Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Spatial habit competes with effort to determine human spatial organization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)Despite the important role that the physical environment plays in shaping human cognition, few studies have endeavored to experimentally examine the principles underlying how individuals organize objects in their space. ... -
Speaking of 'Violence'
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-18)In this project, I engineer a new concept, which I call a “violence figleaf”, in order to make sense of the many instances of gendered violence which are dismissed or characterized as some other kind of thing: a misunderstanding, ... -
Species sensitivity of early face and eye processing
(Elsevier, 2011-02-25)Humans are better at recognizing human faces than faces of other species. However, it is unclear whether this species sensitivity can be seen at early perceptual stages of face processing and whether it involves species ... -
Spectrum Epistemology: The BonJour - Goldman Debate
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-04)Socrates teaches in the Meno that in order for a belief to be justified, an appropriate relation must ‘tie down’ the belief to its (apparent) truth. Alvin Goldman’s position of externalism holds that for a belief to be ... -
Speed of Response does not Affect Feelings of Rightness in Reasoning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)It has been argued (Thompson, Prowse Turner & Pennycook, 2011) that the experience of ease (i.e., the ability to quickly generate an initial response) during processing influences one’s likelihood of engaging reflectively ... -
The Spirit of Technology: A Pneumatological Analysis of the Discourse on Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-23)This thesis explores the use of spirit-language in technological discourse in order to show that the category of spirit is viable within technological discourse and that spiritlanguage can be a new way for theology to ... -
Spontaneous eye-movements in neutral and emotional gaze-cuing: An eye-tracking investigation
(Elsevier, 2019-04)Our attention is spontaneously oriented in the direction where others are looking. This attention shift manifests as faster responses to peripheral targets when they are gazed at by a central face instead of gazed away ... -
Springfield's Sacred Canopy: Religion and Humour in The Simpsons
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-12)This dissertation examines religion’s satirical portrayal in The Simpsons. Building upon a sociological theory of humour developed from Peter Berger’s sociological theories of knowledge, religion, and humour, it assesses ... -
Springwells Pottery Production at the Iler Earthworks
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-18)This thesis examines the pottery assemblage from the Iler Earthworks (AaHr-22), a Late Woodland (Western Basin Tradition) Springwells Phase occupation in Essex County, Ontario. An assemblage of 3724 pottery sherds was found ... -
Squeezed In: The Intersecting Paradoxes of Care for Immigrant Informal Caregivers
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)While the feasibility of maintaining informal care for older adults is a growing concern for many Canadians, support is not the same for everyone. The situation for immigrants is even more precarious because of their ... -
The Stage History of Goethe's Faust I in Imperial Russia: Performance and Archival Record
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This dissertation is devoted to the stage history of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia with the goal of initiating academic discussion of this previously ignored topic. The significance of this study lies not only in the ... -
Stakeholder Perspectives on Water Conservation Practices and Asymmetrical Power Relations in Southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-04)Abstract This thesis focuses on the politics of freshwater conservation and its impacts on water access, distribution, and management in Southwestern Ontario, focusing on Waterloo Moraine. It examines the role of various ... -
Stalin’s Last Comrade: Hanna Wolf and the “Karl Marx” Party College in the German Democratic Republic
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-31)For over thirty years, the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS) was under the direction of the fervent Hanna Wolf, who oversaw the training of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party (SED) functionaries. First appointed as Director ... -
Stand Fast for Peace & Freedom: A Study of Foreign Policy of the British Labour Party in Opposition 1931 to 1940
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)This thesis examines the evolution of foreign policy within the British Labour Party during its years in opposition from 1931 to 1940. It argues that Labour policy was locked in a bitter divide between idealist and pragmatic ... -
Standards for the control of algorithmic bias in the Canadian administrative context
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)Governments around the world use machine learning in automated decision-making systems for a broad range of functions, including the administration and delivery of healthcare services, education, housing benefits; for ... -
Statistical learning in brain damaged patients: A multimodal impairment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-19)Spatial neglect has mainly been described through its spatial deficits (such as attentional bias, disengagement deficit or exploratory motor behavior), but numerous other studies have reported non-spatial impairments in ... -
A step at a time: An investigation of preschoolers’ simulations of narrative events during story comprehension
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-23)A growing body of work suggests that narrative comprehension involves the simulation of the events and actions described in a narrative (e.g., Barsalou, 2008; Matlock, 2004). Preliterate children’s ability to simulate a ... -
A Stimulus-Response Account of Stroop and Reverse Stroop Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis concerns selective attention in the context of the Stroop task (identify the colour) and Reverse Stroop task (identify the word). When a person is asked to select and identify one dimension of a bidimensional ... -
Storage Matters: Managing Grain, Securing Finance, and Building Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)This dissertation analyzes the nexus of agriculture and finance, specifically the mediating role of grain storage. How grain markets are organized and governed is foundational to food security. Hundreds of millions of ... -
Stories in Play: Narrative Formation in Sports and Esports
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-11)Sports depend on narrative to function as media content, yet sports are difficult to narrativize because they are unpredictable. This project proposes a model for analyzing the narrative formation in sports broadcasts by ...