Background. Interacting with an unfamiliar social partner is a critical first step in forming a relationship (Hinde & Stevenson-Hinde, 1987). During these initial interactions, individuals tend to be more positive than ...

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 ...

rinse and repeat is a collaborative thesis exhibition of art created by my plant collaborators and I that uses the visual language of sculpture, photography, performance, audio narratives, and collaboration to question the ...

This thesis investigated the memorability of common graphic symbols (e.g., !@#$%) and logos. In an initial set of 4 experiments, participants were presented during study with symbols or words (e.g., $ or ‘dollar’). In ...

In order to navigate their social world, children must come prepared to flexibly attend to and shift between the many different aspects of an interaction. For temperamentally shy children, for whom the demands of everyday ...

Video games are multimodal pieces of media; they communicate meaning through many layers of signification including aural, visual, narrative, mechanical, and more. To understand the ways that games communicate meaning and ...

This paper looks at rhetorical figures in music, focusing on figures within the chiastic suite. It argues for a cognitive provenance of these figures, accounting for their appearance in both literature and music. It looks ...

Cette thèse de maîtrise propose une étude de la représentation des communautés géographiquement éloignées en temps d’Apocalypse et de la survie des individus qui en font partie à partir de la trilogie romanesque de Christian ...

In recent decades, restorative justice approaches such as victim-offender conferences and circle processes have emerged as a response to people who have caused sexual harm. The traditional legal responses to sexual offending ...

Through multiple qualitative approaches, this dissertation contributes to understanding the increased role of addressing, engaging, and managing online communities in gameswork. It pays particular attention to how individual ...