Stockholms universitet

Filip OlssonDoktorand

Om mig

I am a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, with a background in psychology and political science. In my dissertation project, I explore the contextual nature of implicit (or unconscious) culture. I study how we internalize, use, and reproduce different beliefs, ideologies, and attitudes beyond our conscious control. 

To this end, I use experimental methods to study concepts such as implicit nationalism, Swedishness, right-wing populism, and prejudice. While the dissertation mainly focuses on Sweden, I am also researching implicit nationalism and prejudice in France and Japan. 

Undervisning

Seminarielärare, Kvantitativ Analys II (VT2022)

Publikationer

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  • On the Methodological Difficulty of Identifying Implicit Racial Beliefs and Stereotypes

    2020. Moa Bursell, Filip Olsson. American Sociological Review 85 (6), 1117-1122

    Artikel

    In Status Characteristics, Implicit Bias, and the Production of Racial Inequality, Melamed, Munn, Barry, Montgomery, and Okuwobi present an innovative and intriguing study on social influence, status beliefs, and implicit racial bias. To capture status-based expectancies, the authors measure implicit racial status beliefs using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) with words related to high and low status. We identify an important flaw in the study's analytic approach that severely limits the conclusions that can be drawn based on the study. We argue that the authors neglected to separate the valence of the words included in the racial status IAT with the stereotype content of these words. It is therefore possible that the study's racial IAT only captures implicit racial evaluations, and not status-based implicit racial beliefs.

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  • Do we need dual-process theory to understand implicit bias? A study of the nature of implicit bias against Muslims

    2021. Moa Bursell, Filip Olsson. Poetics 87

    Artikel

    Psychological dual-process theory has become increasingly popular among sociologists. The dualprocess framework accounts for two types of thinking; a fast, associative, automatic or subconscious System 1 thinking, and a slow, propositional and reflective System 2 thinking. The insight that the former can also be empirically studied by sociologists has the potential to significantly improve sociological research. However, dual-process theory is not undisputed within psychology; some scholars question the associative nature of fast thinking. This discussion has implications for how implicit cognition should be studied. In this paper, we introduce this discussion to a sociology audience, exemplifying with the case of implicit bias against Muslims. We evaluate these approaches drawing on a set of experiments conducted at Amazon's Mechanical Turk. We discuss the implications of our results for sociological research.

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