, Marianna Pogosyan, Jana Raver, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Sara Romano, Pedro P. Romero, Inari Sakki, Alvaro San Martin, Sara Sherbaji, Hiroshi Shimizu, Brent Simpson, Erna Szabo, Kosuke Takemura, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Napoj Thanomkul, Habib Tiliouine, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Yannis Tsirbas, Sita Widodo, Rizqy Zein, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea, Kimmo Eriksson (2024)

Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, Article 5591 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55815-x

2022

Per Andersson, Gustav Tinghög, Daniel Västfjäll (2022)

The effect of herd immunity thresholds on willingness to vaccinate Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Vol. 9, Article 243 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01257-7

Per A Andersson (2022)

Norms in Prosocial Decisions: The Role of Observability, Avoidance, and Conditionality (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789179293291

Angela T. Maitner, Jamie DeCoster, Per A Andersson, Kimmo Eriksson, Sara Sherbaji, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Diane M. Mackie, Mark Aveyard, Heather M. Claypool, Richard J. Crisp, Vladimir Gritskov, Kristina Habjan, Andree Hartanto, Toko Kiyonari, Anna O. Kuzminska, Zoi Manesi, Catherine Molho, Anudhi Munasinghe, Leonard S. Peperkoorn, Victor Shiramizu, Rachel Smallman, Natalia Soboleva, Adam W. Stivers, Amy Summerville, Baopei Wu, Junhui Wu (2022)

Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 53, Article 00220221211065108 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220221211065108

Per Andersson, Arvid Erlandsson, Daniel Västfjäll (2022)

Norm avoiders: The effect of optional descriptive norms on charitable donations Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 35, Article e2244 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2244

2021

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Michele Gelfand, Junhui Wu, Jered Abernathy, Charity S. Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Per A Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Zeynep Aycan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-Brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Anabel Belaus, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Bjornstjerna, Sheyla Blumen, Pawel Boski, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Inna Bovina, Bui Thi Thu Huyen, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Dorde Cekrlija, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibanez, Rui Costa-Lopes, Micheal de Barra, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Anja Eller, Jan B. Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang, Susann Fiedler, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Marta Fulop, Ragna B. Gardarsdottir, C. M. Hew D. Gill, Andreas Glockner, Sylvie Graf, Ani Grigoryan, Vladimir Gritskov, Katarzyna Growiec, Peter Halama, Andree Hartanto, Tim Hopthrow, Martina Hrebickova, Dzintra Ilisko, Hirotaka Imada, Hansika Kapoor, Kerry Kawakami, Narine Khachatryan, Natalia Kharchenko, Ninetta Khoury, Toko Kiyonari, Michal Kohut, Le Thuy Linh, Lisa M. Leslie, Yang Li, Norman P. Li, Zhuo Li, Kadi Liik, Angela T. Maitner, Bernardo Manhique, Harry Manley, Imed Medhioub, Sari Mentser, Linda Mohammed, Pegah Nejat, Orlando Nipassa, Ravit Nussinson, Nneoma G. Onyedire, Ike E. Onyishi, Seniha Ozden, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Lorena R. Perez-Floriano, Minna S. Persson, Mpho Pheko, Anna-Maija Pirttila-Backman, Marianna Pogosyan, Jana Raver, Cecilia Reyna, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Sara Romano, Pedro P. Romero, Inari Sakki, Alvaro San Martin, Sara Sherbaji, Hiroshi Shimizu, Brent Simpson, Erna Szabo, Kosuke Takemura, Hassan Tieffi, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Napoj Thanomkul, Habib Tiliouine, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Yannis Tsirbas, Richard Wan, Sita Widodo, Rizqy Zein, Qing-peng Zhang, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea, Paul A. M. Van Lange (2021)

Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies Nature Communications, Vol. 12, Article 1481 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9

Ali M. Ahmed, Per A Andersson, Mark Granberg (2021)

Transpersoner diskrimineras i rekryteringsprocessen Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 49, p. 19-27 (Article in journal)

2020

Arvid Erlandsson, Mattias Wingren, Per A Andersson (2020)

Type and amount of help as predictors for impression of helpers PLOS ONE, Vol. 15, Article e0243808 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243808

Ali M. Ahmed, Mark Granberg, Per A Andersson (2020)

Transpersoner väljs bort av arbetsgivarna Dagens Nyheter (Article in journal)

Per A Andersson, Arvid Erlandsson, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög (2020)

Prosocial and moral behavior under decision reveal in a public environment Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 87 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101561

Arvid Erlandsson, Amanda Lindkvist, Kajsa Lundqvist, Per A Andersson, Stephan Dickert, Paul Slovic, Daniel Västfjäll (2020)

Moral preferences in helping dilemmas expressed by matching and forced choice Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 15, p. 452-475 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500007427

Mark Granberg, Per Andersson, Ali Ahmed (2020)

Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Field Experiment Labour Economics, Vol. 65, Article 101860 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101860

2017

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Per A Andersson, Mark Aveyard, Markus Brauer, Vladimir Gritskov, Toko Kiyonari, David M. Kuhlman, Angela T. Maitner, Zoi Manesi, Catherine Molho, Leonard S. Peperkoorn, Muhammad Rizwan, Adam W. Stivers, Qirui Tian, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Irina Vartanova, Junhui Wu, Toshio Yamagishi (2017)

Cultural Universals and Cultural Differences in Meta-Norms about Peer Punishment Management and Organization Review, Vol. 13, p. 851-870 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mor.2017.42

Kimmo Eriksson, Per Andersson, Pontus Strimling (2017)

When is it appropriate to reprimand a norm violation?: The roles of anger, behavioral consequences, violation severity, and social distance Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 12, p. 396-407 (Article in journal)

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Per A Andersson, Torun Lindholm (2017)

Costly punishment in the ultimatum game evokes moral concern, in particular when framed as payoff reduction Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 69, p. 59-64 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.09.004

2016

Kimmo Eriksson, Per A Andersson, Pontus Strimling (2016)

Moderators of the disapproval of peer punishment. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 19, p. 152-168 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430215583519

Research

JEDI-lab

We at JEDI lab at Linköping University conduct research on intuition, reflection, and emotion in economic decision-making. The aim of our research is to understand everyday decision-making and its underlying processes.

Organisation

Division of Psychology (PSY)

Research at the division covers many aspects of psychology. We also educate psychologists and psychotherapists to meet the challenges of work life and future clients in the best possible way.

Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL)

Human behaviour and learning is the focus for education and research at the department. We educate students and scientists that are well equipped to meet future challenges in society and working life.