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The Idea of a Follower: An Investigation of Implicit Followership Theories and Their Correlates

Evans, Rochelle (University of Waterloo, 2022-11-28)

Implicit followership theories (IFTs) are our subjective assumptions, or lay beliefs, about characteristics of followers. These beliefs can exert a powerful influence on workplace relationships between leaders and followers. ...

Identifying the function of peripheral vision in early and late scene processing

Srikantharajah, Jatheesh (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)

The vast majority of visual information is located in the peripheral visual field. Our understanding of the functionality of peripheral vision is limited. This thesis investigates the function of peripheral vision during ...

"If you don't 'get it', it doesn't count": Conveying Responsiveness in Attempts to Seek Forgiveness Within Romantic Relationships

Pansera, Carolina (University of Waterloo, 2009-03-19)

Although research has begun to examine the factors which facilitate forgiveness in romantic relationships, there is currently limited empirical research examining the partner behaviours which promote or alternatively thwart ...

Imagery Rescripting of Painful Memories in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Qualitative Analysis of Needs Fulfillment and Memory Updating

Romano, Mia; Hudd, Taylor; Huppert, Jonathan D.; Reimer, Susanna G.; Moscovitch, David A. (Springer, 2020-09-19)

Background Imagery rescripting (IR) is an effective intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD) that targets autobiographical memories of painful past events. IR is thought to promote needs fulfillment and memory ...

Imagining story spaces: Young readers’ ability to construct spatial representations of narrative

Nyhout, Angela (University of Waterloo, 2015-06-18)

Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. They are the bestsellers we read on the beach, the news stories we read online, and, most commonly, the anecdotes we hear from our friends and family. Narrative comprehension ...

Impact and Moderators of a Self-Compassion Manipulation on Perceived Risk of Disclosure

Dupasquier, Jessica R. (University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)

Disclosure of personal distress to others is linked to increased trust and intimacy between persons as well as to important psychological benefits for the individual such as reductions in stress and heightened life ...

The Impact of Culture on Relationship Repair in Negotiation.

Wiseman, Sylvie (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)

Negotiation is an emotionally charged process, in which relationship rupture can occur. While past research has focused on predictors of relationship rupture in negotiation, there has been a dearth of research focusing on ...

Impacts of implicit normative evaluations on stereotyping and prejudice

Yoshida, Emiko (University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)

The present research examined how other people’s evaluations towards social groups will develop and how these evaluations will affect discriminatory behaviour outside of conscious effort. By living in a society people are ...

The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage

Gaine, Graham Sherwood (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)

People experience autonomy when they perceive their behaviour to be volitional and they feel controlled when their behaviour is driven by external demands or internal pressures. Gaine and La Guardia (2009) developed the ...

Implicit Leadership: Exploring the Role of Leaders on the Implicit Activation of Self-Interest

Komar, Shawn Gordon (University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)

Lord and Brown (Lord, Brown, & Freiberg, 1999; Lord & Brown, 2004) suggest that leaders may impact followers by priming certain goals or ideals in their followers’ minds, which in turn influence judgment and behaviour. The ...

Implicit Processes in Smoking Interventions

Fotuhi, Omid (University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)

Although explicit attitudes have traditionally been used in predictive models of health behaviour, recent theorizing suggests that implicit attitudes might be more useful in predicting socially undesirable or addictive ...

Implicit Theories of Attraction

Bohns, Vanessa K.; Scholer, Abigail A.; Rehman, Uzma (Guilford Press, 2015-08-01)

Sexual satisfaction is an important component of relationship well-being within romantic relationships. Yet, relatively little is known about the psychological factors that predict responses to the inevitable sexual ...

In pursuit of progress: Promotion motivation and risk preference in the domain of gains

Zou, Xi; Scholer, Abigail A.; Higgins, E. Tory (American Psychological Association, 2014)

This article examines the role of promotion motivation in decision making in the domain of gains. Using a stock investment paradigm in which individuals believed that they were making decisions that were real and consequential, ...

An in vivo study of compulsions

Dean, Jasmine; Purdon, Christine (Elsevier, 2021-07)

Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assume that compulsions are enacted to neutralize distress over obsessions. However, lab-based research suggests that once a compulsion starts factors other than distress ...

Increased Early Sensitivity to Eyes in Mouthless Faces: In Support of the LIFTED Model of Early Face Processing

Itier, Roxane J.; Preston, Frank F. (Springer, 2018-07-09)

The N170 ERP component is a central neural marker of early face perception usually thought to reflect holistic processing. However, it is also highly sensitive to eyes presented in isolation and to fixation on the eyes ...

Individual differences in recogn-eye-zing faces: Behavioural and neural underpinnings of face recognition in neurotypical and autistic adults

Parkington, Karisa (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)

Attention to another’s eyes and face recognition are necessary building blocks for efficient social communication. Neurotypical adults show an attentional bias for the eye region and strong face recognition performance. ...