Jostein Rise

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Jostein Rise (born 1945) is a Norwegian social psychologist.

He is the director of the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research from 1 October 2005, having worked there since 2002. He has been a professor at the University of Bergen, and assisting professor (professor II) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Oslo. [1]

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  1. Profile at the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research
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