Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences

 Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Research Fields Social Psychology and Personality Psychology Research Unit Life Psychology

Research Unit Life Psychology

Life Psychology is about achieving a "good enough" life. It is characterized by the ability to comprehend and manage fundamental, universal life tasks in a way that holds personal sense while also carrying shared meaning for all of us.


Life Psychology is a theory about becoming an active agent in both one's own and shared life. Being an agent in life means having a sufficiently firm grasp of fundamental, universal life tasks by utilizing corresponding universal life skills.

Life Psychology is also a method that, in a solution-oriented manner, helps individuals develop their life skills to gain a good enough grasp of both personal and common live. This is achieved by managing the small and large challenges of daily life as well as significant life choices.

The research area of Life Psychology encompasses the evolutionary, cultural-historical, and life-historical foundations of life.


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Ozer, S. & Obaidi, M. (2025). The Psychological Consequences of Globalization and the Rise of Violent Extremism. In M. Obaidi & J. Kunst (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism (pp. 426 - 450). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009407892.025
Obaidi, M., Bergh, R., Ozer, S. & Sindermann , C. (2025). Toward an Integrated Psychological Model of Violent Extremism. European Review of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2478735
Lund-Petersen, M. & Bertelsen, P. (2024). Autism and depression: Helping individuals with autism get a good enough grip on life by means of cognitive and life psychological intervention. Nordic Psychology, 76(3), 333-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2023.2199135
Ozer, S., Obaidi, M. & Anjum, G. (2024). Extreme Reactions to Globalization: Investigating Indirect, Longitudinal, and Experimental Effects of the Globalization– Radicalization Nexus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(12), 1635–1660. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231167694
Ozer, S. (2024). Globalisering, kultur og socialt miljø. In M. Tøttrup Thygesen & C. Kehlet Ebbrecht (Eds.), Radikalisering og ekstremisme: Samfundsfaglige og psykologiske perspektiver (pp. 16-23). Systime.
Ozer, S., Lado Gamsakhurdia , V. & Schwartz, S. (2024). Investigating the Complexity of Cultural Identities in Globalizing Societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55(7), 723–749. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241258382
Ozer, S. (2024). Social Support, Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Well-being During COVID-19 Lockdown: A Two-wave Study of Danish Students. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 65(1), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12952
Ozer, S. (2024). Stereotyper og fordomme. In M. Tøttrup Thygesen & C. Kehlet Ebbrecht (Eds.), Radikalisering og ekstremisme: Samfundsfaglige og psykologiske perspektiver (pp. 24-31). Systime.
Bertelsen, P. & Ozer, S. (2024). The Life Attachment Scale (LAS-R). Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 65(6), 1086-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13055
Ertanir, B., Cobb, C., Unger, J., Celada-Dalton, T., West, A., Zeledon, I., Perazzo, P., Cano, M., Des Rosiers, S., Duque, M., Ozer, S., Cruz, N., Scaramutti, C., Vos, S., Salas-Wright, C., Maldonado-Molina, M., Nehme, L., Martinez, C., Zayas, L. & Schwartz, S. J. (2023). Crisis Migration Adverse Childhood Events: A New Category of Youth Adversity for Crisis Migrant Children and Adolescents. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51(12), 1871-1882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-01016-x

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Research projects

  • Development of the theoretical foundation and application method of Life Psychology – see more at https://psy.au.dk/life-psychology.
  • Development of a psychological meta-model.
  • Investigation of how people navigate a life shaped by the pluralism of globalization and the disruptive nature of society.
  • Exploration of culture and life

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