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Children’s sensitivity to eyebrow flash as an ostensive stimulus: a pilot study
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-14)Ostensive signals are an integral part of normal everyday communication, a body of evidence indicates that some of them are innately recognizable to infants. The eyebrow flash has been suggested to be an ostensive signal by authors of human ethology studies. This have been shown little attention in the psychological field, this pilot study therefore has as goal of setting the basis for studying young ... -
Children’s Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relationships with attitudes, family structure, and mothers’ Well-being
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-07)COVID-19 triggered social restrictions worldwide including the shutdown of schools. Whereas research has documented the negative effects on parents’ well-being, less is known about children’s well-being during the pandemic. We investigated the well-being, emotions, and COVID-19-related attitudes of 87 Norwegian elementary children (42 boys, 45 girls; M<sub>age</sub> = 9.66 years, SD = 1.77) and their ... -
"Choosing to live". Experiences of coping in recovery from drug addiction - a phenomenological study
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-02)Abstract Substance addiction is detrimental to the addict, their family, social environment and society as a whole, which is why research needs to approach it with problem solving in mind. The present study has a salutogenic health perspective, and focuses on coping in recovery from substance addiction. The informants’ experiences of coping were explored using the qualitative approach. The informants ... -
Circle of security – Effektivitet, virksomme mekanismer og implementering i barnehage og skole.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-06-30)Circle of security (COS) er et intervensjonsprogram med opprinnelse i USA, som er ment å fremme tilknytningskvaliteten mellom barn og omsorgsperson, og implementeres for tiden i stor grad i Norge. Denne oppgaven tok sikte på å gjennomgå den empiriske forskningslitteraturen som finnes på COS og undersøkte i tillegg om det finnes tilstrekkelig grunnlag for denne implementeringen. Oppgaven tok også for ... -
The Clinical Effectiveness of Web-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Face-to-Face Therapist Support for Depressed Primary Care Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial
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Co-occurrence of avoidant personality disorder and child sexual abuse predicts poor outcome in longstanding eating disorders
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009-12-16)Few consistent predictive factors for eating disorder have been identified across studies. In the current five year prospective study, the objective was to examine whether (1) personality disorder and child sexual abuse predict the course of severity of eating disorder symptoms after inpatient treatment and (2) how the predictors interact. A total of 74 patients with long standing eating disorder ... -
Cognitive function in mild to moderately depressed and previously depressed individuals
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-05-04)The present study explored differences between groups of Never Depressed (ND, n = 50), Previously Depressed (PD, n = 81) and Clinically Depressed (CD, n = 38) individuals with mild to moderate depression severity on tests of executive functions, working memory, memory, attention, and psychomotor speed and information processing. The most striking finding was the absence of significant differences ... -
Combining Mindfulness and Ultraviolet Phototherapy (UVB) in the treatment of moderate Psoriasis. A Pilot Study of patients experiences of the disease and treatment.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-05)We did a small pilot study with mixed method. The data collection included both quantitative data as well as qualitative data from interviews. We recruited sixteen moderate psoriasis patients divided in the following two groups of interventions (n = 8) and control (n = 8). The intervention group was given a brief Mindfulness practice as a supplement for the Ultraviolet Phototherapy. The control group ... -
Combining Prolonged Heat Pain with Low Controllability Over Rewards and Losses Results in Minimal Effects on Value-Based Decision-Making
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)Previous research has shown that experimental manipulations aiming at inducing choice strategies resembling learned helplessness (LH) in healthy adults influence the arbitration between simple and complex decision-making strategies. However, research regarding decision-making and LH-manipulations with experimental pain is lacking. Therefore, the present study applied the new LH-induction method with ... -
The coming PIN code epidemic: A survey study of memory of numeric security codes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010)Most people must remember various numeric passwords, security codes and PIN numbers for banking, credit cards, debit cards, online accounts, mobile phones, door locks, luggage locks, etc. One pilot study (N=13) developed a list of eleven strategies for remembering numeric codes, and another (N=15) optimized the research questionnaire which asked respondents about a) the number of security codes they ... -
