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What role do changes in attentional skills play in the clinical benefits of mindfulness training?
(Master thesis, 2010-02-12)The practice of mindfulness meditation has increasingly been found to have effects on mental processes relevant to many psychological problems and disorders. The harnessing of attentional skills has a central role in ... -
What teachers say and what students perceive Interpretations of feedback in teacher-student assessment dialogues
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-01-13)It is commonly known and accepted that feedback has a significant effect on learning and that it is a wise investment in the education system to develop good strategies for assessment involving informative feedback. However, ... -
What we know, what we do not know, and what we should and could have known about workplace bullying. An overview of the literature and agenda for future research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09)Over the last three decades, the scientific and social interest in workplace bullying has accelerated and our understanding of this pervasive and detrimental social problem has advanced considerably in a relatively short ... -
What’s Gendered about Gender-Based Violence? An Empirically Grounded Theoretical Exploration from Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)Violence is often considered gendered on the basis that it is violence against women. This assumption is evident both in “gender-based violence” interventions in Africa and in the argument that gender is irrelevant if ... -
When abortion is not within reach. Ethiopian university students struggling with unintended pregnancies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-28)Background In spite of increasing international commitment to young people’s sexual and reproductive health, unintended pregnancies remain a major problem for young women worldwide. This article explores the issue of ... -
When and why do people experience flight shame?
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When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Some past events incite more wonder about their causes than do others. For example, negative events require explanation more than positive events. We review social psychologists’ theoretical and empirical insights on what ... -
When incentives work too well: locally implemented pay for performance (P4P) and adverse sanctions towards home birth in Tanzania - a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-18)Background: Despite limited evidence of its effectiveness, performance-based payments (P4P) are seen by leading policymakers as a potential solution to the slow progress in reaching Millennium Development Goal 5: improved ... -
When predictions about the "what", "where" and "when" interact with statistical learning, from a behavioural and neural perspective.
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-20)As listeners we tend to detect patterns in what we hear regardless of whether this is music, language or abstract sounds. The fundamental underlying mechanism that supports this process is called statistical learning. ... -
When the going gets tough and the environment is rough: The role of departmental level hostile work climate in the relationships between job stressors and workplace bullying
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In line with the work environment hypothesis, the present study investigates whether department-level perceptions of hostile work climate moderate the relationship between psychosocial predictors of workplace bullying ... -
When the statistical MMN meets the physical MMN
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-03)How do listeners respond to prediction errors within patterned sequence of sounds? To answer this question we carried out a statistical learning study using electroencephalography (EEG). In a continuous auditory stream of ... -
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)The IPCC's report on Global Warming of 1.5°C positioned climate change as one of the most worrying issues mankind has ever faced. Although many people worry about climate change, there is still much unknown about the origins ... -
When young children grieve: daycare children’s experiences when encountering illness and loss in parents
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study presents the insights gained from interviewing 12 parentally bereaved children aged 5–8. All were below six years of age when bereft. Participants were interviewed through Sandtray interviews. The study finds ... -
When young children grieve: Supporting daycare children following bereavement — A parent’s perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Thirteen parents who lost the mother or father to their child were interviewed, using semi-structured interviews. Participants reflect on their young children’s (3–6) grief, support needs, and what they learned from this ... -
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We know from past research that social workers within the CWS are exposed to an array of workplace risks more than any other group within human services. Although several articles tend to focus on the reasons child welfare ... -
When “Normal” Becomes Normative: A Case Study of Researchers’ Quotation Errors When Referring to a Focus Group Sample Size Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-23)In 2011, we published a review exploring how researchers report and justify their focus group sample sizes. We concluded that sample sizes vary widely and that most researchers give no explanation for their sample size. ... -
Who Are the Students of MOOCs? Experience from Learning Analytics Clustering Techniques
(Chapter, 2021)Clustering in education is important in identifying groups of objects in order to find linked patterns of correlations in educational datasets. As such, MOOCs provide a rich source of educational datasets which enable a ... -
Who profits from concentrated exposure treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? A quality assurance project from the OCD-team in Bergen
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-09-09)Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychological disorder characterized by bothersome and intrusive thoughts (obsessions) associated with anxiety and distress that the patient tries to reduce or control ... -
Why Blood Pressure and Body Mass Should be Controlled for in Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies
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Why Do People (Not) Worry About Climate Change? Insights From Answers to an Open-Ended Survey Question in Norway
(Master thesis, 2022-09-29)Menneskelig aktivitet forårsaker forandringer i jordens klima og miljø som kan utgjøre en alvorlig trussel for både menneskelig og ikke-menneskelig liv. I hvilken grad vi bekymrer oss for denne trusselen påvirker hvor ...