The Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences was founded in 1968 and is a part of Business and Social Sciences.

The Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences teaches and carries out research into all the most significant subject areas of psychology. The Department also contributes with communication of psychological research to the society. Once graduates have gained relevant business experience and supervision, their Master’s degree in psychology qualifies them for authorization in Denmark in accordance with the EuroPsy criteria.

The department contributes with research and knowledge transfer in the psychology subject areas in relation to society at large. The department’s researchers enter into close international collaborative agreements and have a strong tradition for collaborating with researchers from many different fields, such as health, linguistics, philosophy, study of religion, management, economy and neuroscience.

To an increasing degree, the department focuses on further expansion of research and teaching to naturally include subject areas such as management and human relations.

The department has the overall responsibility for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (cand.psych.) programs in Psychology, as well as the subsidiary subject program in Psychology. The department also contributes to the Flexible Master of Public Governance (FMOL).

The department’s academic staff is organized in fifteen research units and six subject groups that carries out research into cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, work and organisational psychology, human resource management, educational psychology, biological psychology, and social and personality psychology.

The department has 40–45 academic staff and 45–50 PhD students.

200 students are signed in on the Bachelor program, and everyone who passes the Bachelor exam can continue the Master’s degree program. Each year a number of cand.psych.s are enrolled at the PhD program, whose aim is a research career.

Henrik Høgh-Olesen
Head of Department

The department consists of units from:

The Department of Psychology and Behavioural Science
Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research