Emma A. Bäck Ph. D. Curriculum Vitae Gothenburg University Department of Psychology Box 500 S-405 30 GOTHENBURG Sweden E-mail: [email protected] WORK EXPERIENCE Gothenburg University Assistant Professor (‘biträdande lektor’) 2015-pres. Kristianstad University Assistant Professor (‘lektor’) (Jan-May) 2015 Lund University Senior Lecturer 2012-2015 University of Amsterdam Post-doc/guest researcher (March-May) 2012 Stockholm University Department of Psychology Ph. D. student 2008-2012 Södertörn University Lecturer 2011 Stockholm University Department of Psychology: Research assistant, enrolled in Ph. D program Part time work. 2006-2008 Uppsala University Department of Political Science Research assistant. Part time. 1999 Stockholm University/ Gothenburg University Department of Political Science Research assistant. Part time. 1996-2000 EDUCATION Ph. D. Stockholm University 2011 M. Sc Uppsala University 2006 B. Sc Uppsala University 2005 High school Social sciences program 1997-2000 PUBLICATIONS Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., & Gustafsson, N. (2015). Ungas politiska deltagande: Nya former och aktivitet genom sociala medier? Report for Demokratiutredningen 2014 on assignment from the Swedish Government (forthcoming). Gustafsson-Sendén, M., Lindqvist, A., & Bäck, E. A. (2015). Introducing a gender-neutral pronoun in a natural gender language: The influence of time on attitudes and behavior. Frontiers in Psychology (forthcoming). Bäck, E. A., Lindqvist, A., & Gustafsson-Sendén, M. (2015). Hen can do it: Effects of using a gender neutral pronoun in a recruitment situation. In J. Magnusson, K. Milles, & Z. Nikolaidou (Eds.) Könskonstruktioner och Språkförändringar: En rapport från den åttonde nordiska konferensen om språk och kön (pp. 71-91). Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., & Knapton, H. M (2015). Group Belongingness and Collective Action: Effects of Need to Belong and Rejection Sensitivity on Willingness to Participate in Protests Activities. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (forthcoming). Knapton, H. M., Bäck, H., & Bäck, E. A. (2014). The Social Activist: Conformity to the Ingroup Following Rejection as a Predictor of Political Participation. Social Influence 10, 97-108. Bäck, E. A., & Bäck, H. (2014). Psykologiska förklaringar till politisk aktivism. Psykologtidningen, 7, 26-29. Bäck, E. A., & Lindholm, T. (2014). Defending or Challenging the Status Quo: Position Effects on Biased Intergroup Perceptions. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2, 77-97. Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H. & Garcia Albacete, G. (2013). Protest Activity, Social Incentives, and Rejection Sensitivity: Results from a survey experiment about tuition fees. Contention, 1, 1-15. Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., Montgomery, M., & Funck, F. (2013). Åsikter och engagemang i samhällsfrågor: Resultat från en webbundersökning. Psykologiska rapporter från Lund, 6, 1-29. Bäck, E. A. (2013). Position towards the status quo: Explaining differences in intergroup perceptions between left- and right-wing affiliates. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 2073-2082. Garcia Albacete, G, Bäck, H, & Bäck, E. A. (2012). Contextual and individual-level determinants of political protest: The interaction between feelings of discrimination and institutional arrangements. Contention, 0, 1-2. (Conference proceedings) Bäck, E. A. (2011). Social and cognitive biases in large group decision settings. Doctoral Dissertation. Stockholm: SU-AB. Bäck, E. A., Esaiasson, P., Gilljam, M., Svenson, O., & Lindholm, T. (2011). Post-decision consolidation in large group decision-making. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 320-328. Bäck, E. A. (2011). Effects of parental relations and upbringing in troubled adolescent eating behaviours. Eating Disorders, 19, 1-22. Bäck, E. A., Esaiasson, P., Gilljam, M., & Lindholm, T. (2010). Biased attributions regarding the origins of preferences in a group decision situation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 270281. WORK IN PROGRESS Bäck, E. A., & Bäck, H. Why Engage in Collective Action? The Conditional Effect of Social Support on Protest Participation (Under review). Espinosa, L., & Bäck, E. A. Violence in Swedish Football Supporters: The Mediational Relationship Between Group Identity, Dehumanization and Legitimation of Violence (under review). Knapton, H. M., Bäck, H., & Bäck, E. A. Conforming to collective action. An experimental study of personality, social norms, and political participation. (Submitted). Garcia-Albacete, G., Bäck, H., & Bäck, E. A. Contextual and individual-level determinants of political protest: The interaction between feelings of discrimination and institutional arrangements. (Working paper) Lindqvist, A., Gustafsson-Sendén, M., & Bäck, E. A. Evaluations of an individual described with a gender-neutral pronoun. (Working paper). Bäck, E. A., Bäck, H., Knapton, H., & Montgomery, H. Who becomes active? The role of personality and selective incentives in electoral and non-electoral participation. (Working paper) Bäck, E. A., Lindqvist, A., & Gustafsson-Sendén, M. The slow sexist: The moderating role of sexism on effects of gender-fair language on reading speed. (Working paper) CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS Conforming to collective action. An experimental study of personality, social norms, and political participation. Holly M. Knapton, Hanna Bäck, & Emma A. Bäck. Oral presentation at the International Society for Political Psychology, San Diego, 2015. What’s so social about social media? Personality and incentives as predictors of political participation. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Nils Gustafsson. Oral presentation at the International Society for Political Psychology, San Diego, 2015. Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and incentives on protest ativity. Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation presented at the Swedish Political Science Association, Lund, 2014. The social incentives of collective action: Rejection and social support as predictors of protest activity. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Holly Knapton. Oral presentation presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Rome, 2014 Who becomes active? The role of personality and selective incentives in electoral and non-electoral participation. Holly Knapton, Hanna Bäck, & Emma A. Bäck. Oral presentation (by H. Knapton) presented at the International Society for Political Psychology, Rome, 2014 The social incentives of collective action: Rejection and social support as predictors of protest activity. Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation to be presented at the European Consortium for Political Science, Glasgow, 2014 Why engage in collective action? The role of rejection in explaining protest activity. Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation presented at the Nordic Political Science Association, Gothenburg, 2014 Hen can do it: Effects of using a gender neutral pronoun in a recruitment situation. Emma A. Bäck, Anna Lindqvist, & Marie Gustafsson-Sendén. Oral presentation at the 8th Nordic Conference on Language and Gender, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013. The odd one out: The effect of rejection on collective action participation. Emma A. Bäck & Hanna Bäck. Oral presentation at the European Consortium for Political Research in Bordeaux, France, 2013. Effects of using gender neutral pronouns in recruitment. Emma A. Bäck, Anna Lindqvist, & Marie Gustafsson-Sendén. Oral presentation at the Marie Curie Initial Training Network Language, Cognition, & Gender conference in Bern, Switzerland, 2013. Contextual and individual-level determinants of political protest: The interaction between feelings of discrimination and institutional arrangements. Gema Garcia Albacete, Hanna Bäck, & Emma A. Bäck. Oral presentation at the Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest interdisciplinary conference in Kent, 2012. Protest Activity, Social Incentives, and Rejection Sensitivity: Results from a survey experiment about tuition fees. Emma A. Bäck, Hanna Bäck, & Gema Garcia Albacete. Oral presentation at the Theory, Action and Impact of Social Protest interdisciplinary conference in Kent, 2012. Introducing the ‘Challenger bias’. Emma A. Bäck. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in San Diego, 2012. Defending or Challenging the Status Quo: Position Effects on Biased Intergroup Perceptions. Emma A. Bäck & Torun Lindholm. Oral presentation held at the European Association for Social Psychology’s general meeting in Stockholm, 2011. General Parental Relationship Quality or Specific Parenting practices: Effects on Troubled Adolescent Eating Attitudes. Emma A. Bäck. