Browsing Theses by Subject "emotion"
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Analysis of Facial Emotional Characteristics: Impact of Culture and Gender
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-22)Emotional expressions are considered universal for a long time. However, some evidence indicates that there are gender and cultural specific variations in emotional expressions, which leads to inaccurate recognition result ... -
Barking at Emotionally-Laden Words: The Role of Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)It has long been held that processing at the single word level during reading is automatic. However, research has recently begun to emerge that challenges this view. The literature surrounding the processing of emotion ... -
Design and Study of Emotions in Virtual Humans for Assistive Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)This thesis presents the design and study of emotionally aligned prompts given by virtual humans for persons with cognitive disabilities such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Our goal is to understand ... -
Drawing as an Encoding Tool: Generalizing to Emotional and More Complex Stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Drawing, as an encoding strategy has been shown to provide robust memory benefits primarily to memory for list of words. Past research has also shown that emotional compared to neutral information is typically better ... -
Efficient Deep Learning-Driven Systems for Real-Time Video Expression Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)The ability to detect, recognize, and interpret facial expressions is an important skill for humans to have due to the abundance of social interactions one faces on a daily basis, but it is also something that most take ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
It’s About Time (for the Next Task): Time Available and Next Task Valence Interact to Explain Velocity’s Influence on Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Over the course of a typical day, employees often face a seemingly never-ending sequence of goals. Given the omnipresence and importance of goals in the workplace, a keen understanding of the goal pursuit process is ... -
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 ... -
Modeling Continuous Emotional Appraisals of Music Using System Identification
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The goal of this project is to apply system identification techniques to model people's perception of emotion in music as a function of time. Emotional appraisals of six selections of classical music are measured from ... -
Naturalizing Moral Judgment
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-18)Philosophers have traditionally attempted to solve metaethical disputes about the nature of moral judgment through reasoned argument alone. Empirical evidence about how we do make moral judgments is often overlooked in ... -
Negative Encoding Contexts Create a Downstream Memory Advantage for Foils
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Research has suggested that during a recognition test, we re-enter the mode of processing engaged at encoding to help constrain our memory search during retrieval (Jacoby, Shimizu, Daniels, & Rhodes, 2005). A by-product ... -
The Persistence of Involuntary Memory: Analyzing Phenomenology, Links to Mental Health, and Content
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)In daily life, memories of one’s personal past are often retrieved involuntarily (i.e., unintentionally and effortlessly). Termed involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs), recent evidence suggests that these are often ... -
Sentimentalism, Affective Response, and the Justification of Normative Moral Judgments
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Sentimentalism as an ethical view makes a particular claim about moral judgment: to judge that something is right/wrong is to have a sentiment/emotion of approbation/disapprobation, or some kind of positive/negative feeling, ... -
The Source of the Positivity Bias in Older Adults' Emotional Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)According to socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), old age is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, a focus that fosters a bias in processing positively valenced material in older ...