Why do people who hold a specific view on the climate issue also tend to hold similar views on taxes or vaccinations, even though the topics are unrelated? A new study a mathematical model showing how the mechanism of "source filtering" quickly divides a population into two opposing camps that disagree on almost everything.
Over the past 50 years, attachment theory has provided important insights into the significance of caregiving relationships for children’s development. At the same time, the theory can be difficult to apply in clinical work with parents and young children, and an excessive focus on attachment patterns risks leading to misconceptions and misinterpretations.
The SVT Play series The Dementia Choir highlights how choir singing can promote social interaction, stimulate memory, and support quality of life for people living with dementia. Research conducted at the Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC) contributes scientific insight into how music influences brain activity and cognitive ageing.
Together with Ward Davis at Wheaton College in Illinois, professor Pehr Granqvist at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, have just published Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality in Cambridge University Press's Elements series. The book is available online as of March 11, 2026, with print publication in April.
Are you interested in other people? Do you wonder why we think, feel, and behave the way we do? Have you noticed how we are influenced by and adapt to different situations? Is it possible to measure people’s thoughts and, if so, how? If you find topics like these interesting then psychology is the right subject for you.
Clara Plückelmann’s research shifts the focus from individual shortcomings to the structural and cultural factors that influence who is seen – and sees themselves – as having leadership potential.
The pandemic fundamentally changed working life and made remote working a natural part of many white-collar professions. But how did it actually affect our mental well-being?
From an early age, Julie Lasselin knew she wanted to become a researcher, first driven by the ambition to find a vaccine against AIDS. Today, her work explores the connection between the brain and the immune system.
While weather and climate have been linked to mental health outcomes, research on winter conditions and anxiety remains limited. A new study from Sweden examines whether wintertime meteorological factors influence anxiety symptoms later in the year.
New research shows that witnesses who speak a second language are just as reliable as native speakers, but risk being judged differently by the legal system.
Leonie Balter has recently been awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project “Time as Treatment: Mapping Circadian Rhythms in Neurocognitive Function in ADHD.” Leonie Balter provides further insight into the aims of the research, how the study will be conducted, and the duration of the project.
The Department of Psychology is hosting one of 16 PhD positions to advance psychedelic therapy research in mental health offered by the INTEGRATE consortium, which is an EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe.