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in San Antonio, 2011. Defending or Challenging the Status Quo: Position Effects on Biased Intergroup Perceptions. Emma A. Bäck & Torun Lindholm. Oral presentation held at the European Social Cognition Network’s Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Gothenburg, 2010. Social identity and gender: A Swedish version of the gender collective self-esteem scale. Hanna L. Kusterer, Emma A. Bäck, & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Las Vegas, 2010. Defending or Challenging the Status Quo: Position Effects on Biased Intergroup Perceptions. Emma A. Bäck & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Las Vegas, 2010. Defending or Challenging the Status Quo: Position Effects on Biased Intergroup Perceptions. Emma Bäck & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) convention in San Francisco, 2009. Status Quo Change: Bias differences Between Pro and Con Positions. Emma Bäck & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) meeting in Tampa, 2009. The importance of issue importance: Judging others´ origins of preferences in a group decision situation. Emma Bäck, Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam, & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) general meeting, Opatija, 2008. The role of issue importance in biased attributions regarding the origins of preferences. Emma Bäck, Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam, & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the SPSP meeting in Albuquerque, 2008. The role of issue importance in biased attributions regarding the origins of preferences in a groupdecision situation. Emma Bäck. Oral presentation held at the European Social Cognition Network’s Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Brno, 2007. Attributional biases about the origins of preferences in a group-decision situation. Emma Bäck. Oral presentation held at the European Group for Process Tracing Studies in Decision Making, Barcelona, 2007. Attributional biases about the origins of preferences in a group-decision situation. Emma Bäck. Oral presentation held at the Symposia for Social Cognition and Decision Making, Stockholm, 2007. Attributional biases about the origins of preferences in a group-decision situation. Emma Bäck, Peter Esaiasson, Mikael Gilljam, & Torun Lindholm. Poster presented at the GPIR preconference of the SPSP meeting in Memphis 2007. Decision-making in large groups: Group membership and post-decision consolidation. Torun Lindholm, Emma Bäck, Ola Svenson, Mikael Gilljam, & Peter Esaiasson. Poster presented at the SPSP meeting in Memphis 2007. PEDAGOGIC EXPERIENCE Course development and responsibility: Statistics and methodology (15 ECTS), 2011, Bachelor level, Södertörn University Social Psychology (7,5 ECTS), 2011, Psychology A, Södertörn University Statistics and methodology (7.5 ECTS), 2009, 2011, Speech therapist program, master level, Stockholm University (in collaboration with Karolinska Institute) Social Psychology (7.5 ECTS), Psychology I, Stockholm University, 2008 (50% responsibility) Teacher: Online lectures, Basic level social psychology, 2015, Kristianstad University Seminars Political Psychology, Doctoral level course, 2013, Lund University Seminars Social Psychology, Master level course, 2013, 2014, Lund University Seminars Data Analyses, Master level course, 2014, Lund University Seminars Statistics, Bachelor course, 2014, Lund University Lecturer Data Analyses, Master level course, 2014, Lund University Lecturer Statistics, Bachelor course, 2014, Lund University Lecturer Social Psychology, Basic level course, 2012, 2013, 2014, Lund University Lecturer Social Psychology, Psychology A, 2010, 2011, Södertörn University Lecturer Social Psychology, Psychology I, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Stockholm University Lecturer Social Psychology, Psychology II, 2008, 2009, 2011, Stockholm University Lecturer Methodology, Psychology and Law, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Stockholm University (Faculty of Law) Seminars Social Psychology, Basic level course, 2012, 2013, 2014, Lund University Seminars Social Psychology, Master course, 2013, 2014, Lund University Seminars Social Psychology, Psychology A, 2011, Södertörn University Seminars Social Psychology, Psychology I, 2007, 2008, Stockholm University Seminars Scientific writing, Psychology I, 2007, Stockholm University Seminars Statistics, Psychology I, 2008, 2009, Stockholm University Seminars Statistics and methodology, 2007, 2009, 2011, basic and master level, Stockholm University (in collaboration with Karolinska Institute) Supervisor: Supervisor Master theses, 2013, 2014, Lund University Finished: Holly Knapton: The irony of ostracism: Can extreme political actions result from a process once created to prevent political rebellion? Linda Lopar: