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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 Women with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of illness relapse postpartum. The risk coincides with the period when mother-infant interactions are evolving. We compared mother-infant ...

Background Health professionals in Norway are required by law to help safeguard information and follow-up with children of parents with mental or physical illness, or who have substance abuse problems, to ...

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 ...

Background Lithium is recommended as a first line treatment for bipolar disorders. However, only 30% of patients show an optimal outcome and variability in lithium response and tolerability is poorly ...

Background. Anhedonia, defined as a reduced capacity to experience pleasure, has been associated with many clinical conditions, including major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia (SCZ), substance use disorder (SUD) ...

Background We characterised the phenotypic consequence of genetic variation at the PCSK9 locus and compared findings with recent trials of pharmacological inhibitors of PCSK9. ...

Investigating the impact of school-age children’s ToM (declarative knowledge) on the way they interact (procedural skills) with another child and their performance in cooperative problem-solving tasks is a valid way to ...

Depression is the worldwide leading burden of disease and one of the most prevalent psychological disorders. Causes and mechanisms of depression are insufficiently understood. The ability to regulate emotion is important, ...

Childhood and adolescence captures a remarkable period of change, and is the central period for major reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex. This maturation is mirrored by major cognitive improvements ...

Bakgrunn: Huntingtons sykdom (HS) er en arvelig, nevrodegenerativ lidelse preget av somatiske og psykologiske symptomer. Sykdommen kan påvirke den rammedes omsorgsevne, familiemedlemmene rundt og spesielt barna som vokser ...

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 ...

Depression is a debilitating disorder with a high prevalence compared to most other mental disorders. It has become increasingly apparent that depression is clinically heterogenous, most notably in terms of the breadth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This study investigated the relationship between narcissism and OCB mediated by impression management motives (IM motives) and moderated by perceived performance appraisal. The study performed two analyses, one with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bakgrunn: Adoptivbarn har hatt en spesiell start på livet sammenlignet med sine ikke-adopterte jevnaldrende. Dette kan utgjøre en risiko for senere utvikling. Tidligere forskning viser blant annet at noen internasjonalt ...

Background: Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders among adults and are associated with a high burden of disease. While there are effective treatments for these disorders, many do not get ...

Bakgrunn: Aksept- og forpliktelsesterapi (ACT) regnes som en tredjegenerasjons kognitiv atferdsterapi. Modellen har sterk empirisk støtte i form av kvantitative studier, men er i liten grad undersøkt kvalitativt. Ingen ...

Bakgrunn: Aksept- og forpliktelsesterapi (ACT) regnes som en tredjegenerasjons kognitiv atferdsterapi. Modellen har sterk empirisk støtte i form av kvantitative studier, men er i liten grad undersøkt kvalitativt. Ingen ...

Formål: Formålet med studien er å undersøke den terapeutiske kulturs innflytelse på konservative protestantiske trossamfunn i Norge. Med utgangspunkt i relevant teori har jeg tatt for meg i hvilken grad og på hvilke måter ...

Norske domstoler behandler årlig rundt 2600 foreldretvister, og av disse går mellom 20 og 30 prosent videre til hovedforhandling. Sakkyndigvurderinger har mye å si for utfallet i disse sakene, og er et omdiskutert tema, ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. By combining longitudinal MRI-based brain morphometry and brain age estimation using machine learning, we tested the hypothesis that MS ...

Background and aims Chronic pain is a leading cause to years lived with disability worldwide. However, few of the interventions used in pain medicine have proven efficacy, and evidence from the existing studies may not ...

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- ...

From the 2016 US presidential election and into 2019, we demonstrate that a visceral feeling of oneness (that is, psychological fusion) with a political leader can fuel partisans’ willingness to actively participate in ...

Introduction: Compromised integrity of the brain due to paediatric acquired brain injury (pABI) has been associated with cognitive impairment, particularly executive dysfunction, in addition to somatic and emotional symptoms ...

Forskningsspørsmål: Hva kjennetegner ungdommers opplevelser av MST-behandling? Hva trekker de frem som viktig og nyttig i sine vurderinger av MST? Bakgrunn og formål: Multisystemisk terapi (MST) er en familie- og nærmiljøbasert ...

Inhibition can be defined as our ability to resist interference and suppress automatic responses. It is a central part of cognitive control, which is crucial to selecting and prioritizing important information. Deficits ...

Author: Frida Karine Feyer Title: How I See Myself in You. Social Perception and Clinical Insight in Schizophrenia Supervisors: Professor Stein Andersson and Senior Research Psychologist Anja Vaskinn Background: Schizophrenia ...

Oppgaven ser på sentrale problemstillinger som har vært reist i forskning på videospill og drøfter gaming i et kulturpsykologisk perspektiv. Problemfokuserte forståelser av gaming legger ofte til grunn en bekymring rundt ...

Denne hovedoppgaven har blitt utformet som en del av profesjonsutdanningen i psykologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Oppgaven “Langtidspsykefravær - hva øker sjansen for tilbakeføring til arbeid?” er skrevet av Une Elise ...

Likeverdige helsetjenester er et viktig begrep i Norge og internasjonalt for å sikre alle like muligheter, tilgang, kvalitet og resultater for helsehjelp uavhengig av kulturell bakgrunn, tro og tilhørighet. Norske ...

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 ...

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 ...

Depression is a highly recurrent disorder with limited treatment alternatives for reducing risk of subsequent episodes. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and attention bias modification (ABM) separately have shown ...

Bakgrunn og mål: Langtidssykefravær er belastende for både individ og samfunn, og psykiske lidelser er en av hovedårsakene til sykefravær og uførepensjon. Et arbeidsrehabiliteringstiltak for personer med angst og depresjon, ...

Background: So far, most studies on anxiety development that have examined the impact of factors like self-esteem and peer relations have focused on symptoms of social anxiety. The current study is amongst the first to ...

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 ...

Following the global humanitarian crisis of 2015, there has been an increased interest in understanding how refugees are integrating into the Norwegian society. Of specific interest are refugee groups with relatively long ...