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In animal psychology, the open-field (OF) test is a traditional method for studying different aspects of rodent behavior, with thigmotaxis (i.e., wallseeking behavior) being one of the best validated OF parameters employed ...

Distinguishing between normal disfluencies and stuttering in bilingual children is a crucial and compelling issue, warranting the attention of both clinicians and researchers. Despite the increasing number of bilinguals, ...

Worry is one of the central factors in primary health care patients’ experience with their current complaint. Worry is associated with, e.g., patients’ expectations and the outcomes of doctor’s consultations. The aim of ...

Mindfulness practice is empirically linked to beneficial effects on adults and increasingly on children and adolescents. A common definition of mindfulness is self-regulation of attention in a curious, open, and accepting ...

Maternal pre- and postnatal depressive and anxiety symptoms are common. These symptoms of distress are known to adversely impact both maternal adaptations to motherhood as well as child development. Currently, little is ...

In this thesis, a unique subgroup involved in the bullying phenomenon, the bully-victims, are identified and examined. Despite the increasing attention on the bully-victims in recent years, their prevalence, psychosocial ...

First-person shooter (FPS) games are one of the most popular yet notorious genres of digital games. They contain visceral emotional content and require intense visual attention from players, leading some people to appreciate ...

Teachers and other school personnel have the responsibility to intervene quickly when a case of bullying comes to their attention. However, previous research has mainly focused on evaluating whole-school prevention programs, ...

One of the greatest conundrums to the contemporary science is the relation between consciousness and brain activity, and one of the specifi c questions is how neural activity can generate vivid subjective experiences. ...

The main purpose of the present doctoral thesis is to investigate subjective experiences and cognitive processes in four different types of altered states of consciousness: naturally occurring dreaming, cognitively induced ...