The main objective of this pilot study was to test the effectiveness of an online, interactive physical activity intervention that also incorporated gaming components. The intervention design included an activity planner, progress monitoring, and gamification components and used SMS text as a secondary delivery channel and feedback to improve engagement in the intervention content. Healthy adults ...

Spatial abilities determine our approach to a variety of everyday tasks. Previous research has mainly compared the spatial performance of different groups of participants, regardless of the underlying processes. The aim of this study was to explain individual differences by means of the different strategies employed in spatial problem solving. The performance of university students (n=256) was ...

Informant discrepancies can affect the assessment, classification, and treatment of child psychopathology. Scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) from different informants have shown to be low to moderately correlated. This study examined agreement between 323 children born with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) and their parents to examine whether they follow similar patterns ...

We describe a psychoeducational program integrated in a basic computer skills course for participants suffering from social anxiety. The two main aims of the course were: that the participants learn basic computer skills, and that the participants learn to cope better with social anxiety. Computer skills were taught by a qualified teacher. Psychoeducation and cognitive therapy skills, including ...

In a randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial it is assumed that psychosocial effects of the treatment, regression to the mean and spontaneous remission are identical in the drug and placebo group. Consequently, any difference between the groups can be ascribed to the pharmacological effects. Previous studies suggest that side effects of drugs can enhance expectancies of treatment effects in the ...

Individuals with internalizing problems differ in levels of attentional control (AC), and this heterogeneity could be associated with differences in autonomic arousal. The present study investigated whether AC moderated the effect of internalizing problems on self-reported experience and autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses after the induction of negative affect. Children aged 9–13 years were ...

While the involvement of executive processes in mind wandering is largely undebated, their exact relationship is subject to an ongoing debate and rarely studied dynamically within‐subject. Several brain‐stimulation studies using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have attempted to modulate mind‐wandering propensity by stimulating the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) which is ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon er blant de mest prevalente sykdommene i vestlige land. Flere av pasienter med depressive lidelser opplever ikke bedring av tilgjengelige behandlinger, og betegnes som behandlingsresistente. Lave doser intravenøs ketamin har vist å gi rask antidepressiv effekt kort tid etter infusjon, og det publiseres et stigende antall studier om ketamins virkning. Vi gjennomførte et scoping ...

The study of consummatory responses during food intake represents a unique opportunity to investigate the physiological, psychological and neurobiological processes that control ingestive behavior. Recording the occurrence and temporal organization of individual licks across consumption, also called lickometry, yields a rich data set that can be analyzed to dissect consummatory responses into different ...

Adventurous outdoor activities often involve risk (Barton, 2006, p. 3) and higher purpose and therefore also courage to act. This study investigates possible differences in terms of emotions and courage-related measures between acting on or bypassing the call to courage. It also considers how well-being is affected by recalling and reflecting upon a courage-related experience. Through a mixed-methods ...