Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Outre Aesthetics
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)Since the revolutionary period in America, aesthetics has played a crucial role in political formation, social improvisation, and cultural imagination. Aesthetic contemplation offered a rich and evocative language for ... -
Outta This World
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)Outta This World is a multidisciplinary show comprised of drawing, video, music, performance and installation. It was initiated by my interest in the concept of the nation-state, more particularly Canada, and the way it ... -
Overcoming acceptance insensitivity: Increasing low self-esteem individuals' perceptions of value to their partners
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-09)People with low self-esteem (LSEs) often have doubts about how much their romantic partners love and value them. These doubts, which undermine their relationships, are difficult to overcome because LSEs tend to downplay ... -
Overcoming Inequality: How Schools Compensate for Socioeconomic Gaps in Children’s Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-18)This dissertation views schools’ compensatory mechanisms from a mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative data that were collected from a larger study on summer learning in Canada (see Davies ... -
Overconfidently Underthinking: Narcissism negatively predicts Cognitive Reflection
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)There exists a large body of work examining individual differences in the propensity to engage in reflective thinking processes. However, there is a distinct lack of empirical research examining the role of dispositional ... -
Pacing the House
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-04)Surveying my through a feminist approach to autotheory, Pacing the House is an exhibition that uses material inquiry to reframe personal trauma into a site of investigation. By creating systems of organization—categorizing, ... -
Pagan Community Online: Social Media Affordances and Limitations in Religio-Political Sociality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Ultra-conservative and social justice politics in North America have imbued political meaning into ideas of race and religion. Norse Pagans (i.e., Heathens) are factionalizing and contesting the significances of race and ... -
Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy
(Sage, 2014-03-12)Even though they claim to recognize that the boundaries between domestic and international security have eroded, scholars of Canadian paradiplomacy have tended to ignore the security-oriented paradiplomatic activities ... -
Paralinguistic and Nonverbal Behaviour in Social Interactions: A Lens Model Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)It is widely accepted in our society that people’s paralinguistic (i.e., non-semantic characteristics of the voice) and nonverbal (i.e., posture, gestures, and facial expressions) behaviours play an important role in ... -
Parameterizing Inanimate Agents: The Motion of a Virtual Ball and the Behaviour of a Machine-Learning Interactive System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)In this thesis we parameterized interactive objects and systems and investigated their effects on perceived agency. In one experiment we developed a virtual reality simulation in which the motion path of a virtual ball is ... -
Parodie et construction identitaire
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)L’œuvre de Patrick Chamoiseau se singularise par sa dimension esthétique qui fait de la parodie le style du récit épique. À travers ses œuvres, notamment Texaco et Solibo Magnifique, l’auteur semble s’approprier l’épopée ... -
Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Foundations, Developments, and Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-15)A lack of historical perspective sustained the widespread view that participatory initiatives in Brazil represented a marked rupture from traditional forms of political engagement to radically new democratic practices. ... -
Passing Through: An Installation of Photography
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)Passing Through, an installation of photography, encourages the nature of memory through an engagement with the materiality of photographic images. Considering memory as an ephemeral phenomenon, I am interested in exploring ... -
Path analysis of warning label effects on negative emotions and quit attempts: A longitudinal study of smokers in Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the US
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01)Background Cigarette pack health warning labels can elicit negative emotions among smokers, yet little is known about how these negative emotions influence behavior change. Objective Guided by psychological theories ... -
Pathways of Crime and Delinquency: A life-course analysis of informal social control of antisocial behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-29)The aim of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive examination of crime and delinquency over the early life-course through an informal social control perspective. Specifically, the dissertation examines how sources ... -
Pathways of Influence: Understanding the Impacts of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains
(Springer, 2021-03-22)Philosophy of science has the potential to improve scientific practice, science policy, and science education; moreover, recent research indicates that many philosophers of science think we ought to increase the broader ... -
Patrick Süskind's <em>Die Taube</em> und <em>Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer</em> - innere Zwänge, Selbstabgrenzung und Objektivierung als Konstituenten von Außenseiteridentitäten
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The following thesis examines Süskind?s novella <em>Die Taube</em> (1987) and his short-story <em>Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer</em> (1991) with respect to the literary identities of the outsiders Jonathan Noel and Herr ... -
Patrick Süskinds Der Kontrabass - Einsamkeit und Psychische Erkrankungen als Folge der Kommunikationslosigkeit in der modernen Gesellschaft
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-22)This thesis provides a psychological insight of the protagonist in Patrick Süskind’s monodrama Der Kontrabass in order to reveal his suffering from a contemporarily increasing psychical disease. This mental illness is ... -
Perceived Gaze Direction Differentially Affects Discrimination of Facial Emotion, Attention, and Gender – An ERP Study
(Frontiers, 2019-05-24)The perception of eye-gaze is thought to be a key component of our everyday social interactions. While the neural correlates of direct and averted gaze processing have been investigated, there is little consensus about how ... -
Perceived Risk of Tobacco Products among Adult Tobacco Users in Bangladesh and India
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-27)There is considerable evidence demonstrating that smokers underestimate or minimize their own perceived risk of harm from smoking, and that smokers’ perceptions of risk play a key role in their behaviour, notably quitting. ...