Angelica Hagsand

Senior Lecturer

Department of Psychology

Telephone

+46 31-786 19 35

Mail

angelica.hagsand@psy.gu.se

Visiting address

Haraldsgatan 1

41314 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 500

40530 Göteborg

About Angelica Hagsand

Biography

Associate Professor in Psychology: 2022
Senior lecturer in Psychology: 2022
Researcher: 2018-2021
Post doc USA/Sweden: 2015-2018
PHD/Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology: 2014

Teaching

I am teaching and supervising theses on several courses at the basic and the advanced level, on topics such as cognitive psychology, addiction psychology, legal psychology, personality psychology, and social psychology.

If any students at University of Gothenburg is interested in my research and would like to write a thesis in one of my areas, you are welcome to contact me.

Research interests

My research is interdisciplinary and stretches between cognitive psychology, legal psychology, social psychology, biological psychology, addiction psychology and personality psychology. More specific, my research interest concerns both the acute effects of alcohol on cognition and behavior (i.e. witness memory of a crime, how alcohol affect suspects during interrogation), and the long-term consequences of alcohol-dependence. I am also interested in studies concerning the legal system.

Interested in our research?

Popular science article, pod cast and video at Research Outreach: Eyewitness testimony: How much alcohol is too much? (November, 2021)

Active role in the following research groups

Member of the research unit Addiction Psychology: Experimental and Clinical research (APEC), Department of Psychology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Member at the Center for Education and Research on Addiction (CERA) at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Member of the legal psychology research unit Investigative Interviewing lab at the Department of Psychology, Florida International University, USA.

Current research

My current research involve studies on the acute effects of alcohol on cognition and also how the legal system work.

Selected publications

Hagsand, A.V., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2025). The big five traits openness and conscientiousness affect the memory of alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses. Advance online publication. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104579

Evans, J.R., Mindthoff, A., LaBat, D., Sparacino, M., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand. A.V. (2024). The impact of alcohol intoxication and short-sighted decision-making in the interrogation room. Advance online publication. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000173

Hagsand, A. V., Flowe, H., Takarangi, M., & Gawrylowicz, J. (2023). Editorial: The impact of alcohol and drugs on suspects', victims' and witnesses' cognition and memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1209406

Hagsand, A.V., Kelly, C., Mindthoff, A., Evans, J. R., Schreiber Compo, N., Karhu, J., & Huntley, R. (2023). The interrogator-suspect dynamic in custodial interrogations in Sweden: An application of the interrogation taxonomy framework. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64, 352-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12889

Hagsand, A.V., Zajac, H., Lidell, L., Kelly, C.E., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J. R. (2022). Police- suspect interactions and confession rates are affected by suspects’ alcohol and drug use status in low-stakes crime interrogations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 983362. https://doi.org.10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983362

Hagsand, A.V., Evans, J. R., Pettersson, D., & Schreiber Compo, N. S. (2022). A survey of police officers encounters with sober, alcohol- and drug-intoxicated suspects in Sweden. Psychology, Crime and Law, 28, 523-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2021.1929978

Hagsand, A. V. (2022). Researching police behaviour and perceptions using online survey methodology: On suspects of crimes. SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Ltd. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529601763

Pettersson, D., Bergquist, M., & Hagsand, A.V. (2022). Police decision-making in the absence of evidence-based guidelines: Assessment on alcohol-intoxicated eyewitnesses. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.761956

Hagsand, A.V., Pettersson, D., Evans, J. R., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Police survey: Procedures and prevalence of intoxicated witnesses and victims in Sweden. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 14(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2022a3

Hagsand, A.V. (2021). Eyewitness testimony: How much alcohol is too much? Research Outreach, 126. https://doi.org/10.32907/RO-126-1847382832

Mindthoff, A., Evans, J. R., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand, A. V. (2021). No evidence that low levels of intoxication at both encoding and retrieval impact scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale. In press at Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-05797-9

Mindthoff, A., Hagsand, A.V., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J. (2019). Does alcohol loosen the tongue? Intoxicated persons' willingness to report transgressions or criminal behavior carried out by themselves or others. Applied Cognitive Psycholog, 33, 414-425. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3480

Altman, C., Schreiber Compo, N., Hagsand, A. V., & Evans, J. R. (2019). State of intoxication: A review of the effects of alcohol on witnesses’ memory. In J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R. N., Carol, M. McCauley & B. Schwartz (Eds.). Evidence-based investigative interviewing. Routledge, NY. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315160276-5

Schreiber Compo, N., Vallano, J., Rivard, J., Hagsand, A. V., Pena, M., & Altman, C. (2019). Methods of studying eyewitness memory. In Otani, H., & Schwartz, B. L. (Eds.), Research Methods in Human Memory. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429439957-15

Altman, C., Schreiber Compo, N., McQuiston, D., Hagsand, A.V, & Cervera, J. (2018). Witnesses’ memory for events and faces under elevated levels of intoxication. Memory, 26, 946-959. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1445758

Hagsand, A. V. (2018). Experimental design in the laboratory: How to measure the difference between alcohol-intoxicated and sober witnesses’ memories of a crime. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526440891