The coronavirus outbreak manifested in Norway in March 2020. It was met with a combination of mandatory changes (closing of public institutions) and recommended changes (hygiene behavior, physical distancing). It has been ...

Humans are strongly affected by social exclusion, a multifaceted and complex phenomenon of social life. However, individuals tend to respond differently depending on a multitude of individual and contextual factors. Firstly, ...

Humans build hierarchical relations, in which they coordinate according to rankings. Rankings need to be mentally represented in order to be communicated and constituted. These mental representations are grounded: They ...

Schizophrenia has traditionally been regarded as a severe mental illness with limited prospects of full recovery. Research on first-episode schizophrenia (FES) has provided some new insights, although there is still much ...

Conflict monitoring and adaption processes appear associated with frontal-midline theta (fm-theta). The support for this association is found in correlational electroencephalography (EEG) studies and a few transcranial ...

The intergroup relations between different status groups are not merely antagonistic relations. Thus, the main point of this research is to explore other possible intergroup relationship by adopting the relational mode ...

Following the “refugee crisis,” Germany has faced a rise in both right-wing and Islamist extremism. It has been argued that sports contexts may be suitable to reduce intergroup tensions including its more extreme forms, ...

The thesis examines developmental changes in fundamental neural and cognitive processes underlying attention and cognitive control across adolescence. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the results generally indicate that ...

Regarded as the product of prolonged and sustained efforts, creativity is still often associated with the rare moments when a solution to a problem suddenly bursts into consciousness: the hallmark of sudden insight. The ...

In a fragmented and accelerated world of globalization and emerging nationalism, social and cultural psychologists can play an important role to investigate the national and superordinate identities. This study addresses ...

When do people say that they are moved, and does this experience constitute a unique emotion? We review theory and empirical research on being moved across psychology and philosophy. We examine feeling labels, elicitors, ...

Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia and appear with increased severity in early-onset schizophrenia (EOS). EOS is defined as onset of symptoms before 18 years of age. Affected youths often experience ...

Background/Objective: In recent years, several slightly younger cohorts have been established in order to study the preclinical and prodromal phases of dementia. The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease ...

This study investigated how doctors communicate the uncertainties of survival prognoses to patients recently diagnosed with life‐threatening cancer, and suggests ways to improve this communication. Two hundred thirty‐eight ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine people’s understanding and evaluation of uncertainty intervals produced by experts as part of a quality assurance procedure of large public projects. Design/methodology ...

Increasing walking and cycling is important both for population health and, if done through active transportation, for the local and global climate. In addition to infrastructural and regulatory measures, voluntary behavior ...

Denne studien hadde som et av sine overordnede mål å undersøke forskjeller og likheter i seksuell tilfredshet og –selvfølelse (i.e., affektiv-kognitiv seksuell helse) blant lesbiske og bifile kvinner (LB-kvinner) i Norge. ...

Chatbots are predicted to play a key role in customer service. Users’ trust in such chatbots is critical for their uptake. However, there is a lack of knowledge concerning users’ trust in chatbots. To bridge this knowledge ...

Background: In many European countries, the rate of childlessness has increased and this increase is disproportionately large among men. It is thus important to study the antecedents of childlessness. Intelligence as a ...

Background and purpose: People living in humanitarian emergencies cope with experiences that can have severe and lasting emotional, mental and social negative consequences. Attention to mental health and psychosocial support ...

Author: Sigrunn Grønningen Aa Title: Driving with cerebral palsy – medical and neuropsychological determinants of fitness to drive – a follow-up study Head supervisor: Per-Ola Rike Co-supervisor: Anne-Kristine Schanke ...

Children who demonstrate social withdrawal in childhood (including shyness and unsociability) may experience increased difficulties at school and may be at risk of developing later psychological problems. Given that teachers ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of major life stressors on the short and long-term life satisfaction (LS) of Norwegian mothers using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study (MoBa, N = 46,342). ...

Background Over the past decades research has shown that employment has a positive impact on quality of life, global functioning and recovery in individuals with schizophrenia. However, access to vocational ...

Høsten 2018 hadde jeg min hovedpraksis på profesjonsstudiet i psykologi i Stallen på Gaustad sykehus. Sammen med veiledere og de ansatte i Stallen, kom vi frem til at jeg skulle gjøre en kvantitativ pilotundersøkelse på ...

