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Social Anxiety: Perceptions of Impressions, Anxiety and Anxious Appearance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and ... -
Social Capital and the Significance of Pre-Migration Context among Burmese Refugee Communities In Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2004)What happens in the case of immigrant groups who have had such pre-migration experiences as to require specialized assistance in the adaptation process, and yet whose population is not substantial enough to convince ... -
Social capital, collective action and the water-health nexus in rural Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-20)Access to safe water and adequate sanitation is widely recognised as an important means of protecting public health and human dignity. For example, the introduction of clean water and sewerage disposal (the Sanitary Movement) ... -
Social Choice for Partial Preferences Using Imputation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)Within the field of multiagent systems, the area of computational social choice considers the problems arising when decisions must be made collectively by a group of agents. Usually such systems collect a ranking of the ... -
Social Connection, Judgments of Similarity and Intergroup Relations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)The purpose of this research is to test the idea that creating a social connection with an outgroup member by thinking about how the self is similar to this outgroup member produces positive intergroup outcomes, whereas ... -
The Social Dimension of the Self: Self-formation as Revealed by Depersonalization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In this thesis I investigate the social and cultural dimensions of the self through an examination of the psychiatric disorder of depersonalization. Specifically, I apply Thagard's Multilevel Interacting Mechanisms framework ... -
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-21)This thesis develops and tests the new theory that beliefs in societal justice offer a distinctive self-regulatory benefit for members of socially disadvantaged groups. Integrating concepts from the social justice and goal ... -
Social Equity Dimensions of Flood Risk Management in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-21)Disproportionate exposure to hazards among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and racial/ethnic minority communities contributes to rising environmental injustices worldwide. Examining the link between race/ethnicity, ... -
Social Experiments in Innovative Environmental Management: The emergence of ecotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Human production needs are met through the use of modern technology that is increasingly recognised as a threat to the planetary ecosystem and social sub-system. In light of this recognition, there is evidence that a ... -
Social Factors and Nutrition Risk in Community-Living Seniors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-04)Pandemic countermeasures (e.g., lockdown, restrictions) enacted to minimize the spread of COVID-19 may put older adults at nutrition risk. This thesis uses an online/telephone survey to investigate factors associated with ... -
Social Finance for Sustainable Food Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)The scholarly literature demonstrates that dominant financial investment patterns tend to contribute to unsustainable outcomes in the food system. Mainstream lending hurts prospects for building more sustainable food systems ... -
Social Housing Wait Lists and the One-Person Household in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-05)Social housing wait lists are indicative of the need for affordable housing in communities across Ontario. Growing wait lists also suggest that existing social housing supply and programs are not a solution to immediate ... -
SOCIAL IDENTITY AND MEMORIES OF INJUSTICES INVOLVING INGROUP: WHAT DO WE REMEMBER AND WHY?
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Motivational changes due to individual differences and situational variations in ingroup identification can influence accessibility of memories of ingroup violence, victimization and glories. In Study 1, high identifiers ... -
Social Interaction and the Built Environment: A case study of university students in Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-03)In recent years, there have been rising calls for universities to develop policies that support student well-being due to the growing concern for mental health on campuses. One area of concern is the influence of the built ... -
Social Media Influencers- A Review of Operations Management Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)This literature review provides a comprehensive survey of research on Social Media Influencers (SMIs) across the fields of SMIs in marketing, seeding strategies, influence maximization and applications of SMIs in society. ... -
Social media mining to investigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-16)The COVID-19 pandemic created a global crisis with devastating social and economic impacts. Firstly, public health measures for COVID-19, such as social distancing affected how we work and study. Secondly, this crisis ... -
A Social Network Analysis of Corporate Venture Capital Syndication
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The importance of social capital can be characterized by a well-known quote: "it's not just what you know, but whom you know". Firms with rich social capital are more informed, more capable, and more competitive, because ... -
Social Networks, Asset Allocation and Portfolio Diversification
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)In this thesis we consider the problem of choosing financial assets from the equity markets for portfolio construction purposes. We adapt various measures to model the dependence structure among financial assets, taking ... -
Social Resilience to Flooding: The Implications of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Resilience to environmental hazards refers to the capacities and abilities to resist, adapt and recover from the impacts of a potential hazard, such as flooding. Building resilience is increasingly recognized as a strategy ... -
Social Spatial Polarization in the Toronto Metropolitan Area
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-10)This thesis presents evidence that income polarization is accompanied by increasing social-spatial disparities between areas of the city that were developed in different societal contexts, with different planning approaches, ...