Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Small Worlds: An Exhibition of Wall Drawing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-01)Small Worlds is an installation of wall drawing that explores the possibilities of shape and colour through repetition and scale. Combining drawing materials with printmaking techniques, I use my hands and body to replace ... -
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: TUNING THE SOCIOMETER TO INTERPERSONAL VALUE
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)The author drew on sociometer theory to propose that self-esteem is attuned to traits that garner others’ acceptance, and the traits that garner acceptance depend on one’s social role. Attunement of self-esteem refers to ... -
Social Anxiety and Negotiation: The Effects of Attentional Focus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-18)Negotiation poses a unique challenge in the modern workplace which is likely to be especially difficult for socially anxious individuals. Previous research has shown that externally focused attention strategies are useful ... -
Social Anxiety and the Generation of Positivity During Dyadic Interaction: Curiosity and Authenticity are the Keys to Success
(Elsevier, 2021-03-31)What drives positive affective and interpersonal experiences during social interaction? Undergraduates with high (n = 63) or low (n = 56) trait social anxiety (SA) were paired with unfamiliar low SA partners in a 45-minute ... -
Social Anxiety and the Nature and Function of Social Pain
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-09)Humans have a fundamental need to belong that drives many of our present-day emotions and behaviours. When the need to belong becomes threatened, people experience “social pain,” which has been conceptualized as an adaptive ... -
Social Anxiety is Associated with Impaired Memory for Imagined Social Events with Positive Outcomes
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder suggest that memory biases for negative social information contribute to symptoms of social anxiety (SA). However, it remains unclear whether memory biases in SA are related to ... -
Social Anxiety: Perceptions of Impressions, Anxiety and Anxious Appearance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and ... -
Social Connection, Judgments of Similarity and Intergroup Relations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)The purpose of this research is to test the idea that creating a social connection with an outgroup member by thinking about how the self is similar to this outgroup member produces positive intergroup outcomes, whereas ... -
The Social Dimension of the Self: Self-formation as Revealed by Depersonalization
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)In this thesis I investigate the social and cultural dimensions of the self through an examination of the psychiatric disorder of depersonalization. Specifically, I apply Thagard's Multilevel Interacting Mechanisms framework ... -
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-21)This thesis develops and tests the new theory that beliefs in societal justice offer a distinctive self-regulatory benefit for members of socially disadvantaged groups. Integrating concepts from the social justice and goal ... -
SOCIAL IDENTITY AND MEMORIES OF INJUSTICES INVOLVING INGROUP: WHAT DO WE REMEMBER AND WHY?
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Motivational changes due to individual differences and situational variations in ingroup identification can influence accessibility of memories of ingroup violence, victimization and glories. In Study 1, high identifiers ... -
Social problem solving in social anxiety disorder
(Elsevier, 2019-12)Successful social problem solving requires both an adaptive orientation toward the problem and the necessary skills to generate relevant and effective solutions. Surprisingly few studies have examined social problem solving ... -
A Social-Pluralistic View of Science Advising
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)In this dissertation, I bring together two disciplines: Science, Technology, and Society studies and the Philosophy of Science, to develop a social-pluralistic account of science advising. I use three prominent theorists ... -
Some Mysterious Resonance Between Thing and Language: On Contradiction and the Materialist Theologies of Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)At first glance, the works of the contemporary American authors Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy look so distinctly unlike that they seem to represent opposing poles on a hypothetical literary spectrum. The fundamental ... -
Something is Missing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)Something is Missing is an installation that incorporates drawing, a security camera, audio, appropriated objects and built sculptural elements using common construction materials and clay. This work is rooted in notions ... -
Something to soften the blow
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Something to soften the blow is a visual arts exhibition featuring photography, textile, and video artworks that explore feminist critiques of representation in film, specifically looking at the slasher genre. What began ... -
“Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-02)Since the early 2000s, Canadian higher education has recognized the economic benefit of courting and enrolling visa students at higher tuition rates. Austerity measures in federal funding combined with falling domestic ... -
Sounds of the Land of Promise: Listening to Ralph Ellison’s Metaphors of Memory in Invisible Man
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-12)This project studies Ralph Ellison’s incorporation of sonic memory, soundscapes (sonic environments), and music into his novel Invisible Man (1952). The central focus of this dissertation is the influence of the sonic on ... -
The Source of the Positivity Bias in Older Adults' Emotional Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)According to socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), old age is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, a focus that fosters a bias in processing positively valenced material in older ... -
South Asian Muslim Americans as Model Minorities: Conflicted Identities in Mohsin Hamid and Ayad Akhtar
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)This thesis argues that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced portray the struggles of South Asian Muslims in light of the model minority myth. The protagonists’ struggles for assimilation ...