Search for dissertations about: "affect"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6561 swedish dissertations containing the word affect.

2. 1. Dream affect : Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Emotions and Moods Experienced in Dreams

   Author : Pilleriin Sikka; Antti Revonsuo; Katja Valli; Antonio Zadra; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; dreaming; affect; emotions; self-ratings; external ratings; REM sleep; well-being; peace of mind; frontal alpha asymmetry; Consciousness and Cognitive Neuroscience; Kognitiv neurovetenskap och filosofi;

   Abstract : We experience affect—emotions and mood—not only when we are awake but alsoduring dreaming. Despite considerable research, existing theories and empiricalfindings disagree about the frequency, nature, and correlates of dream affect. In thisthesis, I discuss the conceptual and methodological issues that underlie thesediscrepancies. READ MORE

4. 2. On Aspects of Mathematical Reasoning : Affect and Gender

   Author : Lovisa Sumpter; Johan Lithner; Markku Hannula; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; affect; beliefs; gender; mathematical reasoning; problem solving; upper secondary school; Other mathematics; Övrig matematik; matematikdidaktik; didactics of mathematics;

   Abstract : This thesis explores two aspects of mathematical reasoning: affect and gender. I started by looking at the reasoning of upper secondary students when solving tasks. READ MORE

5. 3. The mediation of affect : security, fear and subversive hope in visual culture

   Author : Rodrigo Ferrada Stoehrel; Simon Lindgren; Eric Carlsson; Kari Andén-Papadopoulos; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; affect; emotion; aesthetics; visual culture; discourse; Otherness; power; security; media and communication studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The overarching purpose of this study has been to problematise how visual practices and the mediation of affect is linked to the capacity to produce (new) perceptual realities, sensations and imaginaries, ultimately aiming to legitimate or counter-legitimate the hegemonic discourses and practices mobilised in the name of security. The first part of my thesis approaches this matter through an analysis of media cultures and discursive systems circulating within the court and the state military. READ MORE

6. 4. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature

   Author : Ola Jönsson; Danuta Fjellestad; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Heinz Ickstadt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suburbia; affect; masculinity; domophobia; masculinity in crisis; separate spheres; fatherhood; Joyce Carol Oates; Rick Moody; Philip Roth; John Updike; Richard Yates; John Cheever.; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. READ MORE

7. 5. Consciousness about own and others’ affects

   Author : Börje Lech; Rolf Holmqvist; Gerhard Andersson; Finn Skårderud; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Affect; affect consciousness; affect consciousness interview- self other; emotion; psychopathology; relationships; Affekt; affektmedvetenhet; affektmedvetenhetsintervjun-själv andra; AMI-S A; emotion; känsla; psykopatologi; relation;

   Abstract : It is essential for individuals’ well-being and relationships that they have the ability to consciously experience, express and respond to their own and others’ affects. The validity of a new conception of affect consciousness (AC), incorporating consciousness of both own and others’ affects, was investigated in this thesis. READ MORE