• 2023 – 2025 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• 2021 – 2023 Research Fellow, University of Warwick (England)
• 2017 – 2021 PhD in Psychology, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
• 2016 – 2017 Master of Research (MRes) in Psychology, University of Aberdeen (Scotland),
• 2012 – 2016 Master of Arts (MA) in Psychology, University of Aberdeen (Scotland)

Social cognition (Stereotyping, Gender Roles, Self-Relevance, Social Beliefs and Expectations, Social Learning, Belief Updating)

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Balseryte, R., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Caughey, S., & Macrae, C. N. (2019), How prioritized is self-prioritization during stimulus processing? Visual Cognition, 27, 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2019.1583708
• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., & C. N. Macrae (2023). The power of the unexpected: Prediction errors enhanced stereotype- based learning. Cognition, 235, 105386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105386
• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Wischerath, D., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., Caughey, S., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). It’s not always about me: prior beliefs and stimulus prevalence moderate self-other prioritization. QuarterlyJournal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1466-1480. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820913016
• Tsamadi, D., Falbén, J. K., Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., Caughey, S., Sahin, B., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). Stereotype-based priming without stereotype activation: A tale of two priming tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1939-1948. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820925396

Computional Modelling (Drift Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, Bayesian cognition)

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Wischerath, D., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., Caughey, S., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). It’s not always about me: prior beliefs and stimulus prevalence moderate self-other prioritization. QuarterlyJournal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1466-1480. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820913016
• Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2018). Exploring the self-ownership effect: Separating perceptual and decisional biases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 295-306. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000455
• Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). People perception and stereotype-based responding: Task context matters. Psychological Research, 87, 1219-1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01724-5

Preprints 

• Castillo, L., León-Villagrá, P., Falbén, J. K., Chater, N, & Sanborn, A. N. (2025). People need a few seconds to be random. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/awg9j_v1
• Falbén, J. K., Castillo, L., León-Villagrá, P., Chater, N, & Sanborn, A. N. (2024). Biased Mind or Biased World? Assessing How Cultural Beliefs that Underlie Social Judgments. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5hdbp
• León-Villagrá, P., Castillo, L., Falbén, J. K., Chater, N., & Sanborn, A. N. (2024). Eliciting Beliefs with Random Generation Tasks. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/687au
• Li, Y., Falbén, J. K., Castillo, L., Spicer, J., Zhu, J., Qian, S., Chater, N., & Sanborn, A. N. (2025). Does Utility Bias Mental Simulations of Risky Events? https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/awdr7_v1
• Spicer, J., Li, Y., Castillo, L., Falbén, J. K., Qian, S., & Sanborn, A. N. (2025). Mental Sampling in Preferential Choice: Tracing the Process using Random Generation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kzmb5_v2

2025

• Sanborn, A. N., Zhu, J.-Q., Spicer, J., León-Villagra, P., Castillo, L., Falbén, J. K., Li, Y.-X., Tee, A., & Chater, N. (2025). Noise in cognition: Bug or feature? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20 (3), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916241258951

2024

• Li, Y.-X., Falbén, J. K., Castillo, L., Spicer, J., Zhu, J.-Q., Chater, N., & Sanborn, A. N. (2024). Utility does not influence mental simulations. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1832-1838. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ps2t4sz
• Golubickis, M., Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., Seoq, S. H., Jalalian, P., Sharma, Y., Ivanova, M., & Macrae, C. N. (2024). Facial misfits accelerate stereotype-based associative learning. Scientific Reports, 14, 19320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67770-8
• Golubickis, M., Tan, L. B. G., Jalalian, P., Falbén, J. K., & Macrae, C. N. (2024). Brief mindfulness- based meditation enhances learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 2312-2324. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241228859

