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Perceptions of relative risk of disease and addiction from cigarettes and snus
(Journal article, 2014)The public is largely unaware of the lower global risk associated with snus compared to that of cigarettes, but little is known of perceptions of relative risks for specific diseases. Inveterate, daily and non-daily smokers’ ... -
Persistence motives in irrational decisions to complete a boring task
(Journal article, 2014)We explored a novel task paradigm where participants from the online work marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk were given the choice to quit or continue an unfinished boring task for identical economic rewards. In Studies ... -
Personality, risk cognitions and motivation related to demand of risk mitigation in transport among Norwegians
(Journal article, 2014)There is insufficient knowledge regarding the role of personality traits, transport-related risk cognitions and safety motivation for demand for transport risk mitigation. The aim of this study is to test a model aimed to ... -
Predicting attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy: using a model of distal and proximal predictors
(Journal article, 2014)Previous research on attitudes toward a restrictive alcohol policy has mainly focused on variables such as demographics and own drinking as possible predictors. The present article adds to the existing literature by examining ... -
Premeditated automaticity: the role of explicit cognition in the development of obsessive smoking
(Journal article, 2010)Abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of explicit cognitions in relation to the development of obsessive smoking passion. Data derives from a longitudinal internet survey conducted among 939 ... -
Self-reports of consumption of amphetamines, cocaine and heroin in a survey among marginalized drug users
(Journal article, 2014)Scientific literature offers few measurements of the quantities consumed by individual drug users. Such measurements are used for calculating the total drug consumption by the quantity-frequency method, and are extremely ... -
Sigaretter, snus og status: om livstilssforskjeller mellom brukergrupper av ulike tobakksprodukter
(Journal article, 2013)Røyking har i løpet av noen tiår gått fra å være en utbredt vane til å bli en avvikerhandling, og dagens tobakkspolitikk preges av løpende denormalisering av alle former for tobakksbruk. Likevel fortsetter mange å bruke ... -
Skole, barnehage, barneverntjeneste - bilder av ”de andre” hindrer samarbeid
(Journal article, 2009)Barnevernet mottar få bekymringsmeldinger fra skoler og barnehager. Denne artikkelen går bakenfor spørsmålene om hvem som har skylden eller ansvaret, og ser på samarbeidsbarrierene, hva de består i, og hvordan de kan bygges ... -
Smoking and snus use onset: Exploring the influence of snus debut age on the risk for smoking uptake with cross-sectional survey data
(Journal article, 2014)Snus use has become increasingly prevalent among young people in Norway, while smoking has declined. Little is known about the transitions between snus and other tobacco products, particularly for younger users. A major ... -
Street-level alcohol policy: Assessing intoxication at drinking venues in Oslo
(Journal article, 2014)This article examines liquor inspectors' assessment of intoxication at drinking establishments in Norway. It draws upon Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucrats (1980) to study a situation where laws and informal norms ... -
The collectivity of changes in alcohol consumption revisited
(Journal article, 2014)Within-country temporal changes in alcohol consumption in the United States, Finland and Norway were examined to assess (i) whether a change in mean alcohol consumption is accompanied by a change in the prevalence of heavy ... -
The collectivity of drinking cultures: is the theory applicable to African settings?
(Journal article, 2013)Skog's theory of collective drinking behaviour implies that countries with a strict informal social control of drinking alcohol would not exhibit ‘collective displacement' of consumption (a linear association between ... -
The collectivity of drinking cultures: is the theory applicable to African settings?
(Journal article, 2013)Skog's theory of collective drinking behaviour implies that countries with a strict informal social control of drinking alcohol would not exhibit ‘collective displacement' of consumption (a linear association between ... -
The distribution and role of causal beliefs, inferences of responsibility, and moral emotions on willingness to help addicts among Norwegian adults
(Journal article, 2014)The purpose of this study was to explore the distribution and role of causal beliefs, inferences of responsibility, and moral emotions on deservingness of help to addicts among Norwegian adults using the social motivational ... -
The hole in the doughnut: a study of police discretion in a nightlife setting
(Journal article, 2014)Policing is permeated by situations in which discretion is most important. A substantial part of police work in the nightlife setting involves management of drunk and disorderly patrons, and police officers operate with ... -
Tobacco Harm Reduction in the real world: has the availability of snus in Norway increased smoking cessation?
(Journal article, 2013)In Norway, snus (low nitrosamine smokeless tobacco) is allowed to compete with cigarettes for market share, and over the past decades the prevalence of snus users has increased as the prevalence of smokers has decreased. ... -
Tracing the cigarette epidemic: An age-period-cohort study of education, gender and smoking using a pseudo-panel approach
(Journal article, 2014)This study examined if temporal variations in daily cigarette smoking and never smoking among groups with different levels of education fit the pattern proposed by the theory of diffusion of innovations (TDI), while taking ... -
Use and barriers to use of screening and brief interventions for alcohol problems among norwegian general practitioners
(Journal article, 2010)To investigate the use and the obstacles to use of screening and brief interventions (SBI) for alcohol misuse among Norwegian general practitioners (GP). A questionnaire with 68 questions about the use and barriers to use ...