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Debasing Dissent: The Role of The News Media in the Devaluation of Black Canadian Activism
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-28)My dissertation examines the way that the Canadian news media delegitimizes anti-racist activism to contribute to the harmful national narratives of racial equality disseminated by the white Anglophone majority. I examine ... -
Deception and Arousal in Texas Hold ‘em Poker
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)In our pilot study investigating Texas Hold ‘em poker, we found that players bluffing (with a losing hand) elicits a similar physiological arousal response (as measured by skin conductance levels) to those in a position ... -
Decolonization, Indigenous Internationalism, and the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)This dissertation investigates the history of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) and the broader movement of Indigenous internationalism. It argues that Indigenous internationalists were inspired by the process ... -
Deep, effortless concentration: re-examining the flow concept and exploring relations with inattention, absorption, and personality
(Springer, 2018-06-18)Conceptualizing the construct of flow in terms of ‘deep and effortless concentration’, we developed two measurement scales designed to index individual differences in flow during ‘internal’ tasks, such as thinking (deep ... -
A Defense of Semantic Conventionalism
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that semantic conventionalism of a, more or less, Dummettian variety is unjustly neglected in contemporary philosophy. The strategy for arguing this is to make a conjecture ... -
A Defense of the Public Health-Quarantine Model of Punishment in Light of Obligations of the State to the Wrongdoer
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)Punishment is traditionally justified retributively or consequentially; that is, with respect to the desert of the wrongdoer or the positive consequences of the punishment. State-sanctioned punishment (the kind of punishment ... -
Defining Haptic Experience: Foundations for Understanding, Communicating, and Evaluating HX
(ACM, 2020-04-25)Haptic technology is maturing, with expectations and evidence that it will contribute to user experience (UX). However, we have very little understanding about how haptic technology can influence people’s experience. ... -
Defining the Ideal Applicant: Examining patrol officer perspectives on police organizational recruitment standards
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-16)Previous research has examined the psychological, psychophysical, and physical traits of police officers and police recruits, however little is known about individuals who aspire or intend to become a police officer. By ... -
Defining the Undefinable: Rhetorics of Democratic T̶o̶r̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ Interrogation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-09)Over the past decade and a half, public debate on the issue of torture has increased dramatically, with legal, political, and cultural discourses offering many, often conflicting, perspectives on the meaning and function ... -
Defining, Demanding, and Developing the Critical Thinker
(University of Waterloo, 2013)This thesis examines critical thinking (CT) in education. Research includes a comprehensive literature review, focused on defining CT, understanding CT expectations in education, and expounding on how CT is best developed. ... -
Defragmenting Identity in the Life Narratives of Iraqi North American Women
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-02)This dissertation examines contemporary Iraqi North American women’s life narratives within the frame of postcolonial autobiography theory. Through narrating their experiences of oppression, war, and displacement these ... -
Deliberation, Distraction, and the role of the unconscious in Multiple Cue Probability Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Many findings in cognitive psychology suggest that many decisions and judgments rely on processes that are unconscious, that these processes can be disrupted by conscious input, leading to poor decision making. A commonly ... -
Democracy Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The Theological and Metaphysical Foundations of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk's Political Philosophy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-11)Thomas Garrigue Masaryk’s (1850-1937) reputation as one of the pre-eminent philosopher-kings of the twentieth century in Europe has not been tarnished nor has it been much revised by historians. Masaryk’s philosophical ... -
Democratic Equality and Responsibility: the Opportunity Costs of Primary Goods
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis first critically analyzes John Rawls?s second principle of justice as a democratic conception of equality and the challenge posed to that conception by Ronald Dworkin?s 'Equality of Resources. ' Democratic ... -
Demonstrating the Impact of Identity-Congruence in Career Intentions: Application of Affect Control Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-04)The purpose of the dissertation was to demonstrate that identity-congruence contributes to understanding career intentions, using operationalizations of identity-congruence that avoid serious deficiencies in prior attempts ... -
„Denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun...“ - Opfermythos und Sündenbockritual in Hermann Brochs Die Verzauberung
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-21)In this thesis I try to examine the role and function of victim and sacrifice in Hermann Broch's novel Die Verzauberung. Since this text has been widely interpreted both with a political and religious approach, my aim is ... -
The Department of Civic Images: Nature, Technology, and Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The modern city is the cradle of human activity, and through it humankind has both the ability to strip the planet of life and the ability to create thriving social and ecological systems. Strategic and interactive urbanisms ... -
The Depiction of Unwritten Law
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Even though tacit legal norms are deeply important to our past, present, and future, the very idea of unwritten law has been difficult to pin down, and problematic in a range of ways. Existing discussions of the phenomenon ... -
"Depression Is A Medical Condition": Exploring the Medicalization of Depression on SSRI Websites
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-30)ABSTRACT “DEPRESSION IS A MEDICAL CONDITION”: EXPLORING THE MEDICALIZATION OF DEPRESSION ON SSRI WEBSITES Sociologists of medicine have become increasingly interested in mental health over the last two decades ... -
Der monolinguale Multilingualismus der EU- Sprachenpolitik - Eine Analyse der Reproduktion von EU-ropäischen Sprachideologien - The Monolingual Multilingualism of the EU Language Policy - An Analysis of the Reproduction of EU-ropean Language Ideologies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)„Das Erlernen von neuen Sprachen öffnet neue Realitäten;“ (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, 2018, S. 170) – language acquisition opens new realities – so claimed the election program of the German Green Party for the 2019 European ...