• Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries 

      Vlasceanu, Madalina; Doell, Kimberly C.; Coleman, Joseph B. Bak; Todorova, Boryana; Berkebile-Weinberg, Michael M.; Grayson, Samantha J.; Patel, Yash; Goldwert, Danielle; Pei, Yifei; Chakroff, Alek; Pronizius, Ekaterina; van den Broek, Karlijn L.; Vlasceanu, Denisa; Constantino, Sara; Morais, Michael J.; Schumann, Philipp; Rathje, Steve; Fang, Ke; Aglioti, Salvatore Maria; Alfano, Mark; Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J.; Andersen, Angélica; Anseel, Frederik; Apps, Matthew A. J.; Asadli, Chillar; Awuor, Fonda Jane; Azevedo, Flavio; Basaglia, Piero; Bélanger, Jocelyn J.; Berger, Sebastian; Bertin, Paul; Białek, Michał; Bialobrzeska, Olga; Blaya-Burgo, Michelle; Bleize, Daniëlle N. M.; Bø, Simen; Boecker, Lea; Boggio, Paulo S.; Borau, Sylvie; Bos, Björn; Bouguettaya, Ayoub; Brauer, Markus; Brick, Cameron; Brik, Tymofii; Briker, Roman; Brosch, Tobias; Buchel, Ondrej; Buonauro, Daniel; Butalia, Radhika; Carvacho, Héctor; Chamberlain, Sarah A. E.; Chan, Hang-Yee; Chow, Dawn; Chung, Dongil; Cian, Luca; Cohen-Eick, Noa; Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian; Contu, Davide; Cristea, Vladimir; Cutler, Jo; D'Ottone, Silvana; De Keersmaecker, Jonas; Delcourt, Sarah; Delouvée, Sylvain; Diel, Kathi; Douglas, Benjamin D.; Drupp, Moritz A.; Dubey, Shreya; Ekmanis, Jānis; Elbaek, Christian T.; Elsherif, Mahmoud; Engelhard, Iris M.; Escher, Yannik A.; Etienne, Tom W.; Farage, Laura; Farias, Ana Rita; Feuerriegel, Stefan; Findor, Andrej; Freira, Lucia; Friese, Malte; Gains, Neil Philip; Gallyamova, Albina; Geiger, Sandra J.; Genschow, Oliver; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Goldberg, Beth; Goldberg, Amit; Gradidge, Sarah; Grassini, Simone; Gray, Kurt; Grelle, Sonja; Griffin, Siobhán M.; Grigoryan, Lusine; Grigoryan, Ani; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Gruber, June; Guilaran, Johnrev; Hadar, Britt; Hahnel, Ulf J. J.; Halperin, Eran; Harvey, Annelie J.; Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios; Herman, Aleksandra M.; Hershfield, Hal E.; Himichi, Toshiyuki; Hine, Donald W.; Hofmann, Wilhelm; Howe, Lauren; Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T.; Huang, Guanxiong; Ishii, Tatsunori; Ito, Ayahito; Jia, Fanli; Jost, John T.; Jovanović, Veljko; Jurgiel, Dominika; Kácha, Ondřej; Kankaanpää, Reeta; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Mintz, Keren Kaplan; Kaya, Ilker; Kaya, Ozgur; Khachatryan, Narine; Klas, Anna; Klein, Colin; Klöckner, Christian Andreas Nikolaus; Koppel, Lina; Kosachenko, Alexandra I.; Kothe, Emily J.; Krebs, Ruth; Krosch, Amy R.; Krouwel, Andre P M; Kyrychenko, Yara; Lagomarsino, Maria; Lamm, Claus; Lange, Florian; Cunningham, Julia Lee; Lees, Jeffrey; Leung, Tak Yan; Levy, Neil; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Longoni, Chiara; Ortega, Alberto López; Loschelder, David D.; Lu, Jackson G.; Richter, Isabell; Vesely, Stepan; Van Bavel, Jay Joseph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 ...
    • Affective responses to urban but not to natural scenes depend on inter-individual differences in childhood nature exposure 

      Koivisto, Mika; Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Do humans have a hard-wired tendency to respond with positive affects to nature or do individual's meanings and learning experiences moderate the affective responses to natural or urban scenes? We studied the relative ...
    • Are Modern Head-Mounted Displays Sexist? A Systematic Review on Gender Differences in HMD-Mediated Virtual Reality 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Modern head-mounted displays (HMDs) are a promising technology. Thanks to their affordable cost and versatility, HMDs are gaining attention from different sectors. However, the experience reported by the users of these ...
    • Association of Individual Factors with Simulator Sickness and Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality Mediated by Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin; Luzi, Ann Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Many studies have attempted to understand which individual differences may be related to the symptoms of discomfort during the virtual experience (simulator sickness) and the generally considered positive sense of being ...
    • Association of the Big Five Personality Traits with Training Effectiveness, Sense of Presence, and Cybersickness in Virtual Reality 

