Research
Research groups
- Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Lab
- BodIS Lab: Body x Identity x Society Lab
- CANlab: Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience lab
- CENSE: Norwegian Research Centre for Sexual Health
- CNRG: Clinical Neuroscience Research Group
- COPE: Complexity in treatment Outcome, Psychopathology and Epidemiology
- CSB lab: Culture, Society & Behavior Lab
- EBIG: The Endestad Brain Imaging Group
- LAB lab: Leknes Affective Brain lab
- LCBC: Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition
- MICC lab: Multimodal Imaging and Cognitive Control
- Multimodal Imaging
- OLL: The Oslo Laterality Lab
- PAL: Personality Assessment Lab
- POET: Studies of Process and Outcome in psychotherapies with Experienced Therapists
- PROUD - PRocess and OUtcome of eating Disorder
- Quali-LAB
- RUN: Research Unit of Neuropsychopathology
- Social Psychology Research Group
- The Legal Psychology Research Group
- The Mind Body Lab
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Research projects
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Adolescents' engagement with Self-harm Content Online – its meaning and barriers and facilitators to addressing this in Treatment (ASCOT)
The ASCOT study aims to increase knowledge regarding how vulnerable adolescents experience self-harm content online (SCO), and to identify facilitators and barriers to addressing potential risks and opportunities for support related to SCO in treatment.
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An oxytocin intervention to support youth with autism
Autism is characterised by qualitative differences in social interaction and routinised behaviors. While these differences can be a strength for many, for some autistic youth they can present challenges that may benefit from support.
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Antecedents of cross-cultural adaptation: A meta-analysis 1988-2025 (ACCA)
Inclusion of migrants is a pressing priority for today's societies, and this project responds to it by integrating and systematizing research on migrants’ adaptation to life in receiving countries.
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Research news
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Stress can increase the risk of substance addiction
Healthy people who were exposed to high levels of stress and given access to opioids worked hard to obtain higher doses – even though the medication did not help them. The effect was most pronounced in men, according to a new Norwegian study.
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Signs of Alzheimer's disease are detectable far earlier than previously thought
A new study suggests that Alzheimer's disease may be detected by brain imaging more than seven years earlier than previously assumed. Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo led the study, published in Nature Neuroscience.
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Yoga can be very helpful for people who have experienced trauma
People who were exposed to violence, abuse, and neglect as children may greatly benefit from practicing yoga as adults. New research shows that yoga can provide a different kind of access to oneself than traditional talk therapy.
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Men now have fewer children than women
For the first time in the history of mankind, men are less fertile than women, according to a new international study.
Publications
The researchers at the Department of Psychology publish a variety of books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and other texts. See an overview of our latest publications.