Search for dissertations about: "happy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 swedish dissertations containing the word happy.

2. 1. Happy with the method? : Sexual function changes in young women using contraception

   Author : Agota Malmborg; Mats Hammar; Jan Brynhildsen; Alkistis Skalkidou; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Background: Sexuality and contraception are closely linked topics. In theory, hormonal contraception use might affect female sexual function in both positive and negative directions. Some women experience and report adverse sexual function changes while they use hormonal contraception while others report no or positive changes. READ MORE

4. 2. A "happy" approach to speechreading : the effects of facial expression, emotional content, and script information on speechreading performance

   Author : Karina Johansson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis was to study if and how emotions in facial expressions affect speechreading performance. Speechreading is the understanding of spoken messages by watching the speaker's lips, taking facial expressions and situational cues into account. READ MORE

5. 3. Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

   Author : David Cardell; Anna Sparrman; Tom O’Dell; Cook Daniel Thomas; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Happy; emotions; childhood; time; money; value; amusement park; leisure; tourism; mesh; ethnography; Nöjespark; temapark; glädje; nöje; känslor; etnografi; fritid; turism; värde; konsumtion; barn; barndom; familj;

   Abstract : This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness are explored, as well as conditions for and challenges to happiness, through an analysis of video-recorded interviews and mobile ethnography conducted in two of the most popular theme parks in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. Expecting Happy Women, Not Detecting the Angry Ones : Detection and Perceived Intensity of Facial Anger, Happiness, and Emotionality

   Author : Tonya S. Pixton; Åke Hellström; Maria Larsson; James A. Russell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Signal Detection Perception ; Happiness; Anger; Face Perception; Facial Expressions; Superiority Effects; Gender Differences; Response Bias; Scaling; Euclidean Distance; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Faces provide cues for judgments regarding the emotional state of individuals. Using signal-detection methodology and a standardized stimulus set, the overall aim of the present dissertation was to investigate the detection of emotional facial expressions (i.e., angry and happy faces) with neutral expressions as the nontarget stimuli. READ MORE

7. 5. KNOTCIRCUS : Or ‘Being the Adventures of Happy Down-River’

   Author : Jonathan Priest; Rolf Hughes; André Lepecki; Adrian Heathfield; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Circus; circus research; the circus trick; loop; paradox; contradiction; tautology; knot; knotcircus; fiction; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts;

   Abstract : This is an investigation of the trick as it relates to three fields; gravity, language and capital.   I will fully break down and unpack what I mean by ‘trick’ later in this introduction, in the mean time I refer to it as something that refutes the systemic validity of the system through which it proceeds. READ MORE