Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Psychology"
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The Faking Dilemma: Examining Competing Motivations in the Decision to Fake Personality Tests for Personnel Selection
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-09)More than 80 years ago, researchers and practitioners first recognized that applicants may be motivated to fake their responses to pre-employment personality tests to improve their chances of securing employment (Zickar & ... -
Fear of Guilt in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a significantly impairing anxiety disorder for which the most successful treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy, has 50-60% success rates, taking into account treatment refusals and ... -
First Impressions of Manager Fairness: Set in Stone or Revision-Prone?
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Manager fairness matters to employees and has important work outcomes. The current research explored whether differences exist in the rate of revision (change) of first impressions of a manager’s interactional and procedural ... -
Flanker Interference in Younger and Older Adults: Does Training Influence Focusing of Attention?
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This study investigated the influence of training on interference in younger and older adults using the Eriksen flanker task. Does flanker interference differ with age and, as practice progresses, does the pattern of ... -
Friend or Foe? Memory and Expectancy Biases for Faces in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-08)Previous studies examining memory biases for threatening faces in social anxiety (SA) have yielded inconclusive results. In the present study, memory and expectancy biases were tested within the context of a novel face ... -
Getting into the Game: The Precursors of Immersion into Violent Video Games and the Effect of Immersion on Post-Game Aggression
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)The hours many of us spend watching movies and television, playing video games, and reading books illustrate the prevalence of fantasy in our lives. But does spending so much time in fantasy worlds shape our real-world ... -
The Goal Fungibility Model: A Theoretical Account of Goal Persistence and Substitution After Failure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)After failure at a goal, people have a variety of options for what to do next, including persistence at the goal or substituting it for a different goal. This thesis introduces a model of goal fungibility, which addresses ... -
Great Expectations: The Role of Implicit Current Intentions on Predictions of Future Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)I present behavioural data contributing to existing research that (implicit) self-predictions are overly reliant on current intentions at the time of the decision (Koehler & Poon, 2006). Results are consistent with previous ... -
Helping in a Random World: Evidence that Prosocial Intentions and Behavior can Satiate Compensatory Control Needs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-07)The present research examines a unique motivator of prosocial intentions and behavior: the need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable place. Previous social psychological research has explained helping ... -
The Hidden Cost of Hiding Feelings: Emotion Suppression and Inauthenticity in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Social anxiety is associated with an unusually high level of negative affect, yet little is known about the strategies used by socially anxious individuals to manage and regulate their emotions. The present research examined ... -
Hostility in the context of depression: Testing the relevance of perceived social ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)Theoretical positions (Sloman & Gilbert, 2000), current research (Robbins & Tanck, 1997) and clinical observations (APA, 1994) have generally concluded that depressed populations tend to demonstrate an elevated level of ... -
How interactions with sexist men can undermine women's performance in engineering and mathematics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)The present research examined how interactions with sexist men can trigger stereotype threat among women, undermining their engineering and mathematical performance. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literatures on ... -
How Members of Majority and Victimized Groups Respond to Government Redress for Historical Harms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)Scholars speculate that government apologies and compensation for historical injustices promote forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as psychologically benefit members of the victimized group. However, they have not ... -
How Self-Esteem and Executive Control Influence Self-Regulatory Responses to Risk
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-13)People with high (HSEs) and low self-esteem (LSEs) often react differently to interpersonal risk. When concerns about their relationship are salient, HSEs seek connection with their partners to quell feelings of vulnerability ... -
Human smoking behaviour, cigarette testing protocols, and constituent yields
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The issue of how to test and ultimately regulate tobacco products represents a critical challenge for the public health community. Although the current international testing regime for conventional cigarettes is widely ... -
"If you don't 'get it', it doesn't count": Conveying Responsiveness in Attempts to Seek Forgiveness Within Romantic Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-19)Although research has begun to examine the factors which facilitate forgiveness in romantic relationships, there is currently limited empirical research examining the partner behaviours which promote or alternatively thwart ... -
Imagining story spaces: Young readers’ ability to construct spatial representations of narrative
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-18)Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. They are the bestsellers we read on the beach, the news stories we read online, and, most commonly, the anecdotes we hear from our friends and family. Narrative comprehension ... -
Impacts of implicit normative evaluations on stereotyping and prejudice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)The present research examined how other people’s evaluations towards social groups will develop and how these evaluations will affect discriminatory behaviour outside of conscious effort. By living in a society people are ... -
The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)People experience autonomy when they perceive their behaviour to be volitional and they feel controlled when their behaviour is driven by external demands or internal pressures. Gaine and La Guardia (2009) developed the ... -
Implicit Leadership: Exploring the Role of Leaders on the Implicit Activation of Self-Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Lord and Brown (Lord, Brown, & Freiberg, 1999; Lord & Brown, 2004) suggest that leaders may impact followers by priming certain goals or ideals in their followers’ minds, which in turn influence judgment and behaviour. The ...