Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Considering Parental Mortality: The Role of Adult's Attachment Style
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Very little research has studied the common challenge in adulthood of coming to terms with the eventual mortality of one’s parents as they age and experience illness. The present work begins to explore this emotional ... -
Conspicuous Consumption and Inequality
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-27)My research is centered around understanding consumption behavior and its relationship with inequality. In Chapter 1, I study how consumption inequality in the United States has evolved over time, with a particular ... -
Constructing China’s National Food Security: Power, Grain Seed Markets, and the Global Political Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)What is China’s place in the global food system? This thesis provides an analytical lens to explain the factors behind the structure of China’s national seed industry and recent global agribusiness expansion. Scholars of ... -
Constructing Crime: Understanding the Roles, Functions and Claims-Making Activities of Media Relations Officers in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-22)Despite a growing body of prior research, little attention has been paid to media relations officers (MROs) and how media releases are constructed for the public. This research begins to address this gap by examining the ... -
Constructing multilingual selves. Subjective perspectives on learning and living with German as a "heritage" language in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-14)Based on the perception that language students who have a family background in the target language differ from ‘typical’ foreign language learners in important ways, the phenomenon of what has been termed "heritage language ... -
A Constructive Critical Assessment of Feminist Evolutionary Psychology
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-21)In this dissertation, I develop an approach to philosophical critique of morally relevant science and apply this approach to a new branch of evolutionary psychology called “feminist evolutionary psychology.” Morally relevant ... -
A Contemporary Examination of the A Fortiori Argument Involving Jewish Traditions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-22)This study proposes to clarify the a fortiori argument’s components, structure, definitions, formulations, and logical status, as well as the specific conditions under which it is to be employed, both generally and in a ... -
Contesting the centre: Low German-speaking Mennonite identity, language, and literacy constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)We make sense of who we are by talking about ourselves with others, telling stories about ourselves, our experiences, and our feelings. When we do this, we construct sociolinguistic spaces in which we speak, live, work, ... -
Context reinstatement reconsidered: Investigating boundary conditions of the effect
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-23)The context reinstatement (CR) effect suggests that target items are easier to recognize when encoding and retrieval contexts are matched. In this PhD thesis, I manipulated features of the target and the context, in ... -
Contextual Complexities and Nelson Mandela's Braided Rhetoric
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)This dissertation revolves around the complex political circumstances in apartheid South Africa that produced Nelson Mandela the rhetorician, human rights activist, and the longest political prisoner in human history. The ... -
Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)Democracy hinges on the personal and civic decision-making capabilities of publics. In our increasingly technoscientific world, being well-informed requires an understanding of science. Despite acknowledging public ... -
Contingency Learning and Unlearning in the Blink of an Eye: A Resource Dependent Process
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Recent studies show that when words are correlated with the colours they are printed in (e.g., MOVE is presented 75% of the time in blue), colour identification is faster when the word is presented in its expected colour ... -
The Continuity of Explanation: Peircean Pragmatism, Reason, and Developing Reasonable Behavior
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Charles Peirce, the founder of Pragmatism, is not known for having developed a normative and ethical theory. His remarks on ethics and normativity are scattered and sparse. There is nonetheless increasing interest in ... -
Controlling Cyberwarfare: International Laws of Armed Conflict and Human Rights in the Cyber Realm
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-04)Cyberwarfare, military activities in cyberspace conducted by a state against another state and intended to disrupt or destroy computing or communication systems or data, is a recent addition to the warfaring arsenal. The ... -
Core Self-Evaluations and the Hierarchical Model of Approach/Avoidance Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)In the current dissertation I examined the relation between a new personality trait, core self-evaluations (CSE), and job performance, using the hierarchical model of approach and avoidance motivation as a theoretical ... -
Correlates and Consequences of Misjudging Romantic Partners’ Work and Family Priorities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)Women still complete the preponderance of unpaid domestic labour, even when employed full-time. Conversely, despite lessening pressures on men to provide financially, men have not seen a commensurate uptick in domestic ... -
The costs of bonding: negotiating personal information disclosure among Millennials and Boomers on Facebook
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Since early 2010, Facebook.com, the world’s most popular social network site (SNS), has come under a storm of media criticism over the commercial use of its users’ personal information. Yet even as more became known about ... -
Counting What Counts: When and How Performance Indicators Mislead
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)People often rely on performance indicators for feedback on broad personal and organizational goals, e.g., using body weight to assess health and, in academia, using publication count to assess scientific contribution. ... -
Court convictions of a Canadian birth cohort
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-28)Although youth crime and young offenders have attracted a significant amount of ongoing research attention and have given rise to a voluminous amount of literature devoted to describing and explaining their existence and ... -
"Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece": Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)This dissertation studies visual artifacts associated with early modern theatre and book culture, and through them examines acts of communication in the marketplace. These artifacts, illustrated play-text title pages from ...