Psychology
The Unit of Psychology consists of collaborating multidisciplinary research groups. Our key research themes include well-being and well-being at work, personality, cognition, language comprehension, neurodevelopmental themes, and psychotherapy research. You can find out more about our research activities from the research groups' pages below.
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Well-being and personality research group focuses on examining personality, health and well-being in large epidemiological datasets.
Early life risk and long-term resilience research group studies the interplay of biological and sociocultural early life risks in the development of resilience across the life course.
Multilingualism and migration research group studies the processes related to linguistic and cultural diversity from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Perception, Cognition and Language (PerCoLa) research group focuses on human perception, cognition and language related research, utilizing mainly eye-tracking methodology.
Work and organizational psychological research in the Unit of Psychology is focused on examining occupational well-being, such as work-related stress, work engagement and work ability in large cohort and register-based data sets.
SenSO research group promotes acceptance of neurodiversity in the society by advancing the general understanding of neurodiversity.
Oulu Research Group on Violence, Crime and Well-being investigates the various effects of violence and crime on health and well-being from the perspectives of clinical psychology and public health.
Sensory hypersensitivity may be an early sign of other developmental challenges in children
Sensory sensitivity challenges everyday life – sensory overload can have significant effects on mental health and social functioning
