Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Psychology"
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Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5-month-old Infants: Examination of an Experiential Limitation Hypothesis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Three experiments were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that young infants? failures to search for occluded objects arises, not from deficiencies in their object representations, but from limitations in experience ... -
Measuring, Understanding, and Evoking Fear of Positive Evaluation in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)We present a series of three studies designed to investigate fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety. In study 1, we developed the Positive Evaluation Beliefs Scale (PEBS) and administered it to a large undergraduate ... -
Mechanisms of the Aging-Related Positivity Effect in Memory and Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)According to the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST), the normal aging process is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, and this fosters a bias in cognitive processing for information ... -
Media multitasking and sustained attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Media multitasking describes a common, everyday behaviour that involves dividing or switching attention between multiple sources of media-based information. In the work reported here, I investigate the relation between ... -
Message Order and Culture: The Relationship between Cognitive Thinking Styles, Response Mode, and Order Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Previous research has documented the prevalent effects of message order on message persuasiveness. Based on the Belief Updating Model (Hogarth and Einhorn, 1992), response mode has been found as one moderator of primacy ... -
Modulation of Facial Expression Perception by Body Context
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-16)The present study tested the emotion seed hypothesis, previously not fully tested, which states that facial expression perception is modulated by context based on perceptual similarities shared between facial expressions. ... -
Motivated Resistance to Counterattitudinal Arguments: The effects of affirmation, argument strength and attitude importance
(University of Waterloo, 2000)In this study we explored some of the factors associated with biased processing of attitude-relevant information. We were particularly interested in the possibility that a self-affirmation, by reducing self-evaluative ... -
Motivating change through vision: The influence of personal values, self interest, motivational orientation and affect on people’s responses to a visionary presentation about diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-21)When the case for organizational change is presented as a “vision,” is action to support the change more likely? This notion was tested in two studies in the context of diversity issues at work. Diversity was selected as ... -
Motivational Differences in Feedback-Seeking Intentions: A Cultural Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-17)Two studies examined cultural differences in the propensity to seek performance feedback using an experimental policy-capturing design. Findings demonstrated differences between European-Canadians and Chinese participants ... -
Moving beyond assumptions: The reconceptualization and measurement of workplace gossip
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Despite decades of research from other academic fields arguing that gossip is an important and potentially functional behavior, organizational research has largely assumed that gossip is malicious talk. This has resulted ... -
A Multi-Method Study of the Role of Alexithymia and Emotion Self-Awareness in Couples’ Social Support
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The overarching goal of the present study was to examine associations between measures of alexithymia (i.e., difficulty identify and describing one’s feelings) and perceptions of social support receipt and provision in a ... -
The Nature of Representations of Number in Early Childhood: Numerical Comparison as a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)What is the nature of non-verbal representations of number? Broadly speaking, non-verbal representations of number can be divided into two categories: representations of particular numerosities and representations of ... -
Noise reduction limits the McGurk Effect
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)In the McGurk Effect (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976), a visual depiction of a speaker silently mouthing the syllable [ga]/[ka] is presented concurrently with the auditory input [ba]/[pa], resulting in “fused” [da]/[ta] being ... -
Non-erotic thoughts and sexual functioning in a community sample: Associations with thought content, affect and attentional control
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)According to Barlow’s model of sexual dysfunction (1986; Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996), anxiety in sexual situations leads to attentional focus on sexual performance at the expense of erotic cues, which compromises sexual arousal. ... -
Normative Age-Related Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and its Impact on Quality of Life and Mood in Aging Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)With the aging of society and increased longevity, understanding the factors that contribute to declines in quality of life and mood, such as normative health declines and cognitive declines is progressively more important. ... -
Not all syllogisms are created equal: Varying premise believability reveals differences between conditional and categorical syllogisms
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)Deductive reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, and consequently has been the focus of much research over the past several decades. In the realm of syllogistic reasoning—judging the validity of a conclusion given two ... -
On the Perpetuation of Ignorance: System Dependence, System Justification, and the Motivated Avoidance of Socio-Political Information
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-28)How do people cope when they feel uninformed or unable to understand important social issues, such as the environment, energy concerns, or the economy? One would intuitively expect that a lack of knowledge would motivate ... -
On the theoretical importance of distinguishing between intentional and unintentional types of Mind Wandering
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-22)When introduced to mainstream psychological research nearly a decade ago, mind wandering was defined as unintentional, internally-focused thought. The requirement of an absence of intention was critical in terms of the ... -
Organizational Climate and Turnover in the Health Sector.The Case of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-15)The study examined organizational climate and turnover in the health sector of Ghana with particular reference to a case study on the country’s premier teaching hospital formally called Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. In the ... -
Orienting to probable stimuli increases speed, precision, and kurtosis. A study in perceptual estimation.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Stimulus probabilities affect detection performance. Rare targets, even in security or medical screenings, are missed more often than frequent ones. To minimize such probability-related costs, there is a need to understand ...