PhD and Licentiate Dissertations
Below you will find PhD and licentiate dissertations produced at the department as from 1997. The dissertations are listed after year of publication and then for each year in alphabetical order after the last name of the author.
See PhD and licentiate dissertations 1950-1996 (new page).
Publications
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Berggren, Mathias
Challenges when Generalizing Psychological Measurements across Populations: Applications in Machine Learning and Cross-Cultural Comparisons
2023.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Rudling, Maja
Facilitators of communication and the development of autism: From responsiveness to basic communicative cues, to emerging pragmatic language use
2023.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Schröder, Elin
Spatial and Numerical Abilities in Infants and Toddlers
2023.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Sen, Umay
On the Move: Science and Development Behind Learning Sensorimotor Contingencies in the Mobile Paradigm
2023.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Maathz, Pernilla
Application of the psychological flexibility model in the context of vulvar pain and sexual dysfunction
2022.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Stikvoort, Britt
Why act sustainable?: Exploring what can be learnt from different approaches to motivations for pro-environmental behaviour
2022.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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van den Berg, Linda
Reaching for Excellence?: Does training improve motor abilities and cause cascading effects in the visual attention and social perception domain?
2022.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hellmer, Kahl
To be right or to be liked?: Correlates of preschoolers’ informational and normative conformity
2021.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hoppe, Johanna M.
Emotional mental imagery and the reduction of fear within the mind’s eye
2021.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Stengård, Elina
Information Integration in Perception and Cognition: Exploring the Perception-Cognition Gap
2021.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Söderkvist, Sven
Facial Feedback and the Experience of Emotion
2021.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Achermann, Sheila
Prediction in Typical and Atypical Development
2020.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hjorth, Olof
Imaging serotonin and dopamine transporters in social anxiety disorder: Characterization, treatment and expectancy effects
2020.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Millroth, Philip
Integrating Probability- and Value Information in Judgment and Decision-Making under Risk: Cognitive Processes, Competence, and Performance
2020.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Frick, Matilda A
Self-Regulation in Childhood: Developmental Mechanisms and Relations to ADHD Symptoms
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Juvrud, Joshua
The perception of actions and interactions: And the importance of context
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lymeus, Freddie
Mindfulness training supported by a restorative natural setting: Integrating individual and environmental approaches to the management of adaptive resources
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Rosén, Jörgen
Innate and Conditioned Fear: Investigating Responses to Threat using Psychophysiology, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Twin Methodology
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Strömbom, Ylva
Frequent attenders in primary care: Patient characteristics, help seeking patterns and cognitive behavioral therapy
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Sundh, Joakim
The Cognitive Basis of Joint Probability Judgments: Processes, Ecology, and Adaption
2019.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Bakker, Marta
How hands shape the mind: The P400 as an index of manual actions and gesture perception
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Forslund, Tommie
Disorganized Attachment Representations, Externalizing Behavior Problems, and Socio-Emotional Competences
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Guath, Mona
Feedback learning and multiple goal pursuit in an electricity consumption task
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hassler Hallstedt, Martin
Closing the Gap: How an Adaptive Behavioral Based Program on a Tablet Can Help Low Performing Children Catch Up in Math: a Randomized Placebo Controlled Study
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Kleberg, Johan L.
Visual Attention to Faces, Eyes and Objects: Studies of Typically and Atypically Developing Children
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Nilsson Jobs, Elisabeth
Recognizing Disability and Ability in Young Autistic Children
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Nordin, Kristin
Aging Along the Hippocampal Axis: Structure, Function and Whole-brain Connections in Association with Memory
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Sakka, Laura Stavroula
Affective responses to music in depressed individuals: Aesthetic judgments, emotions, and the impact of music-evoked autobiographical memories
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Wallin, Emma
Remote delivery of psychological interventions: Impact and acceptability of preventive strategies to improve risk factors associated with coronary heart disease
2018.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Barradas, Gonçalo
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Reactions to Music
2017.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Björkstrand, Johannes
The Amygdala, Fear and Reconsolidation: Neural and Behavioral Effects of Retrieval-Extinction in Fear Conditioning and Spider Phobia
2017.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Galazka, Martyna A.
