Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY / Bibliography: leaves 67-71. / by Nancy Elaine Wright. / M.S.

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In this dissertation, I examine changes in risk-taking behavior, beliefs, and self-deception induced by changes in policy and behavior. Specifically, Chapter II examines player performance and risk-taking behavior in tournament environments which include eliminations in the middle of the tournament. I find that when players face elimination, they perform better and take risks more often. In addition, when facing elimination, players are more likely to have those risks pay off. Turning to the interaction between public policy and personal beliefs, Chapter III explores how public policy affects beliefs in the context of same-sex marriage. Exploiting the timing of the legalization of same-sex marriage, I find that legalization induces an increase in the proportion of people who have strong beliefs on same-sex marriage. I also find a substantial increase in measured state-level polarization due to legalization. Finally, Chapter IV presents the results of an experiment designed to uncover how self-confidence and self-deception change after performing dishonest behavior. In an online experimental laboratory, participants who cheated have higher confidence in their ability even when the opportunity to cheat is not present. In addition, participants who cheated, and were rewarded for cheating with a high reward, had higher beliefs in their ability. This dissertation includes unpublished co-authored material.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Wyoming, 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 21, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-112).

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This study sought to determine the contributions of college students' perceptions of family of origin health and self-esteem to their perceptions of the divorced single mother. It was hypothesized that individuals who hold more positive views of their family of origin health will also view themselves and, consequently, the divorced single mother more positively. Participants were 170 college students, 113 of whom lived only with their biological parents, and 57 of whom lived at sometime in their lives with a divorced single mother. Four instruments were used to collect the data, including the Family of Origin Health Scale (Hovestadt et al., 1985), the Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), the Perception of Divorced Mother Scale (Ganong & Coleman, 1983), and a demographic questionnaire. A series of hierarchical regression analyses were used in data analyses. Generally, results indicated that family type made no major impact on participants' perceptions of the divorced single mother. Among participants in the biological parent group and the divorced single mother group, family of origin health significantly predicted more positive perceptions of the divorced single mother. In this analysis, the regression model for the biological parent group was significant, while for the divorced single mother group it was not. Self-esteem was not found to contribute significantly to participants' perceptions of the divorced single mother, and thus did not mediate the relationship between family of origin health and perceptions of the divorced single mother. Finally, among the biological parent group, amount of interaction with single parent families headed by a divorced single mother significantly predicted more positive perceptions of the divorced single mother. Among the divorced single mother group, however, amount of time lived in a single parent family headed by a divorced mother did not significantly predict their perceptions of the divorced single mother. / Graduation date: 1995

Denna studie behandlar kommentarerna till ett antal svenska nättidningars ledarartiklar. Syftet är att se vad kommentarerna behandlar, hur diskussionerna går och om de kan ses som en delav så kallade deliberativa demokratiska samtal. Med den kvantitativa innehållsanalysen som verktyg har vi undersökt 1730 kommentarer till 38 olika ledare fördelat på 6 olika nättidningar, Aftonbladet.se, Dn.se, Nt.se, Op.se, Sydsvenskan.se och Arbetarbladet.se. Det är en ledare per tidning som undersökts varje dag från den 28 mars till den 3 april 2011. Totalt har varje kommentar undersökts med 24 olika variabler för att få en bild av hur diskussionerna går, vad som behandlas och om kommentarfälten ären eventuell arena för deliberativa samtal. Exempel på variabler som undersökts är huruvida kommentaren är relevant för ämnet i ledaren och huruvida personen som kommenterar har svarat på en annan kommentar i kommentarfältet. Studiens huvudresultat är att kommentarerna till stor del anknyter till ämnet i tillhörande ledare och att många som rör sig i kommentarfälten tar ställning för eller emot politiska partier. Vi tror att det senare till stor del beror på att just ledare ofta tar upp ämnen med politisk anknytning. Ett annat av studiens resultat är att det tydligt pågår diskussioner i kommentarfälten. Det framgår tydligt då en stor del av kommentarerna korresponderar med varandra och argumenterar mot varandra.