Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa 515 Psykologia
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Behavioural Crime Linking in Serial Homicide : Towards Practical Application
Pakkanen, Tom (Åbo Akademi University, 18.03.2022)Brottslänkning syftar till att länka samman två eller flera, för brottsutredaren observerbara brott, på basis av gärningspersonens brottsplatsbeteende. Metoden bygger på antagandet att en gärningspersons beteende är ... -
Bilingual Language Switching and Executive Functions
Jylkkä, Jussi (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 15.12.2017)According to the Bilingual Executive Advantage (BEA) hypothesis, bilinguals outperform monolinguals in executive functions (EF). This has been suggested to stem from life-long training of bilinguals in shifting between ... -
Classification, comorbidity, heredity, and risk factors of female sexual dysfunctions
Witting, Katarina (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 12.12.2008)Female sexual dysfunctions, including desire, arousal, orgasm and pain problems, have been shown to be highly prevalent among women around the world. The etiology of these dysfunctions is unclear but associations with ... -
Diagnosis, Etiology, and Psychobehavioral Treatment of Premature Ejaculation
Ventus, Daniel (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 18.10.2019)Premature ejaculation (PE) is characterized by a pattern of involuntary ejaculation prior to, upon, or shortly after penetration leading to personal or interpersonal distress. Some definitions add a time limit of about 1 ... -
Explorations into working memory : Functional architecture, relationships with personality, and training mechanisms
Waris, Otto (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2018)Working memory (WM) is defined as a short-term memory system that handles the storage and processing of information that is currently active in the mind. It is thus crucial for conscious planning and predicts several ... -
FICSA : The Finnish Investigative Instrument of Child Sexual Abuse : Machine Learning Applied to Criminal Investigations
Tadei, Alessandro (Åbo Akademi University, 04.12.2020)Utredningar av misstänkta sexuella uttnyttjanden av barn (SUB) är krävande. Medan förekomsten av SUB minskat över de senaste åren så har antalet anmälningar ökat. Ofrånkomligen är en del av anmälningarna ogrundade vilket ... -
Genetic Vulnerability to Patterns of Interpersonal Victimization and Associated Psychiatric Comorbidity
Pezzoli, Patrizia (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 09.08.2019)Interpersonal victimization is a pervasive hardship for children and adults. Previous research has attempted to identify individual characteristics and environmental conditions that might predispose individuals to these ... -
Lens of Emotion : Emotion Regulation and Out-Group Attitudes
Westerlund, Minja (Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2020)Emotions play an important role in intergroup attitudes, and more broadly, in intergroup relations. Emotions, and intergroup emotions more specifically, arise based on an individual’s appraisal of an out-group situation, ... -
Memory for Emotion-Laden Words in Normal Aging : Valence-Arousal Interactions and Neuroanatomical Correlates
Saarela, Carina (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 14.12.2018) -
Pencil grip : a descriptive model and four empirical studies
Selin, Ann-Sofie (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 04.06.2003)Previous studies on pencil grip have typically dealt with the developmental aspects in young children while handwriting research is mainly concerned with speed and legibility. Studies linking these areas are few. Evaluation ... -
Premature and delayed ejaculation : prevalence, heredity and diagnostic considerations
Jern, Patrick (Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University, 27.11.2009)Premature ejaculation is commonly regarded as the most common sexual dysfunction in men. Studies have reported prevalence rates of around 30% in the general population, but prevalence rates fluctuate widely between studies ... -
Psychological factors associated with vaccine attitudes and vaccination behaviors
Karlsson, Linda (Åbo Akademi University, 17.11.2021)High vaccine uptake is important to limit the spread of infectious diseases. Knowing what factors are related to vaccination decisions can help health authorities communicate effectively with the public about vaccines. In ... -
Studies in Working Memory : Reliability of Measurement, Psychological Correlates, and Malleability to Brain Stimulation
Lukasik, Karolina (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
Kaskikallio, Alar (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 Interplay between Maternal Executive Functioning and Psychological Risk Factors in the Context of Early Caregiving Behavior : Findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
Nordenswan, Elisabeth (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
Madsen, Kent (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 in Investigative Interviews of Children : Serious Gaming Paired with Feedback Improves Interview Quality
Pompedda, Francesco (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 learning in mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer's disease : behavioural and neural approaches
Grönholm-Nyman, Petra (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
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Witnessing an Unfamiliar Person : The Effects of Distance, Lighting, Age, Line-up Type, and Line-up Position on Eyewitness Accuracy
Nyman, Thomas J. (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 ...