Malin Eriksson

Malin Eriksson is a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Psychology at Uppsala University, specializing in developmental psychology with a focus on children's social behaviors through experimental game paradigms.

Her primary research areas include:

• Developmental Psychology
• Child Social Behavior
• Game Theory in Children
• Early Childhood Development
• Preschooler Behavior
• Resource Allocation

Eriksson investigates how children navigate other-oriented, self-oriented, and strategic social interactions using controlled experiments. Her work examines cooperative versus competitive dynamics in board games and the relationship between strategic resource distribution and spontaneous helping behaviors in preschoolers, revealing nuanced developmental patterns in social cognition.

Her publications in journals like Cognition and the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology demonstrate consistent focus on experimental methodologies to decode early social development, with her 2025 doctoral thesis providing a comprehensive framework for understanding children's strategic social behaviors through game-based research.