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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Henry Montgomery.
1. The Role of Causal Attribution and Self-Focused Attention for Shyness
Sammanfattning : Syftet med denna avhandling var att undersöka på vilket sätt och i vilken utsträckning blyga personer skiljer sig från icke-blyga personer med avseende på deras attributionsmönster. Resultaten från 3 kvantitativa och 1 kvalitativ studie visar en något annorlunda bild av hur blyghet relaterar till social kognition jämfört med tidigare forskning i området. LÄS MER
2. Intergroup Relations : When is My Group More Important than Yours?
Sammanfattning : Intergroup relations are characterised by favourable and unfavourable biases. Towards one’s own group these biases are mostly favourable – ingroup favouritism. Research has, however, shown that outgroup favouritism, that is, the preference for a group to which the person does not belong, also permeates intergroup relations. LÄS MER
3. Promoting traffic safety among young male drivers - the role of mental elaboration
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the potential of mental elaboration as a means of decreasing risky driving among young male drivers. Around 600 young male drivers participated in the three studies. LÄS MER
4. Coincidences and Paranormal Belief
Sammanfattning : In this thesis it is argued that coincidences play an important role in the formation of belief, including belief in the paranormal. Three papers are presented. LÄS MER
5. Decision Strategies : Something Old, Something New, and Something Borrowed
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, some old decision strategies are investigated and a new one that furthers our understanding of how decisions are made is introduced. Three studies are presented. In Study I and II, strategies are investigated in terms of inferences and in Study III, strategies are investigated in terms of preferences. LÄS MER