Arts (Faculty of): Recent submissions
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THE MYTH OF DISENCHANTMENT: RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-29)In the following project, I look closely at three living American writers whose work explores the important relations between the religious and ecocritical “turns” in American literature, with particular attention to ways ... -
Feeling through another's eyes: Perceived gaze direction impacts ERP and behavioural measures of positive and negative affective empathy
(Elsevier, 2021-02-01)Looking at the eyes informs us about the thoughts and emotions of those around us, and impacts our own emotional state. However, it is unknown how perceiving direct and averted gaze impacts our ability to share the gazer's ... -
The Gaze Cueing Effect and Its Enhancement by Facial Expressions Are Impacted by Task Demands: Direct Comparison of Target Localization and Discrimination Tasks
(Frontiers, 2021-03-11)The gaze cueing effect is characterized by faster attentional orienting to a gazed-at than a non-gazed-at target. This effect is often enhanced when the gazing face bears an emotional expression, though this finding is ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
(Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ... -
Displays of Adaptive Body Image by Others: Examining Their Influence on College Women's Body Image
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-10)The negative impact of interacting with others who display maladaptive body image has been well documented. Only recently have researchers started to examine adaptive body image, thus the interpersonal impact of displays ... -
Stakeholder Perspectives on Water Conservation Practices and Asymmetrical Power Relations in Southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-04)Abstract This thesis focuses on the politics of freshwater conservation and its impacts on water access, distribution, and management in Southwestern Ontario, focusing on Waterloo Moraine. It examines the role of various ... -
Politics Through T-Shirts: A History of Protest, a Study of Digital Public History Methodologies and Open-Source Curating
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)The T-shirt, as it exists in the twenty-first century, is a staple in every wardrobe across the United States. Since it’s rise to popularity in the 1950s, it has been used a symbol of rebellion and dissent of the youth. ... -
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 ... -
Parameterizing Inanimate Agents: The Motion of a Virtual Ball and the Behaviour of a Machine-Learning Interactive System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)In this thesis we parameterized interactive objects and systems and investigated their effects on perceived agency. In one experiment we developed a virtual reality simulation in which the motion path of a virtual ball is ... -
J.S. Mill and John Paul II: Utilitarianism and Loving Your Neighbour
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)Jesus Christ’s Commandment to Love one’s neighbour as one’s self in Mark 12:28-31 plays a pivotal role in the social moral doctrine of nineteenth century philosopher John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism and of twentieth century ... -
Sovereignty Sensitivity and Diaspora Discontent: Domestic Influences on Canadian Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Kosovo War
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)In 1999, Canada participated in NATO’s Operation Allied Force, a 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia meant to end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. Officially, Canada’s interests in developing its foreign ... -
Are you as important as me? Self-other discrimination within trait-adjective processing
(Elsevier, 2020-07-01)Healthy adults typically display enhanced processing for self- (relative to other-) relevant and positive (relative to negative) information. However, it is unclear whether these two biases interact to form a self-positivity ... -
Taking Complexity Seriously in International Law: A View from the Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-21)Over the past three decades, the Arctic system has undergone significant, large-scale transformational change – a shift which has profoundly altered human-environment interactions and feedbacks within the system. What was ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Employees sometimes need breaks to deal with the demands of their jobs. Indeed, studies show that breaks allow employees to stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day. However, few studies ... -
The Relative Performance of International Students and Their Academic Program Choices
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. In Chapter 1, we examine the relative course grades of international undergraduate students in an ... -
Making Sense of Video Instruction: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Following a YouTube Croissant Making Tutorial
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)With the use of video instruction becoming more prevalent, this thesis looks at the methods learners use to navigate video tutorials through an ethnomethodological lens. As ethnomethodology is concerned with the way members ... -
Unclaimed Prize Information Increases the Appeal of Scratch Card Games
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-11-03)Previous research suggests that intuitively appealing, yet uninformative unclaimed prize information is capable of biasing gambling-related judgments when people compare scratch cards that vary in the number of unclaimed ... -
Amplifying “Keep It in the Ground” First-Movers: Toward a Comparative Framework
(Society & Natural Resources, 2020-06-17)This article offers a framework for analyzing and extending the recent wave of national “keep it in the ground” (KIIG) bans on fossil fuel exploration and production. We situate this discussion in new theoretical work on ... -
Negative Spaces: Bringing Indigenous women to the forefront of archaeological research in the lower Great Lakes region
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-15)Indigenous women are underrepresented and/or stereotyped in the archaeological record with cultural remains often being interpreted as being inherently male. Previous to contemporary decolonial and feminist research, ... -
Economic Sanctions and Nuclear Non-proliferation: A Comparative Study of North Korea and Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-14)The history of using economic sanctions to curb nuclear proliferation has had mixed results. The goal of this research project is to determine why economic sanctions are more effective in some cases than they are in others. ...