Division of Psychology (PSY)

Psychology, the science of human thinking and behaviour, is a fascinating subject. At the Division of Psychology we educate psychologists and psychotherapists who are well prepared to face the challenges of working life and future clients in the best possible way. We also educate students of cognitive science and students with a deep knowledge of psychology, ready to put knowledge into practice. Our research contributes among other things to pioneering knowledge on treatment of psychological health problems, cognitive abilities in children and adults, social interplay and group processes.

Research

International Network for Well-Being

Our research comprises the whole field of the Science of Well-Being within different populations to promote health and the study of biopsychosocial resilience in the face of the challenges of the 21st century.

Preschool Meals

Learning doesn't take a lunchbreak, so what happens when young children eat together in preschools? This project examines the multimodal and discursive practices that scaffold eating and social interaction during preschool mealtimes.

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Try a little first: Communication strategies for reducing plate waste during preschool meals

Reducing 'plate waste' during preschool lunches is a delicate balance between food preferences, satiety and daring to taste new food. In this innovative project, we examine which communication strategies can help to reduce food waste.

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WHOLE - Research on organizational and social work environment

Management, organizational structure and reward systems are factors that may affect organizational and social work environment. How do they affect individuals’ work experience, occurrence of bullying, levels of reporting in sick and perceived health.

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The Internet, Health and Clinical Psychology Research Group

The research group works with many different areas such as anxiety, depression and health problems. Many of the projects work with internet-based CBT, and the group carries out randomised controlled clinical trials.

SAHA digital interventions for refugee mental health problems

Detecting and treating mental health problems for refugees - development of and research on digital tools for the assessment and treatment of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, sleep problems and migration-related mental health problems.

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Growing up with digital world

The recent surge in availability of digital media has made media accessible even to very young children. However, we know very little of the effects of digital media on infants social and cognitive development.

Physical, mental and reproductive health among sexual and gender minorities during pregnancy, childbirth and first year of parenting

The interdisciplinary research project s will follow the health and experiences of LGBTQ people during pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood to contribute to important knowledge in an unexplored area.

Social Psychology

Social relations and social interaction affect how we behave and how we see and interpret our world. We are also affected by the context and the systems or organizations that we are in - it affects what we do but also how we feel.

Open seminars

We update this page regularly with information on upcoming seminars.

Seminars autumn 2023

Thursday 2 November, Professor Per Carlbring, Stockholms University

Vad kommer AI och virtual reality innebära för den kliniska psykologin i framtiden? (What will AI and virtual reality mean for clinical psychology in the future?)

Time: 3.15 - 5.00 pm
Place: TEMCAS, Hus T, Campus Valla, Linköping

The seminar will be held in Swedish and will followed by snacks afterwards, at the IBL lunch room.

Publications

2025

Hulda Karlsson, Arvid Erlandsson, Joakim Sandberg, Daniel Västfjäll (2025) Mitigating climate change with financial investments: exploring sustainable investment strategies in a novel experimental investment paradigm Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 20, Article e7 (Article in journal)

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Ulf Träff, Rickard Östergren, Kenny Skagerlund, Mikael Skagenholt (2025) Mental arithmetic skill development in primary school: The importance of number processing abilities and general cognitive abilities Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), Vol. 252, Article 106155 (Article in journal)

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Carolina Lundqvist, Jeroen Camps, Tine Vertommen, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Örn Kolbeinsson (2025) Toxic Leadership in High-Performance Sports and its Consequences for Mental Health and Performance: A Scoping Review International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology (Article in journal)

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Gerhard Andersson (2025) Internet-Delivered CBT. Distinctive features.

Anton Käll, Malin Bäck, Olivia Fahlroth, Erik Ekeflod, Arvid Lundberg, Nils Viberg, Gerhard Andersson (2025) Internet-based therapist-supported interpersonal psychotherapy for depression: A randomized controlled trial Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol. 369, p. 188-194 (Article in journal)

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2024

Kristina Fagher, Linda Sallstrom, Örjan Dahlström, Jenny Jacobsson, Toomas Timpka, Jan Lexell (2024) Elite para athletes with active coping behaviour are less likely to report a sports injury British Journal of Sports Medicine (Article in journal)

