Fredrik Jönsson
Associate Professor, Head of the graduate and PhD programs
Co-head of the division for Cognitive Psychology

I defended my thesis at Uppsala University in 2005, and I am currently employed as a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, where I also completed my postdoc time. I’ve led and taught a range of courses from undergraduate (first level) to PhD student level (third level), including topics like psychological testing, perception, introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, metacognition, and degree projects. Currently, I am the head of the graduate and PhD programs.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in both applied and theoretical issues relating to memory, learning and metacognition. Concerning metacognition, my interests include investigations of how we make metacognitive judgments and what affects these judgments, how accurately we monitor our learning (ease of learning judgments, judgments of learning) and how they relate to control (study-regulation), and additionally students’ knowledge of how to best go about learning (metacognitive knowledge). My memory research has focused on olfactory memory in the short and the long term, but lately more on different learning strategies, such as the testing effect – a reliable benefit on long-term retention through testing memory as compared to restudying previously learned information. Though, memory testing does not only benefit learning and retention, it may also play an important role in metacognition. For example, memory testing helps learners to diagnose what they have learned. In short, how should we go about to learn and how to understand learning?

Supervised phd theses

2019  Kristina Petersén Karlsson - Autobiographical Memory: Depending on sensory retrieval cue and gender
2018  Andreas Jemstedt - Metacognitive Aspects of Learning: What Influences Magnitude and Accuracy of Ease-of-Learning Judgments?
2017  Max Larsson Sundqvist - Effects of retrieval and articulation on memory
2015   Ann-Sofie Jägerskog - Pictures and a Thousand Words: Learning Psychology through Visual Illustrations and Testing
2014   Veit Kubik - Effects of Testing and Enactment on Memory

CO-Supervised phd theses

2018  Stina Cornell Kärnekull - Auditory and Olfactory Abilities in Blind and Sighted Individuals: More Similarities than Differences
2017   Ivo Todorov - Individual Differences in Multitasking: Support for Spatiotemporal Offloading
2016   Aram Seddigh - Office type, performance and well-being: A study of how personality and work tasks interact with contemporary
                office environments and ways of working
2011   Neda Kerimi - Decision Strategies: Something Old, Something New, and Something Borrowed.