      Thorp, Sebastian; Rimol, Lars Morten; Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Virtual reality (VR) presents numerous opportunities for training skills and abilities through the technology’s capacity to simulate realistic training scenarios and environments. This can be seen in how newer research has ...
    • Comparative analysis of spatial ability in immersive and non-immersive virtual reality: the role of sense of presence, simulation sickness and cognitive load 

      Thorp, Sebastian; Rimol, Lars Morten; Lervik, Simon; Evensmoen, Hallvard Røe; Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      This study investigates the effects of immersion on spatial ability in virtual reality (VR) and the influence of sense of presence, simulation sickness, and cognitive load. Participants performed a spatial ability task ...
    • Evaluating the effect of multi-sensory stimulations on simulator sickness and sense of presence during HMD-mediated VR experience 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin; De Martin Topranin, Virginia; Thorp, Sebastian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Some lines of evidence have shown that sensory input, especially related to vestibular and somatosensory stimulation, may reduce the symptoms related to simulator sickness and increase the sense of presence in VR. The ...
    • Evaluating the use of virtual reality in work safety: a literature review 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin (Chapter, 2020)
      Addressing the challenges related to the safety of the work routines is one of the top priorities for any modern industry, and constant investments are explicitly tailored to reduce work-related risks and to train employees ...
    • Immersive visual technologies and human health 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin (Chapter, 2021)
      The fast-phased adoption of modern immersive visual technologies in many fields calls for an assessment of potential costs and benefits from the point of view of human health. Humans often reported feelings of discomfort ...
    • Individual Differences in Simulator Sickness and Presence in Virtual Reality 

      Luzi, Ann Kristin (Master thesis, 2020)
      I løpet av de siste årene har en ny generasjon rimelige og teknologisk avanserte head-mounted displays (HMD) blitt lansert, noe som har gjort virtuell virkelighet (VR) teknologi stadig mer populær og tilgjengelig. I ...
    • The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries 

