Browsing Theses by Subject "psychophysiology"
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The Downside of Building Up: An Exploration into the Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Exposure to High-Rise Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-17)Cities are densifying at a rapid rate and, accordingly, are constructing high-rise buildings to accommodate more people. The aim of this dissertation was to quantify the physiological and psychological impacts of being in ... -
The influence of near-miss outcomes on the physiological and subjective experience of scratch card gambling
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Scratch cards are an omnipresent gambling form in the Canadian marketplace that contain a special type of outcome called a near-miss. A near-miss is an outcome that appears to come close to a large win, but falls short ... -
Toward a Model of Boredom: Investigating the Psychophysiological, Cognitive, and Neural Correlates of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Boredom is a universal human experience that has the potential to impact a broad range of activities, especially when experienced at chronic and/or elevated levels. Despite this, research is only beginning to gain a better ...