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The aim of the study was to examine how two young female victims was represented in Swedish commercial news press, if and how their relations to the perpetrator would affect their representation and what similarities and differences there were in the representation between the two. We examined the coverage of Lisa Holm, who was murdered by a stranger, and Tova Moberg, who was murdered by her abusing ex- boyfriend. The method used was a critical discourse analysis. We searched for different discourse themes in a total of twelve news articles from Aftonbladet and Expressen. We analyzed the themes and came to the conclusion that the murder victims were represented very much alike, well-liked, ambitious and good-hearted. The main difference is that Tova Moberg was not represented as innocent as Lisa Holm by the journalism because of her relationship with her ex-boyfriend. The journalism partly blamed Tova Moberg for not preventing her own death since she was aware of the danger. We found that as soon as any kind of relations between the victim and perpetrator was mentioned the victim’s status as an ideal victim decreased.

Research indicates that some college students may be strongly motivated to feign AHDD symptoms for desired external incentives, such as stimulant medication or academic accommodations. To date, literature examining feigned ADHD has been primarily focused on ADHD specific self-report measures (e.g., CAARS) and continuous performance tests (e.g., CPTs); however, little attention has been devoted to the use of multi-scale inventories in detecting feigned ADHD. For CPT measures, virtually no literature exists on the effectiveness of the TOVA to identify feigned ADHD, despite its frequent clinical use for establishing this diagnosis. The current study utilized a between-subjects simulation design to validate feigning cut scores on ADHD-specific measures using 66 feigners and 51 confirmed ADHD cases. As prior literature suggested, the results convincingly demonstrated that face-valid ADHD assessment measures were easily faked. Across both TOVA modalities (e.g., Auditory and Visual), the ADHD simulators performed significantly poorer than those diagnosed with ADHD. As an innovative approach, a Dissimulation-ADHD (Ds-ADHD) scale was developed and initially validated. The Ds-ADHD is composed of ten MMPI-2-RF items mistakenly believed to be clinical characteristics associated with ADHD. Requiring cross-validation, Ds-ADHD optimized cut scores and classification of ADHD feigners appears promising. They were clearly distinguishable from ADHD client, as well as those feigning general psychopathology. Recommendations for the utilization of the Ds-ADHD scale, and future directions for research are discussed.

Jag vill inte undersöka något. Jag vet redan hur det ligger till för mig. Jag vill skriva en text om hur huvudet, hjärnan och tanken är det som är viktigt för mig i mitt arbete med material och då i huvudsak materialet lera. Det är mitt huvud, min hjärna och mitt medvetande som gör mina skulpturer, inte mina händer eller min kropp. Jag behöver min kropp för att kunna lyfta, klämma fast eller ta bort material men i övrigt är det mitt huvud som gör allt. Händerna sitter fast i huvudet, de kan inget av sig själva. I mitt sätt att arbeta finns inte handens kunskap. Jag vill ställa mig utanför diskussionen om handens tysta kunskap och lyfta fram mitt sätt att arbeta i ett klassiskt konsthantverksmaterial.

El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / This paper seeks to study the correspondence between the results of the test of variable of attention (TOVA) and the signals acquired by the Muse electroencephalogram (EEG) in the positions AF7 and AF8 of the cerebral cortex. There are a variety of research papers that estimates an index of attention in which the different characteristics in discrete signals of the brain activity were used. However, many of these results were obtained without contrasting them with standardized tests. Due to this fact, in the present work, the results will be compared with the score of the TOVA, which aims to identify an attention disorder in a person. The indicators obtained from the test are the response time variability, the average response time, and the d′ prime score. During the test, the characteristics of the EEG signals in the alpha, beta, theta, and gamma subbands such as the energy, average power, and standard deviation were extracted. For this purpose, the acquired signals are filtered to reduce the effect of the movement of the muscles near the cerebral cortex and then went through a subband decomposition process by applying transformed wavelet packets. The results show a well-marked correspondence between the parameters of the EEG signal of the indicated subbands and the visual attention indicators provided by TOVA. This correspondence was measured through Pearson’s correlation coefficient which had an average result of 0.8. / Revisión por pares / Revisión por pares

Den här studien undersöker hur två mordfall gestaltas i svensk kvällspress, specifikt Aftonbladet och Expressen. Detta genom att undersöka mordet på 19-åriga Tova Moberg och mordet på 21-åriga Tove, två fall som fått stor uppmärksamhet i media. För att uppnå studiens mål har vi formulerat fyra frågeställningar som besvaras i studien: 1) Hur gestaltas fallet Tova Moberg och fallet Tove i Aftonbladet och Expressen? 2) Beskrivs offren och förövarna med könsstereotypa egenskaper? Vilka i så fall? 3) Hur gestaltas relationen mellan gärningspersonen och offret? 4) Finns det skillnader i gestaltningen av gärningspersonen mellan de två fallen? Ett teoretiskt ramverk, som involverar gestaltningsteori och genusteori, har använts för att besvara frågeställningarna. Sexton artiklar har analyserats och kodats genom tematisk analys. Resultatet visar att gestaltningen av fallen skiljer sig markant när det gäller gestaltningen av både offer och gärningsperson. De könsstereotypa attribut som tillskrivs offer och förövare kan ha en inverkan på offrets status samt i vilken grad offrets skuldbeläggs. Vidare visar resultatet att båda mordfallen beskrivs i ett sken av en konfliktfylld relation mellan offer och gärningsperson. Sammanfattningsvis tenderar undersökta nyhetsmedier att tillskriva aktörerna vissa egenskaper och beteenden där brotten betraktas som individuella problem snarare än strukturella problem. Mordfallen gestaltas, i undersökta medier, på ett episodiskt vis.