Publication overview
Below you will find an overview of all publications from the Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences for the period 2022–2024.
Rømer Thomsen, K., Jensen, N. H., Caspersen, C. K., Lauenborg, A. M., Bergmann, M. G., Ørnbøl, E., Wellnitz, K. B. & Ewing, S. W. F. (2025). Prevention of alcohol use and promotion of well-being among middle school students: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of ADAPT. BMC Public Health, 25(1), Article 3840. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25037-5
Fasano, M. C., Nuti, G., Grandjean, D., Monaci, M. G. & Filippa, M. (2025). Prosodic Emotion Recognition is Associated with Musical Abilities in Children. Poster session presented at 10th Conference of the Consortium of European Research on Emotion, Grenoble, France.
Balachandran, R., Thaysen, H. V., Christensen, P., Nissen, E. R., O’Toole, M. S., Knutzen, S. M., Buskbjerg, C. D. R., Wu, L. M., Tauber, N., Amidi, A., Danielsen, J. T. T., Zachariae, R. & Iversen, L. H. (2025). Psychological Intervention for Patients with Biopsychosocial Late Effects Following Surgery for Colorectal Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases—A Feasibility Study. Cancers, 17(7), Article 1127. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17071127
Kluwer, E. S. & Trillingsgaard, T. (2025). Psychological Perspectives on Partnering. In D. Mortelmans, L. Bernardi & B. Perelli-Harris (Eds.), Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course (pp. 50-62). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803923383.00010
Sydorenko, A., Kiel, L. & Spindler, H. (2025). Psychosocial Challenges of Ukranian Healthcare Professionals in Wartime: Addressing the Need for Management Support. Social Science & Medicine, 364, Article 117504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117504
Meier, J. (2025). Psykolog: De største glæder i livet kommer ikke gennem konkurrence. Men hvorfor sammenligner vi os så med dem, der har det, vi ikke har? Kristeligt Dagblad. https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/psykolog-de-stoerste-glaeder-i-livet-kommer-ikke-gennem-konkurrence-men-hvorfor-sammenligner
Meier, J. (2025). Psykologi: De unge skal mødes med håndgribelige krav, der er mulige at leve op til. Kristeligt Dagblad. https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/debat/psykolog-de-unge-skal-moedes-med-haandgribelige-krav-der-er-mulige-leve-op-til
Kammersgaard, T. (2025). Punishment as help? Rationalizing punishment in the debate on the Norwegian drug policy reform. Nordic Journal of Criminology, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.18261/njc.27.1.5
Thylstrup, B. & Hesse, M. (2025). Pusterummet - en pilotundersøgelse i rusmiddelbehandling. Aarhus Universitet.
Kvamme, T. L., Thylstrup, B. & Hesse, M. (2025). Quality of Life Assessment in Danish Heroin Assisted Treatment Patients: Validity of the SF-36 Survey. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 12(3), 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-024-00398-z
Fentz, H. N., Houmark, M. A., Simonsen, M. & Trillingsgaard, T. (2025). Ready for the Transition to Parenthood? Predicting Relationship Satisfaction Trajectories from Prenatal Indicators of Low Readiness. Journal of Family Psychology, 39(3), 348-358. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001277
Christensen, D. S., Jensen, R. A. A., Holm, T., Roe, D., Slade, M., Lind, M., Pedersen, A. M., Watson, L. A. & Thomsen, D. K. (2025). Recovery in Telling Life Stories (RETELL): Development and pilot study of a narrative identity intervention to support personal recovery in severe mental illness. Poster session presented at Psykiatriens Forskningsdag 2025, Aarhus, Denmark.
Marello, M. M., Denckla, C. A. & O'Connor, M. (2025). Recruitment and retainment of bereaved spouses: non-response to a Danish registry-sampled longitudinal survey on mental health after loss. Quality and Quantity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02513-z
Kara, D. & Bohn, A. (2025). Reminiscence bump or transition bump?: How are important life events of immigrants distributed across the life span?. Abstract from SARMAC XV, Ireland.
