Browsing Psychology by Type "Master Thesis"
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Blinded From the Truth? Perceptions of Racial Discrimination During COVID-19
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Despite current efforts to reduce the occurrence of racial discrimination in North America, the recent Black Lives Matter movement suggests that the issue continues to exist. Given that prior research suggests a link between ... -
Boredom and Motivation: From Anxious Uncertainty and Low Approach Motivation to Low Self-Control
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Across two studies, this research investigated trait (Study 1 and 2) and state (Study 2) level variation in anxious uncertainty and approach motivation as motivational substrates of boredom. It further tested a series of ... -
The bracketing breakdown: An exploration of risk tolerance in broad and narrow choice frames
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)The field of decision making has largely focused on the influence of contextual factors on risk tolerance. Much work has focused on how the problem itself is presented, in hopes of understanding the circumstances under ... -
Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Workplace
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-06)Abstract I question how Indigenous identity, relationships, and the workplace environment affect an Indigenous employee’s experience in the workplace. I had the pleasure and opportunity of hearing and now sharing the ... -
Building complex number words: How and when do children learn the meaning of multipliers.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Number words or numerals are built using a compositional system, wherein a small number of words can be combined in multiple ways to represent many different numbers. Children not only have to learn the rules for combining ... -
Bullshit Makes the Art Grow Profounder: Evidence for False Meaning Transfer Across Domains
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)The purpose of this thesis was to explore the decision making underlying the perception of meaning in abstract art. In particular, I explore if features adjacent to the content of the art itself predominantly drive the ... -
By me, for me: Acquiring ownership through creation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Previous research has shown that people’s judgments about who owns an object depend on the amount and type of labor involved in acquiring it. While informative about the influence of labor on the acquisition of existing ... -
Can children use probability to guide their choices under uncertainty?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)We encounter situations in our everyday lives where we need to make decisions under uncertainty. But what kind of information do we use and what abilities are helpful to us when making decisions under uncertainty? In three ... -
Can the "Strength of Connections" Account Explain Picture and Word Naming and Categorization Data?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-11)Potter and Faulconer (1975) reported that participants were faster to read words aloud than they were to name pictures, but were faster to categorize pictures than words. They took this as falsification of an account in ... -
Capturing Dynamic Fluctuations in Remembered Momentary Attentional States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)States of attention such as engagement and mind-wandering fluctuate dynamically over time. Although aggregate retrospective reports of attention have been used in prior research, the full nature of people’s remembered ... -
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 Ability to Navigate Competitive Contexts- The Role of Gender and Socio-Cognitive Skills
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)A crucial aspect of children’s development is learning to navigate the diverse contexts within their social world. Competitive contexts are unique in that individuals must attempt to perform well or win, but also maintain ... -
Children's Selective Trust in Informants: The Role of Speech Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)The main way children learn new information is through other people. However, not all people have information that is valuable and useful to them. Research suggests that children pay attention to many cues to help them ... -
Children’s social perceptions and metaperceptions during an initial interaction with an unfamiliar peer
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-31)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 ... -
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 ... -
Common Therapeutic Factors in Psychotherapy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Dozens of common therapeutic factors have been identified in psychotherapy research, but less attention has been devoted to integrating those factors into coherent theoretical frameworks. Frank and Frank (1991) proposed a ... -
Comparing the Effects of Self-Compassionate, Assertive, and Avoidant Coping Strategies during Imagined Social Distress: Implications for Imagery Rescripting
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Imagery Rescripting (IR) is a relatively novel therapeutic intervention for social anxiety (SA) in which patients recall and engage with autobiographical memories of socially distressing events. During the intervention ...