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Can Motivational Operations Explain Nudging: Can Nudging Increase Hospital Visitors Hand Hygiene Compliance
(MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)Healthcare-associated infections affects hundreds of millions of patients worldwide every year. Most of these infections are preventable. Hospital visitors interact with the same patients as health personnel a can be ... -
Can nursing homes patients’ appetite be increased by using brightly coloured dinner plates?
(Master thesis, 2022)The thesis uses behaviour analysis to conduct an experiment among dementia patients living in nursing homes. Malnourishment among dementia patients is common due to difficulties with eating or reduced appetite. Studies ... -
Categorization in Children with Autism
(MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)Developing methods to teach functional language and more fluent speech in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a growing area of research. There are some findings that suggest that the ability to categorize may ... -
Cellphone use while driving – a behavioral economic perspective
(MALKS;2018, Master thesis, 2018)From a behavioral economic perspective, texting while driving involves a trade-off between immediate and delayed outcomes. It is showed behaviorally as a preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards. ... -
Comparing the effects of on-site and videoconference supervision in early intensive behavioral intervention
(MALK;2022, Master thesis, 2022)This study examines if on-site and videoconference supervision in Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) has the same effect on adaptive behavior and basic language skills in children with autism. There has been ... -
Complex human behavior: Stimulus equivalence and eye-tracking
(MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)One of the approaches towards understanding complex human behavior from the behavior analytic position is the stimulus equivalence paradigm. Understanding of stimulus equivalence is of great importance both in regards of ... -
Complexity in concept formation
(MALKS;2013, Master thesis, 2013)Researches in behavior analysis have studied concept formation and symbolic behavior, especially within stimulus equivalence. This research has shown that novel responding of untrained relations can emerge, following ... -
Conceptual approaches to culture and communication: Approaches from each of the three levels of selection
(MALKS;2016, Master thesis, 2016)B. F. Skinner suggested that selection by consequences is a process that occurs at three levels. Natural selection, selection of individual behavior and cultural selection. In this article we explore the third level of ... -
Confirmation bias: Prevalence and debiasing techniques
(MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)‘Confirmation bias’ is a phenomenon that has been recognized by philosophers of science through centuries. The phenomenon is commonly defined as a tendency to favor confirmatory evidence in support of already stated ... -
Contingency Management som metode for å øke returandelen av brukte kanyler på rusinstitusjon
(MALKS;2021, Master thesis, 2021)Kontrollerte studier har vist at formidlingen av positive forsterkere kan bidra til å redusere rusbruk og problematisk rusrelatert atferd. Contingency management (CM) er en behandlingsmetode som benytter positive forsterkere ... -
Cooperative responding under concurrent schedules of reinforcement in pairs of primary school children
(MALK;2022, Master thesis, 2022)The present project employs an adapted version of the software Xadrez, developed by Carvalho et al. (2016) and Todorov & Vasconcelos (2015). Xadrez to study choice in pairs of children under concurrent schedules of ... -
Creativity by Design? An empirical study
(Master thesis, 2023)Design thinking has become a popular method of innovation in the business world today, among others. Design thinking is a 5-step iterative process in which the end user is in focus. This human-centered approach has grown ... -
Cultural Selection: Theoretical Aspects and an Empirical Study
(Master thesis, 2010)The first article of this thesis seeks empirical evidence supporting cultural selection. Select works included are written by scholars from a wide range of academic fields. Analyzing the articles utilizing the theoretical ... -
Customer greeting in offline retail stores: A literature review and a case study
(MALKS;2019, Master thesis, 2019)Artikkel 1. Abstract The retail industry is confronted with big challenges due to technical innovation, digitalization and online shops. This can be seen in the high number of stores closing across the whole industry. If ... -
Delay discounting in bumblebees (bombus terrestris): Methodological development and refinement
(MALKS;2021, Master thesis, 2021)Whereas the ecological analysis hypotheses suggests that self-control is adaptive and context dependent, and influenced by long-term fitness, the metabolic hypotheses suggests that self-control negatively correlates ... -
Delay discounting som en trans-disease prosess: En litteraturgjennomgang og en empirisk studie
(MALKS;2020, Master thesis, 2020)Delay discounting beskriver den subjektive nedvurdering av verdien på en forsterker som er utsatt i tid. Mye litteratur har vist at rusmiddelavhengige, gamblere, alkoholikere, matavhengige, røykere og mennesker som er ... -
Different discrimination procedures and affecting variablesd
(MALKS;2018, Master thesis, 2018)Discrimination is a wide field of research comprised of both smaller and larger research areas, such as sensory discrimination, concept formation, and discrimination learning. Discrimination can be defined as learning to ... -
Digitale Forsterkere: Hvordan atferd kan påvirkes av økende digitalisering
(Malks;2018, Master thesis, 2018)Denne oppgaven er en studie på hvordan den økende digitaliseringen som sees i samfunnet har mulighet til å påvirke atferd (og kognisjon). Artikkel I er en oversikt over nyere forskning gjort på høy bruk av digital teknologi ... -
Diskontering, impulsivitet og språkformuleringer: En litteraturgjennomgang av forskning basert på, eller lignende diskonteringsperspektiv og studie av skjult null, impulsivitet og sekvensering
(MALKS;2022, Master thesis, 2022)Temaet for disse artiklene er diskonteringsterminologi. På hvilket grunnlag avgjør man hvordan man skal velge? Hvor impulsiv er du når du står overfor et valg? Artikkel 1 undersøker over et bredt spekter om det er gjort ... -
E-læring og sosiale medier
(MALKS;2015, Master thesis, 2015)Hensikten med artiklene er å rette søkelyset på e-læring og hvilke muligheter som ligger i disse læringsplattformene. E-læring har blitt fremtidens verktøy ved kompetanseheving av ansatte både i privat og offentlig sektor. ...