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  • Increasing Mind Wandering With Accelerated Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation Over the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex 

    Aasen, Steffen Rygg; Drevland, Ragnhild Nicolaisen; Csifcsák, Gábor; Mittner, Matthias (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-03-30)
    Mind wandering (MW) is the intentional or unintentional experience of attending to internal task-unrelated thoughts while being occupied with an external task. Even though maintaining task focus is assumed to require executive functions (EF), it is not clear how and to what extent MW and EF interact. Research has found that activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is associated with ...

  • Situational Cues in Thoughts About the Future: Relationships With Self-Reported and Actual Self-Regulation Success 

    Kristiansen, Ingar Mikkola; Martiny-Huenger, Torsten; Parks-Stamm, Elizabeth J. (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-02-13)
    Based on stimulus-response learning accounts, we argue that including situational cues in thought about intended actions is an important aspect of self-regulation success in general and in successfully implementing delayed intentions. Accordingly, in Study 1 (N = 328) we replicate a previous study and show a positive relationship between the self-reported inclusion of situational cues in thoughts ...

  • Drop-out and transfer-out intentions: The role of socio-cognitive factors 

    Nemtcan, Efim (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2020-05-15)
    The current study addresses academic attrition from the perspective of behavioral intentions. Specifically, we focus on the roles of academic skills and academic self-efficacy related to attrition intentions. Based on existing research, we expected a negative relation between academic skills and attrition intentions, with academic self-efficacy as a possible mediator. Furthermore, it was explored ...

  • What Do I Want to Be? Predictors of Communal Occupational Aspirations in Early to Middle Childhood 

    Olsen, Marte; Olsson, Maria I. T.; Parks-Stamm, Elizabeth J.; Kvalø, Marie; Thorsteinsen, Kjærsti; Steffens, Melanie C.; Martiny, Sarah E. (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-03-30)
    Research investigating occupational aspirations in childhood is scarce. In addition, most research on occupational aspirations has focused on increasing the number of women in agentic, high- paying jobs. Therefore, we investigate factors associated with communal occupational aspirations in two studies with young children (Study 1: 159 children, Mage = 5.51 years; Study 2: 96 children; Mage = 9.44 ...

  • Hazardous Alcohol Use and Insomnia in women and men: Insights from the population-based Tromsø Study 2015-2016. 

    Husberg, Vendela (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-03-23)
    Background and aims: Hazardous alcohol use is known to be comorbid with insomnia. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of co-occurring hazardous alcohol use and insomnia symptoms, and the odds of insomnia among women and men with a hazardous alcohol use, using logistic regression and covariate-adjusted moderation analysis. Design setting: Cross-sectional data from the seventh survey ...

  • Regression-based norms for the FAS phonemic fluency test for ages 40–84 based on a Norwegian sample 

    Lorentzen, Ingrid Myrvoll; Espenes, Jacob; Hessen, Erik; Waterloo, Knut; Bråthen, Geir; Timón, Santiago; Aarsland, Dag; Fladby, Tormod; Bjørn-Eivind, Kirsebom (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-01-06)
    The FAS phonemic fluency test is a commonly used neuropsychological test of executive function and processing speed. Although Norwegian discrete norms have been developed for the FAS test, American regression-based norms are frequently used by clinicians in Norway. However, language and cultural differences impact performance on the FAS test, and using foreign norms may not be appropriate. Moreover, ...

  • The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on the interplay between executive control, behavioral variability and mind wandering: A registered report 

    Alexandersen, Andreas (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-03-31)
    Mind wandering (MW) is a mental phenomenon humans experience daily. Yet, we lack a complete understanding of the neural basis of this pervasive mental state. Over the past decade there has been an increase in publications using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate the propensity to mind wander, but findings are diverse, and a satisfactory conclusion is missing. Recently, Boayue ...

  • Does the Stereotypicality of Mothers’ Occupation Influence Children’s Communal Occupational Aspirations and Communal Orientation? 

    Kvalø, Marie; Olsen, Marte; Thorsteinsen, Kjærsti; Olsson, Maria; Martiny, Sarah E. (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-02-10)
    Career development is a lifelong process that starts in infancy and is shaped by a number of different factors during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Even though career development is shaped through life, relatively little is known about the predictors of occupational aspirations in childhood. Therefore, in the present work we investigate how the stereotypicality of a mother’s occupation ...

  • Can we reliably measure cognitive effort? On the relation of implicit and explicit cognitive effort scales and tasks. 

    Mækelæ, Martin Jensen (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-04-01)
    We tend to choose the action that is least demanding however measuring individual differences in the cost of cognitive effort can be elusive. We here report a set of five studies studying the relationship between four cognitive effort measures: the demand selection task, the cognitive effort discounting paradigm, a rationality battery to assess deliberate reasoning, and the Need for Cognition scale. ...