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    • The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage 

      Gaine, Graham Sherwood (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 

      Komar, Shawn Gordon (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 

      Fotuhi, Omid (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 ...
    • Implicit Theories of Attraction 

      Bohns, Vanessa K.; Scholer, Abigail A.; Rehman, Uzma (Guilford Press, 2015-08-01)
      Sexual satisfaction is an important component of relationship well-being within romantic relationships. Yet, relatively little is known about the psychological factors that predict responses to the inevitable sexual ...
    • The Impression Management Strategies of Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector 

      DePutter, Megan (University of Waterloo, 2008-01-02)
      Leadership represents a diverse and dynamic area of study, occupying a vast area in sociological literature. However, the nonprofit sector is somewhat neglected in literature that examines leadership as a performance. ...
    • Improving Perceptions of Fairness and Performance through Explanation and Perspective Taking 

      Wong, Christopher (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)
      Employee performance can be negatively impacted due to the occurrence of unforeseen negative events. To filter out the influence of these negative exogenous shocks on employee compensation, management can commit ex-ante ...
    • In Defense of Moral Responsibility Skepticism 

      Tomchishen, Jody (University of Waterloo, 2015-10-02)
      Moral responsibility skeptics have often focused on problems involving determinism in order to defend their position. I argue that this defense of moral responsibility skepticism is misplaced given that what really matters ...
    • In Defense of the Systems Reply 

      Lecours, Sascha Nicolas (University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)
      In John Searle’s Minds, Brains, and Programs, he argues against the possibility of a digital computer capable of understanding. In particular, Searle puts forward the Chinese room thought experiment, which appears to ...
    • In Places Rarely Seen 

      Blackburn, Jordan (University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)
      In Places Rarely Seen is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together print installation, video, photography, sound and text. This thesis exhibition considers my own shifting perception of what Nature is and how I ...
    • In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699 

      MacAlpine, Rebecca-Ann Preston (University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)
      Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in ...
    • In pursuit of progress: Promotion motivation and risk preference in the domain of gains 

      Zou, Xi; Scholer, Abigail A.; Higgins, E. Tory (American Psychological Association, 2014)
      This article examines the role of promotion motivation in decision making in the domain of gains. Using a stock investment paradigm in which individuals believed that they were making decisions that were real and consequential, ...
    • In Search of Wholeness 

      Laratta, Clara (University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)
      In Search of Wholeness is an exhibition of sculpture, alternative photography, and video. The work examines connections to healing and being. “The English ‘health’ derives from Old English ‘hælth’, which is related to ...
    • In the Eye of the Beholder: Perceptions of Ecotourism in Algonquin Provincial Park 

      Penney, Elizabeth Jane (University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)
      Since its inception, ecotourism has been promoted as a solution to some of the problems of biodiversity conservation. It has been touted as having the potential to balance the diverse interests of various publics by ensuring ...
    • In the Shadows of the Sea: the Destruction and Recovery of Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1940-1948 

      Goodlet, Kirk W (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)
      This study explores the wartime experiences of the rural Dutch province of Zeeland from the German invasion in May 1940 to 1948 by a close reading of Dutch newspapers as well as Dutch government and Allied sources. It seeks ...
    • An in vivo study of compulsions 

      Dean, Jasmine; Purdon, Christine (Elsevier, 2021-07)
      Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assume that compulsions are enacted to neutralize distress over obsessions. However, lab-based research suggests that once a compulsion starts factors other than distress ...
    • “In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov 

      Dehghani, Morteza (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)
      This dissertation explores the concept of loss and the possibility of consolation in Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and Alexander Sokurov’s Oriental Elegy through a method that ...
    • iNaturalist: Understanding Biodiversity Through a Digital Medium 

      Anderson, Stuart (University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)
      Much of the current excitement about citizen science is due to the innovative use of internet-based media platforms. These are designed to enable data production while seeking to be instructive or even entertaining for its ...
    • Incomplete Incentives, Task Temporality, and Effort Spillover in a Multitask Environment 

      Lane, Dorian (University of Waterloo, 2022-01-07)
      Incomplete incentive contracts in multitask environments present a significant control challenge of ensuring that employees expend sufficient effort towards all assigned tasks, particularly those that are not directly ...
    • Increased Early Sensitivity to Eyes in Mouthless Faces: In Support of the LIFTED Model of Early Face Processing 

      Itier, Roxane J.; Preston, Frank F. (Springer, 2018-07-09)
      The N170 ERP component is a central neural marker of early face perception usually thought to reflect holistic processing. However, it is also highly sensitive to eyes presented in isolation and to fixation on the eyes ...
    • India and the Neglected Development Dimensions of Bretton Woods 

      Helleiner, Eric (2015-07-18)
      This paper helps correct two common misconceptions about the origins of the Bretton Woods institutions. The first is that the negotiations were primarily an Anglo-American affair in which developing countries had little ...

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