Search for dissertations about: "abstract thesis about psychology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the words abstract thesis about psychology.

2. 1. Social psychological barriers to a gender balanced labor market : The role of gender identity threats, friendship priorities, and perceived discrimination

   Author : Samantha Sinclair; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; occupational preferences; gender typed choice; career compromise; gender identity threat; friendship; perceived discrimination; social psychology; vocational psychology; Psychology;

   Abstract : Gender remains a key predictor of vocational choice. The present thesis aimed to investigate three social psychological barriers to nontraditional career choice. Study Ӏ showed that threats to gender identity may lead to more gender-typical occupational preferences among adolescents. READ MORE

4. 2. The Prometheus Complex : Striving for competence

   Author : Renée Perrin-Wallqvist; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Childhood; Fire setting; Adolescence; Psychology; Development psychology; Psykologi; Utvecklingspsykologi; Psykologi;

   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

5. 3. To See or Not to See a Sexually Abused Child in a Picture

   Author : Lotten Lindblom; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social psychology; Psychology; Professionals; Dissociation; Coping; Sexuality; Maltreatment; Personality; Child sexual abuse; Picture; Socialpsykologi; Psykologi;

   Abstract : This investigation comprises five studies of factors determining adults' interpretations of a picture (Threat), drawn to represent sexual abuse of a child. The sexes of the two persons in the picture were on purpose drawn ambiguously. READ MORE

6. 4. Is the Intuitive Statistician Eager or Lazy? : Exploring the Cognitive Processes of Intuitive Statistical Judgments

   Author : Marcus Lindskog; Anders Winman; Peter Juslin; Klaus Fiedler; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Lazy intuitive statistician; Eager intuitive statistician; Intuitive statistics; Sampling model; Numerical cognition; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Numerical information is ubiquitous and people are continuously engaged in evaluating it by means of intuitive statistical judgments. Much research has evaluated if people’s judgments live up to the norms of statistical theory but directed far less attention to the cognitive processes that underlie the judgments. READ MORE

7. 5. Our Selves in the Future : New Angles on Possible Selves

   Author : Martin G. Erikson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Experience; Meaning; Social cognition; Possible selves; The Self; Conceptions of future; Psykologi;

   Abstract : Possible selves are conceptions or images of ourselves in future states or situations. The theory about possible selves used in the present thesis was developed in a social cognitive tradition of research on the self, where the self is seen as a knowledge structure (Markus & Nurius, 1986). READ MORE