Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Investigating the Impact of the 2012 Canadian Graphic Health Warning Label Revisions: Findings from the ITC Canada Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)Background: Approximately 100 Canadians die every day from smoking-related illnesses. Health warnings labels (HWLs) on cigarette packages are a highly cost-effective strategy to inform the public on the health risks of ... -
Investigating the relation between boredom and media multitasking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks is based in media. Despite the abundance of research devoted to understanding the antecedents of media multitasking, little ... -
An Investigation into the Self-deployment of Attentional Reminders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)In a series of studies, we sought to determine whether 1) people will self-deploy attentional reminders when asked to complete an attentionally demanding task (Experiment 1 & 2), 2) people modulate the number of attentional ... -
The Investigation of Long-term Cognitive Changes after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury using Novel and Sensitive Measures
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Memory and concentration problems are frequently reported long after experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury (mild TBI), though conflict with null findings of deficits on standard neuropsychological tests. Experimental ... -
An Investigation of Perceptions of Partner Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-27)To date, only two studies have examined the accuracy of people’s perceptions of their romantic partners’ sexual satisfaction. These have yielded inconsistent results, with one study suggesting that men tend to overestimate ... -
Is Free Recall Actually Superior to Cued Recall? Introducing the Recognized Recall Procedure to Examine the Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)A vast literature and our own common sense tell us that free recall (i.e., recalling information without hints) is harder and less successful than cued recall (i.e., recalling information with hints). In this dissertation, ... -
Is it about me? Time-course of self-relevance and valence effects on the perception of neutral faces with direct and averted gaze
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)Most face processing research has investigated how we perceive faces presented by themselves, but we view faces everyday within a rich social context. Recent ERP research has demonstrated that context cues, including ... -
Is it in the eyes? Dissociating the role of emotion and perceptual features of emotionally expressive faces in modulating orienting to eye gaze
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-03-21)This study investigated the role of the eye region of emotional facial expressions in modulating gaze orienting effects. Eye widening is characteristic of fearful and surprised expressions and may significantly increase ... -
Is Semantic Activation from Print Automatic? An Investigation Using the Psychological Refractory Period and Task Set Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)The view that various visual word recognition processes are automatic in the sense that they are ballistic, intention free, unconscious, and capacity free, dominates the reading literature. Though results from multiple ... -
Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence
(Sage, 2019-08-31)Two studies explored whether the appropriateness of a speaker’s prosodic style (i.e., pitch, volume, speech rate) affects observers’ judgments of speakers’ and listeners’ competence. Adults and school-aged children ... -
Is the rapid adaptation paradigm too rapid? Implications for face and object processing
(Elsevier, 2012-03-29)Rapid adaptation is an adaptation procedure in which adaptors and test stimuli are presented in rapid succession. The current study tested the validity of this method for early ERP components by investigating the specificity ... -
Is there a relation between the cost of debt and environmental performance? An empirical investigation of the U.S. Pulp and Paper Industry, 1994-2005.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-10)This study shows an economically significant relation between a firm’s environmental performance and its cost of debt. Firms that have poor environmental performance will face future environmental liabilities related to ... -
Is There No One In The World Who Can Fly
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-06)The exhibition Is There No One in the World Who Can Fly? consists of three connected bodies of works. Life On Earth is a series of photo-performances exhibited on digital screens. Some of the images are still others are ... -
Isaak Babel's Image of the Humanized Jew in the Odesskie rasskazy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Abstract The Russia in which Isaak Babel (1894-1940) wrote was one of deep seated anti-Semitic philosophies and prejudices, a place of pogroms and segregation. Literature of this era painted the Jew as a villainous, ... -
Isovist Analysis as a Tool for Capturing Responses Towards the Built Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)Experience of the built-environment is said to be dependent on visual perception and the physical properties of space. Scene and environmental preference research suggests that particular visual features greatly influence ... -
"It's Like All of Campus Life Inside a Little Classroom": How an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Program Operates within a University Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-03)English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are language programs designed to assist non-native speakers with their academic studies in English. These programs determine entry and exit into various stages of post-secondary ... -
Italiani Brava Gente? The Italian occupation of southeastern France in the Second World War, 1940-1943
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Many academic works have focused on the German occupation of France in the Second World War, both from the perspective of the occupiers and the occupied. Only a few monographs however had dealt so far with the Italian ... -
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 ... -
I’ll Share With You But Only If… The influence of context, communication, and perspective taking on preschoolers’ social behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)A key aspect of children’s development is learning how to navigate the social world. To do so successfully, children must be able to adapt their social behaviours to the diverse social contexts and demands that they encounter ... -
"J'y Suis. Pour de Bon." Montreal Jewish Education and the Social Construction of Diaspora Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)This work examines the meaning of the State of Israel in diaspora Jewish education in contemporary Montreal, Canada. It does so by asking three central questions: “Is there a common idea of the nation?” “How is the idea ...