Search for dissertations about: "Motivated"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 936 swedish dissertations containing the word Motivated.

  2. 1. Financial literacy, motivated reasoning, and gender : essays in behavioral economics

    Author : Thérèse Lind; Ali M. Ahmed; Gustav Tinghög; Daniel Västfjäll; Morten Lau; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Financial Literacy; Financial Behavior; Financial Well-being; Motivated Reasoning; Gender Differences; Behavioral Economics; Experiments;

    Abstract : I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. READ MORE

  4. 2. Criminal investigation: A case of Motivated cognition?

    Author : Karl Ask; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cognitive closure; criminal investigation; epistemic goals; motivated cognition; police;

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  5. 3. Self-Control, Financial Well-Being, and Motivated Reasoning : Essays in Behavioral Finance

    Author : Camilla Strömbäck; Ali M. Ahmed; Gustav Tinghög; Daniel Västfjäll; Marcus Selart; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Dual-process theory; Self-control; Financial behavior; Financial well-being; Affective forecasting; Motivated reasoning;

    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

  6. 4. Perceptually Motivated Constraints on 3D Visualizations

    Author : Camilla Forsell; Mats Lind; Thomas Porathe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Människa-dator-interaktion; Perception; 3D; Human-Computer Interaction; Information visualization; User studies; Människa-dator-interaktion;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses some important characteristics of human visual perception and their implications for three-dimensional (3D) information visualization. The effort can be divided into two parts. First, findings from vision science are explored and validated. READ MORE

  7. 5. Perceptually motivated speech recognition and mispronunciation detection

    Author : Christos Koniaris; Olov Engwall; Martin Cooke; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; feature extraction; feature selection; auditory models; MFCCs; speech recognition; distortion measures; perturbation analysis; psychoacoustics; human perception; sensitivity matrix; pronunciation error detection; phoneme; second language; perceptual assessment;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis is the result of a research effort performed in two fields of speech technology, i.e., speech recognition and mispronunciation detection. Although the two areas are clearly distinguishable, the proposed approaches share a common hypothesis based on psychoacoustic processing of speech signals. READ MORE