      Doell, Kimberly C.; Todorova, Boryana; Vlasceanu, Madalina; Bak Coleman, Joseph B.; Pronizius, Ekaterina; Schumann, Philipp; Azevedo, Flavio; Patel, Yash; Berkebile-Wineberg, Michael M.; Brick, Cameron; Lange, Florian; Grayson, Samantha J.; Pei, Yifei; Chakroff, Alek; van den Broek, Karlijn L.; Lamm, Claus; Vlasceanu, Denisa; Constantino, Sara M.; Rathje, Steve; Goldwert, Danielle; Fang, Ke; Aglioti, Salvatore Maria; Alfano, Mark; Alvarado-Yepez, Andy J.; Andersen, Angélica; Anseel, Frederik; Apps, Matthew A J; Asadli, Chillar; Awuor, Fonda Jane; Basaglia, Piero; Bélanger, Jocelyn J.; Berger, Sebastian; Bertin, Paul; Białek, Michał; Bialobrzeska, Olga; Blaya-Burgo, Michelle; Bleize, Daniëlle N M; Bø, Simen; Boecker, Lea; Boggio, Paulo S.; Borau, Sylvie; Borau, Sylvie; Bos, Björn; Bouguettaya, Ayoub; Brauer, Markus; Brik, Tymofii; Briker, Roman; Brosch, Tobias; Buchel, Ondrej; Buonauro, Daniel; Butalia, Radhika; Carvacho, Héctor; Chamberlain, Sarah A E; Chan, Hang-Yee; Chow, Dawn; Chung, Dongil; Cian, Luca; Cohen-Eick, Noa; Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian; Contu, Davide; Cristea, Vladimir; Cutler, Jo; D'Ottone, Silvana; De Keersmaecker, Jonas; Delcourt, Sarah; Delouvée, Sylvain; Diel, Kathi; Douglas, Benjamin D.; Drupp, Moritz A.; Dubey, Shreya; Ekmanis, Jānis; Elbaek, Christian T.; Elsherif, Mahmoud; Engelhard, Iris M.; Escher, Yannik A.; Etienne, Tom W.; Farage, Laura; Farias, Ana Rita; Feuerriegel, Stefan; Findor, Andrej; Friese, Malte; Gains, Neil Philip; Gallyamova, Albina; Geiger, Sandra J.; Genschow, Oliver; Gjoneska, Biljana; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Goldberg, Beth; Goldenberg, Amit; Gradidge, Sarah; Grassini, Simone; Gray, Kurt; Grelle, Sonja; Griffin, Siobhán M; Grigoryan, Lusine; Grigoryan, Ani; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Gruber, June; Guilaran, Johnrev; Hadar, Britt; Hahnel, Ulf J J; Halperin, Eran; Harvey, Annelie J.; Haugestad, Christian Andres Palacios; Herman, Aleksandra M.; Hershfield, Hal E.; Himichi, Toshiyuki; Hine, Donald W.; Hofmann, Wilhelm; Howe, Lauren; Huaman-Chulluncuy, Enma T.; Huang, Guanxiong; Ishii, Tatsunori; Ito, Ayahito; Jia, Fanli; Jost, John T.; Jovanović, Veljko; Jurgiel, Dominika; Kácha, Ondřej; Kankaanpää, Reeta; Kantorowicz, Jaroslaw; Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Elena; Mintz, Keren Kaplan; Kaya, Ilker; Kaya, Ozgur; Khachatryan, Narine; Klas, Anna; Klein, Colin; Klöckner, Christian Andreas Nikolaus; Koppel, Lina; Kosachenko, Alexandra I.; Kothe, Emily J.; Krebs, Ruth; Krosch, Amy R.; Krouwel, Andre P M; Kyrychenko, Yara; Lagomarsino, Maria; Cunningham, Julia Lee; Lees, Jeffrey; Leung, Tak Yan; Levy, Neil; Lockwood, Patricia L.; Longoni, Chiara; Ortega, Alberto López; Loschelder, David D.; Lu, Jackson G.; Luo, Yu; Luomba, Joseph; Lutz, Annika E.; Majer, Johann M.; Markowitz, Ezra; Marsh, Abigail A.; Mascarenhas, Karen Louise; Mbilingi, Bwambale; Mbungu, Winfred; McHugh, Cillian; Meijers, Marijn H C; Mhagama, Fenant Laurent; Michalaki, Katerina; Mikus, Nace; Milliron, Sarah G.; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy S.; Mora, Youri L.; Morais, Michael J.; Moreau, David; Motoki, Kosuke; Moyano, Manuel; Mus, Mathilde; Navajas, Joaquin; Nguyen, Tam Luong; Nguyen, Dung Minh; Nguyen, Trieu; Niemi, Laura; Nijssen, Sari R R; Nilsonne, Gustav; Nitschke, Jonas P.; Nockur, Laila; Okura, Ritah; Öner, Sezin; Özdoğru, Asil Ali; Palumbo, Helena; Panagopoulos, Costas; Panasiti, Maria Serena; Pärnamets, Philip; Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola; Pavlov, Yuri G.; Payán-Gómez, César; Pearson, Adam R.; da Costa, Leonor Pereira; Petrowsky, Hannes M.; Pfattheicher, Stefan; Pham, Nhat Tan; Ponizovskiy, Vladimir; Pretus, Clara; Rêgo, Gabriel G.; Reimann, Ritsaart; Rhoads, Shawn A.; Riano-Moreno, Julian; Richter, Isabell; Röer, Jan Philipp; Rosa-Sullivan, Jahred; Ross, Robert M.; Sabherwal, Anandita; Saito, Toshiki; Sarrasin, Oriane; Say, Nicolas; Schmid, Katharina; Schmitt, Michael T.; Schoenegger, Philipp; Scholz, Christin; Schug, Mariah G.; Schulreich, Stefan; Shreedhar, Ganga; Shuman, Eric; Sivan, Smadar; Sjåstad, Hallgeir; Soliman, Meikel; Soud, Katia; Spampatti, Tobia; Sparkman, Gregg; Spasovski, Ognen; Stanley, Samantha K.; Stern, Jessica A.; Strahm, Noel; Suko, Yasushi; Sul, Sunhae; Syropoulos, Stylianos; Taylor, Neil C.; Tedaldi, Elisa; Tinghög, Gustav; Travaglino, Giovanni Antonio; Tsakiris, Manos; Tüter, İlayda; Tyrala, Michael; Uluğ, Özden Melis; Urbanek, Arkadiusz; Valko, Danila; van der Linden, Sander; van Schie, Kevin; van Stekelenburg, Aart; Vanags, Edmunds; Västfjäll, Daniel; Vesely, Stepan; Vintr, Jáchym; Vranka, Marek; Wanguche, Patrick Otuo; Willer, Robb; Wojcik, Adrian Dominik; Xu, Rachel; Yadav, Anjali; Zawisza, Magdalena; Zhao, Xian; Zhao, Jiaying; Żuk, Dawid; Van Bavel, Jay Joseph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Climate change is currently one of humanity’s greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries ...
    • Military education in extended reality (XR): learning troublesome knowledge through immersive experiential application 