Commentary: Transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases propensity of mind-wandering without changing meta-awareness
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-05)A Commentary on <p> <p>Transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases propensity of mind-wandering without changing meta-awareness<p> <p>by Axelrod, V., Zhu, X., & Qui, J. (2018). <i>Scientific Reports</i>, 8:15975. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34098-z -
Communicating public avalanche warnings – what works?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-20)Like many other mountainous countries, Norway has experienced a rapid increase in both recreational winter activities and fatalities in avalanche terrain during the past few decades: during the decade 2008–2017, 64 recreational avalanche fatalities were recorded in Norway. This is a 106% increase from that of the previous decade. In 2013, Norway therefore launched the National Avalanche Warning ... -
Comorbidity of personality disorders in anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis of 30 years of research
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background. A comprehensive meta-analysis to identify the proportions of comorbid personality disorders (PD) across the major subtypes of anxiety disorders (AD) has not previously been published. Methods. A literature search identified 125 empirical papers from the period 1980-2010 on patients with panic disorders, social phobia, generalised anxiety, obsessive-compulsive (OCD) and post-traumatic ... -
A comparison of behavioral and psychological characteristics of patients opting for surgical and conservative treatment for morbid obesity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-05)Background Little is known about the psychological prerequisites for weight loss maintenance after bariatric surgery. A first step in investigating whether existing knowledge of conservative weight loss treatment is applicable for lifestyle interventions postoperatively is to compare specific psychological characteristics at baseline. The aim of this study was to compare patients scheduled for ... -
The computer game training effect for women may depend on initial spatial ability scores
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-01)In this project we tried to explore what it is in games that may enhance spatial abilities. Previous research has shown that action games may enhance gamers’ scores on the Mental Rotation test (MRT), while evidence is found both for and against that puzzle games could do the same. We used three different games, and one control group, with a total of 32 participants matched over these four groups. ... -
Conducting Fieldwork with San and Hadza (Post-)Hunter-Gatherer Communities in Africa: Regulatory and Ethical Issues
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-28)In this paper, we address some of the challenges and opportunities of conducting international research in psychology. We examine issues that arise from working in contexts that differ substantially from those in which most psychological research is still conducted. We take our experiences with Tanzanian and Namibian (post-)hunter-gatherers as a starting point for discussing regulatory and ethical ... -
The Confidence Database
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-03)Understanding how people rate their confidence is critical for the characterization of a wide range of perceptual, memory, motor and cognitive processes. To enable the continued exploration of these processes, we created a large database of confidence studies spanning a broad set of paradigms, participant populations and fields of study. The data from each study are structured in a common, easy-to-use ... -
The Consumer Science of Sharing: A Discussant's Observations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-03-09)This discussant’s response to the collected articles on the consumer behavior of sharing draws on a 1983–99 record of research on the psychology of ownership and property. The major recommendations here are: (1) that sharing be defined as the simultaneous or sequential use of an object (e.g., car), a space (e.g., living room), or an intangible (e.g., identity) by more than one individual; (2) that ... -
Contingency awareness and its effects on fear-potentiated startle and extinction
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-01)Fear-potentiated startle is defined as an increase in the magnitude of the startle reflex in the presence of a stimulus that has been paired with an aversive stimulus or event. It has been debated how much awareness of contingencies can affect fear-potentiated startle and the extinction of this. A conditional discrimination procedure was adapted to a human fear-potentiated startle paradigm in 33 ... -
A cooperative function for multisensory stimuli in the induction of approach behavior of a potential mate
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-17)Intrasexual competition is an important element of natural selection in which the most attractive conspecific has a considerable reproductive advantage over the others. The conspecifics that are approached first often become the preferred mate partners, and could thus from a biological perspective have a reproductive advantage. This underlines the importance of the initial approach and raises the ...
