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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 ...
Defending behavior in bullying situations
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-08-16)
In order to encourage children and adolescents to defend and support their victimized peers, it is
important to identify factors that either maximize or minimize the probability that students will
engage in such behaviors. ...
The Importance of Semantics: Visual World Studies on Drawing Inferences and Resolving Anaphors
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-12-12)
The present thesis investigated the importance of semantics in generating inferences during discourse processing. Three aspects of semantics, gender stereotypes, implicit causality information and proto-role properties, ...
The neural processes generating visual phenomenal consciousness: ERP and neuronavigated brain stimulation studies
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-11-15)
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. ...
Physical Attractiveness as a Signal of Biological Quality
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-06-17)
It has been commonly thought that standards of beauty are arbitrary cultural conventions that vary between cultures and time. In my thesis I found that it is not so. Instead, I show that attractiveness and preferred ...
Same- and Other-Sex Victimization : Risk Factors, Consequences, and Protection by Peers
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-09-20)
Bullying can be viewed as goal-oriented behavior in the strive for dominance and prestige in the peer group (Salmivalli, 2010). To ensure the effectiveness of their power demonstrations, bullies often choose targets from ...
Social Cognition and Behavior in Relationship Context
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-08-23)
Social information processing (SIP; Crick & Dodge, 1994) and social-cognitive learning theories have been often used to understand children’s problem behaviors, such as aggression. According to these theories, children’s ...
"Dov'è la sinistra?" Hemispatial neglect in stroke
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-04-20)
As long as the incidence of stroke continues to grow, patients with large right hemisphere
lesions suffering from hemispatial neglect will require neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation. The inability to process ...
Proactive and Preventive Student Welfare Activities in Finnish Preschool and Elementary School: Handling of Transition to Formal Schooling and a National Anti-Bullying Program as Examples
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-11-09)
Prerequisites and effects of proactive and preventive psycho-social student welfare activities in
Finnish preschool and elementary school were of interest in the present thesis. So far, Finnish
student welfare work has ...
Behavioral Responses in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Levels of Open-Field Thigmotaxis
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-12-05)
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 ...