Dr. Angelica Hagsand

Biography

Angelica V. Hagsand defended her doctoral dissertation in 2014 at the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, focusing on how alcohol affects witnesses' memory. She received a three-year postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, spending one year at the University of Gothenburg and two years at Florida International University in the USA. Upon returning to Gothenburg, she led a project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Hagsand is involved in international collaborations, notably receiving funding from the National Science Foundation in the U.S. In 2022, she became an Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, covering cognitive psychology, addiction psychology, biological/neuropsychology, legal psychology, social psychology, and personality psychology. She aims to investigate the acute effects of alcohol intoxication on the cognition and memory of witnesses, victims, and suspects, as well as the long-term consequences of alcohol abuse. Hagsand also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology and is part of various research groups, such as the Addiction Psychology: Experimental Clinical Research (APEC) and the Integrative Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (ICON).

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