Browsing Department of Psychosocial Science by Subject "VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200"
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Attitudes, efficacy beliefs, and willingness to pay for environmental protection when travelling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-09)Environmental sustainability may be seen as a collective challenge that can only be met if a sufficient number of individuals cooperate. Whether or not individual tourists are willing to contribute their share may thus ... -
Causal inferences about others' behavior among the Wampar, Papua New Guinea - and why they are hard to elicit
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-10)As social beings, people need to be able to interact intelligently with others in their social environment. Accordingly, people spend much time conversing with one another in order to understand the broad and fine aspects ... -
The combined influence of hardiness and cohesion on mental health in a military peacekeeping mission: A prospective study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-16)A large number of studies have shown that hardiness and cohesion are associated with mental health in a military context. However, most of them are presented without controlling for baseline mental health symptoms, which ... -
Situation awareness in bridge operations – A study of collisions between attendant vessels and offshore facilities in the North Sea
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07-09)This study examined accident reports ( n = 23) for collisions between attendant vessels and offshore facil- ities on the Norwegian continental shelf during the period of 2001–2011. An initial analysis indicated that the ... -
Studying Different Tasks of Implicit Learning across Multiple Test Sessions Conducted on the Web
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-07)Implicit learning is usually studied through individual performance on a single task, with the most common tasks being the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task, the Dynamic System Control (DSC) task, and Artificial Grammar ... -
Sustainable consumption of groceries: the importance of believing that one can contribute to sustainable development
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-02-26)This study investigated relations between consumers’ sustainable development self-efficacy, attitudes, norms and intentions to purchase sustainable groceries such as ecological and fair trade foods. Demographic variables ... -
Updating working memory in aircraft noise and speech causes different fMRI activations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-28)The present study used fMRI/BOLD neuroimaging to investigate how visual-verbal working memory is updated when exposed to three different background-noise conditions: speech noise, aircraft noise and silence. The number-updating ...