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How does emotion affect the way we walk?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-22)Gait, the way that human beings walk, is a large component and indicator of health in both young and older adults. Gait has been used in the past to identify injury and fall risk, progression of diseases and is used as a ... -
How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-Compassion Affects Emotional Distress Tolerance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted in a Sample of University Students and a Sample of Community Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)Emotional distress tolerance refers to the perceived ability to tolerate one’s negative emotions (Simons & Gaher, 2005). Low emotional distress tolerance is a transdiagnostic marker of psychopathology (Leyro et al., 2010) ... -
how Gabriotto writes a letter to his loved one Philomena—the narratological function of letters in Jörg Wickram’s “Gabriotto und Reinhart“
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)The following thesis deals with the twelve letters, more explicitly, love letters in Wickram’s “Gabriotto und Reinhart” and their narratological function for the story, plot and narration itself. At first I will talk about ... -
How incentive contracts and task complexity influence and facilitate long-term performance
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-07)The purpose of this study is to investigate how different incentive contracts that include forward-looking and contemporaneous goals motivate managers to make decisions consistent with the organization’s long-term objectives, ... -
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 it Seams: Religious Dress, Multiculturalism, and Identity Performance in Canadian Society, 1910-2017
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-16)Canadians generally consider themselves forerunners of acceptance who deem diversity a core value, yet this identity coexists alongside fierce national debates over reasonable accommodation of minority religious practices ... -
How Large Immobile Particles Impact Sediment Transport and Bed Morphology in Gravel Bed Rivers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-29)Large particles can be deposited in natural stream channels as a result of failed erosion protection measures or geological deposits. The impacts these large particles have on the natural systems have been studied, however ... -
How Leader Role Identity Influences the Process of Leader Emergence: A Social Network Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Contemporary literature on leadership emphasizes the importance of having a leader identity in building leadership skills and functioning effectively as leaders. We build on this approach by examining and unpacking the ... -
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 Ontario's urban householders manage their ecosystem: A ten-year study in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2006)As much of the growing population of North America is accommodated within cities or on their fringes, one needs to understand how these people are managing their private outdoor space. Within the cities of Kitchener and ... -
How Prejudice Affects the Study of Animal Minds
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Humans share the planet with many wonderfully diverse animal species and human-animal interactions are part of our daily lives. An important part of understanding how humans do and should interact with other animals is ... -
How Processing of Background Context Can Improve Memory for Target Words in Younger and Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)We examined how explicit instructions to encode visual context information accompanying visually-presented unrelated target words affected later recognition of the targets presented alone, in younger and older adults. In ... -
How Programmers Comment When They Think Nobody's Watching
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-17)Documentation is essential to software development. Experienced programmers know this well from having worked with poorly documented code. They wish to improve their documentation techniques and habits, but there is ... -
How Reading Difficulty Influences Mind-Wandering: The Theoretical Importance of Measuring Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)In many situations, increasing task difficulty decreases thoughts that are unrelated to the task (i.e., mind-wandering; see Smallwood & Schooler, 2006, for a review). However, Feng, D’Mello, and Graesser (2013) recently ... -
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 ... -
How Should We Live: An Alternative Process of Land Development for Chinese Villages
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-15)A class of migrant workers in China that have left their official rural residence in search of work and wealth in the more developed coastal cities have created a new process of urbanization. The ‘floating population’ ... -
How Sustainable Fashion Brands Communicate with Online Customers in Comparison with Fast Fashion Brands
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-13)Sustainability in the fashion industry is a very debatable concept as this industry is commonly known for being unsustainable due to environmental, social, economic, and supply chain issues. As the fashion industry is ... -
How the Contributions of Conveners Achieve Collaboration Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-29)Collaboration is considered to be an alternative strategic planning approach for delivering services and addressing organization mandates. These initiatives provide an opportunity “in which autonomous actors interact ... -
How to Communicate Global Warming? Tracking Narrative Streams in Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-14)Global warming is an extremely complex environmental issue with academic research published on the topic in a wide variety of fields. Because the multifaceted aspects of climate change traverse across so many disciplines, ... -
How to Evaluate a Third Sector Approach to Place-Based Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pathways to Education
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-04)This dissertation examines how to evaluate a place-based poverty reduction program across different sites and scales. Unpacking urban planning’s dominant, normative construction of poverty, neighbourhoods, youth, and ...