Social causality in motion: Visual bias and categorization of social interactions during the observation of chasing in infancy
2017.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Thorup, Emilia
Joint Attention in Development: Insights from Children with Autism and Infant Siblings
2017.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Åhlén, Johan
Universal prevention of anxiety and depression in school children
2017.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Blåvarg, Christina
The alluring nature of episodic odor memory: Sensory and cognitive correlates across age and sex
2016.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Gottwald, Janna
Infants in Control: Prospective Motor Control and Executive Functions in Action Development
2016.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Handl, Andrea
World of faces, words and actions: Observations and neural linkages in early life
2016.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Jylhä, Kirsti Maria
Ideological roots of climate change denial: Resistance to change, acceptance of inequality, or both?
2016.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Socio-Cognitive Influences on Gaze Behaviour in Infants
Koch, Benjamin
Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary
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Stening, Eva
The Influence of APOE ε4 on the Hippocampus and Hippocampus-Dependent Memory
2016.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Bothelius, Kristoffer
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia: How, for Whom and What about Acceptance?
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Elsner, Claudia
An Embodied Account of Action Prediction
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Frick, Andreas
Imaging Anxiety: Neurochemistry in Anxiety Disorders Assessed by Positron Emission Tomography
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Henriksson, Maria P.
Human Rationality: Observing or Inferring Reality
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Johansson, Maria
Attention and Self-regulation in Infancy and Toddlerhood: The Early Development of Executive Functions and Effortful Control
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Ljunghammar Ekberg, Therese
Manual Motor Development in Infancy: Execution and Observation of Actions
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Persson, Jonas
Making Head or Tail of the Hippocampus: A Long-Axis Account of Episodic and Spatial Memory
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Scholtens, Sara
ADHD Symptoms: Objective Performance and Subject Perspective
2015.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Alfonsson, Sven
Impulsivity, Negative Mood, and Disordered Eating in Obesity
2014.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Björnsdotter, Annika
Evaluation of Family Check-Up and iComet: Effectiveness as well as Psychometrics and Norms for Parent Rating Scales
2014.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Fransson, Mari
Attachment and the Development of Personality and Social Functioning
2014.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Green, Dorota
Predictive Eye Movements During Action Observation in Infancy: Understanding the Processes Behind Action Prediction
2014.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Welch, Elisabeth
Eating Disorders: Steps Towards an Increased Understanding
2014.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Bergh, Robin
Prejudiced Personalities Revisited: On the Nature of (Generalized) Prejudice
2013.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lindskog, Marcus
Is the Intuitive Statistician Eager or Lazy?: Exploring the Cognitive Processes of Intuitive Statistical Judgments
2013.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Buhrman, Monica
Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Chronic Pain
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Faria, Vanda
Mind really does matter: The Neurobiology of Placebo-induced Anxiety Relief in Social Anxiety Disorder
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Forssman, Linda
Attention and the Early Development of Cognitive Control: Infants’ and Toddlers’ Performance on the A-not-B task
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lif, Patrik
The Use of 2D and 3D Displays in Military Settings
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lindskog, Marcus
The Lazy Intuitive Statistician: Influence of Data Representation and Retrieval Processes on Intuitive Statistical Judgment
2012.
Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary
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Schmitow, Clara A.
The Social World Through Infants’ Eyes: How Infants Look at Different Social Figures
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Weineland, Sandra
A Contextual Behavioral Approach for Obesity Surgery Patients
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Ågren, Thomas
Erasing Fear: Effect of Disrupting Fear Memory Reconsolidation on Central and Peripheral Nervous System Activity
2012.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Liljeström, Simon
Emotional Reactions to Music: Prevalence and Contributing Factors
2011.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lundgren, Tobias
ACT Treatment of Epilepsy: Time for a behavioral model?
2011.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Parling, Thomas
Anorexia Nervosa: Emotion, Cognition, and Treatment
2011.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Andréasson, Per
Emotional Empathy, Facial Reactions, and Facial Feedback
2010.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Forster, Martin
When Cheap is Good: Cost-Effective Parent and Teacher Interventions for Children with Externalizing Behavior Problems
2010.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Grönqvist, Helena
Visual motor development in full term and preterm infants
2010.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hedlund, Lars-Erik
Response Time as Self-Schema Indicator: Implications for Personality Assessment
2010.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Olsson, Erik
Heart Rate Variability in Stress-related Fatigue, Adolescent Anxiety and Depression and its Connection to Lifestyle
2010.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Andersson, Isabell
Modes of Apprehension, and Indicators thereof, in Visual Discrimination of Relative Mass
2009.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Elwin, Ebba
Learning With Selective Feedback: Effects on Performance and Coding of Unknown Outcomes
2009.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Eriksson, Lars
Visual Flow Display for Pilot Spatial Orientation
2009.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Wåhlstedt, Cecilia
Specifying the Heterogeneity in Children with ADHD: Symptom Domains, Neuropsychological Processes, and Comorbidity
2009.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Åhs, Fredrik
The Amygdala, Arousal and Memory: From Lesions to Neuroimaging
2009.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Batalha, Luisa
Intergroup Relations: When is My Group More Important than Yours?