Czakó, A., Potenza, M. N., Hodgins, D. C., Yu, S. M., Wu, A. M. S., Jiménez-Murcia, S., Bowden-Jones, H., King, D., Billieux, J., Bőthe, B., Stein, D. J., Gambling Research Priority Setting Consortium & Demetrovics, Z. (2025). Research priorities in gambling: Findings of a large-scale expert study. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 14(3), 1222-1249. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2025.00072
Sydorenko, A., Kiel, L. & Spindler, H. (2025). Resilience, psychosomatic health, and support needs of Ukrainian healthcare professionals in wartime: a Cross-sectional study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 188, Article 111995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111995
Sawatzki, D. & Thomsen, D. K. (2025). Resilience Through Redemption: The Power of Narrative Work Identity. Poster session presented at European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology 2025, Prag, Czech Republic.
Christensen, D. S., Holm, T., Jensen, R. A. A., Lind, M., Pedersen, A. M., Watson, L. A. & Thomsen, D. K. (2025). RETELL: Recovery in Telling Life Stories Development and pilot study of a narrative identity intervention to support personal recovery in severe mental illness. Poster session presented at Refocus on Recovery, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Scigala, K. A., Schild, C. & Pfattheicher, S. (2025). Revisiting regulatory fit and its effect on honesty: A replication attempt. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251410250
Kristiansen, M. V. (2025). Revisiting the Phenomenology of Social Anxiety Disorder: Lived Body, Gestalt, and Clinical Significance. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 32(1), 19-21. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954577
Steffensen, C. B., Zachariae, R., Marello, M. M. & O'Connor, M. (2025). Risk factors for depression, anxiety, and PTSS after loss: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 119, Article 102589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102589
Frederiksen, K. S., Bjønness, J., Skov, K. B. E. & Bjerge, B. (Eds.) (2025). Rusmidler i familier og på tværs af generationer. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Samfund og Rusmidler No. 10
Roepstorff, I. T., Mayor, J., Havighurst, S. S. & Kartushina, N. (2025). Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children. Journal of Child Language, 52(2), 448-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000727
Andersen, L. B., Bundgaard, L., Bøllingtoft, A., Malmmose, M. & Tønnesvang, J. (2025). Sammen om at lykkes: Styring, ledelse, motivation og sammenhængskraft i offentlige organisationer. Djøf Forlag.
Runge, N. (2025). School life at the end of the line: Back to Bildung or off the cliff?. Abstract from The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization, Cork, Ireland.
Nielsen, K. (2025). Self-compassion and social support. Nordic Psychology, 77(2), 93-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2025.2506240
Rubin, D. C., Bell, C. F., Hoyle, R. H. & Berntsen, D. (2025). Shame, tonic immobility, and reactions to stressful events as phylogenetically conserved submissive defense mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(12), 3331-3350. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001833
Pedersen, S. M. & Houborg, E. (2025). Sheltering the Drug Environment: An Ethnographic Study of Boundary Practices and Social Harms in a Partly Accepted Drug Market. Contemporary Drug Problems, 1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509251397003
Gaarde, M. B., Christensen, R., Vase, L., Colloca, L., Vaegter, H. B. & Ravn, S. L. (2025). Short-term effects of preparatory suggestions on pain in adults undergoing nonpharmacological treatments: a systematic review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 23(12), 2497-2505. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-24-00511
Kingo, O. S., Gaïni, L., Sonne, T. & Krøjgaard, P. (2025). Six-month-olds but not four-month-olds remember complex dynamic events across two weeks. Poster session presented at SRCD 2025 Biennial meeting.
Borg, B., Lambek, R., Jørgensen, C. S., Otto, M., Pedersen, M. J., Rittig, S., Juul, K. V., Thomsen, P. H. & Kamperis, K. (2025). Sleep and neurocognitive functioning in nocturnal enuresis. Abstract from ESPN 2025, Athens, Greece.
Borg, B., Lambek, R., Jørgensen, C. S., Otto, M., Pedersen, M. J., Rittig, S., Juul, K. V., Thomsen, P. H. & Kamperis, K. (2025). SLEEP AND NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN NOCTURNAL ENURESIS. Abstract from ESPU ICCS 2025, Vienna, Austria.
