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Early indicators of self-esteem in teenagers: Findings from a nationally representative sample
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study explored a longitudinal data set of 3096 British sixteen year olds with data collected in 1970, 1980, and 1986. It examined how parental social status at birth; intelligence, locus of control and behavioural ... -
Early Predictors of Alpha and Beta Personality Factors in Adulthood
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study examined the predictors of two higher factors of personality (Alpha and Beta) using a large nationally representative sample. In total, we had 5,476 participants data on family social status measured at birth, ... -
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The risk of points-of-no-return, which, once surpassed lock the world into new dynamics, have been discussed for decades. Recently, there have been warnings that some of these tipping points are coming closer and are too ... -
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The risk of points-of-no-return, which, once surpassed lock the world into new dynamics, have been discussed for decades. Recently, there have been warnings that some of these tipping points are coming closer and are too ... -
Econometric vs artmap prediction of economic choice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Forecasting economic behaviour is an important problem with practical implications for a number of scienti c disciplines, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, marketing and economic psychology. The ability to predict ... -
Economic and Political Foundations of Local Tax Structures: An Empirical Investigation of Flemish Municipalities’ Tax Mix
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Building on the revenue structure theory developed by Hettich and Winer (1984, 1988, 1999), this paper is the first to investigate the economic and political determinants of local tax mix choices. We thereby use panel data ... -
Economic and social leader-member exchange relationships
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This exploratory study investigated the link between economic and social leader-member exchange relationships and follower work performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Instead of viewing exchange relationships ... -
Economic consequences of corporate governance disclosure: Evidence from the 2006 SEC regulation on related-party transactions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper examines economic consequences of a 2006 Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that mandated public firms to disclose their governance policies on related-party transactions (RPTs). Employing hand-collected ... -
Economic consequences of the German occupation of Norway, 1940-1945
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Since the liberation of German occupation 1940-45 an important national narrative has been the far-reaching exploitation and destruction of the Norwegian economy by the occupant. The scholarly basis for this narrative was ... -
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Higher corporate taxes are often argued to depress wages (a tax incidence effect), while higher wages may require compensation via lower corporate tax rates (a fiscal compensation effect). Yet, existing empirical evidence ... -
Editor, executive and entrepreneur: strategic paradoxes in the digital age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)To survive in today’s increasingly complex business environments, firms must embrace strategic paradoxes: contradictory yet interrelated objectives that persist over time. This can be one of toughest of all leadership ... -
Editorial: a new dawn for qualitative service research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract Purpose The purpose of this study is to highlight the role of qualitative research in service research. This study discusses what qualitative research is, what role it has in service research and what interest, ... -
Educated mothers, healthy infants: the impact of a school reform on the birth weight of Norwegian infants 1967-2005
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Birth weight is an important predictor of health and success in later life. Little is known about the effect of mothers’ education on birth weight. A few causal analyses have been done, but they show conflicting results. ... -
Educational achievement and traits emotional stability and agreeableness as predictors of the occurrence of backache in adulthood
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This study investigated the associations between psychological as well as social factors in childhood and adulthood and the occurrence of adulthood back pain in a longitudinal birth cohort study. The analytic sample comprises ... -
Effect of directness of exposure and trauma type on Mental Health Literacy of PTSD
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Research has demonstrated that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most widely recognized mental disorders (Furnham & Lousley, 2012), but recognition is affected by trauma type (Merritt et al., ... -
The effect of employment support integrated in substance use treatment: A health economic cost-effectiveness simulation of three different interventions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Unemployment rates for individuals in treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) are high, with Norwegian estimates in the range of 81%–89%. Although Individual Placement and Support (IPS) represents a promising ... -
The effect of gender stereotype content, program congruity, and liking on unconventional French television advertisement recall and purchase intention.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study investigated the effect of the portrayal of unconventional gender roles in advert content, congruent program context, and liking of the advert on subsequent memory and purchase intention. In all, 186 French ... -
The effect of repertoire, routinization and enacted complexity: Explaining task performance through patterns of action
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We use pattern mining tools from computer science to engage a classic problem in organizational theory: the relation between routinization and task performance. We develop and operationalize new measures of two key ... -
Effect of Stress on Safety-critical Behaviour: An Examination of combined Resilience Engineering and Naturalistic Decision-making Approaches
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Combining the conceptual tools and methods of resilience engineering (RE) with naturalistic decision-making (NDM), in the context of police critical incident command, this study explores the capacity of individual commanders ... -
Effects of background noise and extraversion on reading comprehension performance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study was concerned with the effects of acoustic distraction at work. Using a within-subject study we aimed to investigate the effect of background distraction on cognitive performance. In the presence of silence, ...