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Heterosexual women rate perceived anabolic steroid-using men as less attractive for long-term romantic relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Physical attractiveness is a major motive for anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use. Since majority of AAS users are men, we investigated heterosexual women’s ratings of the physical, sexual and romantic ... -
Hidden figures: Revisiting doping prevalence estimates previously reported for two major international sport events in the context of further empirical evidence and the extant literature
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: High levels of admitted doping use (43.6% and 57.1%) were reported for two international sport events in 2011. Because these are frequently referenced in evaluating aspects of anti-doping, having high level of ... -
High Performance Work Systems, Justice, and Engagement: Does Bullying Throw a Spanner in the Works?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)High performance work systems (HPWS) have typically been shown to positively influence employee attitudes and well-being. Research in the realm of HPWS has, in this respect, established a clear connection between these ... -
High-Performance Work Practices and Interpersonal Relationships: Laissez-Faire Leadership as a Risk Factor
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Although high-performance work practices (HPWPs) have been shown to increase organizational performance and improve employee attitudes, it still remains unclear how they impact interpersonal relations in the workplace. ... -
High-performing trauma teams: frequency of behavioral markers of a shared mental model displayed by team leaders and quality of medical performance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-11-10)Background: High quality team leadership is important for the outcome of medical emergencies. However, the behavioral marker of leadership are not well defined. The present study investigated frequency of behavioral markers ... -
How contrast situations affect the assignment of causality in symmetric physical settings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-01-08)In determining the prime cause of a physical event, people often weight one of two entities in a symmetric physical relation as more important for bringing about the causal effect than the other. In a broad survey (Bender ... -
How did COVID-19 shape the leadership practices of Norwegian school principals? A qualitative follow-up study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study explores how the protracted exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic influenced role expectations and leadership practices among Norwegian school principals. Following up Lien et al. (2022). School principals’ experiences ... -
How do BRM-training participants understand non-technical skills?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Non-technical skills (NTS) can be defined as “the cognitive, social and personal resource skills that complement technical skills and contribute to safe and efficient task performance” (Flin et al. 2008, Safety at the sharp ... -
How do immigrants in Norway interpret, view, and prefer to cope with symptoms of depression? : A mixed method study
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-18)Background. Depression is a common mental health problem worldwide. Delays in seeking treatment, misdiagnosis, and non-specific treatments are barriers to receiving appropriate care for people with depression. People with ... -
How do international medical graduates and colleagues perceive and deal with difficulties in everyday collaboration? A qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Aims: Many medical doctors work outside their countries of origin. Consequently, language barriers and cultural differences may result in miscommunication and tension in the workplace, leading to poor performance and quality ... -
How long does it last? Prior victimization from workplace bullying moderates the relationship between daily exposure to negative acts and subsequent depressed mood
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships between daily exposure to negative acts and depressed mood on the same day and on the days following the exposure, and to test the hypothesis that these ... -
How people explain their own and others' behavior: A theory of lay causal explanations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-18)A theoretical model is proposed that specifies lay causal theories of behavior; and supporting experimental evidence is presented. The model’s basic assumption is that different types of behavior trigger different hypotheses ... -
How the public understands and reacts to the term “climate anxiety”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The term climate anxiety has increasingly appeared in the academic literature and popular discourse since 2019, typically when discussing young people's negative emotional responses to climate change. This paper reports ... -
How to define and measure risk perceptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Research on risk perceptions within the tourism domain suffers from two closely related problems: diverging conceptual and measurement definitions. The lack of precision and standardization is hindering comparisons of ... -
How Visual Perception of the Inside of Things Creates the Impossible Dovetail
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Here, we consider a well-known wooden puzzle known as the impossible dovetail. We argue that an intriguing form of amodal completion, dealing with spontaneous interpretations of the inside of objects is the key to understanding ... -
How we can THINC-it Better: A new Digital Screening Tool in Depression Assessment
(Master thesis, 2018)In the past decades, cognition as one of the key factors in depression has been highlighted. It has been found that cognitive impairment (CI) might both precede the onset of depression and persist during remission. This ... -
How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Do minority-group members welcome or reject that majority-group members adopt other cultures? Acculturation is commonly defined as a process of mutual accommodation. Yet, the acculturation of majority-group members has ... -
Human adaptability for deep space exploration mission: An exploratory study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The present qualitative study conducts in-depth interviews with astronauts and other subject matter experts in order to shed light on human adaptability in extreme environments. Deep space travel will entail a range of ... -
Human factor influences on supervisory control of remotely operated and autonomous vessels
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Autonomous ships require remote supervision from a human operator to ensure safety. However, there are knowledge gaps concerning human factor influences on remote supervisory control. We investigate the influence of five ... -
Hvordan hardførhet og mestringsforventning påvirker prestasjon hos politistudenter
(Master thesis, 2023-05-16)