Research

Faculty Research Groups

The academic staff at the Faculty of Psychology are organised in research groups. The faculty wishes to strengthen its research-based teaching in all areas of responsibility and to develop an active research environment at a high international level. Please visit the homepages of our Departments to find out more about the research at the Faculty of Psychology.

Departments and centres

The Faculty of Psychology includes five departments and two centres. The faculty also includes research centers within the departments.

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Addiction Research Group

The Addiction Research Group studies addiction/addiction-like conditions related to substances (such as alcohol, tobacco, and drugs) and behaviours (e.g. gambling, gaming, social media usage and shopping). The research group is affiliated with the Norwegian competence center for gambling and gaming...

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Bergen Bullying Research Group

The Bergen Bullying Research Group (BBRG) is devoted to research on workplace bullying and harassment, constructive and destructive forms of leadership, stress and emotions in organisations, and whistleblowing.

Bergen Cognition and Learning Group

Research on educations and potentials for education in groups of people considered to be at risk for impaired intellectual and academic development. ...

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Bergen fMRI Group

Study of auditory perception, music processing, neurological disorders, hallucinations in schizophrenia, cognitive control, and structural and functional brain asymmetry. Brain activation studies related to a broad spectre of cognitive functions, including laterality, speech and language, working...

Bergen Group on Auditory Perception

How does the brain perceive, process, and decode speech signals, and how does the brain perceive and process music? Addressed by using neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in combination with advanced data analysis and modelling approaches that allow exploring...

Bergen Laboratory for the Study of Decision, Intuition, Consciousness, and Emotion

The group is devoted to research how everyday decisions, judgments, reasoning and behaviour are directed by a complex interplay between conscious and unconscious processes, and are influenced by both intuition and emotions.

The Bergen Logopedic Research Group (B.LOG)

Focus on developmental and acquired language impairments across the life span. For instance, specific language impairment (SLI), pragmatic language impairment (PLI), dyslexia and aphasia represent serious challenges for many people as to their educational, vocational and social functions.

BRIGHT - Bergen research group for innovation, growth, health, and technology

Bergen Research Group for Innovation, Growth, Health and Technology (BRIGHT)

The Research Group Bergen Research Group for Innovation, Growth, Health and Technology BRIGHT has several ongoing research projects covering old age mental health (sleep, anxiety, and alcohol / substance use), non-pharmacological treatment for people with dementia (bright light treatment and music...

BeSCN

Bergen Sleep and Chronobiology Network

BeSCN is an interdisciplinary research network devoted to research on sleep, sleep disorders, shift work, circadian rhythm, daytime functioning and performance.

BSSG

Bergen Stress and Sleep Group, BSSG

The main research focus of Bergen Stress and Sleep Group is ...

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Brain and Music Group

The research group Neurocognition of Music is lead by Professor Stefan Koelsch. We have several different projects that look into the cognitive and the neuroscientific elements of music. There is not single music area in the brain, but several areas depending on what music we listen to or actively...

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Neuropsychological Deep Phenotyping Group

Neuropsychological deep phenotyping group performs neuropsychological research on topics related to normal function and neuropsychiatric disorders (ADHD, autism, intellectual disability, depression and degenerative disorders).

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Child welfare, equity and social inclusion

The groups research areas include child welfare service, health and welfare services from the perspectives of service users and service providers.

Difference and Power in Education

The research group Difference and Power in Education (FoMU) offers an arena for discussing historically, politically, materially and socially constructed positions of marginality -- and also on turning the lens onto the equally constructed, but often conveniently invisible, workings of the position...

Student Response Technology

Digital Learning Communities

DLC was established in 2007, and focuses particularly on research within the field of ICT and learning. The research group applies both Qualitative research designs and Mixed Method Research.

Mindfulness

Emotion & Cognition Group (ECG)

The focus in our research is how we as humans regulate our feelings and attentional resources.

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ERC2

The ERC2 Group is an interdisciplinary research group within the Bergen fMRI Group with interests in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. The group is founded by the European Research Council grant awarded to Kenneth Hugdahl in 2016. The group works in...

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FOUNDED

Research group for foundational questions in education, from the perspective of philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences.

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Global Development for Equity

Multidisciplinary research group at the Department of Health Promotion and Development engaged in development-related research in diverse cultural settings.

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Education Policy (EDPOL)

The research group Education Policy (EDPOL) studies governance and development processes related to policies, implementation, changes, and quality assessment in the education sector.

Bergen Mood and Cognitive Function Group

Mood and Cognitive Function Group

The group is organized as a node in the Bergen fMRI group. The focus of the research is to investigate the relationship between factors that can contribute to the high relapse risk in Major Depression Disorder (MDD).

Operativ psykologi

Operational Psychology Research Group

Our research is directed at human factors that influence performance and cooperation in critical situations, safety critical workplaces and high reliability organizations.

Research Lab for Stimulation of the Brain

Our primary goal is to uncover the treatment potential of brain stimulation techniques such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).

Forskningsområder

Research group for public mental health

Research Group devoted to study issues related to Public mental Health.

Research Group for Social Cognitive Studies in Tourism

The Group studies the effect of contextual factors in understanding the basis of experiences, risk assessment and decision making, in generic sense, as well as in various applied areas such as tourism and genetic testing.

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Research group on children at risk

The research group focus is on children at risk and their families.

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Special needs education (SNE)

The group has broad research interests within the special needs education field such as basic issues in special education, language difficulties, reading- and spelling difficulties, behavioural problems, children's participation, gifted children and interdisciplinary collaboration.

sipa

Social Influence Processes on Adolescent Health

The SIPA group aims at developing new knowledge about how social processes influence the development of subjective health and health behaviours among adolescents.

Society and Workplace Diversity Research Group

The Group is devoted to develop knowledge about challenges and implications of ethnic diversity in the society in general and in the workplaces.

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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TeLEd) research group

The Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TeLEd) research group creates an arena where people from all areas of the University. Academics and administrators across all faculties, divisions, and even other institutions gathers together to identify, study, and research a broad range of questions...

Teacher Professionalism and Education

The research group Teacher Professionalism and Education (UPP) focuses on questions of human learning, development and education both at the school level and in higher education, and how to better facilitate such processes. In addition, the research group is concerned with the interconnections...

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