Browsing Psychology by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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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’ ... -
Children's Competence with Listener Dependent Prosodic Modifications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-04)A key component of communicative development is learning that different listeners are spoken to in different ways. Mature communicators not only adjust what they say when addressing children versus adults, for example, but ... -
Chivalry is far from dead: Misperceiving the link between men's benevolent and hostile sexism
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Although prejudice has traditionally been conceptualized as a univalent antipathy towards a social group, sexist prejudice represents a more nuanced ambivalent attitude that mixes both hostile and benevolent elements. ... -
Choosing what to read out loud while studying: The role of agency in production
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-20)Both the acts of reading aloud (the production effect) and of making a choice are known to be beneficial for memory, however these benefits are yet to be established outside of typical laboratory settings. In this dissertation, ... -
Close Others as Context: Understanding Treatment Attitudes in Anxiety and Related Disorders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)Up to one-quarter of the North American population suffers from excessive anxiety and the associated impaired quality of life. While there is evidence that anxiety treatment is effective, it is underutilized, with most ... -
Closets Breed Suspicion: Environments that Stigmatize Concealable Identities Raise Doubts about Claims to Contrasting Non-Stigmatized Identities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-22)In this dissertation, I articulate a theory of identity suspicion, informed by research on attribution theory’s discounting principle (Kelley, 1971) and on suspicious mindsets (Fein, Hilton, & Miller, 1990). Identity ... -
Comparing the Estimation of Internally and Externally Defined Interval Durations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-16)In this thesis I distinguish between two types of temporal intervals: internally-defined and externally-defined. Prior research on how humans estimate the durations of temporal intervals has been focussed almost entirely ... -
Compassion over competition: The momentary and longitudinal benefits of adopting a caregiving mentality in the face of appearance comparisons
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Social comparisons in the appearance domain are a harmful yet prevalent practice, increasing body dissatisfaction and negative affect among women (Leahey et al., 2011). The adverse effects of making upward appearance ... -
Concrete Resolve: How Concrete Mindset Spurs Approach Motivation and Improves Task Persistence and Performance for Behaviourally Inhibited People
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)This dissertation examines the motivational consequences of concrete mindset, e.g., thinking about specific details of how to do things (vs. why). The guiding premise is that concrete mindset initiates a motivational state ... -
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, ... -
The Consequences of Everyday Inattention
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)Beginning with a series of several self-report questionnaire studies I examine the potential for everyday attention lapses to create an inability to form connections to the external world, particularly through the experience ... -
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 ... -
Context reinstatement reconsidered: Investigating boundary conditions of the effect
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-23)The context reinstatement (CR) effect suggests that target items are easier to recognize when encoding and retrieval contexts are matched. In this PhD thesis, I manipulated features of the target and the context, in ... -
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 ... -
Correlates and Consequences of Misjudging Romantic Partners’ Work and Family Priorities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)Women still complete the preponderance of unpaid domestic labour, even when employed full-time. Conversely, despite lessening pressures on men to provide financially, men have not seen a commensurate uptick in domestic ... -
Counting What Counts: When and How Performance Indicators Mislead
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)People often rely on performance indicators for feedback on broad personal and organizational goals, e.g., using body weight to assess health and, in academia, using publication count to assess scientific contribution. ... -
COVID-19 Risk Perception in Urban and Architectural Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)The COVID-19 pandemic presented a profound challenge for cities. Cities are designed to maximize the benefits of density, yet this same density becomes a liability during an outbreak of a socially communicable infection. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...