Psychology

The Work Resilience Lab is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research on the psychological well-being of employees in the context of contemporary labor market challenges. The Lab explores how resilience can be cultivated at the individual, team, and organizational levels, with a focus on the role of leadership, changing work environments, and employment precarity.

C – Connection

Foster meaningful relationships and a sense of belonging.

• Encourage peer support, mentorship, and inclusive communities.

• Promote open dialogue about mental health to reduce stigma.

• Strengthen bonds between students, faculty, and support services.

A – Awareness

Increase understanding and literacy around mental health.

• Provide education on stress, burnout, and early warning signs.

• Emotional intelligence, quality of life and health: Patients with chronic diseases, Clinical population in psychotherapy, LGTBI Collective, General population, Promotion of E-health in clinical and non-clinical populations through mobile APPs.
• Emotional intelligence and education
• Gender
• Attitudinal analysis and wine consumption through biometric, physiological and augmented reality measurements. Wine tourism. Neuromarketing and advertising.
• Sexual and gender diversity, affirmative psychology and health.

Inclusive EdTech Research Group is dedicated to research and development of advanced learning environments for regular students and students with difficulties. Emphasizing individualized approaches for students with learning difficulties, the group explores how virtual learning environments can be customized to meet unique needs. We also investigate factors influencing technology acceptance and usability by students and teachers.

The research group is concerned with studying both which mechanisms increase the risk of alienation, what characterizes children and young people's own experiences with alienation, and what consequences alienation has for the individual child and youth, and for society.

The term outsiders describes a situation where individuals or groups of people stand outside what are considered central social arenas, for example where they do not participate in work life or take education, or where they lack linguistic or cultural connection to the rest of society.

The research group for ethnographic welfare studies is particularly concerned with the consequences of legislative changes and reforms for both service providers and users.

In recent decades, a number of legislative changes and reforms have been implemented in Norway.

The research activity of the Agri-Food Economics Group focuses above all on the following main areas:

- economic, social and environmental sustainability of the agri-food system,

- quality and technological innovation of agri-food products,

- consumer behavior,

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The scientific focus of the IMPS relates to basic studies in the field of neuropsychobiology and behavioral medicine on learning and memory processes and information processing in the brain, especially in the areas of pain, addiction, psychotraumatology and across the lifespan (longitudinal cohort studies). At the institute, we also work with digital survey methods such as smartphone and tablet-based apps and virtual reality and are concerned with the evaluation of large longitudinal data sets from cohort studies.

Child/Adolescent Psychology Lab (CAPLab) brings together psychologists studying the psychology of children and adolescents, both from a developmental and a clinical perspective. CAPLab members are both researchers and practitioners (certified clinical psychologists, psychotherapists) basing their work on the idea of evidence-based assessment / treatment. Researches in the CAPLab focus on: