Situation awareness

Shared situation awareness, team work, team communication

Selective attention, cognitive control, consciousness

Popular science comminication at BT Innsikt (in Norwegian).

Perspectives in psychology

Experiment methods, experiment design, experiment programming

Operational psychology / human factors / risk 

Cognitive psychology

Academic article

• Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim; Tony Mathias Leino; Bjørn Sætrevik (2026). Framing vaccination as a collective responsibility increases intentions to vaccinate. (external link)
• Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim; Sigurd William Hystad; Bjørn Sætrevik (2026). Relationship between perceived risk and compliance with infection control measures during the first year of a pandemic. (external link)
• Guro Persdotter Fjeld; Sturle Danielsen Tvedt; Bjørn Sætrevik (2026). The distinct roles of internal and external communication in perceived risk on offshore vessels. (external link)
• Floris Hendrikus Johannes van den Oever; Morten Fjeld; Kjetil Nordby et al. (2025). A virtual reality experiment shows that augmented reality can improve collaboration in ship navigation. (external link)
• Michael Höfler; Anja Kräplin; Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif et al. (2025). Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: Initial version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF). (external link)
• Amit Sharma; Steven Mallam; Scott N. MacKinnon et al. (2025). A systematic review of cognitive and social factors in vessel traffic services operations. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Eilin K. Erevik; Sebastian B. Bjørkheim (2025). Personality traits predict perception of pandemic risk and compliance with infection control measures. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Sebastian B. Bjørkheim (2025). A Taxonomy for Quantification of Norwegian Probability Phrases. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Thea Granerud; Mona Nijhof et al. (2025). Tactical Breathing Enhances Police Performance in a Critical Incident Simulation. (external link)
• Kristin Stenshol; Bjørn Sætrevik; Edward R. Watkins et al. (2025). Ways of Thinking in a Critical Scenario Simulation: A qualitative study of rumination in a police student sample. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Sigurd William Hystad (2017). Situation awareness as a determinant for unsafe actions and subjective risk assessment on offshore attendant vessels. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Vanessa Tamara Seeligmann; Thomas Færstad Frotvedt et al. (2024). Anchoring, Confirmation and Confidence Bias Among Medical Decision-makers. (external link)
• Floris Hendrikus Johannes van den Oever; Morten Fjeld; Bastian Orthmann et al. (2025). A Field Study of Multi-User Augmented Reality to Facilitate Collaborative Ship Navigation. (external link)
• Patrik Sörqvist; Bjørn Sætrevik (2010). The neural basis of updating: Distinguishing substitution processes from other concurrent processes. (external link)
• Floris Hendrikus Johannes van den Oever; Morten Fjeld; Bjørn Sætrevik (2024). A Systematic Literature Review of Augmented Reality for Maritime Collaboration. (external link)
• Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Jarle Eid; Sigurd William Hystad et al. (2013). A brief safety climate inventory for petro-maritime organizations. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kenneth Hugdahl (2007). Priming inhibits the right ear advantage in dichotic listening: Implications for auditory laterality. (external link)
• Maria-Therese Friehs; Patrick F. Kotzur; Christine Kraus et al. (2022). Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries. (external link)
• Mari Strand; Bjørn Sætrevik; Anders Lund et al. (2013). The relationship between residual symptoms of depression and emotional information processing. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Patrik Sörqvist (2015). Updating working memory in aircraft noise and speech causes different fMRI activations. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kenneth Hugdahl (2007). Endogenous and exogenous control of attention in dichotic listening. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Karsten Specht (2009). Cognitive conflict and inhibition in primed dichotic listening. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2012). The right ear advantage revisited: Speech lateralization in dichotic listening using consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant syllables. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kjersti Fuskeland; Eline Wøien Hansen et al. (2014). Oversikt over vurderingsmetoder for bevissthetstilstander etter ervervet hjerneskade. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2012). A controlled field study of situation awareness and heart rate variability in emergency handling teams. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Rolf Reber; Petter Sannum (2006). The Utility of Implicit Learning in the Teaching of Rules. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2010). The influence of visual information on auditory lateralization. (external link)
• Sörqvist Patrik; Bjørn Sætrevik (2010). The neural basis of updating: Distinguishing substitution processes from other concurrent processes. (external link)
• Sigurd William Hystad; Evelyn Saus-Rose; Bjørn Sætrevik et al. (2013). Fatigue in seafarers working in the offshore oil and gas re-supply industry: effects of safety climate, psychosocial work environment and shift arrangement. (external link)
• Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim; Bjørn Sætrevik (2022). Manipulating risk of infection and appeal to public benefit increase compliance with infection control measures in a hypothetical pandemic scenario. (external link)
• Thea Gregersen; Rouven Doran; Gisela Böhm et al. (2022). Did concern about COVID-19 drain from a ‘finite pool of worry’ for climate change? Results from longitudinal panel data. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2010). A biased competition model accounts for negative priming in a free choice situation as residual effects of inhibitory conflict resolution. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim (2022). Motivational factors were more important than perceived risk or optimism for compliance to infection control measures in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. (external link)
• Rune Aune Mentzoni; Bjørn Sætrevik; Helge Molde et al. (2014). Attentional bias in snus users: An experimental study. (external link)
• Jarle Eid; Emilie Bøhn; Martine Guderud et al. (2024). A qualitative study of the psychological effects of quarantine as an infection control measure in Norway. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; René J. Huster; Christoph Siegfried Herrmann (2013). Proactive and reactive sequential effects on selective attention. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Karsten Specht (2012). Cognitive conflict in a syllable identification task causes transient activation of speech perception area. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2013). Developing a context-general self-report approach to measuring three-level situation awareness. (external link)
• David C. Vaidis; Willem Sleegers; Florian van Leeuwen et al. (2024). A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Rebecca Jane Cox; Dagrun Waag Linchausen et al. (2025). Perceived infection risk, infection exposure, and compliance to infection control measures among the first COVID-19 patients in Norway. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Sigurd William Hystad (2021). Ship Leadership, Situation Awareness, and Crew Safety Behaviour-Preregistered Replications in Two Survey Datasets. (external link)
• Kristin Stenshol; Patrick Risan; Ståle Knudsen et al. (2023). An explorative study of Police student’s decision-making in a critical incident scenario simulation. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2021). Realistic Expectations and Prosocial Behavioural Intentions to the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Norwegian Population. (external link)
• Floris Hendrikus Johannes van den Oever; Valentina Gorobets; Bjørn Sætrevik et al. (2022). Comparing Visual Search between Physical Environments and VR. (external link)
• Helge Molde; Ståle Pallesen; Bjørn Sætrevik et al. (2010). Attentional biases among pathological gamblers. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2017). Replikasjonskrisen. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Solmaz Ghanonisaber; Guro Elise Lunde (2018). Power imbalance between supply vessels and offshore installations may impede the communication of safety issues. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Jarle Eid (2014). The "similarity Index" as an indicator of shared mental models and situation awareness in field studies. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kristine Bærøe; Benedicte Carlsen et al. (2021). Nordmenn stolte på myndighetenes informasjon og tiltak i starten av koronapandemien.. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2012). Facilitating and inhibiting effects of priming and selection criteria in a sequence of dichotic listening trials. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Hallgeir Sjåstad (2022). Mortality salience effects fail to replicate in traditional and novel measures. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2015). Psychophysiology, task complexity, and team factors determine emergency response teams' shared beliefs. (external link)
• Sina Storelv; Bjørn Sætrevik (2023). Nothing Is Certain Except Taxes and the Other Thing: Searching for Death Anxiety in a Large Online Sample. (external link)
• Line Raknes Hjellvik; Bjørn Sætrevik (2020). Can Survey Measures Predict Key Performance Indicators of Safety? Confirmatory and Exploratory Analyses of the Association Between Self-Report and Safety Outcomes in the Maritime Industry. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Sunniva Berge Ørbeck; Maria Vannes Helland et al. (2020). Decreased Job Security Without Change in Safety During Hydrocarbon Industry Recession. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Amit Sharma; Gesa Praetorius; Reto Weber et al. (2025). From ship to shore: Understanding Cognitive Challenges in Remote Pilotage Operations. (external link)

Popular science article

• Sebastian Brun Bjørkheim; Bjørn Sætrevik; Marit Knapstad (2022). Hvilke grunner har folk til å ikke følge smitteverntiltakene?. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kristine Bærøe (2022). Disse koronatiltakene er mest belastende for folk. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2020). Nordmenn var mindre redde, men fulgte fortsatt korona-tiltakene i sommer og høst. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik; Kristine Bærøe; Benedicte Carlsen (2021). Vil fellesskapsfølelse få flere til å ta koronavaksinen?. (external link)
• Bjørn Sætrevik (2020). De første koronasmittede fulgte i mindre grad smittevernrådene. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Bjørn Sætrevik (2008). Cognitive Control in Auditory Processing. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Perceived risk and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Using Augmented Reality to Facilitate Maritime Collaboration

Decision making in operative police training scenarios

Decision making in clinical settings

Safety factors among maritime crew on hire for offshore hydrocarbon industry

Situation awareness and teamwork in emergency centrals

Individual, interpersonal and organizational factors in safety in petro-maritime work