Search Results - "Vassend, Olav"

Justice sensitivity is undergirded by separate heritable motivations to be morally principled and opportunistic by Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Kleppestø, Thomas Haarklau, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Røysamb, Espen, Vassend, Olav, Ystrom, Eivind, Thomsen, Lotte

“…Injustice typically involves some people benefitting at the expense of others. An opportunist might then be selectively motivated to amend only the injustice…”
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Fatigue symptoms in relation to neuroticism, anxiety-depression, and musculoskeletal pain. A longitudinal twin study by Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Nielsen, Christopher Sivert, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi

“…The nature of the relationship between fatigue and its risk factors is poorly understood. In the present study the genetic and environmental association…”
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The role of neuroticism and pain in dental anxiety: A twin study by Vassend, Olav, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Røysamb, Espen, Nielsen, Christopher Sivert

“…Accumulating evidence has revealed that dental anxiety is robustly associated with dental care-related pain and discomfort, but also with the personality trait…”
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Confirmation and the ordinal equivalence thesis by Vassend, Olav B.

“…According to a widespread but implicit thesis in Bayesian confirmation theory, two confirmation measures are considered equivalent if they are ordinally…”
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Genetics, personality and wellbeing. A twin study of traits, facets and life satisfaction by Røysamb, Espen, Nes, Ragnhild B., Czajkowski, Nikolai O., Vassend, Olav

“…Human wellbeing is influenced by personality traits, in particular neuroticism and extraversion. Little is known about which facets that drive these…”
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COMMENT: THE INFERENTIAL INFORMATION CRITERION FROM A BAYESIAN POINT OF VIEW by Vassend, Olav B.

“…As Michael Schultz notes in his very interesting paper (this volume, pp. 52–87), standard model selection criteria, such as the Akaike information criterion…”
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Goals and the Informativeness of Prior Probabilities by Vassend, Olav B.

“…I argue that information is a goal-relative concept for Bayesians. More precisely, I argue that how much information (or confirmation) is provided by a piece…”
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Attachment and Political Personality are Heritable and Distinct Systems, and Both Share Genetics with Interpersonal Trust and Altruism by Kleppesto, Thomas Haarklau, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Vassend, Olav, Roysamb, Espen, Eftedal, Nikolai Haahjem, Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer, Ystrom, Eivind, Kunst, Jonas R., Gjerde, Line C., Thomsen, Lotte

“…The attachment and caregiving domains maintain proximity and care-giving behavior between parents and offspring, in a way that has been argued to shape…”
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Confirmation Measures and Sensitivity by Vassend, Olav B.

“…Stanley Stevens draws a useful distinction among ordinal scales, interval scales, and ratio scales. Most recent discussions of confirmation measures have…”
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The role of pain and psychological distress in fatigue: a co-twin and within-person analysis of confounding and causal relations by Løke, Daniel, Løvstad, Marianne, Andelic, Nada, Andersson, Stein, Ystrom, Eivind, Vassend, Olav

“…Fatigue is a common symptom in somatic and mental illness. Musculoskeletal pain and psychological distress have in turn frequently been shown to be associated…”
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Five-factor personality traits and pain sensitivity: A twin study by Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen, Nielsen, Christopher S.

“…Significant phenotypic and genetic correlations between personality traits and pain sensitivity are demonstrated, with more consistent associations shown for…”
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The underlying architecture of musical sensibility: One general factor, four subdimensions, and strong genetic effects by Hansen, Heidi Marie Umbach, Røysamb, Espen, Vassend, Olav Mandt, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Endestad, Tor, Danielsen, Anne, Laeng, Bruno

“…Current evidence suggests moderate heritability of music phenotypes, such as music listening and achievement. However, other fundamental traits underlying…”
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Impact of Somatic Vulnerability, Psychosocial Robustness and Injury-Related Factors on Fatigue following Traumatic Brain Injury-A Cross-Sectional Study by Løke, Daniel, Andelic, Nada, Helseth, Eirik, Vassend, Olav, Andersson, Stein, Ponsford, Jennie L, Tverdal, Cathrine, Brunborg, Cathrine, Løvstad, Marianne

“…Fatigue is a common symptom after traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and a crucial target of rehabilitation. The subjective and multifactorial nature of fatigue…”
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Facets of neuroticism and musculoskeletal symptoms. A study of middle-aged twins by Vassend, Olav, Orvik, Benedicte Humborstad, Czajkowski, Nikolai Olavi, Røysamb, Espen

“…Clinical and epidemiological studies have shown that both site-specific and more widespread musculoskeletal(MS) conditions are linked to anxiety and depression…”
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Personality, affective response, and facial blood flow during brief cognitive tasks by Vassend, Olav, Knardahl, Stein

“…Blood pressure, heart rate, and changes in facial and finger blood flow were monitored in 58 women during three laboratory tasks, i.e., reading out a neutral…”
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Why change your beliefs rather than your desires? Two puzzles by Vassend, Olav Benjamin

“…Abstract In standard decision theory, the probability function ought to be updated in light of evidence, but the utility function generally stays fixed…”
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Sometimes It Is Better to Do Nothing: A New Argument for Causal Decision Theory by Vassend, Olav Benjamin

“…It is often thought that the main significant difference between evidential decision theory and causal decision theory is that they recommend different acts in…”
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The NEO personality inventory revised (NEO-PI-R): Exploring the measurement structure and variants of the five-factor model by Vassend, Olav, Skrondal, Anders

“…Despite the popularity of the NEO-PI-R as a measure of the five-factor model (FFM), several questions regarding its psychometric foundation have yet to be…”
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Multiple social factors are associated with wellbeing when accounting for shared genetic and environmental confounding by Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae, Nes, Ragnhild Bang, Ayorech, Ziada, Vassend, Olav, Røysamb, Espen

“…Abstract Purpose Social factors are associated with mental health and wellbeing. However, few studies have examined genetic and environmental influences on…”
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Ideal counterpart theorizing and the accuracy argument for probabilism by Castro, Clinton, Vassend, Olav

“…Abstract One of the main goals of Bayesian epistemology is to justify the rational norms credence functions ought to obey. Accuracy arguments attempt to…”
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