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A “BAD APPLE” OR A “SPOILED BARREL”?: OBSERVING OVERT RACISM PREDICTS DIVERGING PERCEPTIONS OF RACISM AND RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-03)Blacks and Whites draw different interpretations of the blatant racism that they witness, even when their reactions appear to be identical. Across three studies, we hypothesized that Blacks would endorse the idea that ... -
Baring Your Soul: The Good, the Bad, and the Bad Again
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-06)People with lower self-esteem (LSEs) exhibit a paradoxical pattern of self-disclosure (Wood & Forest, 2016). On one hand, they self-disclose less overall than people with higher self-esteem (HSEs), seemingly to protect ... -
Barking at Emotionally-Laden Words: The Role of Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)It has long been held that processing at the single word level during reading is automatic. However, research has recently begun to emerge that challenges this view. The literature surrounding the processing of emotion ... -
Basic Processes in Reading: Spatial Attention as a Necessary Preliminary to Lexical/Semantic Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-21)The question of whether words can be identified without spatial attention has been a topic of considerable interest over the last five and a half decades, but the literature has yielded mixed conclusions. Some studies show ... -
Basic Processes in Reading: The Role of Spatial Attention in Visual Word Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)The present thesis is concerned with the role of spatial attention in visual word processing. Eleven experiments are reported each of which consists of the combination of a manipulation of spatial attention (i.e., cue ... -
BELIEVABLE BUT NOT MEMORABLE: EXAMINING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE BELIEVABILITY AND MEMORABILITY OF EVIDENCE AS IT AFFECTS INFERENCES
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Dual-process theories of reasoning (e.g., Gilbert, 1991; Stanovich & West, 1997) posit that decisions are mediated by two cognitive systems: a fast and automatic system which sometimes relies on past knowledge, and a ... -
The benefits and boundary conditions of drawing on episodic memory
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Drawing, as an encoding strategy for to-be-remembered words, has previously been shown to provide robust episodic memory benefits in young adults. In this dissertation, I provide experimental evidence that drawing enhances ... -
Betting on the Unexpected: The Effect of Expectation Matching on Choice Strategies in a Binary Choice Task
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-17)Probability matching is the tendency to predict outcomes in accordance with their actual contingencies in a binary choice task. It is, however, a suboptimal response if the aim is to maximize correct predictions. I review ... -
Beyond causality: Heuristics for inferring possibility
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Deciding what is possible is an essential human ability, and our judgments about possibility often appear effortless and straightforward. But how do we actually decide whether something is possible or impossible? This ... -
Beyond positive affect: enhancing our understanding of diminished positive emotions and experiences in social anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been found to be associated with decreased positive affect (PA) that is not attributable to depression or comorbidity with other disorders (e.g., Kashdan, 2007). Despite this, little is ... -
Beyond the emotional impact of dissonance: Inharmonic music elicits greater cognitive interference than does harmonic music
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)The present research evaluates whether task-irrelevant inharmonic music produces greater interference with cognitive performance than task-irrelevant harmonic music. Participants completed either an auditory (Experiments ... -
Bicultural Identity Integration at Work: Effects of Identity Conflict on Role Conflict Perceptions and Exhaustion
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Identifying with more than one culture has been found to confer numerous benefits, including greater psychological and emotional well-being. However, it is not clear how bicultural identity integration (BII; defined as ... -
Blending in at the Cost of Losing Oneself: The Cyclical Relationship between Social Anxiety, Self-Disclosure, and Self-Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-18)Recent research has demonstrated that high social anxiety is associated with uncertainty about one’s self views and self-concept (Moscovitch et al., 2009; Stopa et al., 2010; Wilson & Rapee, 2006). However, no research has ... -
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 ...