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"Too much is never enough" Psychological studies of substance misuse and other excessive behaviors
(2014-11-07)Substance misuse (SM) as well as excessive food intake, sexual activities, exercise, and gambling is characterized by repeated use against one’s better judgment and despite negative consequences. Moreover, SM and excessive ... -
Towards a theory of true and false intentions
(2016-05-13)An ability to discriminate between statements of true and false intent is critical for many legal professionals. However, it is only in recent years that psycho-legal researchers have turned to this topic. The current ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Trust as a strategy for handling uncertainty in private savings choices
(2015-05-11)This thesis examines trust in banks and financial expertise as a way of coping with the uncertainty involved in financial decision making. Trust is considered to be beneficial in general and uncertainty is assumed to induce ... -
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 ... -
Using social norms in energy conservation interventions
(2017-12-07)When designing interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors, practitioners may choose between techniques based on, for example, education, incentives, or social norms. These intervention techniques may, however, ... -
Value Orientation, Awareness of Consequences, and Environmental Concern
(2011-05-20)The tenets of the value-basis approach to environmental concern are (i) that environmental concern is motivated by beliefs about adverse egoistic (e.g., own health), social-altruistic (e.g., peoples’ health), and biospheric ... -
Violence in Close Relationships, Sexual Risk- taking, and Help-seeking among Young Men
(2020-10-29)In close relationships and through sexual intimacy, most adolescents and young adults have opportunities to develop the ability to experience emo-tional intimacy and trust. This thesis focuses on problematic phenomena that ... -
Visuospatial inattention and processing speed: Predictors of long-term outcome and patterns of change after ischemic stroke
(2019-11-05)Impairments of visuospatial attention, language, and processing speed (PS) are common early after stroke and have been associated with unfavorable short-term functional outcomes but little is known about this relationship ... -
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 ... -
Walk with me: Pastoral care for victims of sexual abuse viewed through existential psychology
(2015-01-09)Pastoral care can be described as a cleric’s presence with people in their time of need, to promote their well-being and strengthen them in their faith. One dimension of working through an overwhelming trauma, such as ... -
"What people tell you gets to you". Body satisfaction and peer victimization in early adolescence.
(2009-02-20)Satisfaction with one’s appearance and peer relationships, respectively, are salient components of adolescents’ everyday lives. Difficulties in either of these domains may be detrimental to individuals’ psychological ... -
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 ... -
You don’t have to love it - Exploring the mechanisms of exercise motivation using self-determination theory in a digital context
(2016-04-05)Most Western countries have developed guidelines and programs to inform and promote regular physical activity and exercise behaviours in order to gain desired health benefits for the population. Unfortunately, health ...