Browsing Psychology by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Dazzled and Confused: Bullshitting as a Strategic Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)While much work has focused on receptivity to bullshit as a form of irrational belief which may predict the endorsement of other irrational beliefs, much less has been done examining how bullshit may be used strategically. ... -
Demonstrating the Impact of Identity-Congruence in Career Intentions: Application of Affect Control Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-04)The purpose of the dissertation was to demonstrate that identity-congruence contributes to understanding career intentions, using operationalizations of identity-congruence that avoid serious deficiencies in prior attempts ... -
The Desire to Act: Exploring Situational, Dispositional and Genetic Correlates of a Fundamental Motivational State
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-02)Animals do not simply act to survive and maximize pleasure. They also act for the sake of action itself. Although such intrinsically motivated actions are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, the mechanisms by which ... -
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 ... -
Developing Knowledge of Polysemous Vocabulary
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-08)This study investigated the development of knowledge of vocabulary including multiple meanings of words during the school years. Twenty children from each of Grades 2, 5, 8, and 11 were tested for their knowledge of all ... -
Development of an Efficient and Broadly Applicable Measure of Case Conceptualization Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-17)Case conceptualizations are seen as important to the provision of effective and efficient psychological interventions. In creating a case conceptualization, a clinician summarizes information obtained during a course of ... -
The development of integrating number and proportion in probabilistic decision-making
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-22)The ability to integrate multiple pieces of information and use it to guide decision-making is an essential part of everyday reasoning. While it may not seem like it, the information in our environments is often numerical ... -
The Differential Influence of Strategy Selection and Implementation on Probability Matching in a Binary Prediction Task
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-08)Probability Matching is a common and suboptimal strategy often used by participants in a Binary Prediction Task. A plethora of research has examined why participants engage in Probability Matching and also what factors ... -
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 ... -
Dispositional Pathways to Trust: The Interactive Effects of Self-Esteem and Agreeableness on Trust and Negative Emotional Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)Expressing our innermost thoughts and feelings is critical to the development of intimacy (Reis & Shaver, 1988), but also risks negative evaluation and rejection. According to risk regulation theory (Murray, Holmes, & ... -
Dissociating Response Prepotency and Response Conflict within Tasks of Action Inhibition among Individuals Scoring High on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)Theories embedded within evolutionary neurobiology offer useful frameworks within which to understand cognitive impairment in schizophrenia (SCZ). The current research invokes the Dual Trends Theory (DTT), an evolutionary ... -
Do Older and Younger Adults Use and Benefit from Memory Aids?
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)This research examines age differences in the use and value of memory compensation strategies for everyday memory tasks. Chapter 1 reviews the literature on memory compensation and aging. According to Selective Optimization ... -
Does caring for yourself lead to seeking care from others? Investigating the relationship between self-compassion and interpersonal emotion regulation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)The benefits of self-compassion for intrapersonal emotion regulation have been well-documented, but few studies to date have examined how self-compassion might relate to the use of interpersonal strategies that aim to ... -
Does the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? Negative Expressivity and Partner Responsiveness in Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Feeling that a partner is responsive to one’s needs is crucial to intimacy (Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004). Just as the well-known expression, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” suggests that people who voice the most ... -
Does unfairness have a ripple effect? The impact of independent and interdependent self-construals
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-22)In the present research, I examine whether independent and interdependent self-construals influence behaviour toward innocent others following unfair treatment from an authority. Fairness researchers have documented many ... -
Don’t Ask, I’ll Tell: Investigating Strategy Use During Disability Disclosure at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)The nature and effects of workplace disability disclosure—sharing disability-relevant information with others at work—is of great interest to researchers and human resources professionals. In this dissertation, I investigate ... -
The Downside of Building Up: An Exploration into the Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Exposure to High-Rise Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-17)Cities are densifying at a rapid rate and, accordingly, are constructing high-rise buildings to accommodate more people. The aim of this dissertation was to quantify the physiological and psychological impacts of being in ... -
Drawing Accuracy, Quality and Expertise
(University of Waterloo, 2012-11-20)Drawing from a still-life is a complex visuomotor task. Nevertheless, experts depict three-dimensional subjects convincingly with two-dimensional images. Drawing research has previously been limited by its general dependence ... -
Dynamic Judgments of Spatial Extent: Behavioural, Neural, and Computational Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)Judgments of spatial relationships are often made when the object or observer are moving. Behaviourally, there is evidence that these ‘dynamic’ judgments of spatial extent differ from static judgments. Here I used three ... -
Dynamics of Parent-Child Relationships and Conflict in Chinese, Eastern European and European Canadian Families
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-11)In my thesis, I studied patterns of associations between the quality of parent-child relations and components of parent-child conflict in families with preadolescent children from European Canadian families, as well as ...