Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Psykologiska institutionen: Recent submissions
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How Do Bank Officers Make Lending Decisions? An Exploration of Thinking Styles, Cognitive Bias and Lending Technologies
(2014-04-25)The overall aim of this thesis was to examine how loan officers’ think and act when making assessments of loan proposals from companies. The importance of valid loan assessments can be understood through the substantial ... -
Age Differences in Experience and Regulation of Affect
(2014-04-24)The overall aim of the thesis is to investigate differences in how younger and older adults view and control affect. Study I and Study II investigate how participants view their happiness and what factors influence their ... -
Without you there is no me: An interpersonal framing of psychosis
(2014-01-31)The general aim of this thesis was to explore experiences of interpersonal relationships of individuals with psychotic disorders and to explore patients’ understanding of their symptoms. The four studies covered different ... -
True and false intentions: Mental images of the future
(2013-11-15)Being able to detect deception about future actions is of clear societal value. At its best, it could prevent crimes before they happen. This is why research has begun to study how to assess the veracity of statements ... -
Body Image in Adolescence: Through the Lenses of Culture, Gender, and Positive Psychology
(2013-11-06)Adolescents’ body image (i.e., feelings and thoughts about their body and appearance) is central to their health and wellbeing. This thesis, which examined adolescents’ body image, comprised two parts. The first part ... -
Visuospatial Neglect and Processing Speed: Importance of Lateralized and Nonlateralized Symptoms as Predictors of Functional Outcome after Stroke
(2013-10-01)Abstract Viken, J. I. (2013). Visuospatial neglect and processing speed: importance of lateralized and nonlateralized symptoms as predictors of functional outcome after stroke. Department of Psychology, and the Stroke ... -
ADHD in Old Age: Self-rated Symptoms and Clinical Information from a Population-Based Swedish Sample Aged 65 and Older
(2013-08-21)DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IN PSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACT Guldberg-Kjär, Taina (2013). ADHD in old age - Self-rated symptoms and Clinical information from a Population-Based Swedish Sample Aged 65 and older. Department of Psychology. ... -
Leadership and Innovation in R&D Teams
(2013-08-19)This thesis focuses on the members of industrial research and development (R&D) teams and their leaders. The field of individual innovation is fragmented and lacks research that coherently integrates psychological factors ... -
Meta-metakognition : The regulation of confidence realism in episodic and semantic memory
(2013-05-24)The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether people have the ability to make their confidence judgments for episodic and semantic memory tasks more realistic. How realistic a person’s confidence judgments are reflects ... -
Mindfulness: Relations to attention regulation, decentering and psychological well-being
(2013-05-14)The current research project consists of three separate studies. The general aim of this project was to contribute to previous mindfulness research by exploring fundamental aspects of mindfulness in an effort to increase ... -
Detecting lies about past and future actions: The Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique and suspects’ strategies
(2013-05-06)In legal settings, it is of paramount importance to correctly discriminate between truthful and deceptive statements. Research has however shown that people generally only obtain accuracy rates around the level of chance. ... -
User involvement in designing a web-based support system for young carers – inspiring views and systemic barriers
(2013-04-17)The studies in this dissertation have their origin in the research project PS Young Support. This project aimed to develop and evaluate a web-based support system (WBSS) for young people living close to someone with mental ... -
That's how people grow up: Identity formation in emerging adulthood
(2013-03-27)The overall aim of this thesis was to study emerging adults’ identity formation and its relationship to other aspects of their psychosocial development and living situations. The three studies of this thesis examined how ... -
Depression and distress in Swedish fathers in the postnatal period - prevalence, correlates, identification, and support
(2013-03-27)The general aim of this thesis was to examine how fathers, and to some extent mothers, with postnatal depression and distress were identified and supported by nurses in Swedish child health care (CHC), and to learn more ... -
All Ears: Adults' and Children's Earwitness Testimony
(2013-02-07)Many crimes are committed under conditions of darkness, by masked perpetrators or over a phone. In such cases the witnesses’ auditory observations may have a vital role in the investigative phase and in court. Nevertheless, ... -
Leadership and Creativity in Research: Investigations of Leadership and Leader – Member Exchange (LMX) in Research Groups
(2012-11-23)This thesis is an examination of leadership and creativity in research. Specifically, it studies leadership and creativity in academic research groups and commercial research groups in the biosciences. Leaders in these ... -
Experiences of Parenthood and the Child with an Intellectual Disability
(2012-11-23)When a child is diagnosed with an intellectual disability (ID) the experience of parenthood is affected and parents’ descriptions tend to vary, containing a wide spectrum of emotions that may change over time. In the present ... -
The Damage Done - Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and their Mothers: Towards empirically based interventions in order to reduce negative health effects in children
(2012-09-17)Violence in intimate relationships occurs in all societies, and intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent and serious social problem. Mothers of young children are particularly often victims of IPV, the consequences ... -
Psychological factors associated with substance use in adolescents
(2012-05-18)This thesis examines possible factors related to use of substances, with specific focus on psychological factors associated with increased risk of using illicit drugs. Thus, factors such as gender, personality traits, ...