Evidence-based practices that are implemented in mental health services are often challenging to sustain. In this focus-group study, 26 mental health practitioners with high fidelity scores were interviewed regarding their ...

Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe mental disorders associated with cognitive impairment, which is considered a major determinant of functional outcome. Despite this, the etiology of the cognitive ...

In the Human Penguin Project (N = 1755), 15 research groups from 12 countries collected body temperature, demographic variables, social network indices, seven widely-used psychological scales and two newly developed ...

Objectives Previous studies found evidence for thinner frontotemporal cortices in bipolar disorder (BD), yet whether this represents a stable disease trait or an effect of mood episodes remains unknown. Here, we assessed ...

There is extensive research on how prosocial behaviour develops in young children, however, research on the link between children’s prosocial behaviour and exposure to nature is scarce and consists mainly of cross-sectional ...

Formålet med denne studien var å oppnå innsikt i hva polititjenestepersoner hos utlendingspolitiet vektla når de skulle identifisere potensielle utlendinger på gaten, og hvilken rolle verdier og holdninger spilte i ...

Background Following treatment, many depressed patients have significant residual symptoms. However, large randomised controlled trials (RCT) in this population are lacking. When Attention bias modification ...

Maternal fever during pregnancy is associated with several adverse child outcomes. We investigated associations between maternal fever and ADHD among offspring, as well as the sub-dimensions of ADHD - inattention and ...

We hypothesized that pupil constrictions to the glare illusion, where converging luminance gradients subjectively enhance the perception of brightness, would be stronger for ‘blue’ than for other colors. Such an expectation ...

Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) is a common neurodegenerative disorder with poor prognosis and mainly unknown pathophysiology. Heritability estimates exceed 30% but few genetic risk variants have been identified. Here we ...

Objective Current understanding of the prognostic impact of depression on mortality after heart transplantation (HTx) is limited. We examined whether depression after HTx is a predictor of mortality during extended ...

In this study, a training program used during a large-scale reform resulting from the implementation of a new school law was evaluated. The evaluation was theoretically founded on the research of training transfer as- ...

Contemporary cognitive models incorporate an information-processing approach in explaining the causes of depression. The common core in these models is that depression is caused by a vicious cycle of negative thoughts and ...

This study examined the impact of a study abroad (SA) English program on English and native vowel production. Basque-Spanish bilingual adolescents were assessed on their vowel production in English, Basque and Spanish ...

Background Research has consistently shown that early onset of drinking (EOD) is associated with alcohol-related problems in adulthood. However, recent reviews have identified several limitations in the ...

Introduction: Autonomic nervous system (ANS) symptoms are prevalent in multiple sclerosis (MS) as is neurodegeneration. Our aim was to explore the occurrence of ANS symptoms and retinal neurodegeneration in a newly diagnosed ...

Background For some young persons diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, treatment will inevitably involve phases where hospitalization is required. Inspired by the encouraging evidence-base for outpatient ...

Purpose: The main aim was to assess long-term post-traumatic stress symptoms, emotional distress, fatigue, sleep disturbances and pain in individuals hospitalized with physical injuries after two terror attacks in Oslo in ...

Formålet med studien er å få et innblikk i hvordan ungdom opplever å delta i et tilpasset ungdomsprogram. Det ble utført semi-strukturerte intervju med fire ungdommer som deltok i ungdomsprogrammet til Kompass og Co. ...

The past 5 years have witnessed claims that infants as young as six months of age understand the meaning of several words. To reach this conclusion, researchers presented infants with pairs of pictures from distinct semantic ...

Diagnostic accuracy of different chronic disorders of consciousness (DOC) can be affected by the false negative errors in up to 40% cases. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the feasibility of a non-Gaussian ...

Increasing interest in the structural and functional organisation of the human brain encourages the acquisition of big data sets comprising multiple neuroimaging modalities, often accompanied by additional information ...

During the transitional age of adolescence, some – often girls – begin self-harming. A better understanding of their subjective experience of self-harm may reveal their sense of self and inform treatment adjustments. A ...

Background The prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus is increased among patients with severe mental disorders, and particularly use of second generation antipsychotic drugs is associated ...

I dagens Norge er monogami ansett som den mest naturlige og selvsagte formen for samlivsorganisering. Norge kan derfor kalles en mononormativ kultur. Personer som praktiserer poly lever åpent med flere romantiske og/eller ...

