For over a century, jokes have been considered serious narratives indicating shared attitudes, beliefs, or conflicts that are ripped from the community’s mind. Notably, people’s ethical attitude toward ethnic jokes has ...

Schizophrenia patients are seen as inferior to healthy controls with regard to statistical inference. In this study I aim to investigate this further, using two novel tasks, the shape precision task measuring perceived ...

This thesis investigates Islamophobia as a negative attitude toward Muslims. Differentiating between Islamophobia and Muslimophobia, the phenomenon in Europe and the U.S. is reviewed. Cognitive and social underpinnings of ...

Background and objectives A plethora of studies has investigated and compared social cognition in autism and schizophrenia ever since both conditions were first described in conjunction more than a century ago. Recent ...

Svært prematur fødsel er en hendelse som kan ha store konsekvenser for enkeltindividet og for samfunnet. I dag er det en mangel på forskning på konsekvensene av prematur fødsel i voksen alder. Det har heller ikke blitt ...

The author presents an experiment which tests whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception and teleological thinking. Illusory pattern perception is defined as the identification of meaningful interrelationship ...

Introduction Diametrically aberrant mentalising biases, namely hypermentalising in psychosis and hypomentalising in autism, are postulated by some theoretical models. To test this hypothesis, we measured psychotic-like ...

People prefer music with an intermediate level of predictability; not so predictable as to be boring, yet not so unpredictable that it ceases to be music. This sweet spot for predictability varies due to differences in the ...

In conventional sailboat design, the heeling momentum introduced by the rigid connection of foils in air and water is a limitation on the maximum ve- locity. By removing the hull all together, wetted surface induced drag ...