Browsing Psychology by Subject "Psychology"
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Characterizing Cognitive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-09)A series of experiments examined both the phenomenological nature and centrality of Cognitive Control in common cognitive paradigms. This was done primarily by employing manipulations of Congruency Proportion (CP), ... -
Characterizing Colour-Word Contingency Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)Contingencies are constantly found in everyday situations and humans are extraordinarily adept at learning them, whether implicitly or explicitly. The learning of contingencies can benefit behaviour in many ways, some ... -
Characterizing the Psychophysiological Signature of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Recent research has suggested that boredom is a construct that can be distinguished from similar affective states including apathy, anhedonia, and depression, using self-reports. The current study investigated whether ... -
Charting the path from self-reflection to self-appraisal in social anxiety: What are the roles of self-immersion and self-distancing?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Past studies have suggested that individuals who adopt a psychologically immersed, as opposed to a psychologically distanced perspective when reflecting on negative emotional experiences, tend to experience greater negative ... -
Children prefer to acquire information from unambiguous speakers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Detecting ambiguity is essential for successful communication. Two studies investigated whether preschool- (4- to 5-year-old) and school-age (6- to 7-year-old) children show sensitivity to communicative ambiguity and can ... -
Children's and Adults' Reasoning in Property Entitlement Disputes
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-20)An understanding of ownership is an important aspect of child development because it helps to promote harmonious social interactions. People are typically restricted from using objects belonging to others. Respecting others’ ... -
Collaboration During Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Three experiments examine how collaboration influences visual search performance. Working with a partner or on their own, participants reported whether a target was present or absent in briefly presented search displays. ... -
Collective Threat for STEM Women Predicts Friendship and Academic Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-29)Members of stigmatized groups commonly confront collective threat: concerns that fellow group members' stereotypic behavior may reflect negatively on one's group and, by extension, oneself. If other ingroup members threaten ... -
Conditional Probability in Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)I investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve their performance on visual attention tasks. My task was ... -
Conflict detection in dual-process theory: Are we good at detecting when we are biased at decision making?
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)In the domain of reasoning and decision making, some dual-process theorists have suggested that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs engendered by competing intuitive and analytic processes (De Neys ... -
Confronting the intractable: An evaluation of the Seeds of Peace experience
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-04)This study investigated the impact of participation in the Seeds of Peace International Summer Camp program on attitudes toward perceived enemies and in-group members. Specifically, individuals’ social dominance orientation, ... -
Connecting Two Opposing Constructs: Mind Wandering and Mindfulness
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-10)Mind wandering is a universal phenomenon that accounts for almost half of our everyday experience (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010). Although there are demonstrated benefits to mind wandering, it comes at quite a cost, ... -
Considering Parental Mortality: The Role of Adult's Attachment Style
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Very little research has studied the common challenge in adulthood of coming to terms with the eventual mortality of one’s parents as they age and experience illness. The present work begins to explore this emotional ... -
Contingency Learning and Unlearning in the Blink of an Eye: A Resource Dependent Process
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Recent studies show that when words are correlated with the colours they are printed in (e.g., MOVE is presented 75% of the time in blue), colour identification is faster when the word is presented in its expected colour ... -
Core Self-Evaluations and the Hierarchical Model of Approach/Avoidance Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)In the current dissertation I examined the relation between a new personality trait, core self-evaluations (CSE), and job performance, using the hierarchical model of approach and avoidance motivation as a theoretical ... -
Cultural Differences in Compliments
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-31)Cultural differences in compliments were examined across five studies. The results are consistent with cultural differences in self-enhancement and self-criticism and suggest that compliment responses may reflect underlying ... -
Cultural Mosaic Scale Development: A New Approach to Multicultural Work Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-22)Canadian ideology promotes the concept of a “cultural mosaic,” which encourages groups to maintain their unique cultural heritage in a pluralistic society. However, despite being a popular metaphor, to date, there are only ... -
Culture and Creativity: Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Multicultural Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)Research on culture and creativity has shown cultural differences in creative performance among Western and Eastern individuals such that Westerners consistently outperform Easterners on certain creative tasks. Theorists ... -
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 ... -
Destination Memory: Stop Me If I Told You This Already
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-21)Consider a common social interaction: Two people must each attend to and remember the other person’s behaviour while also keeping track of their own responses. Knowledge of what one said to whom is important for subsequent ...