Gender subtypes: Is there a difference within gender subtypes regarding competence and warmth George Juge: “Get Away From Me!”: Implicit and Explicit Transphobia in Swedish-speaking Men Catharina Bevik: The Assessment of Gender Pronouns in Relation to Gender Stereotypes and Sexism Lisa Espinosa: Legitimation of violence in Swedish football supporters: The mediational relationship between Need for cognitive closure, group identity and dehumanization Gloria Kempelmann: On political participation and social media influence Supervisor Bachelor theses, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Stockholm University/Södertörn University/Lund University/Kristianstad University (21 finished) Supervisor intermediate undergraduate level theses, Psychology II, 2007, 2008, Stockholm University Examination: Master level theses social psychology, 2013, 2014, Lund University Bachelor theses, 2014, Lund University Other: Consultant in statistics and methodology for Master theses at the Speech therapist program at Karolinska Institute, 2009, about 30 working hours SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS Major funding as Principal Investigator Emma A. Bäck, Stina Melander & Hanna Bäck (2015). Expected absence? Effects of expectations for pain-patients’ well-being and return to work. AFA försäkring (390 000 €). Major funding as co-investigator Malena Rosén-Sundström, Emma A. Bäck, Nils Gustafsson, & Hanna Bäck (2014). Political Participation among young people - from party democrats to social media activists. Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation (500 000 €). Marie Gustafsson-Sendén, Emma A. Bäck, & Anna Lindqvist (2014). Who is hen? Attitudes to, and cognitive effects of a gender-neutral pronoun. Swedish Research Council (320 000 €) Hanna Bäck, Henry Montgomery & Emma A. Bäck (2011). Extreme activism? Psychological determinants of protest behavior. Swedish Research Council (400 000 €) Minor funding as principal investigator Emma A. Bäck (2007). Course fee. The undergraduate researchers foundation (sponsored by the Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University) (350 €) Emma A. Bäck (2008). Summer course participation. Swedish Research Council (5000 €) Emma A. Bäck (2008). Conference travel. K. A. Wallenberg foundation (1500 €) Emma A. Bäck (2008). Conference travel. The undergraduate researchers foundation (1000 €) Emma A. Bäck (2008). Conference travel. The Lars Hierta’s memorial foundation (1500 €) Emma A. Bäck (2009). Conference travel. H. S. & Emmy Josephson foundation (1100 €) Emma A. Bäck (2009). Conference travel. John Söderberg foundation (1100 €) Emma A. Bäck (2010). Conference travel. The undergraduate researchers foundation (500 €) Emma A. Bäck (2010). Conference travel. The Lars Hierta’s memorial foundation (1500 €) Emma A. Bäck (2011). Participant reimbursment. The undergraduate researchers foundation (150 €) Emma A. Bäck (2011). Seedcorn grant. European Association of Social Psychology (2000 €) Emma A. Bäck (2011). Post-doc travel grant. Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (4500 €). Emma A. Bäck (2011). Best teacher award. Karolinska Institute (300 €) Emma A. Bäck (2011). Guest researcher stipend. The Lars Hierta’s memorial foundation (2500 €) Emma A. Bäck (2011). Conference travel. Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (1700 €). Emma A. Bäck (2011).Conference travel. K. A. Wallenberg foundation (1400 €) Emma A. Bäck (2013).Conference travel. Department of Psychology, Lund University (600 €) AWARDS AND PRIZES Awarded best teacher at the Speech therapist programme (Karolinska Institute) for statistics course, 2011 2nd prize in the Graduate Student Poster Award at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting in Tampa, 2009 Nominated for best teacher at the Speech therapist programme (Karolinska Institute) for statistics course, 2009. Nominated for best teacher at the Speech therapist programme (Karolinska Institute) for statistics course, 2007. UNDERTAKINGS AND COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2006: 2007: 2008: 2009: 2010: 2012: 2013: 2014: Graduate Student Council; member at large Graduate Student Council; member at large Equality Committee; member at large President of the Graduate Student Council at the Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University Board of Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University; Graduate student representative Professors’ Group at Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University; deputy Teacher Proposal Board for Professors, Social