Search for dissertations about: "Optimism control"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Optimism control.
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1. Self-Control, Financial Well-Being, and Motivated Reasoning : Essays in Behavioral Finance
Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of how individual differences in intuitive and analytic decision making are associated with people’s behavior as well as their well-being. The first three essays investigate, in turn, how self-control—a typical System 2 driven ability—correlates with financial behavior, financial well-being, and affective forecasting ability. READ MORE
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2. Synchronization Techniques in Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
Abstract : Discrete event simulation is an important tool for evaluating system models in many fields of science and engineering. To improve the performance of large-scale discrete event simulations, several techniques to parallelize discrete event simulation have been developed. READ MORE
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3. Bending and Mending the Neurosignature : Elicting the Relaxation Response with help of Flotation-REST ( Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique) in Patients with Stress Related Pain
Abstract : Abstract. The overarching purpose of the current thesis was to assess the long term effects of a documented treatment program involving flotation-REST for the experience of pain, from the point of view of variables connected with Melzack´s neuromatrix theory, and to examine the extent of a potential attention-placebo effect in connection with flotation-REST. READ MORE
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4. Attributes Modulating Affective Profiles in Psychiatric Patients
Abstract : Psychiatrically disabled individuals (study I and II) as well as those with an additional deafness or are hard-of -hearing (study III and IV) often have the burden of a hidden affective disability. Positive (PA) and negative affects (NA) have emerged as significant independent dimensions in studies of affective structure. READ MORE
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5. The Prometheus Complex : Striving for competence
Abstract : The purpose of the present investigations was to obtain a more comprehensive view of fire setting by children and adolescents; to explore the prevalence of the phenomenon; whether or not it experimentally may be related to frustration or boredom and to examine the role of personality traits such as optimism, pessimism and creativity. This dissertation consists of two experimental and two interview studies. READ MORE