Sökning: "Normative beliefs"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Normative beliefs.
1. To be right or to be liked? : Correlates of preschoolers’ informational and normative conformity
Sammanfattning : Humans conform. That is, humans align their behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs with others to learn and adapt. When we are uncertain, naïve, or believe that others know better than us – we can conform for informational reasons and imitate behaviors or ideas observed from the majority of those around us. LÄS MER
2. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. LÄS MER
3. Learning about the unobservable : The role of attitudes, measurement errors, norms and perceptions in user behaviour
Sammanfattning : Unobservable factors are important to understand user behaviour. Moreover, they contain information to help design services that willsolve today’s challenges. Yet, we have barely scratched the surface ofthe underlying mechanisms ruling user behaviour. LÄS MER
4. Epistemic beliefs and conceptions of competence in education for sustainable development
Sammanfattning : Education for sustainable development (ESD) raises critical questions regarding what knowledge should be taught and what the learning outcomes should be. The aim of this thesis is to explore epistemological, ethical and critical dimensions of ESD. There are two empirical sites. LÄS MER
5. Exploring changes of conceptions, values and beliefs concerning the environment : A longitudinal study of upper secondary school students in business and economics education
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines students’ understanding of economic aspects of global environmental problems. The first aim is to identify and characterise changes in business and economics students’ conceptions of negative environmental effects and pricing goods and services. LÄS MER