Faculty of Psychology

Welcome to the Faculty of Psychology

At the Faculty of Psychology you will meet a highly qualified, engaged and ambitious staff that focuses strongly on quality in research as well as teaching. International collaboration is a cornerstone in all our doings, which is reflected in our research and in the number of programmes and courses offered in English. We want to attract engaged students, and offer them close collaboration with our research groups, as well as opportunities to progress to a PhD in all study areas.

Departments

There are five departments at the Faculty of psychology:

Life in a research group

Are you curious about what it is like to be a researcher in a research group at the Faculty of psychology? Watch this video about the history and research of the Bergen fMRI group (approxomately 20 minutes).

A multidisciplinary faculty

The Faculty of Psychology is a multidisciplinary faculty that currently teaches 1600 students and offers a substantive number of studies leading to a wide range of academic and professional qualifications. These cover a variety of disciplines, ranging from professional studies in psychology and teacher training, to bachelor and masters degrees in child welfare, gender and development, pedagogy, health promotion, psychology, work and organisational psychology and speech and language therapy. The faculty has three graduate schools, as well as several research groups.

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Part-time professor – fulltime commitment

A highly dedicated part-time professor gives the PhD-students at the Faculty of Psychology a great opportunity to visit a highly recognized sleep lab at the University of California, Berkeley. - An important resource to our doctoral education, says the vice-dean of research at the faculty.
PSYCHOLOGY

New Research about Facebook Addiction

Are you a social media enthusiast or simply a Facebook addict? Researchers from Norway have developed a new instrument to measure Facebook addiction, the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale.
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Bergen fMRI-group in PNAS

What started as a spin-off study by researchers in the Bergen fMRI-group, has now been published in the highly recognized scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The study demonstrates the effect of glutamate on cognitive control mechanisms.
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An international experience

The Faculty of Psychology held its third International Day on Wednesday 18 January. More than 50 former and present exchange students shared their experiences with students interested in studying abroad.
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Whistleblowing and its consequences

In a recently published article, Brita Bjørkelo, Wenche Ryberg, Stig Berge Matthiesen and Ståle Einarsen present pioneering findings on the whistleblowing phenomenon.