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Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all ... more Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all their help, including babysitting almost every day for two years, to my mother in law, Stefanía M. Aradóttir, and her husband, Saevar Berg, for driving the kids to school and helping in so many other ways, to my brother, Daði Þorsteinsson, for proofreading and giving helpful comments in spite of a busy schedule, to my grandmother, Friðrika Gestsdóttir, for encouraging me to stick with psychology when I wanted to give up, and to my wonderful friends and family for always standing by me, especially my children, Eir Lilja and Stefán Broddi, who bring me so much joy and happiness. Finally, I would like to thank my beloved husband, Dr. Daníel Ásgeirsson, without whom I would probably not have studied psychology at all, who has taught me all I know of time management and good working habits (which I, admittedly, do not always practice) and whose devoted love and support has enriched my life.
Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all ... more Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all their help, including babysitting almost every day for two years, to my mother in law, Stefanía M. Aradóttir, and her husband, Saevar Berg, for driving the kids to school and helping in so many other ways, to my brother, Daði Þorsteinsson, for proofreading and giving helpful comments in spite of a busy schedule, to my grandmother, Friðrika Gestsdóttir, for encouraging me to stick with psychology when I wanted to give up, and to my wonderful friends and family for always standing by me, especially my children, Eir Lilja and Stefán Broddi, who bring me so much joy and happiness. Finally, I would like to thank my beloved husband, Dr. Daníel Ásgeirsson, without whom I would probably not have studied psychology at all, who has taught me all I know of time management and good working habits (which I, admittedly, do not always practice) and whose devoted love and support has enriched my life.
Journal of Adolescence, 2001
The Social Anxiety and Phobia Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), the Children's Depression Inventor... more The Social Anxiety and Phobia Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), Harter's (1982) Perceived Competence Scale for Children (PCSC), as well as an inventory of cost and likelihood appraisal of negative social and non-social events, were filled in by 184 adolescents (14-15 years old). It was expected that social anxiety would be specifically related to low perceived competence in the social domain and threat appraisal in the same domain, whereas depression would be related to more general perceived competence deficits. The relationships of social anxiety and depression to perceived competence and appraisal were largely supported. Social anxiety was most strongly related to perceived social competence as well as to both social cost and likelihood appraisals, whereas depression was more generally related to perceived competence, and appraisal of negative events did not improve the prediction of depression any more than the prediction based on perceived competence.
I denna uppsats tanker vi analysera ett systemutvecklingsfall dar en anvandare hade valdigt stor ... more I denna uppsats tanker vi analysera ett systemutvecklingsfall dar en anvandare hade valdigt stor roll i utvecklingsarbetet. Syftet med studien ar att bidra till okade kunskaper om vilka faktorer paverkar nyttan av anvandarmedverkan i systemdesign. Vi gjorde en fallstudie om ett projekt dar forfattarna hjalpte en lakare att utveckla en applikation for att halla reda pa blodaccesser hos dialyspatienter enligt en anvandarcentrerad metod. Det visade sig att anvandarmedverkan gick mycket bra och var avgorande for kravspecifikationen och design av databasen men design av granssnitt gick mycket samre. Analysen visade att problemen uppstod framst nar granssnittsdesignen utfordes utan anvandaren. De faktorer som mest paverkade nyttan av anvandarmedverkan var utvecklingsmetoden, utvecklarnas motivation och kommunikationsfardigheter samt maktfordelningen inom projektgruppen.
The Challenge of Anticipation, 2008
ABSTRACT Although attention can be purely reactive, like when we react to an unexpected event, in... more ABSTRACT Although attention can be purely reactive, like when we react to an unexpected event, in most cases, attention is under deliberate control anticipating events in the world. Directing attention and preparing for action takes time, and it is thus useful to be able to predict where an important event will occur in the environment and direct attention to it even before it happens. Another reason for the need for anticipation is the processing delays in the visuomotor system. In the human system it takes at least 100 ms to detect a visual target (Lamme and Roelfsema, 2000) and to just look at a moving object, we need to anticipate its movement to control the muscles of the eyes to move our gaze to the location where the target will be (von Hofsten and Rosander, 1997). The role of anticipation in attention can also be seen in the close connection between attention and action (Balkenius, 2000).
Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all ... more Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all their help, including babysitting almost every day for two years, to my mother in law, Stefanía M. Aradóttir, and her husband, Saevar Berg, for driving the kids to school and helping in so many other ways, to my brother, Daði Þorsteinsson, for proofreading and giving helpful comments in spite of a busy schedule, to my grandmother, Friðrika Gestsdóttir, for encouraging me to stick with psychology when I wanted to give up, and to my wonderful friends and family for always standing by me, especially my children, Eir Lilja and Stefán Broddi, who bring me so much joy and happiness. Finally, I would like to thank my beloved husband, Dr. Daníel Ásgeirsson, without whom I would probably not have studied psychology at all, who has taught me all I know of time management and good working habits (which I, admittedly, do not always practice) and whose devoted love and support has enriched my life.
Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all ... more Loving gratitude is due to my dad, Þorsteinn Broddason and his wife, Steinunn Oddsdóttir for all their help, including babysitting almost every day for two years, to my mother in law, Stefanía M. Aradóttir, and her husband, Saevar Berg, for driving the kids to school and helping in so many other ways, to my brother, Daði Þorsteinsson, for proofreading and giving helpful comments in spite of a busy schedule, to my grandmother, Friðrika Gestsdóttir, for encouraging me to stick with psychology when I wanted to give up, and to my wonderful friends and family for always standing by me, especially my children, Eir Lilja and Stefán Broddi, who bring me so much joy and happiness. Finally, I would like to thank my beloved husband, Dr. Daníel Ásgeirsson, without whom I would probably not have studied psychology at all, who has taught me all I know of time management and good working habits (which I, admittedly, do not always practice) and whose devoted love and support has enriched my life.
Journal of Adolescence, 2001
The Social Anxiety and Phobia Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), the Children's Depression Inventor... more The Social Anxiety and Phobia Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), Harter's (1982) Perceived Competence Scale for Children (PCSC), as well as an inventory of cost and likelihood appraisal of negative social and non-social events, were filled in by 184 adolescents (14-15 years old). It was expected that social anxiety would be specifically related to low perceived competence in the social domain and threat appraisal in the same domain, whereas depression would be related to more general perceived competence deficits. The relationships of social anxiety and depression to perceived competence and appraisal were largely supported. Social anxiety was most strongly related to perceived social competence as well as to both social cost and likelihood appraisals, whereas depression was more generally related to perceived competence, and appraisal of negative events did not improve the prediction of depression any more than the prediction based on perceived competence.
I denna uppsats tanker vi analysera ett systemutvecklingsfall dar en anvandare hade valdigt stor ... more I denna uppsats tanker vi analysera ett systemutvecklingsfall dar en anvandare hade valdigt stor roll i utvecklingsarbetet. Syftet med studien ar att bidra till okade kunskaper om vilka faktorer paverkar nyttan av anvandarmedverkan i systemdesign. Vi gjorde en fallstudie om ett projekt dar forfattarna hjalpte en lakare att utveckla en applikation for att halla reda pa blodaccesser hos dialyspatienter enligt en anvandarcentrerad metod. Det visade sig att anvandarmedverkan gick mycket bra och var avgorande for kravspecifikationen och design av databasen men design av granssnitt gick mycket samre. Analysen visade att problemen uppstod framst nar granssnittsdesignen utfordes utan anvandaren. De faktorer som mest paverkade nyttan av anvandarmedverkan var utvecklingsmetoden, utvecklarnas motivation och kommunikationsfardigheter samt maktfordelningen inom projektgruppen.
The Challenge of Anticipation, 2008
ABSTRACT Although attention can be purely reactive, like when we react to an unexpected event, in... more ABSTRACT Although attention can be purely reactive, like when we react to an unexpected event, in most cases, attention is under deliberate control anticipating events in the world. Directing attention and preparing for action takes time, and it is thus useful to be able to predict where an important event will occur in the environment and direct attention to it even before it happens. Another reason for the need for anticipation is the processing delays in the visuomotor system. In the human system it takes at least 100 ms to detect a visual target (Lamme and Roelfsema, 2000) and to just look at a moving object, we need to anticipate its movement to control the muscles of the eyes to move our gaze to the location where the target will be (von Hofsten and Rosander, 1997). The role of anticipation in attention can also be seen in the close connection between attention and action (Balkenius, 2000).