Andreas Olsson

Andreas Olsson is Professor of Psychology at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, where he founded and directs the EmotionLab research group. His work examines neural and computational principles of social and affective learning.

Research investigates:

• Social transmission of threat learning
• Neural mechanisms of empathy
• Prosocial decision-making under threat
• Cross-cultural pandemic responses
• Moral norm formation

Funded by ERC, Swedish Research Council, and Wallenberg Foundations. Recent publications explore brain-to-brain threat mechanisms and national identity's role in health behaviors.