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Kimberly C. Doell, Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B. Bak Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, Philipp Schumann, Flavio Azevedo, Yash Patel, Michael M. Berkebile-Wineberg, Cameron Brick, Florian Lange, Samantha J. Grayson, Yifei Pei, AlekC Hakrof, Karlijn L. van den Broek, Claus Lamm, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara M. Constantino, Steve Rathje, Danielle Goldwert, Ke Fang, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Mark Alfano, Andy J. Alvarado-Yepez, Angelica Andersen, Frederik Anseel, Matthew A. J. Apps, Chillar Asadli, Fonda Jane Awuor, Piero Basaglia, Jocelyn J. Belanger, Sebastian Berger, Paul Bertin, Michal Bialek, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michelle Blaya-Burgo, Danielle N. M. Bleize, Simen Bo, Lea Boecker, Paulo S. Boggio, Sylvie Borau, Bjorn Bos, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Markus Brauer, Tymofi Brik, Roman Briker, Tobias Brosch, Ondrej Buchel, Daniel Buonauro, Radhika Butalia, Hector Carvacho, Sarah A. E. Chamberlain, Hang-Yee Chan, Dawn Chow, Dongil Chung, Luca Cian, Noa Cohen-Eick, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Davide Contu, Vladimir Cristea, Jo Cutler, Silvana D'Ottone, Jonas Dekeersmaecker, Sarah Delcourt, Sylvain Delouvee, Kathi Diel, Benjamin D. Douglas, Moritz A. Drupp, Shreya Dubey, Janis Ekmanis, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Iris M. Engelhard, Yannik A. Escher, TomW Etienne, Laura Farage, Ana Rita Farias, Stefan Feuerriegel, Andrej Findor, Lucia Freira, Malte Friese, Neil Philip Gains, Albina Gallyamova, Sandra J. Geiger, Oliver Genschow, Biljana Gjoneska, Theoflos Gkinopoulos, Beth Goldberg, Amit Goldenberg, Sarah Gradidge, Simone Grassini, Kurt Gray, Sonja Grelle, Siobhan M. Grifn, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryan, Dmitry Grigoryev, June Gruber, Johnrev Guilaran, Britt Hadar, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Eran Halperin, Annelie J. Harvey, Christian A. P. Haugestad, Aleksandra M. Herman, Hal E. Hershfeld, Toshiyuki Himichi, Donald W. Hine, Wilhelm Hofmann, Lauren Howe, Enma T. Huaman-Chulluncuy, Guanxiong Huang, Tatsunori Ishii, Ayahito Ito, Fanli Jia, John T. Jost, Veljko Jovanovic, Dominika Jurgiel, Ondrej Kacha, Reeta Kankaanpaa, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Keren Kaplan Mintz, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Kaya, Narine Khachatryan, Anna Klas, Colin Klein, Christian A. Klockner, Lina Koppel, Alexandra I Kosachenko, Emily J. Kothe, Ruth Krebs, Amy R. Krosch, Andre P. M. Krouwel, Yara Kyrychenko, Maria Lagomarsino, Julia Lee Cunningham, Jefrey Lees, Tak Yan Leung, Neil Levy, Patricia L. Lockwood, Chiara Longoni, Alberto Lopez Ortega, David D. Loschelder, Jackson G. Lu, Yu Luo, Joseph Luomba, Annika E. Lutz, Johann M. Majer, Ezra Markowitz, Abigail A. Marsh, Karen Louise Mascarenhas, Bwambale Mbilingi, Winfred Mbungu, Cillian McHugh, Marijn H. C. Meijers, Hugo Mercier, Fenant Laurent Mhagama, Katerina Michalaki, Nace Mikus, Sarah G. Milliron, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy S. Monge-Rodriguez, Youri L. Mora, Michael J. Morais, David Moreau, Kosuke Motoki, Manuel Moyano, Mathilde Mus, Joaquin Navajas, Tam Luong Nguyen, Dung Minh Nguyen, Trieu Nguyen, Laura Niemi, Sari R. R. Nijssen, Gustav Nilsonne, Jonas P. Nitschke, Laila Nockur, Ritah Okura, Sezin Oner, Asil Ali Ozdogru, Helena Palumbo, Costas Panagopoulos, Maria Serena Panasiti, Philip Parnamets, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, YuriG Pavlov, Cesar Payan-Gomez, Adam R. Pearson, Leonor Pereira da Costa, Hannes M. Petrowsky, Stefan Pfattheicher, Nhat Tan Pham, Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Clara Pretus, Gabriel G. Rego, Ritsaart Reimann, Shawn A. Rhoads, Julian Riano-More, Isabell Richter, Jan Philipp Roer, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan, Robert M. Ross, Anandita Sabherwal, Toshiki Saito, Oriane Sarrasin, Nicolas Say, Katharina Schmid, Michael T. Schmitt, Philipp Schoenegger, Christin Scholz, Mariah G. Schug, Stefan Schulreich, Ganga Shreedhar, Eric Shuman, Smadar Sivan, Hallgeir Sjastad, Meikel Soliman, Katia Soud, Tobia Spampatti, Gregg Sparkman, Ognen Spasovski, Samantha K. Stanley, Jessica A. Stern, Noel Strahm, Yasushi Suko, Sunhae Sul, Stylianos Syropoulos, Neil C. Taylor, Elisa Tedaldi, Gustav Tinghög, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Giovanni Antonio Travaglino, Ozden MelisUlug, Michael Tyrala, Arkadiusz Urbanek, Danila Valko, Sander van der Linden, Kevin van Schie, Aart van Stekelenburg, Edmunds Vanags, Daniel Västfjäll, Stepan Vesely, Jachym Vintr, Marek Vranka, Patrick Otuo Wanguche, Robb Willer, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Rachel Xu, Anjali Yadav, Magdalena Zawisza, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Zhao, Dawid Zuk, Jay J. Van Bavel (2024) The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries Scientific Data, Vol. 11, Article 1066 (Article in journal)