2023

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., & C. N. Macrae (2023). The power of the unexpected: Prediction errors enhanced stereotype- based learning. Cognition, 235, 105386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105386
• Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). People perception and stereotype-based responding: Task context matters. Psychological Research, 87, 1219-1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01724-5
• Sharma, Y., Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., Jalalian, P., Falbén, J. K., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). Facial first impressions are not mandatory: A priming investigation. Cognition, 241, 105620 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105620
• Svensson, S., Golubickis, M., Johnson, S., Falbén, J. K., Sahraie, A., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). Self-Relevance and the Activation of Attentional Networks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 1120-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221112238

2022

• Svensson, S. L., Golubickis, M., Maclean, H., Falbén, J. K., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Caughey, S., Sahraie, A., & Macrae, C. N. (2022). More or less of me and you: Prioritizing self and others during perceptual decision-making. Psychological Research, 86, 1145-1164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01562-x

2021

• Caughey, S., Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., & Macrae, C. N. (2021). Self-prioritization during stimulus processing is not obligatory. Psychological Research, 85, 503-508. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01283-2
• Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Falbén, J. K., Schwertel, C. L., Maiuri, A., Dublas, D., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2021). Valence and ownership: object desirability influences self-prioritization. Psychological Research, 85, 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01235-w
• Golubickis, M., Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., & Macrae, C. N. (2021). On stopping yourself: Self-relevance facilitates response inhibition. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 1416-1423. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02248-7
• Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., Dublas, D., Mastnak, N., Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., Caughey, S., Svensson, S. L., & Macrae, C. N. (2021). Comparing person and people perception: Multiple group members do not increase stereotype priming. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1418-1431. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211012852

2020

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Tamulaitis, S., Caughey, S., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L M., Svensson, S. L., Sahraie, A., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). Self-Relevance Enhances Evidence Gathering During Decision-Making. Acta Psychologica, 209, 103122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103122
• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Wischerath, D., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., Caughey, S., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). It’s not always about me: prior beliefs and stimulus prevalence moderate self-other prioritization. QuarterlyJournal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1466-1480. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820913016
• Golubickis, M., Falbén, J. K., Ho, N. S. P., Sui, J., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). Parts of me: identity-relevance moderates self-prioritization. Consciousness and Cognition, 77, 102848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102848
• Tsamadi, D., Falbén, J. K., Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., Caughey, S., Sahin, B., & Macrae, C. N. (2020). Stereotype-based priming without stereotype activation: A tale of two priming tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1939-1948. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820925396

2019

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Balseryte, R., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Caughey, S., & Macrae, C. N. (2019), How prioritized is self-prioritization during stimulus processing? Visual Cognition, 27, 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2019.1583708
• Falbén, J. K., Olivier, J. L., Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Persson, L. M., Tsamadi, D., Marinopoulou, E., Bianciardi, B., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae C. N. (2019). Stop stereotyping. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1228-1235. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01733-4
• Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., Golubickis, M., Olivier, J. L., Persson, L. M., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2019). Predictably confirmatory: the influence of stereotypes during decisional processing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2437-2451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819844219
• Golubickis, M., Ho, N. S. P., Falben, J. K., Mackenzie, K. M., Boschetti, A., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2019). Mine or mother’s? Exploring the self-ownership effect across cultures. Culture and Brain, 7, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-018-0068-0 

2018

• Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2018). Exploring the self-ownership effect: Separating perceptual and decisional biases. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 295-306. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000455 

2017

• Golubickis, M., Falben, J. K., Sahraie, A., Visokomogilski, A., Cunningham, W. A., & Macrae, C. N. (2017). Self-prioritization and perceptual matching: the effects of temporal construal. Memory & Cognition, 45, 1223-1239. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-017-0722-3

2016

• Golubickis, M., Tan, L.B.G., Falben, J.K., & Macrae, C.N. (2016). The observing self: Diminishing egocentrism through brief mindfulness meditation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 521-527.https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2186
• Macrae, C. N., Mitchell, J. P., McNamara, D. L., Golubickis, M., Andreou, K., Moller, S., Peytcheva, K., Falben, J. K., & Christian, B. M. (2016). Noticing future me: Reducing egocentrism through mental imagery. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 855-863. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216644961