Publications

2024

Bergman Blix, Stina and Åsa Wettergren (2024) “Integrating Rationality and Emotion in Legal Institutions”, pp 174-198 in (ed.) Helena Flam, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion: Institutions and Emotional Rule Regimes, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2024 Minissale, Alessandra: Scrutinising Gut Feelings: Emotional Reflexive Practices in Italian Courts, Emotions and Society, 6(1). 1-9 aop.

2023

Törnqvist, Nina, and Åsa Wettergren (2023). Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making, Journal of Law and Society, 50(2):208-230.

Nordqvist, Cecilia, Alessandra Minissale, and Stina Bergman Blix: Emotional Community and Estrangement in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Auto-Ethnographic Approach. In: Transcending Crisis by Attending to Care, Emotion, and Flourishing. London: Routledge, p. 119-143.

Bladini, Moa, Sara Uhnoo, and Åsa Wettergren. (2023). ‘It sounds like lived experience’-On empathy in rape trials. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 72.

2022

Nordquist, Cecilia and Stina Bergman Blix (2022). “Expanding Emotional Capital in Court”, Frontiers in Sociology, 7, Dec. 23.

Bladini, Moa and Stina Bergman Blix. (2022) ”The Judge Under Pressure - Fostering objectivity by abandoning the myth of dispassion, pp. 223-240 in (eds.) Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos and Yvonne McDermott Rees, Judicial Independence Under Threat, Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Törnqvist, N. (2022). "Drizzling sympathy: Ideal victims and flows of sympathy in Swedish courts". International Review of Victimology, 28(3) 263–285.

Bergman Blix, Stina and Alessandra Minissale. (2022) ”(Dis)passionate Law Stories: The emotional processes of encoding narratives in court”, Journal of Law & Society, 49(2): 245–262.

Bergman Blix, Stina. (2022) “Making Independent Decisions Together: Rational emotions in legal adjudication”, Symbolic Interaction. 45(1): 50-71

Wettergren, Åsa and Stina Bergman Blix. (2022) ”Prosecutors’ habituation of emotion management in Swedish courts”, Law & Social Inquiry, 47(3): 971 – 995.

2021

Wettergren, Åsa and Stina Bergman Blix. (2021) “Comparing Culturally Embedded Frames of Judicial Dispassion”, pp. 146–163 in Research Handbook on Law and Emotions, edited by Susan Bandes, Jody Lynee Madeira, Kathryn Temple, Emily Kidd White. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Bergman Blix, Stina. (2021) “Law’s insistence on dispassion as the mother of theoretical curiosity”, Journal of Law and Society, Vol 48, No. 4: 713-721, Book Review Essay.