Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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The time-course of contextual valence and self-relevance effects on the perception of faces with direct versus averted gaze
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)We see faces every day within a rich situational context. Previous ERP research has demonstrated that priming faces with contextual sentences varying in self-relevance and valence alters electrocortical and emotional ... -
The time-use of Canadian immigrant families: differences in time inputs on child raising
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)This thesis contains three chapters in cultural effects and integration experienced by parents born abroad and their Canadian-born children empirically measured using daily time diary records. Immigration policy introduced ... -
To Approach or to Avoid: The Role of Ambivalent Motivation in Attentional Biases to Threat and Spider Fear
(Springer, 2021-01-03)Background People with anxiety difficulties show different patterns in their deployment of attention to threat compared to people without anxiety difficulties. These attentional biases are assumed to play a critical role ... -
To Catch A Glimpse of Things
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)My exhibition To Catch a Glimpse of Things is an exploration into concretizing and prolonging temporary, ephemeral gestures. Through the repetition of ambiguous forms as well as the recurring imagery of distorted, amorphous ... -
To Heal the Nation: the Creation of President Ford's Clemency Program
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)The war in Vietnam divided America into two groups, those who supported the war and those who opposed. At wars end, the divisions did not disappear. Instead, the nation was split on the question of amnesty for draft and ... -
To Hurt the Pain: An Ethical Criticism of Nathanael West
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Nathanael West is typically considered to be a “major minor” American writer of the late modernist period. Best known today for Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), West wrote four dark novellas that ... -
To Look, or Not to Look? Attention to Threat and Avoidance of Threat While Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)It has been argued that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibit facilitated attention to threat (early attentional capture) and difficulty disengaging from it (persistent attentional capture), which in turn ... -
“To Tidy Minds it May Appear Illogical”: How the Commonwealth Evolved from an ‘Imperial Club’ to an International Organisation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)The history of the Commonwealth is vast and multifaceted. It touches on myriad fields, actors, and eras, and reaches from the local to the global. Amidst the Gordian knot of Commonwealth history this thesis is about ... -
Together I Strive: The Motivational Benefits of Shared Reality with Instrumental Others
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-17)Why are some people more successful than others? Thus far, research suggests that success is not only related to individual factors (e.g., self-control), but can also be facilitated by relationships with others. Successful ... -
Together in Death: A Study of Late Bronze Age Double Burials in Mycenaean Chamber Tombs
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)The Mycenaean civilization flourished during the late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1050 BCE) throughout the Peloponnese in Greece and the Aegean. The Mycenaeans buried the dead together within communal chamber tombs, and therefore ... -
Tongues Tide: Translingual Directions for Technologically-Mediated Composing Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)This dissertation examines the link between classroom practices, language policies, and writing technologies in a translingual framework. Specifically, in the context of higher education, I explore the ways in which ... -
Too Many Logoi: The Role of Logoi Within Proclus' System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-25)The purpose of the present study is to understand the role of logoi within Proclus’ metaphysical system. Much of the scholarship on Proclus has largely left the topic of logoi to the side, leaving the understanding of the ... -
Topography and Nature Symbolism in Thomas Mann’s ‘Zauberberg’
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)In my master's thesis I examine the meaning of topography and nature symbolism in Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain". I select text passages and chapters that exemplify the importance of mountains, height and snow ... -
Tor für Deutschland! Vergleichende Analyse von Fußball-Live-Reportagen 1974 und 2006
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)This thesis is a contribution to the research of media discourse. During the last decades the media landscape has changed dramatically. These changes have been especially evident in German TV programs and the rise of private ... -
Toward a Model of Boredom: Investigating the Psychophysiological, Cognitive, and Neural Correlates of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Boredom is a universal human experience that has the potential to impact a broad range of activities, especially when experienced at chronic and/or elevated levels. Despite this, research is only beginning to gain a better ... -
Toward the Interested Investigator: Examining the Epistemic Dimensions of Relational Theory in Zoology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)I argue in this thesis that a research approach that is based on a meaningful relationship between a zoologist and their study subject holds unique epistemic value. It has been well established by feminist and social ... -
Towards a Cyber Jus ad Bellum: Bridging Legal Gaps within Cyberwar Governance
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)While the capabilities of cyberweapons surge forward, our ability to effectively evaluate and govern their deployment has lagged behind. There are presently no internationally binding laws of cyberwar. In their absence, ... -
Towards a Posthumanist Eco-Zoopoetics: Kafkas‘ Tiergeschichten and Yoko Tawadas Etüden im Schnee
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)The burgeoning trans-disciplinary field of (post-humanist) eco-zoopoetics is concerned with the question of how the human can represent animals and nature without ignoring their otherness. My thesis argues that literature ... -
Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ... -
Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-19)Typologies for understanding players’ preferences toward different gameplay styles have gained popularity in research. However, attempts to model players’ preferences are based on type models instead of trait models, ...