Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Provisional Zones
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-18)Provisional Zones is an installation made up of found or discarded objects to which I apply paint or painterly conventions. I do this to make something new from that which was forgotten or unremarkable. I place unusual ... -
Psychological and Phenomenological Perspectives on the Hard Problem of Consciousness
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-19)In reexamining the hard problem of consciousness through the history of the concept of mind, I argue that psychologists, cognitive scientists, and analytic philosophers of mind should return to the first-person perspective ... -
Psychological Prices at Retail Gasoline Stations: The Policies of 0-, 5-, and 9-Ending Prices
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-12)Psychological prices are known to impact consumer behaviour and to depend on retailers’ characteristics. Less understood is last digit pricing, especially in the context of retail gasoline stations. We study price endings ... -
The psychology of bullshitting: Measurement, correlates, and outcomes of the propensity to mislead others
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-15)Recent psychological research has identified important individual differences associated with receptivity to bullshit, which has greatly enhanced our understanding of the processes behind susceptibility to pseudo‐profound ... -
Public Health and Sanitation in Colonial Lahore, 1849-1910
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)The British annexation of the Punjab in 1849 had important consequences for the city of Lahore. Indeed, the British occupation prompted Lahore’s transformation into a “modern” colonial city. New designs for urbanization, ... -
Public Salience and International Financial Regulation. Explaining the International Regulation of OTC Derivatives, Rating Agencies, and Hedge Funds
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)What explains the shift towards greater direct public oversight of financial markets in international financial regulation that has characterized the response to the global financial crisis of 2007-2010? Over this period, ... -
Public Servants or Professional Alienists?: Medical Superintendents and the Early Professionalization of Asylum Management and Insanity Treatment in Upper Canada, 1840-1865
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)In nineteenth-century Upper Canada (Ontario), professional work was a primary means by which men could improve their social status and class position. As increasing numbers of men sought entry into these learned occupations, ... -
Put a finger down if you've ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-27)Put a finger down if you’ve ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms is a collection of critical reflections on embedded social media microaggressions reflecting acts of racism, body shaming, the glorification ... -
The Puzzle of the Morrissette-Arcand Clan: A History Of Metis Historic and Intergenerational Trauma
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)This thesis explores how members of the Morrissette-Arcand clan, a Metis road allowance family from Saskatchewan, endured intergenerational trauma since being displaced from Red River in the 1870s. It frames Metis history ... -
Quantum Field Theory: Motivating the Axiom of Microcausality
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)Axiomatic quantum field theory is one approach to the project of merging the special theory of relativity with that of ordinary quantum mechanics. The project begins with the postulation of a set of axioms. Axioms should ... -
Quantum Indefinite Spacetime
(University of Waterloo, 2017)We combine the principle of superposition from quantum theory and the principle of dynamical causal structure from general relativity to attack fundamental questions in quantum gravity. We generalize the concept ... -
Queen of the Academy: Academic Drag as Pedagogy and Praxis
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-22)Direct stories from and pedagogical representations of equity-denied and oppressed bodies remain largely missing from and kept out of the academy. And scholarship and scholarly gate-keepers across the academy – and especially ... -
The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)This dissertation examines the expression of queer identity and community on the early internet and web, and suggests a methodology for working with archived internet and web sources when exploring the history of marginalized ... -
Quenching the Spirit: The Transformation of Religious Identity and Experience in Three Canadian Pentecostal Churches
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-09)According to Census Canada, after eight decades of consistent growth Canadian Pentecostal affiliation reached an all-time high of 436,435 individuals in 1991. A decade later, the results of the 2001 Canadian census revealed ... -
QuickAssist Extensive Reading for Learners of German Using CALL Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)The focus of this dissertation is the development and testing of a CALL tool which assists learners of German with the extensive reading of German texts of their choice. The application provides functionality that enables ... -
Quiet In The Rear: The Wehrmacht and the Weltanschauungskrieg in the Occupation of the Soviet Union
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)Historians widely acknowledge that the Second World War witnessed a substantial degree of ideology in the conflict itself. This paper will establish the degree to which the ideology of National Socialism shaped the Wehrmacht’s ... -
Rain on My Parade: Perceiving Low Self-Esteem in Close Others Hinders Positive Self-Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Ample evidence suggests that the behaviour of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) can lead to problems in close relationships (Wood, Hogle, & McClellan, 2009). To my knowledge, however, no research has investigated the role ... -
Ralph Barnes Grindrod's <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>: An Electronic Scholarly Edition
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis involves both editorial practice and literary analysis. In order to establish an editorial framework for the electronic scholarly edition of Dr. Ralph Barnes Grindrod's pamphlet <em>Slaves of the Needle</em>, ... -
A randomized trial testing deviant modeling, peer gender, and theft: replication and extension
(2019)Objectives: Replicate previous experimental findings on the causal effect of deviant peer modeling and assess whether the gender of peer models is an important determinant of theft. Methods: A randomized control trial ... -
Rat, Plastic, Wood
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-19)Rat, Plastic, Wood is an exhibition of hybrid sculptures centering the physical manifestation of interspecies intra-action and natural forms of contamination-as-collaboration. In the gallery space a central structure of ...