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Forward, Sonja
Driving Violations: Investigating Forms of Irrational Rationality
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Kaldo, Viktor
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as Guided Self-help to Reduce Tinnitus Distress
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Karlsson, Jessika
A Novel Approach to Teaching Emotional Expression in Music Performance
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lenardt, Grazyna
"Invandrarkvinnor" i vägskäl:: Deras handlingar och val i våldspräglade relationer från ett genuspsykologiskt perspektiv
2008.
Doctoral thesis, monograph
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Linnman, Clas
Imaging Chronic Pain and Inflammation: Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Whiplash Associated Disorder
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Nilsson, Håkan
In Search of Prototypes and Feminist Bank-Tellers: Exploring the Representativeness Heuristic
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Nyström, Pär
From Motion to Movements: Revelations by the Infant EEG
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Tillman, Carin
Working Memory and Higher-Order Cognition in Children
2008.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Brocki, Karin Cecilia
Executive Control Processes: Dimensions, Development and ADHD
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Diamantopoulou, Sofia
Behavioral and Cognitive Aspects of Poor Peer Relations in Children
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Kochukhova, Olga
When, Where and What: The Development of Perceived Spatio-Temporal Continuity
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Snellman, Alexandra
Social Hierarchies, Prejudice, and Discrimination
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Thunberg, Monika
Rapid Facial Reactions to Emotionally Relevant Stimuli
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Örnkloo, Helena
Fitting Objects Into Holes: On the Development of Spatial Cognition Skills
2007.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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af Wåhlberg, Anders
The Prediction of Traffic Accident Involvement from Driving Behavior
2006.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Henricsson, Lisbeth
Warriors and Worriers: Development, Protective and Exacerbating Factors in Children with Behavior Problems. A Study Across the First Six Years of School
2006.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Johansson, Linda
The Role of Cognitive Processes in Eating Pathology
2006.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Wallén Warner, Henriette
Factors Influencing Drivers' Speeding Behaviour
2006.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Akrami, Nazar
Prejudice: The Interplay of Personality, Cognition, and Social Psychology
2005.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Björklund, Gunilla
Driver Interaction: Informal Rules, Irritation and Aggressive Behaviour
2005.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Claesson, Katja
Shame: Mechanisms of Activation and Consequences for Social Perception and Self-image
2005.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Jönsson, Fredrik
Olfactory Metacognition: A Metamemory Perspective on Odor Naming
2005.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lundström, Johan N.
Human Pheromones: Psychological and Neurological Modulation of a Putative Human Pheromone
2005.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Alm, Jan
Dyslexia: Relevance of Concepts, Validity of Measurements, and Cognitive Functions
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Behavioural problems and psychiatric symptoms in 5-13 year-old Swedish children - a comparison of parent ratings on the FTF (Five to Fifteen) with the ratings on CBCL (Child Behavior Checklist).
Bohlin, Gunilla; Janols, Lars-Olof
Licentiate thesis, monograph
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Carlbring, Per
Panic! Its Prevalence, Diagnosis and Treatment via the Internet
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Fridner, Ann
Karriärvägar och karriärmönster bland disputerade läkare och medicinare
2004.
Doctoral thesis, monograph
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Gredebäck, Gustaf
Infants’ Knowledge of Occluded Objects: Evidence of Early Spatiotemporal Representations
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Laukka, Petri
Vocal Expression of Emotion: Discrete-emotions and Dimensional Accounts
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lindström, Erik
A Dynamic View of Melodic Organization and Performance: Perception of Structure and Emotional Expression in Music
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lundström, Lars
Reading Difficulties and the Twofold Character of Language: How to Understand Dyslexia
2004.
