Lotte Thomsen

Faglige interesser

I am interested in how elementary kinds of relational motives underpin meaningful psychological and social phenomena and intergroup relations, how these relational primitives are represented,  and in how relational motives and meanings emerge in phylo- and ontogenesis.

I see this as a general psychological topic that relates to social, cognitive, evolutionary, and developmental psychology (as well as cognitive linguistics, pragmatist philosophy and social and anthropological theory.)

I currently address it using a combination of methods that includes questionnaires and surveys, social psychological scenario- and priming experiments, looking-time experiment with infants, experimental economics games, longitudinal panel studies, and ethnographic field work and participant observation.

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Utdanning

2009 Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Harvard University

2004 MA in Social Psychology with minors in Statistics and Culture, Brain, & Development

2000 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, UCLA, Fulbright and University of California Education Abroad visiting scholar in Department of Psychology

1998 Visiting student, University of Manchester

1999-2002 Cand.psych., University of Copenhagen

1996-1999 Bachelor of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

Arbeidserfaring

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo, August 2012 →

Research Fellow, Harvard University, January 2010 →

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, December 2009 – August 2012

Teaching Fellow (Research in Intergroup Relations) Harvard University, 2007 - 2008

Teaching Assistant (Research Methods in Social Psychology) UCLA, 2002

Teaching Assistant (Social Psychology) UCLA, 2001

Lecturer (Social Psychology) Open University, University of Copenhagen, 1999 - 2000

Teaching Assistant (Social Psychology), University of Copenhagen, 1998

Analysist, Strategisk Forum, Huset Mandag Morgen, 1999 - 2000