Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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"If you don't 'get it', it doesn't count": Conveying Responsiveness in Attempts to Seek Forgiveness Within Romantic Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-19)Although research has begun to examine the factors which facilitate forgiveness in romantic relationships, there is currently limited empirical research examining the partner behaviours which promote or alternatively thwart ... -
Igniting the Deontic Consequence Relation: Dilemmas, Trumping, and the Naturalistic Fallacy
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)In this work, Kurt Holukoff examines three formal approaches to representing valid inferences in reasoning regarding obligation and its cognates: deontic logic. He argues that an appropriate formalization of deontic logic ... -
"Ill Schooled in Bolted Language": Shakespeare's Tragic Flaw
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-10)Textbooks of rhetoric emphasize the significance of taking into account the values and interests of the particular audience when designing and delivering a speech. And the breach of this requirement is grouped among the ... -
Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997–2010
(University of Toronto Press, 2013-12)It all seems so orderly and comprehensive. Instead of firing up the microfilm reader to navigate the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, one needs only to log into online newspaper databases. A keyword search, for a ... -
Imagery Rescripting of Painful Memories in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis of Needs Fulfillment and Memory Updating
(Springer, 2020-09-19)Background Imagery rescripting (IR) is an effective intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD) that targets autobiographical memories of painful past events. IR is thought to promote needs fulfillment and memory ... -
Imagination: A Tool with Potential
(University of Waterloo, 2012)This thesis deals with imagination as a tool in light of two academic disciplines: philosophy and education. In the history of philosophy, imagination appears as an intentional tool for cognizing, and in education, the ... -
Imagining Greece: Sensing Antiquity in Two Athenian Museums
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-09)Physical and sensorial experiences of museums provide publics with a material ground to (re)imagine history and its relationship to contemporary society. Through these experiences, museums become venues of spatialized ... -
Imagining story spaces: Young readers’ ability to construct spatial representations of narrative
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-18)Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. They are the bestsellers we read on the beach, the news stories we read online, and, most commonly, the anecdotes we hear from our friends and family. Narrative comprehension ... -
The “Immersive Experience” in Language Learning: Student Perceptions, Experiences, and Transitions between Online and On-Campus Learning Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-03)In this thesis I examine the various ways in which undergraduate students of German as a Foreign Language experience different learning environments (on-campus vs. online). Previous research has focused on how to design ... -
Impact and Moderators of a Self-Compassion Manipulation on Perceived Risk of Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Disclosure of personal distress to others is linked to increased trust and intimacy between persons as well as to important psychological benefits for the individual such as reductions in stress and heightened life ... -
Impact de la dramatisation sur la prosodie du français langue seconde
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Prosody, the structures governing the pitch and rhythm of speech, is essential to the correct and authentic use of a language. Unfortunately, many students of a second language find it difficult to learn these patterns, ... -
Impact de la sorcellerie en Afrique francophone subsaharienne : des femmes agissantes dans les nouvelles de Florent Couao-Zotti et d’Éveline Mankou
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)L’objectif principal de cette thèse de maîtrise est d’examiner l’agentivité des principaux personnages féminins menacés par les pratiques de la sorcellerie dans des textes de la littérature africaine subsaharienne d’expression ... -
The Impact of Culture on Relationship Repair in Negotiation.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)Negotiation is an emotionally charged process, in which relationship rupture can occur. While past research has focused on predictors of relationship rupture in negotiation, there has been a dearth of research focusing on ... -
THE IMPACT OF EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND EXPECTATIONS MANAGEMENT ON THE USEFULNESS OF EARNINGS AND ANALYST FORECASTS IN FIRM VALUATION
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-16)In this dissertation, I examine the impact of earnings management and expectations management on the usefulness of earnings and analyst forecasts in firm valuation. Earnings and analyst forecasts are important inputs into ... -
The Impact of the Transfer of Intangible Assets on the Valuation Effects of High-Tech Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-04)The technology industry is characterized by a greater than usual reliance on intangible assets. During the tech bubble many firms were valued entirely on intangible assets and growth prospects. In the aftermath of the ... -
Impacts of implicit normative evaluations on stereotyping and prejudice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)The present research examined how other people’s evaluations towards social groups will develop and how these evaluations will affect discriminatory behaviour outside of conscious effort. By living in a society people are ... -
Imperial Transportation and Communication from the Third to the Late Fourth Century: The Golden Age of the cursus publicus
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-05)The existence of an infrastructure that allowed reliable communication between the emperors and all parts of the Roman civil and military administration was integral for the dissemination of ideologies, the promulgation ... -
The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)People experience autonomy when they perceive their behaviour to be volitional and they feel controlled when their behaviour is driven by external demands or internal pressures. Gaine and La Guardia (2009) developed the ... -
Implicit Leadership: Exploring the Role of Leaders on the Implicit Activation of Self-Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Lord and Brown (Lord, Brown, & Freiberg, 1999; Lord & Brown, 2004) suggest that leaders may impact followers by priming certain goals or ideals in their followers’ minds, which in turn influence judgment and behaviour. The ... -
Implicit Processes in Smoking Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)Although explicit attitudes have traditionally been used in predictive models of health behaviour, recent theorizing suggests that implicit attitudes might be more useful in predicting socially undesirable or addictive ...