Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa 515 Psykologia
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Separating deviant and non-deviant sexual preferences with a dual-target rapid serial visual presentation task
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 20.08.2016) -
Sex Differences in Aggression within Adult Samples in Ghana
(Åbo Akademi University, 15.05.2020)Previous studies into sex differences in aggression have suggested that in most patriarchal African nations, sex roles, and traditional beliefs have predisposed men and boys to dominate women. This circumstance has ... -
Sex Differences in Effective Political Participation among Elected People's Representatives of the Rural Local Governance Units, Union Parishads, of Bangladesh : Workplace and Sexual Harrassment, and Cultural Hurdles to Female Participation
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 05.12.2022)The aim of this thesis, consisting of four published articles (Studies I–IV), was to explore sex differences in political participation and factors related to these sex differences among people’s representatives in the ... -
Shapes and sizes : body image, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in relation to gender and gender identity
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 16.03.2012) -
Social Integration, Psychological Well-being, and Proactive Attitudes towards the Integration of Immigrants in a Sample of the Swedish-speaking Population in Western Finland
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 07.11.2022)The aim of this thesis is to examine social integration, psychological well-being, proactive attitudes towards the integration of immigrants, intense group identification, and witnessing domestic aggression within a sample ... -
Social Suffering and Healing Among the Rwandan Diaspora in Finland and Belgium
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 29.03.2019)The Rwandan people encountered genocide against Tutsis in 1994. The ethnic cleansing led to the exile of many Rwandan people and the constitution of diasporic communities in Africa, Europe, Australia and Northern America. ... -
Studies in Working Memory : Reliability of Measurement, Psychological Correlates, and Malleability to Brain Stimulation
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 06.05.2019)Working memory (WM) refers to the temporary memory system that enables us to maintain and manipulate currently relevant information. As a key aspect of human cognition, it is associated with several other abilities and ... -
The Effect of Vascular Brain Changes on Cognitive Function in Normal Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
(Åbo Akademi University, 17.09.2021)Aging is associated with an increased risk for developing vascular pathology in cerebral white matter (WM). These brain changes can have a variety of cognitive repercussions, ranging from insignificant to mild cognitive ... -
The family school : the impact of a group training programme on overactive hard-to-manage preschool children and their parents
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 16.05.2008) -
The Interplay between Maternal Executive Functioning and Psychological Risk Factors in the Context of Early Caregiving Behavior : Findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 21.05.2022)Recent studies have indicated executive functioning (EF) to be one of the parental variables that shape caregiving behavior. Besides being directly associated with caregiving, EF has joint effects with other parenting ... -
Therapeutic jurisprudence in investigative interviews : the effects of a humanitarian rapport-orientated and a dominant non-rapport orientated approach on adult’s memory performance and psychological well-being
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 25.08.2017)Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) sees the law as a social force with the underlying idea that legal procedures should promote the psychological well-being (PWB) of individuals involved in juridical actions; for example, ... -
Training executive functions in the laboratory and in real life : cognitive consequences of computer-based exercises and bilingualism
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 06.06.2013)The question of the trainability of executive functions and the impact of such training on related cognitive skills has stirred considerable research interest. Despite a number of studies investigating this, the question ... -
Training in Investigative Interviews of Children : Serious Gaming Paired with Feedback Improves Interview Quality
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 27.03.2018)Interview quality (i.e., adherence to best practice) in alleged child sexual abuse (CSA) cases remains low. Training programs have been developed in order to tackle this problem. However, these programs are usually not ... -
Verbal and Non-verbal Communication as Evolutionary Restraint Mechanisms for Nonkilling Conflict Management
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 15.03.2019)Across species, unrestrained aggression among con-specifics has been strongly selected against due to increased fitness costs, making intraspecific lethality relatively rare or atypical. Evolutionary selection has instead ... -
Verbal learning in mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer's disease : behavioural and neural approaches
(Åbo Akademis förlag - Åbo Akademi University Press, 17.04.2009)The main focus of the present thesis was at verbal episodic memory processes that are particularly vulnerable to preclinical and clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here these processes were studied by a word learning ... -
Verbal Working Memory Training in Health and Disease : Outcomes and Underlying Mechanisms
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 17.12.2018) -
Victimisation of Women in Public Places : Sexual Harassment in Pakistan, Ghana, and Finland
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 13.06.2022)The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate the prevalence rate of victimisation of women from sexual harassment in public places in countries with different cultural norms: Pakistan, Ghana, and Finland. The study ... -
Witnessing an Unfamiliar Person : The Effects of Distance, Lighting, Age, Line-up Type, and Line-up Position on Eyewitness Accuracy
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 03.06.2020)In criminal cases, DNA evidence is considered circumstantial evidence, whereas an identification by an eyewitness, after having observed a perpetrator commit a criminal act, is considered direct evidence of a suspect’s ... -
Work-related crisis exposure : psychological trauma and PTSD in news journalists
(Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 17.11.2012)