Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Psychology"
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Implicit Processes in Smoking Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)Although explicit attitudes have traditionally been used in predictive models of health behaviour, recent theorizing suggests that implicit attitudes might be more useful in predicting socially undesirable or addictive ... -
Inducing Support for Organizational Visions through Person-Vision Congruence in Values and Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)Organizational visions articulate a desirable future state in connection to some shared values or identity among organizational members. Theories in both visionary and transformational leadership suggest that values and ... -
The Influence of Diabetes-Related Worry and Worry-Driven Behaviour on the Self-Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-22)Background. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) requires the ongoing self-management of blood glucose to minimize the likelihood of serious morbidity and premature mortality. Adherence to clinical recommendations is challenging ... -
The influence of emotion and observer characteristics on attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-13)For decades, emotion researchers have debated a series of issues related to the influence of emotionally laden information on the way in which people process and remember information. The present investigation was designed ... -
The Influence of Emotional Context on Memory for Faces
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)The present thesis investigates whether the emotional background (context) in which a neutral face is viewed changes one’s memory for that face. In Experiment 1, neutral faces were overlaid centrally onto emotional (positive ... -
The Influence of Implicit Norms on Cognition and Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-09)Recent development of implicit measures has enabled researchers to investigate the relation between implicit attitudes and automatic behaviours. Among these measures, the implicit association test (IAT: Greenwald, McGhee ... -
Institutional-level Contributors to Inequality: The Existence and Impact of Gendered Wording within Job Advertisements
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-08)The present research demonstrates a novel institutional-level contributor--that is, gendered wording used in job recruitment materials--that serves to perpetuate the status quo, keeping women underrepresented in traditionally ... -
Inter-item associations and memory for order
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Remembering the order in which a sequence of events occurred can be an invaluable function of memory. Although important, the quality of memory for order information has been shown to be significantly affected by the way ... -
The interaction between retrieval and encoding processes in memory
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)In memory, encoding and retrieval are often conceived of as two separate processes. However, there is substantial evidence to suggest that this view is wrong—that they are instead highly interdependent processes. One recent ... -
Interfering with episodic memory for words and pictures to uncover their representational codes
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-09)In this thesis, a divided attention paradigm was used to infer the representational codes used by words and pictures in long-term memory. Semantically categorized lists of words (Expt. 1) or pictures (Expt. 2, 3, 4, and ... -
Investigating the frequency of spontaneously generated social and temporal between-individual comparisons
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)Social and temporal comparison researchers to date have only looked at comparisons involving the self. The present investigation aims to extend comparison theory by examining social and temporal comparisons people make of ... -
An Investigation of Perceptions of Partner Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-27)To date, only two studies have examined the accuracy of people’s perceptions of their romantic partners’ sexual satisfaction. These have yielded inconsistent results, with one study suggesting that men tend to overestimate ... -
Is Free Recall Actually Superior to Cued Recall? Introducing the Recognized Recall Procedure to Examine the Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)A vast literature and our own common sense tell us that free recall (i.e., recalling information without hints) is harder and less successful than cued recall (i.e., recalling information with hints). In this dissertation, ... -
Lay misperceptions of the relationship between men’s benevolent and hostile sexism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Although there is a reliably positive association between hostile (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS), lay perceptions of this association have not been directly tested. I predicted that people perceive an illusory negative ... -
Learning to cooperate: The impact of executive functioning, theory of mind and externalizing behaviours on children’s social functioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-21)Developing the ability to interact in a socially competent manner (i.e., in which one’s own needs and goals are met and the needs and goals of others are considered) is a complex process that is likely influenced by one’s ... -
License to Misbehave: Organizational Citizenship Behavior as a Moral License for Deviant Reactions to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Abusive supervision research has found that subordinates engage in deviance following abuse despite the negative consequences of doing so. Why do individuals engage in deviance despite the expected sanctions? To explain ... -
The Longitudinal Association of Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-04)Several prominent models of relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction imply directional relationships between these constructs (e.g., attachment theory, social exchange models of relationship satisfaction, the ... -
Losing Your Calm or Losing Control: Two Paths to Retaliatory Deviance in Response to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Retaliation is a well-established response to abusive supervision. Leading edge research explains the occurrence of supervisor-directed retaliation through processes associated with the strength model of self-control ... -
Marital Communication Behaviour: The Role of Marital Satisfaction, Depressive Symptoms and Proximal Appraisals of Marital Problem-Solving Ability.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)According to Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationship conflict, communication behaviour is likely influenced by relationship factors at both the distal and proximal level. The overall goal of the present ... -
Matters of the Heart: Patients' Intra- and Interpersonal Adjustment to Life Following a Cardiac Crisis
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Cardiac crises (e.g. heart attack or bypass surgery) have been shown to be related to poorer patient psychological and relational functioning. While these studies assume that the event significantly impacts patients, they ...