Sökning: "Self-Control"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 65 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Self-Control.
11. Artefactual Intelligence: The Development and Use of Cognitively Congenial Artefacts
Sammanfattning : How can tools help structure tasks to make them cognitively easier to perform? How do artefacts, and our strategies for using them, develop over time in cognitively beneficial ways? These are two of the main questions that are explored in the five papers collected in this thesis. The first paper details an ethnographic study conducted on people cooking in their homes. LÄS MER
12. Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach
Sammanfattning : Criminology has long been divided by mainly focusing on people’s propensities to commit crimes, on the one hand, and environmental characteristics conducive to crime, on the other. Such a division must be bridged to advance knowledge about why some people, but not others, commit rule-breaking acts in some environments but not in others. LÄS MER
13. Overcontrol in anorexia nervosa : assessment, occurrence, and treatment
Sammanfattning : Excessive overcontrol – characterized by high risk aversion, compulsiveness, emotion inhibition, and social deficits – has been suggested to be a core mechanism for developing and maintaining anorexia nervosa. However, such factors are rarely targeted as key elements in treatment of the disorder. LÄS MER
14. Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives
Sammanfattning : Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. LÄS MER
15. Gender, health, the decisions we make and the actions we take
Sammanfattning : This thesis comprises of four self-contained papers that use both experimental and applied micro-econometric methods to explore different aspects of gender, health, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. In the first paper we investigate changes in psychiatric diagnoses and their income-related inequalities over time in Sweden and attempt to disentangle the development by decomposing changes over time in terms of population-level changes in education and migration background. LÄS MER