Doctoral thesis, monograph
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Rautalinko, Erik
Nondirective Counseling: Effects of Short Training and Individual Characteristics of Clients
2004.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Araya, Tadesse
Stereotypes: Suppression, Forgetting, and False Memory
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Berlin, Lisa
The Role of Inhibitory Control and Executive Functioning in Hyperactivity/ADHD
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Birgegård, Andreas
Producing, Preventing, and Explaining Persistent Complex Subliminal Stimulation Effects
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Frans, Örjan
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the General Population
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hammarberg, Annie
Pre-school Teachers’ Perceived Control and Behaviour Problems in Children
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Persson, Magnus
Bounded Rationality and Exemplar Models
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Pissiota, Anna
Fear, Startle, and Fear-Potentiated Startle: Probing Emotion in the Human Brain
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Ström, Lars
Self-help via the Internet: A new approach to psychological treatment
2003.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Granqvist, Pehr
Attachment and Religion: An Integrative Developmental Framework
2002.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Marhold, Charlotta
Musculoskeletal Pain and Return to Work: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective
2002.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Nyberg, Lilianne
Type A Behavior and Hyperactivity/ADHD: Are They Related?
2002.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Olsson, Ingrid
Help-Seeking and Causal Attributions for Helping
2002.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Ghaderi, Ata
Eating disorders: Prevalence, incidence, and prospective risk factors for eating disorders among young adult women in the general population
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Haglund, Mats
Speed Choice: The Driver, the Road and Speed Limits
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Lundstedt, Gunilla
Growing up with a Chronic Disease: A Survey of Children with PKU in Sweden
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Madison, Guy
Functional modelling of the human timing mechanism
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Miranda-Linné, Fredrika
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders: teaching, language, and screening
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Mortazavi, Modji
Alexithymia: A Psychological Analysis Based on Clinical and Healthy Individuals
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Tillfors, Maria
Social Phobia: The Family and the Brain
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Törnros, Jan
Hangover Effects of Alcohol and Carry-over Effects of Certain Benzodiazepine Hypnotics on Driving Performance
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Wennerholm, Pia
The Role of High-Level Reasoning and Rule-Based Representations in the Inverse Base-Rate Effect
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Åkerström, Bengt
Adults with Autism and Mental Retardation. A Life-Span Perspective
2001.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Bengtsgård, Kerstin
Social inhibition and socioemotional functioning in middle childhood
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Furmark, Tomas
Social Phobia. From Epidemiology to Brain Function
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hyldgaard, Lone
Spatial accuracy and temporal efficiency in children's tracing with a pencil
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Marongiu Ivarsson, Sophia
The meaning of gender in management: Investigating factors influencing women's and men's entry into management from social-psychological perspective
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Olsson, Nils
Realism of confidence in witness identification of faces and voices
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Rigas, Georgios
On the relationship between psychometric intelligence and decision making in dynamic systems
2000.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Andersson, Kerstin
Reactions to novelties: Developmental aspects
1999.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Rimmö, Per-Arne
Modelling self-reported aberrant driving behaviour
1999.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Servin, Anna
Sex differences in children's play behavior: A biological construction of gender?
1999.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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The high-level reasoning processes in the inverse base-rate effect
Wennerholm, Pia
Licentiate thesis, monograph
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Östberg, Monica
Parenting stress: Conceptual and methodological issues
1999.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Fischer, Håkan
Imaging fear and anxiety in the human brain: Positron emission tomographic studies
1998.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Hägnebo, Christina
Vertigo as a companion through life: Empirical studies regarding psychological factors in Menière's disease
1998.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Juslin, Patrik N.
A functionalist perspective on emotional communication in music performance
1998.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Kuylenstierna, Jan
Task information and memory aids in the learning of probabilistic inference tasks
1998.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Rodriguez, Alina
Predicting health behaviors and health outcomes during pregnancy: A biopsychosocial approach
1998.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Jansson, Anders
Strategies and maladaptive behaviours in complex dynamic decision making
1997.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Larsson, Sam
Det andra jaget vid manlig transvestism: Ett jagteoretiskt och kognitionspsykologiskt perspektiv : [a self-theoretical and cognitive psychology perspective]
1997.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
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Winman, Anders
Knowing if you would have known: A model of the hindsight bias
1997.
Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary