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Public mobile phone use is often viewed negatively, although the reason for these negative perceptions is unclear. The current study examined perceptions of public mobile phone users in a 2 X 2 factorial design. Participants viewed a staged video of a public conversation that was either face-to-face or over a mobile and later rated their perception of the conversation and target speaker. Two variables were manipulated: whether participants could hear both sides or only one side of the conversation, and whether the conversation took place over a mobile phone or was face-to-face. The results indicated that the one side mobile phone conversation was more noticeable, intrusive, and annoying to overhear compared to the two-sided mobile speaker phone conversation and one side inaudible face-to-face conversation. Additionally, participants indicated that the target speaker in the one side mobile phone conversation was liked less than the target speaker in the mobile speaker phone condition and was perceived as more extroverted when participants could only hear one side of the conversation. The findings from this study are discussed in relation to previous data as to why public mobile phone conversations are generally perceived negatively by others. / Department of Psychological Science

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Comment les enfants se représentent-ils l’univers politique spécialisé ? Cette thèse prend pour objet les connaissances, les croyances et les opinions politiques des enfants. Il s’agit, en s’intéressant à ce public spécifique, d’apporter une contribution à la littérature sur les rapports ordinaires à la politique. La thèse présente les résultats d’une enquête empirique alliant méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives, menée dans huit écoles primaires socialement diversifiées. Elle examine les éléments dont disposent les enfants pour appréhender l’univers politique et prête attention aux différences entre eux à ce sujet. Il s’agit notamment d’étudier la compétence politique des enquêtés, tant du point de vue de leurs connaissances politiques que de leur compétence statutaire. L’examen du poids de variables telles que l’âge, le genre ou le milieu social permet ainsi d’interroger la genèse des inégalités de politisation. Il s’agit également de mettre à jour les bricolages grâce auxquels les enfants parviennent, malgré leur compétence en général limitée, à donner du sens à l’univers politique, c’est-à-dire à le comprendre, le juger et s’y situer. La thèse étudie l’imbrication entre les dimensions cognitives et normatives de la socialisation politique : elle indique que les jugements de valeurs et les opinions sont intériorisés par les enfants sur le mode de l’évidence, à l’instar des connaissances factuelles. Elle montre ainsi que les rapports des individus à la politique découlent de la réappropriation des messages pluriels provenant de leur environnement. / How do children view the specialized political universe? This dissertation studies children’s political knowledge, beliefs and opinions. It aims, through the study of this specific population, to contribute to the literature on ordinary relations to politics. It presents the results of an empirical study which was led in eight socially-diverse schools and combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study investigates which elements are available to the children in order to understand the political universe, and it pays attention to the differences between them, in particular regarding their political competence. The examination of the impact of variables such as age, gender or social environment contributes to understanding the roots of the inequalities in politicization. The dissertation also looks at the way children manage, despite of their generally limited political competence, to make sense of the political universe, in other words to understand and judge it. It studies the intertwining between cognitive and normative dimensions of political socialization: it indicates that judgments and opinions are interiorized by children as if they were evident, just as if they were factual knowledge. It thus shows that individual relations to politics are built on the re-appropriation of the plural messages coming from the environment.

Hu, Peng. / Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-193). / Abstracts also in Chinese; appendix 2 in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 14, September, 2016).

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Bibliography: p.389-392. / 392 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Centre for European Studies and General Linguistics, Discipline of Classics, 2003?

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006 / Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-431). Also available on the Internet.

Denna studie undersöker hur media, i form av Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet, rapporterat om varg under 2010, 2011 och 2012 för att sedan ställa detta resultat mot nationella attityder till varg. Syftet är att söka svara på om rapporteringen och attityderna följs åt i märkbar riktning för att därav kunna peka på media som opinionsbildare i frågan. Eftersom vargdebatten tenderar att vara synnerligen infekterad trots att djuret är sällsynt är det intressant att undersöka hur media skildrar det nationellt sett och därav också påverkar den majoritet av den nationella opinionen som saknar egna erfarenheter av varg. Detta följs vidare av en diskussion om medierna lyckas presentera en representativ bild av vargen och samtidigt följa pressetiska och demokratiska normer. Studiens resultat pekar på en relativt god spridning i hur medierna framställer vargen samt att attityder till varg i relativt hög grad tenderar att följa samma mönster som medierapporteringen.