publications

  1. Kubik., V., Jemstedt, A., Mahjub Eshratabadi, H., Schwartz, B. L., & Jönsson, F. U. (2022). The underconfidence-with-practice effect in action memory: the contribution of retrieval practice to metacognitive monitoring. Metacognition and Learning. DOI: 10.1007/s11409-021-09288-2
  2. Rosa, E., Kneza, I., Ljung, R,  Dahlström, N., Grönkvist, M., Eikend, O., Kölegård, R., Jönsson, F. U., & Willander, J. (2020). Effects of fatigue on cognitive performance in long-duration simulated flight missions. Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, 10, 82–93.
  3. Veit, K., Jönsson, F. U., de Jonge, M., & Arshamian, A. (2020). Putting Action into Testing: Enacted Retrieval Benefits Long-Term Retention more than Covert Retrieval. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 2093-2105.
  4. Cornell Kärnekull, S., Arshamian, A., Willander., J., Jönsson, F. U., Nilsson, M. E., & Larsson, M. (2020). The reminiscence bump is blind to blindness: Evidence from sound- and odor-evoked autobiographical memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 78.
  5. Karlsson, K. P., Sikstrom, S., Jönsson, F. U., Sendén, M., Willander, J. (2019). Gender Differences in Autobiographical Memory: Females latently Express more Communality than do Males. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31, 651-664.
  6. Gustafsson, P., Lindholm, T., & Jönsson, F. U. (2019). Predicting Accuracy in Eyewitness Testimonies with Memory Retrieval Effort and Confidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:703.
  7. Jägerskog, A.-S., Jönsson, F., Selander, S. & Jonsson, B. (2019). Multimedia Learning Trumps Retrieval Practice in Psychology Teaching. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12527
  8. Lindholm, T., Jönsson, F. U., & Liuzza, M. T. (2018). Retrieval Effort Cues Predict Eyewitness Accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 534-542. DOI: 10.1037/xap0000175
  9. Kubik, V., Jönsson, F. U., Knopf, M., & Mack, W. (2018). The direct testing effect is pervasive in action memory: Analyses of recall accuracy and recall speed. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1632. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01632
  10. Jemstedt, A., Schwartz, B. L., & Jönsson, F. U. (2017). Ease of learning judgments are based on both processing fluency and beliefs. Memory, 26, 807-815. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1410849
  11. Larsson Sundqvist, M., Mäntylä, T., & Jönsson, F. U. (2017). Assessing boundary conditions of the testing effect: On the relative efficacy of covert versus overt retrieval. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1018. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01018
  12. Jemstedt, A.,  Kubik, V., & Jönsson, F. U. (2017). What moderates the accuracy of ease of learning judgments? Metacognition and Learning, 3, 337-355. DOI: 10.1007/s11409-017-9172-3
  13. Stenlund, T., Jönsson, F. U., & Jonsson, B. (2017). Group discussions and test-enhanced learning: Individual learning outcomes and personality characteristics. Educational Psychology, 37, 145–156. DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2016.1143087
  14. Kubik, V., Olofsson, J. K., Nilsson, L.-G., & Jönsson, F. U. (2016). Putting action memory to the test: Testing affects subsequent restudy but not long-term forgetting of action events. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 209–219. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1111378
  15. Kubik, V., Nilsson, L.-G., Olofsson, J. K., & Jönsson, F. U. (2015). Effects of testing on subsequent re-encoding and forgetting of action phrases. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 56, 475–481. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12238
  16. Seddigh, A., Jönsson, F. U., Berntson, E., Bodin Danielsson, C., & Westerlund, H. (2015). Effect of better and worse noise absorption in open-plan office: A field study with a cross-over design. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 44, 34–44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.08.004
  17. Cornell Kärnekull, S., Jönsson, F. U., Willander, J., Sikström, S., & Larsson, M. (2015). Long-term memory for odors: Influences of familiarity and identification across 64 days. Chemical Senses, 40, 259–267. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjv003
  18. Kubik, V., Söderlund, H., Nilsson, L.-G., & Jönsson, F. U. (2014). Individual and combined effects of enactment and testing on memory for action phrases. Experimental Psychology, 61, 347–355. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000254
  19. Jönsson, F. U., Kubik, V., Larsson Sundqvist, M., Todorov, I., & Jonsson, B. (2014). How crucial is the response format for the testing effect? Psychological Research, 78, 623–633. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-013-0522-8
  20. Todorov, I., Kornell, N., Larsson Sundqvist, M., & Jönsson, F. U. (2013). Phrasing questions in terms of current (not future) knowledge increases preferences for cue-only judgments of learning. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 1, 7-13. DOI: 10.1037/arc0000002
  21. Jönsson, F. U., & Stevenson, R. J. (2014). Odor knowledge, odor naming and the "tip of the nose" experience. In B. W. Schwartz & A. S. Brown (Eds.), Tip of the tongue states and related phenomena (pp. 306–326). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139547383.014
  22. Larsson Sundqvist, M., Todorov, I., Kubik, V., & Jönsson, F. U. (2012). Study for now, but judge for later: Delayed Judgments of Learning promote long-term retention. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 53, 450–454. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2012.00968.x
  23. Jönsson, F. U., Hedner, M., & Olsson, M. J. (2012). The testing effect as a function of explicit testing instructions and judgments of learning. Experimental Psychology, 59, 251–257. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000150
  24. Jönsson, F. U., & Olsson, M. J. (2012). Knowing what we smell. In G. M. Zucco, R. S. Herz, & B. Schaal (Eds.), Olfactory Cognition. From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience (pp. 115-136). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. DOI: 10.1075/aicr.85.13jon
  25. Cornell Kärnekull, S., Jönsson, F. U., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J. K. (2011). Affected by smells? Environmental chemical responsivity predicts odor perception. Chemical Senses, 36, 641–648. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr028
  26. Jönsson, F. U., Møller, P., & Olsson, M. J. (2011). Olfactory working memory: Effects of verbalization on the 2-back task. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1023–1032. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0080-5
  27. Jönsson, F. U., & Kerimi, N. (2011). An investigation of students’ knowledge of the delayed judgements of learning effect. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 358–373. DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.518371
  28. Jönsson, F. U., & Lindström, B. (2010). Using a multidimensional scaling approach to investigate the underlying basis of Ease of Learning judgments. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, 103–108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00762.x
  29. Larsson, M., Blåvarg, C., & Jönsson, F. U. (2009). Bad Odors Stick Better than Good Ones: Olfactory Qualities and Odor Recognition. Experimental Psychology, 56, 375–380. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.6.375
  30. Arshamian, A, Olofsson, J. K., Jönsson, F. U., & Larsson, M. (2008). Sniff your way to clarity: The case of olfactory imagery. Chemosensory Perception, 1, 242–246. DOI: 10.1007/s12078-008-9035-z
  31. Olsson, M. J., & Jönsson, F. U. (2008). Is it easier to match a name to an odor or vice versa? Chemosensory Perception, 1, 184–189. DOI: 10.1007/s12078-008-9024-2
  32. Sikström, S., & Jönsson, F. U. (2005). A Model for stochastic drift in memory strength to account for judgments of learning. Psychological Review, 112, 932–950. DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.4.932
  33. Jönsson, F. U. (2005). Olfactory metacognition: A metamemory perspective on odor naming. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Digital comprehensive summaries of Uppsala dissertations from the faculty of social sciences, 6.
  34. Jönsson, F. U., Tcheckova, A., Lönner, P., & Olsson, M. J. (2005). A metamemory perspective on odor naming and identification. Chemical Senses, 30, 353–365. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji030
  35. Jönsson, F. U., Olsson, H., & Olsson, M. J. (2005). Odor emotionality affects the confidence in odor naming. Chemical Senses, 30, 29–35. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh254
  36. Jönsson, F. U., & Olsson, M. J. (2003). Olfactory metacognition. Chemical Senses, 28, 651–658. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjg058
  37. Olsson, M. J., Faxbrink, M., & Jönsson, F. U. (2002). Repetition priming in odor memory. In C. Rouby, B. Schaal, D. Dubois, R. Gervais, & A. Holley (Eds.), Olfaction, taste, and cognition (pp. 246–260). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511546389.022
  38. Schenkman, B., & Jönsson, F. U. (2000). Aesthetics and preferences of web pages. Behaviour and Information Technology, 19, 367–377. DOI: 10.1080/014492900750000063

Contact

Frescati Hagväg 14, room 320
Department of Psychology
Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: 08-163876
Email: fredrik.jonsson(at)psychology.su.se