Vitenskapelige publikasjoner fra Institutt for psykologi, pedagogikk og juss
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What Psychosocial Support Do First Year University Students Need? A Mixed Creative Methods Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Higher education students need help and support to enable them to cope with the challenges of their studies. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives of first-year undergraduate students on predictors of psychosocial ... -
Global heart warming: kama muta evoked by climate change messages is associated with intentions to mitigate climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Concern about climate change is often rooted in sympathy, compassion, and care for nature, living beings, and future generations. Feeling sympathy for others temporarily forms a bond between them and us: we focus on what ... -
Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The estrogen hypothesis for schizophrenia suggests neuroprotective effects of estrogen for the development of the disorder and for symptom severity, including auditory hallucinations. Furthermore, estrogen has shown enhancing ... -
Physical exercise augmented cognitive behaviour therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder (PEXACOG): a feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a frequent and severe disorder among older adults. For older adults with GAD the effect of the recommended treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), is reduced. Physical ... -
Using Simulations to Help Public Health Students Overcome Language Barriers for Better Health Outcomes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Growing migration into Norway has increasingly strained the country’s health services. Good communication is essential to ensure quality care. Often, healthcare workers and immigrant clients do not share a common language, ... -
Delineating disorder-general and disorder-specific dimensions of psychopathology from functional brain networks in a developmental clinical sample
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The interplay between functional brain network maturation and psychopathology during development remains elusive. To establish the structure of psychopathology and its neurobiological mechanisms, mapping of both shared and ... -
Visual processing deficits in patients with schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders and associations with psychotic symptoms, and intellectual abilities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Abstract Objective Low-level sensory disruption is hypothesized as a precursor to clinical and cognitive symptoms in severe mental disorders. We compared visual discrimination performance in patients with schizophrenia ... -
Shared pattern of impaired social communication and cognitive ability in the youth brain across diagnostic boundaries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Abnormalities in brain structure are shared across diagnostic categories. Given the high rate of comorbidity, the interplay of relevant behavioural factors may also cross these classic boundaries. Methods We ... -
Reaction Time Variability in Children Is Specifically Associated With Attention Problems and Regional White Matter Microstructure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Increased intraindividual variability (IIV) in reaction times (RTs) has been suggested as a key cognitive and behavioral marker of attention problems, but findings for other dimensions of psychopathology are ... -
Unpacking the narrative-argumentative conundrum: story credibility revisited
(Journal article, 2020)Building on a view of both narration and argumentation as dynamic concepts, the aim of this paper is to argue that story credibility remains a core issue in the debate on the argumentative quality of narratives, yet one ... -
The relative age effect shifts students’ choice of educational track even within a school system promoting equal opportunities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In most education systems, the age of a given cohort of students spans up to 12 months, which creates a within-class age difference, or relative age effect, that tends to disadvantage younger students. Because birth month ... -
Epistemic Justification in Multiple Document Literacy: A Refutation Text Intervention
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study investigated the effects of a refutation text intervention on Norwegian teacher education students’ (n = 150) beliefs about justification for knowing and their subsequent performance on a multiple document ... -
Unpacking pre-service teachers’ beliefs and reasoning about student ability, sources of teaching knowledge, and teacher-efficacy: A scenario-based approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The beliefs teachers hold may provide information about their more or less evidence-informed reasoning about educational issues. However, gaining a clear picture of teachers’ beliefs has proven difficult. A promising line ... -
Pilot-RCT Finds No Evidence for Modulation of Neuronal Networks of Auditory Hallucinations by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is used as treatment for auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). The theory behind the treatment is that tDCS increases activity in prefrontal cognitive control areas, which are ... -
A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of Norwegian Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Sources of Teaching Knowledge and Motivation to Learn From Theory and Practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)We set out to investigate preservice teachers’ beliefs about sources of teaching knowledge and their motivation to learn from practice and theory in teacher education in a longitudinal study (n = 96, at the beginning of ... -
The stroop task sex difference: Evolved inhibition or color naming?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Previous research shows that women outperform men in the classic Stroop task, but it is not known why this difference occurs. There are currently two main hypotheses: (1) women have enhanced verbal abilities, and (2) women ... -
Associations between brain imaging and polygenic scores of mental health and educational attainment in children aged 9–11
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable and polygenic, and many have their peak onset in late childhood and adolescence, a period of tremendous changes. Although the neurodevelopmental antecedents of mental illness are ... -
Reduced Sexual Desire in Young Norwegian Women: A Mixed-Methods Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Sexuality has become an area of social competence in which individuals strive to be recognized as sexually competent performers. However, a large proportion of young women experience reduced sexual desire. In this study, ... -
“Just Be Careful, Since Social Media Is Really Not as Safe as It’s Being Portrayed”: Adolescent Views on Adult Support for Safer Social Media Use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Social media is an integral part of the lives of adolescents, but they are also closed arenas concealed from the next of kin and are resistant to parental mediation. Consequently, this study aims to investigate how adolescents ... -
Involvement of the default mode network under varying levels of cognitive effort
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Everyday cognitive functioning is characterized by constant alternations between different modes of information processing, driven by constant fluctuations in environmental demands. At the neural level, this is realized ...
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