Amidi, A., Ancoli-Israel, S., Maglione, J. E. & Wu, L. M. (2025). Sleep Disorders in the Elderly. In C. A. Espie, P. C. Zee & C. M. Morin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sleep and Sleep Disorders (2 ed., pp. 1050-1091). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197602751.013.27
Jensen, K. H. & Skelly, T. A. M. (2025). Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life. Convergence, 31(3), 1180-1198. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241270868
Nikolajsen, A. T., Larsen, L., Holstein, B. E. & Swane, C. E. (2025). Sorrow and Ambivalence of Intergenerational Estrangement in Later Life. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1-11. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.70058
Öner, S., Szpunar, K., Watson, L. A. & Cole, S. (2025). Spatial Optimism in Individuals' Future Thinking About the COVID-19 Pandemic. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39(3), Article e70080. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70080
Mørk, S., Hindsbak, N. N., O’Connor, M., Henriksen, T. B., Möller, S. & Hvidtjørn, D. (2025). Specialized Versus Standard Care After Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss: A Cohort Study. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228251376222
Bach, J. S. & Rasmussen, J. D. (2025). Spektrale relationer: Om skrøbelige, følte og fraværende forbindelser mellem ældre mennesker med rusmiddelbrug og deres nærmeste familie. In K. S. Frederiksen, J. Bjønness, K. B. E. Skov & B. Bjerge (Eds.), Rusmidler i familier og på tværs af generationer (pp. 159-179). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Krøjgaard, P., Kingo, O. S. & Sonne, T. (2025). Spontaneous event memory in young children. In L. M. Bietti & M. Pogacar (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8_85-1
Nygaard-Christensen, M. & Bjerge, B. (2025). Squared Drinking: Use of public drinking spaces among marginalized people with a Greenlandic background living in Denmark. Contemporary Drug Problems, 52(2), 216-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509241309218
Gøtzsche-Astrup, O. & Gøtzsche-Astrup, J. (2025). Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention. Social Forces, 103(3), 1087-1106. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae134
Krøjgaard, P., Hjuler, T. F., Sonne, T., Berntsen, D. & Kingo, O. S. (2025). Strategic and spontaneous retrieval in three- and five-year-old children. Poster session presented at SRCD 2025 Biennial meeting.
Nygaard-Christensen, M. (2025). Street-level Service Journeys: Serendipity in outreach work with unstably housed people who use drugs. Social & Cultural Geography, 26(5), 549-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2424859
Ozer, S. & Schwartz, S. J. (2025). Striving for Unity in a Culturally Fragmented World: Nested Multiple Cultural Identifications Associated with Well-Being through Self-Concept Clarity. International Journal of Psychology, 60(1), Article e70004. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70004
Kristiansen, M. V. (2025). Struggling for a tomorrow: Lived time in social anxiety disorder. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 24(4), 921-938. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09893-3
Højgaard, D. R. M. A., Cervin, M., Borrelli, D. F., Smárason, O., Skarphedinsson, G., Selles, R., Best, J. R., Melin, K., Ivarsson, T., Weidle, B., Jensen, S., Torp, N. C., Nissen, J. B., Storch, E. A., Geller, D. A., McBride, N. M., Wilhelm, S., Farrell, L. J., Waters, A. M. ... Thomsen, P. H. (2025). Subtypes of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Insights from Recent Collaborative Research. Abstract from 21st international Congress of the ESCAP 2025, Strasbourg, France.
Sydorenko, A. Y., Kubanskyi, S. & Kiel, L. (2025). Support needs of Ukrainian healthcare workers during wartime: A study on trust, legal security, and labor union involvement. Public Health, 238, 298-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.12.017
Dar, K., Ahmed, N. & Thom, B. (2025). Tackling synthetic opioid misuse: an impending crisis. BJPsych Advances. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1192/bja.2025.10182
Nicolls, J. & Hunt, G. (2025). Taking pleasure seriously: Should alcohol research say more about fun? Addiction, 120(6), 1075-1081. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16747
Valmyr Bania, E., Sørheim Nilsen, T., Thastum, M., Ingul, J. M. & Havik, T. (2025). Teachers’ experiences with the Back2School intervention: A pilot study addressing problematic school absenteeism. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, Article 1608184. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1608184