Research
The research of the department aims to understand and examine how human behaviour can be optimised and people achieve health and wellbeing in social context. The research combines fundamental and applied approaches that are informed by different disciplines in psychology.
Social Psychology: studying what people think, feel, and want, and how they behave under the influence of the actual or assumed presence of others.
Work and Organisational Psychology: examining how human performance and wellbeing if affected by the context of work and organisational settings.
Health Psychology: investigating how personal characteristics as well as the environment shape and regulate individuals’ health behaviour.
The research program is organised around two major interrelated themes: (a) Cognition, Regulation, and Interaction of Social and Health behaviour, and (b) Diversity, Performance and Well-being in Work and Organisations. These two themes cover a range of research topics on which our researchers collaborate in various research (lab) groups.