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Matilda Wurm, T. Lundberg, Theodor Mejias Nihlén, Anna Malmquist (2024) Minority joy, minority growth, and minority peace: Transgender and gender diverse people's varied positive lived experiences INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSGENDER HEALTH (Article in journal)

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Tom Cawthorne, Pamela Qualter, Sophie Bennett, Anton Käll, Gerhard Andersson, Roz Shafran (2024) Editorial Perspective: How can we develop effective and timely interventions for young people with chronic loneliness? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (Article in journal)

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Inga Truskauskaite, Austeja Dumarkaite, Auguste Nomeikaite, Gerhard Andersson, Evaldas Kazlauskas (2024) Longitudinal interplay between subjective stress, anxiety, depression, and well-being in internet-based stress recovery intervention for nurses Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (Article in journal)

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Annual report 2022

The psychology division has several researchers and research groups. We cover a broad range of topics within psychology, including cognitive, developmental, social, health and clinical psychology. Different research methods are also represented. Researchers at the division work closely with other universities both nationally and internationally. We hope that the annual report will give an overview of the research conducted here.

Education

Psychology 5, 60 credits

The course deepens the theoretical and methodological knowledge in some areas of psychology and continues to give experience of research work. Thesis work is done individually. Research in psychology on the IBL is primarily focused on cognitive ps...

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Head of Division

Head of Division

Research Leader

Administration

Administration

Staff

Associate Professor, Docent

Head of Department, Senior Associate Professor

Gisela Eckert

Associate Professor

Arvid Erlandsson

Senior Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Docent

Danilo Garcia

Senior Associate Professor

Gunvor Larsson Torstensdotter

Associate Professor

Linda Lidman

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Senior Associate Professor

Therese Lundqvist Jones

Lecturer

Anna Malmquist

Associate Professor, Docent

Theodor Mejias Nihlén

Associate Professor, Docent

Robert Persson Asplund

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

Anett Sundqvist

Senior Associate Professor

Oskar Treffler Jonsson

Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL)

Human behaviour and learning is the focus for education and research at the department. We educate students and scientists that are well equipped to meet future challenges in society and working life.

Division of Psychology (PSY)

Research

International Network for Well-Being

Preschool Meals

Try a little first: Communication strategies for reducing plate waste during preschool meals

WHOLE - Research on organizational and social work environment

The Internet, Health and Clinical Psychology Research Group

SAHA digital interventions for refugee mental health problems

Growing up with digital world

Physical, mental and reproductive health among sexual and gender minorities during pregnancy, childbirth and first year of parenting

Social Psychology

Cognitive Psychology – Decision, Emotion, Perception

Child and Infant Lab

Open seminars

Seminars autumn 2023

Thursday 2 November, Professor Per Carlbring, Stockholms University

Vad kommer AI och virtual reality innebära för den kliniska psykologin i framtiden? (What will AI and virtual reality mean for clinical psychology in the future?)

Publications

2025

2024

Annual report 2022

Education

Psychology 5, 60 credits

Contact us

Head of Division

Head of Division

Research Leader

Administration

Administration

Staff

Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL)

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