Sökning: "Carl-Martin Allwood"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Carl-Martin Allwood.
1. Child molesters and children as witnesses : spatial behaviour, modus operandi and memory recall
Sammanfattning : Offenders who target children are a negative phenomenon in our society. These offenders are often seen as the worst of the worst of criminals and are therefore a priority for investigators trying to solve these crimes as fast as possible. LÄS MER
2. Overconfidence and Format Dependence in Subjective Probability Intervals: Naive Estimation and Constrained Sampling
Sammanfattning : A particular field in research on judgment and decision making (JDM) is concerned with realism of confidence in one’s knowledge. An interesting finding is the so-called format dependence effect which implies that assessment of the same probability distribution generates different conclusions about over- or underconfidence bias depending on the assessment format. LÄS MER
3. Restricting participation : Unaccompanied children in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The overall goal of this thesis was to highlight different communicative aspects of participation in interpreter-mediated asylum hearings with unaccompanied Russianspeaking children who had applied for asylum in Sweden between 2001 and 2005. Participation in the asylum process is guaranteed to these children by the Swedish Administrative Law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which are incorporated in the Swedish Aliens Act. LÄS MER
4. Motivation and episodic memory performance
Sammanfattning : In everyday life, motivation and learning are connected like music and dancing. Many educators realize this and work hard to improve their students' motivation. A motivated student may repeat and self-rehearse the content of a chapter more often, which leads to better learning. LÄS MER
5. Eyewitness testimonies : The memory and meta-memory effects of retellings and discussions with non-witnesses
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigated the effects of eyewitnesses retellings and discussions with non-witnesses on the eyewitness memory and meta-memory judgments. In Study I, the effect of eyewitness discussions with non-witnesses (persons who had not experienced the event) on eyewitness memory and meta-memory realism for the overall information about an event was investigated. LÄS MER