Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen: Recent submissions
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People´s knowledge about climate change: Uncertainty as a guide to future commitments
(2008-08-21)Knowledge of climate change is provided by scientists to other groups in society who have to interact to establish sustainable development. Hence, the knowledge must reach people and the content must be evaluated as important ... -
CCTV, Live and Videotapes: How Presentation Mode Affects the Evaluation of Witnesses
(2008-04-29)Videotaped and closed circuit testimonies are often used in legal procedures, but little is known about the psychological effects of these courtroom technologies. The present thesis examines how different presentation modes ... -
Mental representation and language access. Evidence from deaf children with different language backgrounds
(2007)The present work investigated the relationship between mentalizing skills on the one hand and different language experiences and cognitive characteristics on the other hand. The aim of study I was to determine whether ... -
Distributive Preferences in Social Dilemmas
(2006)In research on social dilemmas and in game theoretic research, it was for a long time assumed that the rational decision is to choose an option with the most beneficial economic outcome to oneself. Yet, in group situations, ... -
Memory, attention and interaction in early development : exploring individual differences among typical children and children with autism
(2007)This thesis aimed to study differences in early memory ability, social attention and interaction and how these different areas affect language and cognitive development. This was done using a longitudinal approach where a ... -
Assessing and treating three to twelve-year-olds displaying disruptive behaviour problems
(2007)The aim of this thesis was (a) to examine a Swedish version of a measure for early identification and treatment evaluation of children with disruptive behaviour problems and (b) to explore the effectiveness, in terms of ... -
Diversity in residential care and treatment for young people in Sweden
(2007)The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe the diversity in residential care and treatment for young people in Sweden on the individual level, the interactional level and the contextual level. This thesis ... -
Residential care for young people in Sweden : homes, staff and residents
(2007)This thesis studies residential care for young persons (13-18 years of age) with emotional and behavioural problems. An overall aim is to examine and describe different aspects of residential care. The thesis consists of ... -
Effects of certainty on decision making under uncertainty : using subsidies to reduce production of environmental harmful products
(2007)The present thesis investigates the effects of an environmental policy, with the focus on producers’ decision making, which may be used as a means to decrease the production of environmentally harmful products. A subsidy ... -
Experimental studies of human-computer interaction : working memory and mental workload in complex cognition
(2007)Experimental Studies of Human-Computer Interaction: Working memory and mental workload in complex cognition Complex cognition is readily described as cognitive tasks requiring the coordination of multiple steps of processing ... -
Temperament - a psychobiological approach to harm avoidance and novelty seeking
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2006)This thesis explores if rats can be said to have a temperament, and if that is the case, how it changes with age and how it is related to brain neurochemistry. Using the hole board and canopy tests (considered to measure ... -
Girls' and Boys' Views of Conflicts with Parents
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2005-09-09)The aim of the present thesis was to examine the perceptions, beliefs and agency of children between 6 and 9 years of age in transgression and conflict situations. An overall goal was to examine the importance of gender ... -
Noise and Music - A Matter of Risk Perception?
(2006-10-05)The prevalence of tinnitus and hearing impairments among adolescents seems to increase as a consequence of exposure to loud noise. Several studies have highlighted the negative auditory effects of exposure to loud music ... -
Criminal investigation : motivation, emotion and cognition in the processing of evidence
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2006)This thesis examines biases in judgments made in the context of criminal investigation, drawing theoretically on frameworks developed in social and cognitive psychology. Study I investigated the existence of confirmation ... -
On the relation between psychosocial work environment and musculoskeletal symptoms : a structural equation modeling approach
(Stockholm : Arbetslivsinstitutet, förlagstjänst, 2006, 2006) -
The psychology of diversification : Novice investors’ ability to spread risks
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2006)In order to reduce risk, portfolio theory prescribes holding a stock portfolio that is diversified across industries and countries. This thesis investigates novice investors’ ability to compile well-diversified portfolios ... -
Perception of Value of Money in Unfamiliar Currencies
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2005)The real value of money as well as the perceived value of money is subject to changes. Inflation and deflation are examples of changes in real value. It has been shown that these changes do not always correspond to changes ... -
Interrogating to detect deception and truth : effects of strategic use of evidence
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2005)Several decades of research has shown that people are poor at detecting deception. This thesis, based on four empirical studies, aimed at exploring human deception detection accuracy in the context of interrogations. In ... -
Mental health aspects of paranormal and psi related experiences
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2004)This thesis aimed to investigate if paranormal beliefs and experiences represent signs of psychological ill-health or if they are neutral regarding psychological health. A further aim was to validate subjective paranormal ...