      Garcia Estrada, Jose Fernando; Førland, Ekaterina Prasolova; Kjeksrud, Stian; Themeli, Chrysoula; Lindqvist, Petter Hallvard Fogth; Kvam, Kristine; Midthun, Ole; Sverre, Knut; Hokstad, Leif Martin; Mohamed, Soud Khalifa; Grassini, Simone; Ricci, Serena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Extended reality (XR) applications for education are usually associated with motivation, engagement, knowledge and experiences that are difficult to achieve in the real world. One example of such knowledge in military ...
    • Motion, relation, and passion in brain physiological and cognitive aging 

      Sigmundsson, Hermundur; Dybendal, Benjamin Holen; Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The aim of the current paper was to present important factors for keeping the basic structures of a person’s brain function, i.e., the grey and white matter, intact. Several lines of evidence have shown that motion, relation, ...
    • Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players 

      Sigmundsson, Hermundur; Dybendal, Benjamin Holen; Loftesnes, Jan Morten; Olafsson, Brynjar; Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The principal aim of the present study was to investigate whether passion, grit and mindset differ between distinct levels of football competence in two football teams - elite and junior teams. We compared the 30% highest ...
    • Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries 

      Kowal, Marta; Sorokowski, Piotr; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Valentova, Jaroslava Varella; Varella, Marco A. C.; Frederick, David A.; Al-Shawaf, Laith; García, Felipe E.; Giammusso, Isabella; Gjoneska, Biljana; Kozma, Luca; Otterbring, Anders Emil Tobias; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta; Pfuhl, Gerit; Stöckli, Sabrina; Studzinska, Anna; Toplu-Demirtas, Ezgi; Touloumakos, Anna K.; Bakos, Bence E.; Batres, Carlota; Bonneterre, Solenne; Czamanski-Cohen, Johanna; Dacanay, Jovi C.; Deschrijver, Eliane; Fisher, Maryanne L.; Grano, Caterina; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Kačmár, Pavol; Kozlov, Mikhail V.; Manunta, Efisio; Massar, Karlijn; McFall, Joseph P.; Mebarak, Moises; Miccoli, Maria Rosa; Milfont, Taciano L.; Prokop, Pavol; Aavik, Toivo; Arriaga, Patricia; Baiocco, Roberto; Cenek, Jiri; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Duyar, Izzet; Guemaz, Farida; Ishii, Tatsunori; Kamburidis, Julia A.; Khun-Inkeeree, Hareesol; Grassini, Simone; Nyhus, Ellen K.; Siepelmeyer, Henrik; Singh, Sangeeta (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating ...
    • Questionnaire measures and physiological correlates of presence: A systematic review 

      Grassini, Simone; Laumann, Karin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The published literature has produced several definitions for the sense of presence in a simulated environment, as well as various methods for measuring it. The variety of conceptualizations makes it difficult for researchers ...
    • Sense of presence in immersive virtual environments: Measures, associations, and possible applied uses 

      Grassini, Simone (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:145, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
      The present thesis had the general goal to investigate the phenomenon of sense of presence in the context of modern immersive visual technologies. The empirical work that has been carried out was focused on the latest ...
    • Subjective ratings of fear are associated with frontal late positive potential asymmetry, but not with early brain activity over the occipital and centro‐parietal cortices 

      Grassini, Simone; Sikka, Pilleriin; Revonsuo, Antti; Koivisto, Mika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The human frontal cortex is asymmetrically involved in motivational and affective processing. Several studies have shown that the left‐frontal hemisphere is related to positive and approach‐related affect, whereas the ...
    • Supraspinal adaptations in response to strength training: A motor learning process? 

      Bastmeijer, Iris (Master thesis, 2022)
      Introduction: Strength gains in the first weeks of strength training are assumed to be due to neural adaptation, i.e. adaptive changes within the nervous system in response to strength training (Sale, 1988). Direct evidence ...
    • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Nature Walk as an Intervention for Anxiety and Depression 

      Grassini, Simone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Scientific research has widely examined the therapeutic and health benefits of being in contact with natural environments. Nature walk have been proposed as a cost-effective and inclusive method for successfully exploiting ...