Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Understanding boredom proneness: Cognitive and affective correlates in healthy and traumatic brain injured individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-16)Boredom proneness has been associated with a raft of negative cognitive, affective, and behavioural consequences. Research has sought to better understand boredom proneness from both cognitive and affective perspectives; ... -
An Understanding of the Differences between Internal and External Auditors in Obtaining and Assessing Information about Internal Control Weaknesses
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-08)A critical role of the internal auditor is to design and monitor their organization's system of internal controls (COSO, 2004). In addition, they may be expected to objectively assess the quality of internal controls as ... -
Understanding repeated actions: Examining factors beyond anxiety in the persistence of compulsions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-06)Two decades of research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has helped us develop a strong understanding of why obsessions are often followed by the performance of a compulsive act. What we have understood less well is ... -
Understanding Socio-Political Impact of Urbanization in Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-30)Urbanization is a growing concern around the world, but perhaps the threat of unruly urbanization is nowhere as great as it is in the Middle East. While there is a growing body of literature focusing on the environmental ... -
Understanding the Decision to Enroll in Massive Open Online Courses
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)The prevalence of high-paying, stable jobs for low skilled workers has declined over the past few decades. As a result, individuals lacking marketable job skills may be less likely to succeed in the workplace. Given this ... -
Understanding the influence of anxiety on gait in Parkinson's disease
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-15)Anxiety is a prevalent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and has been linked to motor impairments in PD, yet there is a huge gap in the understanding of whether anxiety affects movement, namely gait, in those ... -
Understanding the London Corresponding Society: A Balancing Act between Adversaries Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis examines the intellectual foundation of the London Corresponding Society’s (LCS) efforts to reform Britain's Parliamentary democracy in the 1790s. The LCS was a working population group fighting for universal ... -
Understanding “What Could Be”: A Call for ‘Experimental Behavioral Genetics’
(Springer, 2018-08-13)Behavioral genetic (BG) research has yielded many important discoveries about the origins of human behavior, but offers little insight into how we might improve outcomes. We posit that this gap in our knowledge base stems ... -
Une lecture d'Honoré de Balzac par le cadre des portes : le rôle que jouent les portes dans les demeures privées du Père Goriot et d'Eugénie Grandet
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-16)Cette thèse se consacre à l’étude détaillée du rôle que jouent les portes dans les demeures privées du Père Goriot (1835) et d’Eugénie Grandet (1833) du romancier français Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). Après un examen dans ... -
The Unique Influence of Executive Functioning and Grit on Goal-Oriented Behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)Within the social psychology literature, four different behaviours have been highlighted as playing a particularly salient role in goal-motivation: promotion, prevention, locomotion, and assessment. Personality traits and ... -
Uniquely Diverse: Ethnic Diversity and Interethnic Contact Predict Individualistic Values and Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Research on social change suggests that cultural values and behaviour have become increasingly individualistic over the past century. Prior researchers theorized that shifts in sociodemographic variables—e.g., changes in ... -
Unpacking Four Forms of Third Culture in Multicultural Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-25)Multicultural teams are capable of producing creative and high quality solutions, but are also prone to conflict (Stahl, Maznevski, Voigt, & Johnson, 2010). Thus, it is important to understand the conditions which encourage ... -
Unprofitable Affiliates and Income Shifting Behavior
(American Accounting Association, 2017-05)Income shifting from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions is considered a primary method of reducing worldwide tax burdens of multinational firms. Current losses also affect income shifting incentives. We extend prior approaches ... -
Unrechtsstaat or “Normal” State? Authenticity and the Portrayal of the German Democratic Republic on Film
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)This thesis investigates how the display of authenticity in Wolfgang Becker’s 2003 film Good Bye, Lenin! and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film Das Leben der Anderen provides a common basis for accepting both ... -
"Unscrupulously Epic": Examining Female Epic in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Virginia Woolf once remarked that, “[t]here is no reason to think that the form of the epic ... suit[s] a woman any more than the [masculine] sentence” (Woolf 84). This thesis represents an attempt to explore what the ... -
Unsettling Theology: Decolonizing Western Interpretations of Original Sin
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)For Native peoples, becoming Christian in north america has also meant becoming white. That is, the theological beliefs, cultural habits, and political movements that characterized american colonialism are inseparable. ... -
Unwilled Lives: The Etiology of Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-25)Affecting up to three-quarters of Britons in the eighteenth century, poverty was both a constitutive feature of the body politic and, for many, a disruptive, unpredictable force that, many feared, threatened to undo the ... -
Updating Local and Global Probability Events During Maze Navigation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Our mental models consist of relational knowledge. We apply this knowledge about whether something is near to or far from something else to solve tasks. As a specific exam- ple, when we navigate in our environment, we have ... -
The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)This dissertation deploys the resources of cognitive linguistics and ecocriticism to gain insight into the role of metonymy in the Victorian novel’s representation of an increasingly complex and interconnected urban world. ... -
The use of facial features in facial expression discrimination
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-27)The present four studies are the first to examine the effect of presentation time on accurate facial expression discrimination while concurrently using eye movement monitoring to ensure fixation to specific features during ...