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Negotiating home and belonging. Young Kurds in Finland
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-08-22)
This study looks at negotiation of belonging and understandings of home among a generation of young Kurdish adults who were born in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey and who reached adulthood in Finland. The young Kurds taking part ...
The Finnish Paper Workers' Union at a crossroads: Labor union representativeness in a changing environment, 1980-2008
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-09-08)
This thesis consists of four articles and an introductory section. The main research questions in all the articles refer to the changes in the representativeness of the Finnish Paper Workers' Union. Representativeness ...
Hallucinatory altered states of consciousness as virtual realities
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-10-06)
The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to investigate altered states of consciousness (ASC) that are marked by hallucinations, occur during hypnosis, or are induced by psychedelic drugs. A multidisciplinary approach is ...
Alterations in The States and Contents of Consciousness: Empirical and Theoretical Aspects
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-10-03)
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 ...
Housing policy in retrenchment: Constructing housing policy in times of change
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-12-17)
This dissertation examines housing policy change from a social constructionist perspective. Two processes of housing policy change are analysed together with comparative research on European housing policies. This dissertation ...
Conceptualizing and counteracting the bullying dynamic: Classroom and school contexts matter
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-06-12)
Guided by the social-ecological conceptualization of bullying, this thesis examines the implications of classroom and school contexts—that is, students’ shared microsystems—for peer-to-peer bullying and antibullying ...
“IT’S ALL RIGHT”. Multimodal rightward spatial bias modified by age and praxis
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-05-16)
The general goal of the present work was to study whether spatial perceptual asymmetry initially observed in linguistic dichotic listening studies is related to the linguistic nature of the stimuli and/or is modality-specific, ...
An Access theory of self-control: Essays on self-control, ADHD, and stimulant medication
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-11-19)
This dissertation consists of four articles and an introductory essay, the overarching aim of which is to investigate the nature of self-control and its implications.
I defend a value-deflationist definition of self-control, ...
Effectiveness of the KiVa Antibullying Program
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-06-15)
According to the participant role approach (Salmivalli, Lagerspetz, Björkqvist, Österman, & Kaukiainen, 1996), bullying is a group phenomenon that is largely enabled and maintained by the classmates taking on different ...
Social Solidarity and Fear of Crime - Community and Individual Approaches in Responses to Mass Violence after School Shootings
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-04-10)
The aim of this study was to examine community and individual approaches in responses to mass violence after the school shooting incidents in Jokela (November 2007) and Kauhajoki (September 2008), Finland.
In considering ...