The purpose of the current thesis was to elucidate the impact of the different social withdrawal subtypes (unsociability, avoidance, shyness, isolation) on several psychological outcomes - life satisfaction, loneliness and ...

Taushet i psykodynamisk terapi har vært drøftet og forstått på ulike måter. Dette er en kvalitativ studie av en studentterapi, som har undersøkt problemstillingen: På hvilken måte kan oppmerksomhet på episoder med taushet ...

This dissertation is based on a prospective longitudinal study of fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, partner attachment style, anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy, and experience of parenting stress in ...

Denne studien har utforsket hvordan psykologer og terapeuter vurderer betydningen av parterapi for flerkulturelle par i Norge, hva som er tilbudet til disse parene og hva terapeutene vurderer som særlig vesentlige elementer ...

Etter signeringen av fredsavtalen mellom FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) og den colombianske staten i 2016, har Colombia vært vitne til en ”babyboom” blant tidligere FARC-stridende kvinner. Denne studien ...

Objective: We investigated whether levels of current physical activity (PA) contribute to the established relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cognition in schizophrenia and whether brain-derived ...

Background Health researchers often use survey studies to examine associations between risk factors at one time point and health outcomes later in life. Previous studies have shown that missing not at ...

Background: Studies reveal that users of mental health care services sometimes experience humiliation during care. These experiences may influence the users' recovery process and treatment satisfaction. Method: Thirteen ...

In recent years there has been increased attention to child neurodevelopment in studies on medication safety in pregnancy. Neurodevelopment is a multifactorial outcome that can be assessed by various assessors, using ...

Innenfor utviklingspsykologien har det lenge blitt undersøkt hvilke faktorer som bidrar til at noen barn utvikler seg normalt, mens andre barn utvikler psykiske vansker. En betydelig andel av denne forskningen er drevet ...

Research indicates that lower-caste Dalits and Adivasis make up the overwhelming majority of Indians living in exploitative work conditions termed modern or contemporary slavery. This thesis set out to evaluate if an ...

The use of interval forecasts allows climate scientists to issue predictions with high levels of certainty even for areas fraught with uncertainty, since wide intervals are objectively more likely to capture the truth than ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon er en svært forekommende psykisk lidelse som kan ha ødeleggende konsekvenser for den som rammes. Det eksisterer likevel få kvalitative undersøkelser av hvordan depresjonen oppleves og forstås fra et ...

Systematic analyses of initiatives and responses from mediators working with parents in intense conflicts about child custody and care brought forward variations in effective strategies. The findings are presented along ...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational climate, individual readiness for change, and work fatigue. The thesis investigates global climate as conceptualized by Kuenzi (2008), based on ...

Studien har undersøkt norske virksomheters praktiske bruk og erfaring med evidensbaserte seleksjonsmetoder i lederseleksjon. Formålet med studien var å sammenligne evidensbaserte standarder og virksomhetenes reelle HR-praksis ...

27 toppledergrupper fra den norske statsforvaltningen ble undersøkt for å kunne svare på om teamutvikling virker i ledergrupper. Toppledergruppene ble målt to ganger på 26 ulike variabler som omhandler effektivitet i ...

This study aimed to investigate for the first time the relationship between attachment, information seeking and epistemic trust in adults. The study takes a relational approach by investigating information seeking in the ...

Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke om effekten av ledergruppeutvikling varer over tid. I tillegg undersøkes utviklingsforløpet til 27 ulike indikatorer på effektive ledergrupper. Elleve ledergrupper blant norske ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan forståelser av kropp forhandles fram av kvinner på et internasjonalt nettforum for anoreksi. Kvinnenes forståelser av kropp blir også knyttet opp mot deres forståelse av kjønn og seksualitet. ...

Bakgrunn: Yoga er en østlig spirituell praksis med røtter flere tusen år tilbake i tid. I dag praktiseres yoga over hele verden og er blitt en populær form for trening og stressmestring i Vesten. De to siste tiårene har ...

AUTHOR: Tor Amund Voll Storaas. MAIN SUPERVISOR: Professor Merete Glenne Øie. CO-SUPERVISOR: Professor Jens Egeland. BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is currently understood as a neurodevelopmental ...

Bakgrunn: Globalisering og innvandring gjør Norge til et stadig mer flerkulturelt land. Dette representerer en ressurs og berikelse for samfunnet, men også enkelte utfordringer. Norsk statistikk tyder på at det er høyere ...