• Comparison between own and others’ travel motives: A research note 

      Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      This study examines the assumption that tendencies to dissociate oneself from other tourists relate to the desire to position own characteristics (using travel motives as an example) in a positive light. Results suggest ...
    • Complexity and Simplification in Understanding Travel Preferences Among Tourists 

      Øgaard, Torvald; Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10)
      Travel preferences are complex phenomena, and thus cumbersome to deal with in full width in diagnostic and strategic planning processes. The aim of the present investigation was to explore to what extent individual preferences ...
    • Different but similar: Social comparison of travel motives among tourists 

      Doran, Rouven; Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina (Journal article, 2014)
      Although previous research suggests that people prefer to think of themselves as being authentic (or individualistic) travellers rather than stereotyped tourists, there have been few studies investigating the external ...
    • How to define and measure risk perceptions 

      Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11)
      Research on risk perceptions within the tourism domain suffers from two closely related problems: diverging conceptual and measurement definitions. The lack of precision and standardization is hindering comparisons of ...
    • What makes tourist experiences interesting 

      Larsen, Svein; Wolff, Katharina; Doran, Rouven; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08)
      Traditional tourist role theory implies that tourists are either novelty seekers or familiarity seekers, while the interaction-hypothesis-of-inherent-interest predicts that interestingness is maximal when novel and familiar ...
    • Worry and its correlates onboard cruise ships 

      Wolff, Katharina; Larsen, Svein; Marnburg, Einar; Øgaard, Torvald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The present study examined job-specific worry, as well as possible predictors of such worry, namely job-specific self-efficacy and supervisor dispositionism. 133 non-supervising crew members at different departments ...