Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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The Re-examined Life
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The Re-examined Life is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemplative and interactive artworks that use the expectations of conventional belief systems to question widespread perceptions and value judgments of our current ... -
The Re-examined Life
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The Re-examined Life is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemplative and interactive artworks that use the expectations of conventional belief systems to question widespread perceptions and value judgments of our current ... -
Reading Aloud in the Context of the Task Set Paradigm: New Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)In a series of five experiments I examined whether intention (as operationalized by task set) affects the processes involved in reading. The Task Set paradigm (Besner & Care, 2003) was used in all experiments. On each trial ... -
Reading aloud is not automatic: Processing capacity is required to generate a phonological code from print
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The process of generating a phonological code from print is widely described as automatic. This claim is tested in Chapter 1 by assessing whether phonological recoding uses central attention in the context of the ... -
Reading Aloud: Feedback is Never Necessary
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-16)Since McClelland and Rumelhart (1981) introduced the concept of interactive activation (IA) to the field of visual word recognition, IA has been adopted by all of the major theoretical models of reading aloud. This widespread ... -
Reading Aloud: Qualitative Differences in the Relation between Stimulus Quality and Word Frequency as a Function of Context
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-14)Virtually all theories of visual word recognition assume (typically implicitly) that when a pathway is used, processing within that pathway always unfolds in the same way. This view is challenged by the observation that ... -
The reading modality of popular trauma talk from within the province of human practice: A phenomenological hermeneutic perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)The term trauma occurs on a regular and frequent basis in Canadian newspapers. Contemporary inquiries into the phenomenon of the popularity of the term “trauma” have argued that trauma has become: a term that has drifted ... -
Reading Your Counterpart: Culture, Meaning, and Function of Nonverbal Behaviour in Negotiation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-14)Literature on cross-cultural negotiation suggests that the challenges negotiators often face in intercultural interactions stem from miscommunication. While prior research examined verbal messages in this context, there ... -
Realism in Contemporary Fine Art
(University of Waterloo, 2010)Usually I start out with a technical concept. I try to get as detailed as possible in regards to the logistics of how I'll carry out the work. The ideas themselves are quite intricate and so an intuitive approach to process ... -
A Realist Critique of Structural Empiricism
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-04)In his latest work, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, Bas van Fraassen has argued for a position he describes as empiricist structuralism. This position embraces a structuralist view of science which ... -
Realitätsverlust und Medienkonstitution: Thomas Glavinics Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) als radikale Literarisierung Baudrillardscher Konzepte?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)In this thesis I argue that Thomas Glavinic’s novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (Night Work) investigates existential themes of the human condition in a post-modern world. My analysis demonstrates that the novel can be understood ... -
Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ... -
Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Creativity is one of the most imperative of all psychological constructs to study, for the implications of understanding creativity have immense bearing upon our future as a species. Understanding creativity can reveal not ... -
Reassessing foreign language classroom anxiety: Employing poststructuralist theories in a qualitative meta-analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis will generate new insight into the study of classroom language anxiety and its method of analysis in current SLA discourse. Drawing heavily from Horcoff, Horcoff and Cope’s seminal paper “Foreign Language ... -
The Rebirth of Rape: Tracing Ovidian Rape Motifs with Respect to Bernini's Pluto and Persephone as a Piece of Classical Reception
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Rape, as it is understood in a modern context, is approached with a completely different perspective than that of an ancient, and even a post-Renaissance, audience. With the contributing factors of cultural, historical, ... -
The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Helping behaviors have been subjected to a substantial amount of research attention. However, organizational researchers have disproportionately focused on the help giver, neglecting the recipient of help. To stimulate ... -
Recent German Memorials to Jewish Victims of World War II
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)The following thesis examines four 21st-century German memorials that commemorate the deported and murdered Jewish people of Europe during World War II: Jochen Kitzbihler’s Glaskubus (2003) at Paradeplatz in Mannheim, Janet ... -
Recognizing discrimination explicitly while denying it implicitly: Implicit social identity protection
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Past research suggests that members of devalued groups recognize their group is discriminated against. Do the implicit responses of members of these groups demonstrate the same pattern? I argue that they do not and that ... -
Recommender Systems for Personalized Gamification
(ACM, 2017-07-09)Gamification has been used in a variety of application domains to promote behaviour change. Nevertheless, the mechanisms behind it are still not fully understood. Recent empirical results have shown that personalized ... -
Reconstructing the Life Histories of the Individuals Buried in the Rock-cut Cave Church of St. Georges, in Gurat, France
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)In the 1960s and 1970s, eighteen individuals were excavated from the cave church of St. Georges, located in Gurat, France. This thesis develops osteobiographies for these individuals to build on previous studies relating ...