Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen: Recent submissions
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Identity: Understanding Aspects of Process, Content, and Structure in Context
(2019-10-16)The overall aim of this thesis was to broaden our knowledge of identity by using an integrated theoretical approach to understanding multidimensional aspects of identity process, content, and structure. Specifically, in ... -
Determinants of Guilty Suspects’ Behavior in Investigative Interviews: Evidence-Disclosure Tactics and Question Content
(2019-09-18)Research in the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) paradigm has shown that guilty suspect’s verbal behavior is a product of the counter-interrogation strategies suspects employ based on the prior knowledge they believe ... -
Change and Continuity in Psychological Health Across the Retirement Transition: Interindividual Differences and Post-Retirement Adjustment
(2019-09-05)Retirement is an important life event. Individuals leave their place of work, which often played a vital part in their daily lives, and enter a new phase of life with new opportunities, new challenges and new roles. The ... -
Retirement and Life Satisfaction: A Resource-Based Dynamic Perspective
(2019-08-29)Retirement from work is a major life event requiring adjustment to new life circumstances. The impact of retirement on well-being has been shown to vary, not only between individuals, but also within individuals over time. ... -
Being at home in one's body. Body image in light of identity development
(2019-05-14)Although the importance of the body to people’s identities has long been theoretically inferred, research linking body image and identity development is scarce. The objective of this thesis was to address this research gap ... -
Children with Congenital Heart Defects. Intellectual Functioning and Family Impact
(2019-05-13)The purpose of the present doctoral thesis was to investigate intellectual functioning and the influence of the children with congenital heart defects in their families. We analyzed how the severity of the heart defect, ... -
REACHING OUT WITH UNIVERSAL PARENTAL SUPPORT
(2019-04-30)The overarching aim of this thesis was to explore the general interest in universal parental support, the circumstances under which this interest is stronger, and how universal support groups for parents of adolescents ... -
True and False Intentions: A Mental Representational Approach
(2019-04-25)The study of true and false intentions is a specific case of deception-detection research. The focus is on how to discriminate between lies and truths about future behavior, as opposed to previous deception research that ... -
Memory-Based Approaches to the Examination of Alibis Provided by Innocent Suspects
(2019-02-07)The aim of the current thesis was to extend research on suspect alibis by exploring how the process of providing alibis may be improved for innocent suspects, for whom the provision of inaccurate and incomplete alibis may ... -
Memory-based Lie Detection in Repeated Interviews: The Importance of Early Use of Mnemonics
(2019-01-23)The aim of this thesis was to examine how memory-enhancing (mnemonic) techniques used in an interview carried out immediately after an event affected truth tellers’ and liars’ responses in both an immediate interview and ... -
Managers in Human Service Organizations and their interaction with the Media - the managers´ experiences
(2019-01-07)The combination of three forces; the Human Service Organizations’ (HSOs) desire for visibility, the citizens’ interest in the HSOs and the increasing pressure upon media actors to attract the interest of the audiences have ... -
Psychological perspectives on alcohol use among young adolescents: Mental health and personality
(2018-11-09)Alcohol use is an important risk factor in psychosocial development through adolescence that has been incompletely examined among the youngest adolescents. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to investigate how mental health ... -
There was nothing but her story: Prosecution of alleged child sexual abuse of preschoolers
(2018-10-26)Investigating and prosecuting cases of alleged sexual abuse against young children is a challenge for legal practitioners worldwide. In Sweden, a prosecutor is in charge of both the preliminary child sexual abuse (CSA) ... -
Blaming victims of rape: Studies on rape myths and beliefs about rape
(2018-10-17)Rape is a crime characterized by low reporting and conviction rates. Many victims who do report, drop out during the justice process. This is a problem both for the victims themselves and for the legal certainty of societies. ... -
Eliciting information in intelligence interviews through priming: An examination of underlying mechanisms
(2018-10-10)An emerging body of research in human intelligence interviewing suggests that subtle influence tactics, such as priming, could be used to increase informants’ disclosure of sensitive information. However, the mechanisms ... -
Do I have enough? On the act of assessing one’s personal resources
(2018-05-25)How do people assess their personal resources? This is a fundamental question, since awareness of your current resources is a prerequisite for mobilizing your efforts to secure, sustain, and safeguard resources in the best ... -
Growing together: Participation in and outcomes of programs for parents of adolescents
(2018-05-25)This thesis is focused on parenting during children’s adolescence and its overarching aim was to investigate universal supports offered to parents of adolescents, specifically group-based parenting programs. The thesis ... -
Birth cohort differences in cognitive aging: Secular trends in cognitive functioning and decline over 30 years in three population-based Swedish samples
(2018-05-04)The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate birth cohort differences in level of cognitive functioning and change in later life in three population-based representative samples drawn from the Gerontological and ... -
Hedonic, neural, and autonomic responses to prolonged gentle touch
(2018-02-26)Physical contact among individuals, such as caressing and cuddling, is connoted by a strong emotional value, and is usually perceived as a pleasant and rewarding experience. C tactile (CT) afferents are a class of fibres ... -
“THE STORY ABOUT ME” Psychological perspectives on young men who sexually offended in adolescence
(2018-02-21)In this thesis I aimed to study, from a psychological viewpoint, what adult life is like for young men who sexually offended in adolescence. Data had previously been gathered from a group of 45 adolescents who had sexually ...