Browsing Psychology by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Dysphoria and facial emotion recognition: Examining the role of rumination
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-12)Rumination has been shown to be an influential part of the depressive experience, impacting on various cognitive processes including memory and attention. However, there is a dearth of studies examining the relationship ... -
The effect of inconsistent affective cues on children's judgments of speakers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-13)What speakers say is sometimes incongruent with the manner in which it is said. As a result, listeners are exposed to inconsistencies in communication: for example, when a speaker’s words are discrepant with her demonstrated ... -
The Effect of Socializing During Exercise on Psychological Need Satisfaction, Motivation to Exercise, and Wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-20)Previous research has indicated that exercising with other people improves interest and engagement in physical activity (e.g., Christensen, Schmidt, Budtz-Jorgensen, & Avlund, 2006; Estabrooks & Carron, 1999). However, the ... -
The Effect of Strategic Language on Perceptions of Actions and Speakers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-31)Describing the actions of others (or oneself) necessitates that a speaker make linguistic choices, as multiple terms can often be used to describe the same act. The present work investigates the consequences of these ... -
The Effects of Eye Gaze and Head Orientation On Covert Attention Capture
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The direction of someone’s eye gaze plays a fundamental role during social interactions and may function to capture and engage attention in the environment. Research has shown that direct eye gaze can preferentially attract ... -
Electrophysiological indices of information processing in psychopathy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Psychopathy is a severe personality disorder associated with a range of affective, interpersonal, and behavioural abnormalities. Evidence suggests that psychopaths show marked deficits in processing emotional information, ... -
Emotional Labour in the Global Context: The Roles of Intercultural and Intracultural Service Encounters, Intergroup Anxiety, and Cultural Intelligence on Surface Acting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Research on emotional labour has shown that surface acting is the main correlate of employee ill-being such as emotional exhaustion, but culture moderates this relationship, highlighting the importance of considering the ... -
Emotions and the Environment: The Variable Effect of Environmental Complexity on Pleasure and Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)This dissertation establishes a more comprehensive examination of the often discussed environmental complexity effect on emotional response by addressing four specific considerations. First, positive emotional response was ... -
Employee Gratitude: A New Direction for Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is extra-role behaviour that is not formally required by organizations, but benefits the organization and its members (Organ, 1988). OCB is considered to be a core dimension of ... -
Escaping the woes through flow
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Recently there has been concern surrounding the relation between flow (a state of deep and effortless concentration) and the development of problematic gaming among players who game to escape noxious mood states (Hull et ... -
Evaluating the Effect of Basic Psychological Needs Support and Thwarting on Motivation for Emotionally Demanding Behaviour Change
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-20)According to numerous sources, common factors found in all psychological intervention methods are significant predictors of treatment outcome, potentially holding even greater predictive power than treatment techniques ... -
Evaluation of the City of Woodstock’s Outdoor Smoking By-law: A Longitudinal Study of Smokers and Non-Smokers
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)PURPOSE: To evaluate Canada’s most comprehensive outdoor smoke-free ordinance, in Woodstock, Ontario, using both quantitative (longitudinal cohort survey) and qualitative methods (key informant interviews with policy ... -
Examining the Influence of Scratch Card Structural Characteristics on Psychophysiology, Motivation, and Gambling Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)Scratch cards are a popular and accessible form of gambling. Although scratch cards, like other lottery products, are typically cast in an innocuous light, this gambling form contains structural features that resemble slot ... -
Examining the neural, behavioural, and social responses associated with affective self-referential processing in adults and children.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Information processing biases favouring self- compared to other-referential and positive compared to negative stimuli are theorized to be healthy, adaptive outcomes of well-regulated attention. Within the lab, self-referential ... -
Expanding the Role of Power in Employees’ Interpretations of and Reactions to Leader Behaviors
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-13)Though research on the impact of leader behaviors is generally grounded in the notion that organizational leaders hold formal power over subordinate employees, this conceptualization overlooks the power that employees may ... -
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Partners’ Offers of Amends and Expressions of Responsiveness on Forgiveness for Real-life Transgressions in Romantic Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-18)Research has shown that forgiveness promotes individual psychological well-being as well as positive relationship functioning. Moreover, couples themselves report that forgiving is one of the most important reasons that ... -
An Exploration of the Correlates and Causes of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-19)Boredom has been defined as self-regulatory signal which tells us that whatever we are currently doing is failing to keep us engaged, pushing us to seek out more satisfying alternatives. It is a negatively valenced experience ... -
Exploring associations between response inhibition and emotion: Effects of valence, motivation, information processing style and emotional reactivity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Several theoretical accounts postulate an influence of mood on response inhibition, a central component of executive function (EF) that refers to withholding pre-potent responses that are inappropriate within a particular ... -
Exploring Contributions of Liking and Wanting to the Intention-Behaviour Link
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)People often express intentions to pursue positive behavioural changes, but successful behaviour change is difficult to implement. Despite one’s good intentions, behaviours are not always carried out as planned (the ... -
Exploring the cognitive correlates of boredom in traumatic brain injury (TBI).
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Boredom is a common human experience, yet little is known about its underlying neural mechanisms. This thesis first set out to investigate the construct of boredom and more closely examined its relationship to phenomenologically ...