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What is the Nature of Anxiety-Related Attentional Bias to Threat?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)Although attentional biases to threat (ABT) are thought to contribute to the development and persistence of anxiety disorders (e.g., Matthews & Mackintosh, 1998; Mogg & Bradley, 1998), it is not clear whether such biases ... -
What makes a few more than a lot: a study of context-dependent quantifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)“Hey can you help me move? I warn you I have a lot of books, though.” When we interpret such sentences we might assume that our friend is implying that there will be some heavy lifting, because she own “a lot of books”. ... -
What Makes us Think? A Three-Stage Dual-Process Model of Analytic Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-29)The distinction between intuitive and analytic thinking is common in psychology. However, while often being quite clear on the characteristics of the two processes (‘Type 1’ processes are fast, autonomous, intuitive, etc. ... -
What Predicts Safety Behaviour? Examining the Phenomenology of Compulsive Washing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Leading models for understanding repetitive behaviour assert that concerns about the safety or well-being of oneself or others, combined with an overvalued sense of responsibility to protect oneself and others from harm, ... -
What We Do in the Shadows: Illuminating the Female Pederastic Tradition
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)In scholarship, the study of male pederastic practices in the ancient Greek world has been used time and time again to reinforce the existence of homosexuality across time, though the same attention has not been given to ... -
What Works for Me May Not Work for You: Predicting Self-Compassionate Responding Using an Interactionist Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Objective: Self-compassion has both trait and state-like properties (Kelly & Stephen, 2016), yet little research has investigated how dispositional and contextual factors interact to influence someone’s ability to be ... -
What you don't know can help you: Intuitive processing of incomplete visual stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-12)Intuition is an innate ability through which human beings acquire knowledge about the world around them. Throughout history people have speculated about how intuition operates and about the accuracy and usefulness of ... -
What's in a Subtitle Anyway?
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This paper is a critical examination of the subtitling process. The film that is the subject of this paper is Rurouni Kenshin (2012), a film adapted from the previous media of manga and anime. The examination of subtitles ... -
What's Love Got to Do With It? A Study of the Effects of Infidelity on Contemporary Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-31)Research on infidelity has been criticized for its lack of theoretical approach and emphasis on the negative impacts on marriage. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with individuals who had an affair, or experienced ... -
What’s behind the link between social anxiety and low friendship satisfaction? Exploring the role of perceived closeness, self-disclosure, friendship maintenance behaviours, and relational reciprocity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Prior studies have found that high socially anxious (SA) individuals suffer from lower quality friendships and poorer social supports, which contribute to chronic feelings of loneliness and social isolation as well as ... -
When and Where?: Time and Space in Boris Akunin's Azazel' and Turetskii gambit
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-27)Boris Akunin’s historical detective novels have sold more than eight million copies in Russia, and have been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Boris Akunin is the pen name of literary critic and translator Grigory ... -
When and Why Women Apologize More than Men
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-15)Despite wide acceptance of the stereotype that women apologize more readily than men, there is little systematic evidence to support this stereotype or its supposed bases. In the present research, I explored whether gender ... -
When Being Agreeable Matters: The Importance of Agreeableness (and Self-Esteem) for Risk Regulation in Close Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)In the quest for satisfying close relationships, one is left vulnerable to hurt and rejection. For people with lower self-esteem (LSEs), such rejection seems unavoidable. To steel themselves against this inescapable hurt, ... -
When Cultures Collide and Synergize: The Role of Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Negotiations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Negotiating a synergized solution is challenging under optimal circumstances. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural differences, cultural collision occurs leading to worse negotiation outcomes in intercultural negotiation ... -
When Empathy Backfires: How (Not) to Engender Warmth and Respect for Minorities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-10)The popular expression “walk in another person’s shoes before you judge them” implies that we must take the perspective of others to fully understand their emotions and experiences. Prejudice-reduction interventions have ... -
When my Anxiety Speaks to Me, What Does it Sound Like?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Anxiety disorders are some of the most commonly diagnosed mental health difficulties in the world. However, no study has examined the phenomenological qualities of anxious thoughts. Literature on mental health difficulties ... -
When our co-workers share their unfair experiences, do we believe them? Perceptions of workplace fairness are negatively related to perceived credibility of coworkers’ claims of injustice
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Prior research shows that when observing a co-worker being treated unfairly, employees who are third parties to the incident feel angry and want to punish the perpetrator. However, research has focused on situations in ... -
When Self-Doubt Sours Sweetness: Low Self-Esteem Undermines Romantic Partners' Sacrifices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)The partners of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) are just as loving and generous as the partners of people with high self-esteem (HSEs; Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005; Murray et al., 2000). Nonetheless, LSEs ... -
When Should We Disagree? The Effect of Conflict on Team Identity in North American and East Asian Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Prior literature on conflict in teams has generally established that team heterogeneity (vs. homogeneity) influences the extent to which conflict occurs in teams. However, to date literature has not examined different ... -
When Support Provision Hurts: Examining Individual and Relational Risks of Supporting an Inconsolable Partner.
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)When romantic partners provide support to one another, their attempts are not always successful in relieving the distress of the support recipient. While unsuccessful support transactions are sometimes caused by insufficient ...