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Comment traduire les non-dits ? : La représentation de la perception sensorielle dans l’œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-18)Cette thèse aura comme objet l’étude détaillée de la représentation de la perception sensorielle dans l’écriture de Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999). Dès son premier ouvrage, Sarraute cherche à explorer la capacité du langage ... -
Commercial and Business Incorporation: Enhancing the notion of corporation to include an ethical statement
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-22)Today’s modern, Canadian, business corporations are hugely influential in determining public policy and many aspects of people’s lives. Because this influence permeates so much of our social construct, we expect corporations ... -
Commitment to change from locomotion motivation during deliberation
(Springer, 2012-06-01)The factors that motivate commitment to behavioral change (e.g., quitting smoking) are important in understanding self-regulation processes. The current research examines how an individual’s motivational orientation during ... -
Commodity Prices, Stock Prices and Economic Activity in a Small Open Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-10)This thesis is comprised of three papers which jointly examine the role of commodity prices as well as other asset prices in influencing the evolution of economic activity in a small-open economy (SOE). Using Canada as the ... -
Common Sense Within the Bounds of Philosophy: Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense Defended
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)I proffer a defense Reid’s Philosophy of Common Sense. I address the initial implausibility that greets most all of us when we stop to consider the prospects for common sense as guide to knowledge and inquiry. I argue that ... -
Common Therapeutic Factors in Psychotherapy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Dozens of common therapeutic factors have been identified in psychotherapy research, but less attention has been devoted to integrating those factors into coherent theoretical frameworks. Frank and Frank (1991) proposed a ... -
Communal Inferentialism: Charles S. Peirce’s Critique of Epistemic Individualism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-09)Charles S. Peirce’s critique of epistemic individualism, the attempt to make the individual the locus of knowledge, is a dominant theme in his writings. While scholars often mention this critique, there is, surprisingly, ... -
Communicative practices of resistance in psychotherapy interactions: Patients resistance to solution-oriented questions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)In this thesis, I investigate the practices of linguistic resistance in psychotherapeutic interactions to uncover which communicative practices of resistance patient use in these interactions. I study this interactional ... -
Community-Based Programming for Women in Conflict with the Law: The Perceptions of Staff and Volunteers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-11)There is a marked absence in the Canadian literature about what types of programs and programming characteristics are available to women in conflict with the law when they return to the community after a period of ... -
Comparing the Effects of Self-Compassionate, Assertive, and Avoidant Coping Strategies during Imagined Social Distress: Implications for Imagery Rescripting
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Imagery Rescripting (IR) is a relatively novel therapeutic intervention for social anxiety (SA) in which patients recall and engage with autobiographical memories of socially distressing events. During the intervention ... -
Comparing the Estimation of Internally and Externally Defined Interval Durations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-16)In this thesis I distinguish between two types of temporal intervals: internally-defined and externally-defined. Prior research on how humans estimate the durations of temporal intervals has been focussed almost entirely ... -
Compassion over competition: The momentary and longitudinal benefits of adopting a caregiving mentality in the face of appearance comparisons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Social comparisons in the appearance domain are a harmful yet prevalent practice, increasing body dissatisfaction and negative affect among women (Leahey et al., 2011). The adverse effects of making upward appearance ... -
A Compatible Defense of Respect for Autonomy and Medical Paternalism in the Context of Mental Capacity on the Grounds of Authenticity
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)Respect for autonomy has become the guiding principle at the forefront of health-care decision-making. In an attempt to preserve this principle, patients can be neglected to make decisions for themselves during times when ... -
A Comprehensive analysis of Dental Remains from the Early Bronze Age I site of Wadi Faynan 100, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Five looted Early Bronze Age Tombs were excavated at the site of Wadi Faynan 100, Southern Jordan, in 2019. While archaeological site looting is a common problem worldwide, the lack of research utilizing commingled and ... -
Compulsory Fun: Creating Legitimacy through Anniversary Commemorations in the GDR
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-04)From the state’s founding in 1949, East Germany’s ruling SED engaged in an exhaustive campaign to remove doubts about the country’s legitimacy as an independent state, doubts that not only existed abroad, but also at home ... -
The Conceptions of Love and Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)In his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, G. W. F. Hegel considers ethical love the basis of marriage and family, which comprises the state and higher ethical entities. For Hegel, marriage should be seen as an immediately ... -
Conceptual Change: Gods, Elements, and Water
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)On what does the meaning of the concept of water depend? I consider three possible answers: the physical world, theory, or both the physical world and theory. Each answer supports a particular history. If the history ... -
‘Concerned not only with relief’: UNRRA’s work rehabilitating the Displaced Persons in the American zone of occupation in Germany, 1945-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)The purpose of the dissertation is to further our knowledge of the process of normalization in the displaced person (DP) camps in the American zone of occupation in Germany after the Second World War. The United Nations ... -
Concrete Resolve: How Concrete Mindset Spurs Approach Motivation and Improves Task Persistence and Performance for Behaviourally Inhibited People
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)This dissertation examines the motivational consequences of concrete mindset, e.g., thinking about specific details of how to do things (vs. why). The guiding premise is that concrete mindset initiates a motivational state ... -
Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best Friends
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-21)Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi… With Millions of Your Best friends is a multi-media exhibition that investigates the personal, the socio-political and the cultural notions of home. The mind’s vision of home is most often ...