Why do young people use psychoactive substances? Has substance use been normalized or is it still abnormal? Knowledge of this is needed for society to be able to understand and handle changes in consumption and attitudes that have been observed at an aggregate level in recent years.

There is an increasing trend towards organizing economic and social exchange with the help of online platforms. The transportation service Uber and the short-term rental service Airbnb are two examples. This project focuses on economic encounters in relation to these new marketplaces.

The main objective of this ambitious cross-disciplinary program is to investigate the nature and causes of knowledge resistance, the tendency not to accept available knowledge. This represents the first concerted effort to provide a unified framework within which to investigate knowledge resistance, going beyond the state of the art on several levels.

This project investigates empathy arising from emotional voices, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), galvanic skin response (GSR) and information about the participants' own experiences.

What type of stimulus material is best for treatment of dog phobia? Is virtual reality treatment comparable to traditional exposure therapy for dog phobia? That's a couple of questions this project wants to find the answers to.

The majority of all adults who are diagnosed with anxiety fulfilled the criteria for this diagnosis as teenagers.

With this project we aim to examine the nature and financial impacts of participation in the labour market after pensionable age in two contrasting societies: Sweden and the United States.

The six year research programme Sivin-Child (Coordinated intervention systems against violence in close relationships), explores how different aspects of social work, from detection and investigation to support and follow-up can be coordinated.

The Applied Developmental Science research group is working to advance what we know about the strengths of children and adolescents, and support families with adolescent children.

Stress is an integral part of everyday life. While many individuals will maintain mental health despite exposure to adversity, stressful experiences will put some individuals at risk of developing stress and threat-related psychopathology.

Threat- and anxiety related disorders limit the life of millions of people around the world.

The research project aims to develop and evaluate whether daily symptom estimations at the start of psychotherapy can create a stable symptom network where it is clear how the symptoms affect each other and whether this network is useful for the patient and the therapist as a case conceptualization and for treatment selection.

Our main aim is to study the effects of bacterial phosphoantigens (HMBPP and IPP) on appetite. We introduced these into mice by gavage and followed the differences in weight gain and gene transcription from relevant tissues. An unexpected effect on male salivary glands focused our interest also on their effects on immune response.

How does masculinity take shape in the therapy room? What does masculinity mean and how can it be given meaning - for the patient and for the therapist? In this project, the different meanings of masculinity are interpreted within the framework of psychodynamic psychotherapy.

– particularly about the role as plaintiff in Swedish criminal proceedings.

Social actions such as advice and feedback are sensitive actions, often triggering emotional and defensive reactions. Moreover, just how to understand and describe such actions – for instance, as “constructive advice”, “complaints”, or even “insults” – is a potential point of contention and dispute for participants in interaction.

The project "Understanding health inequalities experienced by self-identified sexual minorities, same-sex partners, and their children", aims to broaden the knowledge about health inequalities experienced among those who identify themselves as belonging to a sexual minority and their children, as well as among those living in a same-sex relationship.

This project investigates the potential of using virtual patient cases to train healthcare professionals. The aim is to discover and manage intimate partner violence.