Sciences Faculty, Stockholm University; deputy President of the Graduate Student Council at the Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University Board of Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University; Graduate student representative Professors’ Group at Dept. of Psychology, Stockholm University; deputy Teacher Proposal Board for Professors, Social Sciences Faculty, Stockholm University; Graduate student representative Teacher Proposal Board for Professors, Social Sciences Faculty, Stockholm University; Graduate student representative Teacher Proposal Board for University Lecturers and Research Fellows, Social Social Sciences Faculty, Stockholm University; Graduate student representative Equality Committee, member at large Equality Committee, member at large President of Equality Committee at Dept of Psychology, Lund University Equality Committee at Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University: Member at large PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-editor (2015-2020) Political Psychology Peer reviewer Political Psychology Journal of Social and Political Psychology Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Basic and Applied Social Psychology Baltic Journal of Psychology Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine Co-chair European Consortium for Political Science, Glasgow, 2014 Discussant Nordic Political Science Association, Gothenburg, 2014 Swedish Political Science Association, Lund, 2014 MISCELLANEOUS Local network memberships: Network for Gender studies at the Department for Political Science, Lund University Network for Elections and political behaviour at the Department for Political Science, Lund University Network for Social Cognition at the Department of Psychology, Lund University Division of Personality and Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Lund University Division Cognition at the Department of Psychology, Lund University Political Psychology group, Departments for Political Science and Psychology, Lund University Judge at the Student Poster Award at the SPSP meeting in San Antonio, 2011 Member of the organizing committee for the 16th General meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Stockholm, 2011 (1200 delegates) Continuously participate and plan department visits from and to high schools Continuously participate and plan social events at the department Organising a seminar series with focus on Gender and Diversity research, with invited lecturers MEDIA APPEARANCES 2008: 2010: 2010: 2011: 2011: 2011: 2011: 2011: 2011: 2011: 2012: 2012: 2013: Må Bra (Commercial Health Magazine); Expert opinion on social networks on the internet Gomorron Sverige (Swedish Television’s morning news show); Social psychology applied to neighbourhood issues Universitetsnytt (Stockholm University’s internal newspaper); Doctoral student’s view on the new proposal for teacher appointments Gaudeamus (Stockhom University’s campus paper); Panel discussion on integration Tro och politik (Newspaper on faith and politics); Proponents of change less tolerant of disagreeing others ETC. (Newspaper from political left); Proponents of change less tolerant of disagreeing others P1 (Swedish radio); Proponents of change less tolerant of disagreeing others Forskning och framsteg (Newspaper on research); Proponents of change less tolerant of disagreeing others SKTF medlemstidning (Union magazine): Proponents of change less tolerant of disagreeing others SVT online (Swedish Television online news): Explaining current events using social psychological theories. Skolporten (website for teachers): Popular scientific article on dissertation. Internationella studier (Scientific/popular scientific journal): Psychology of personal and global crises. Metro (free newspaper): Article on protest activity 2014: 2015: Psykologtidningen (Magazine for psychologists association in Sweden): Special, invited, research article on political participation in relation to the current year of elections. LUM (Lund University Magazine): Popular article on protest research. Modern Psykologi (Popular journal in psychology): “How an extremist is born” Sydsvenskan (Newspaper): Article on motivations behind activism. MEMBERSHIPS Society for Personality and Social Psychology, SPSP European Association of Social Psychology, EASP Social Psychology Network, SPN Association for Psychological Science, APS International Society for Political Psychology, ISPP European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR
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