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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 1148 avhandlingar innehållade orden Social Behavior.
11. The Social World Through Infants’ Eyes : How Infants Look at Different Social Figures
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to study how infants actively look at different social figures: parents and strangers. To study infants’ looking behavior in “live” situations, new methods to record looking behavior were tested. Study 1 developed a method to record looking behavior in “live” situations: a head-mounted camera. LÄS MER
12. Financing Small Businesses - Developing our Understanding of Financial Bootstrapping Behavior
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this composite thesis, consisting of five articles, is to develop concepts for furthering the understanding of small business managers´ handling of finance. The main contribution is the development of a conceptual understanding of so-called financial bootstrapping behavior in small businesses (referring to the use of methods for minimizing and/or eliminating the need for financial means for resource acquisition). LÄS MER
13. Adolescent behavior : Links to early-life stress and alcohol in male and female rats
Sammanfattning : Adolescence is an important developmental phase with large changes in behavior, physiology and neurobiology, which transform an individual from immature child to independent adult. Due to these changes, adolescence is a sensitive period for exposure to environmental factors such as stress and drug exposure; it is also a common age of onset for alcohol consumption as well as several psychiatric disorders. LÄS MER
14. Prosocial Behavior, Social Interaction and Development: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam
Sammanfattning : Paper 1. Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A Field Experiment on Conditional Cooperation and Default Contributions The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. LÄS MER
15. The Egyptian Uprising of 2011: Tracing the Role of the Cairo-Based Political Opposition
Sammanfattning : It is the aim of this study to understand the mobilization process leading up to and the diffusion of collective contentious behavior during the Egyptian Uprising of 2011. Using process tracing and focusing on the role of the so-called Cairo-based political opposition, this study contributes to debates on social movement theory and contentious politics by elaborating on the causal mechanisms that facilitate mobilization and diffusion processes in periods of heightened social conflict. LÄS MER