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Marital Communication Behaviour: The Role of Marital Satisfaction, Depressive Symptoms and Proximal Appraisals of Marital Problem-Solving Ability.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)According to Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationship conflict, communication behaviour is likely influenced by relationship factors at both the distal and proximal level. The overall goal of the present ... -
Matters of the Heart: Patients' Intra- and Interpersonal Adjustment to Life Following a Cardiac Crisis
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Cardiac crises (e.g. heart attack or bypass surgery) have been shown to be related to poorer patient psychological and relational functioning. While these studies assume that the event significantly impacts patients, they ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
(Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ... -
Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5-month-old Infants: Examination of an Experiential Limitation Hypothesis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Three experiments were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that young infants? failures to search for occluded objects arises, not from deficiencies in their object representations, but from limitations in experience ... -
Measurement and Factor Structure of Developmental Trauma Disorder Symptoms in Children Involved in Child Welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)Childhood trauma is associated with a wide array of neurodevelopmental, physiological, psychosocial, and emotional challenges beyond those captured by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—especially in instances of multiple ... -
Measuring Haptic Experience: Elaborating the HX model with scale development
(IEEE, 2021-07-06)Designers increasingly employ haptic feedback with the aim to improve user experience (UX). Designers and researchers currently use qualitative methods or demos for feedback, but neither approach scales to large studies ... -
Measuring, Understanding, and Evoking Fear of Positive Evaluation in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)We present a series of three studies designed to investigate fear of positive evaluation in social anxiety. In study 1, we developed the Positive Evaluation Beliefs Scale (PEBS) and administered it to a large undergraduate ... -
Mechanisms of the Aging-Related Positivity Effect in Memory and Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)According to the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST), the normal aging process is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, and this fosters a bias in cognitive processing for information ... -
Media multitasking and performance on attentionally demanding tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)This dissertation examined the behaviour of media multitasking, with a specific focus on three broad goals. The first goal, explored in Chapter 2, was to examine whether individual differences in the propensity to media ... -
Media multitasking and sustained attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Media multitasking describes a common, everyday behaviour that involves dividing or switching attention between multiple sources of media-based information. In the work reported here, I investigate the relation between ... -
Memory across trials in visual search
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)In two experiments we evaluated whether memory for item locations across trials can improve visual search performance. Measuring both response times and eye movements we examined how visual search performance is influenced ... -
Memory Bias for Threat-Related Information in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Biases in what is committed to memory and ultimately remembered are a key feature in individuals plagued by high levels of social anxiety. By selectively remembering the unfavourable aspects of past social situations, early ... -
Mental Model Updating and Eye Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Two studies investigated what eye movements can reveal about how we process surprising information and use it to update mental models. Mental models guide our actions to make decisions in a dynamic environment. Participants ... -
Message Order and Culture: The Relationship between Cognitive Thinking Styles, Response Mode, and Order Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Previous research has documented the prevalent effects of message order on message persuasiveness. Based on the Belief Updating Model (Hogarth and Einhorn, 1992), response mode has been found as one moderator of primacy ... -
Metamotivation: Emerging Research on the regulation of motivational states
(Elsevier, 2020)Until recently, research examining the self-regulation of motivation focused primarily on the strategies people use to bolster the amount of motivation they have for pursuing a task goal. In contrast, our metamotivational ... -
Metamotivational Beliefs about Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-30)Although intrinsic motivation is often viewed as preferable to more extrinsic forms of motivation, there is evidence that the adaptiveness of these motivational states depends on the nature of the task being completed ... -
Misjudging How to Help: Barriers to Effective Social Support Provision
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Relying on others for support is a common coping strategy. However, support providers often fail to provide effective support. Past work suggests that support providers may prioritize help aimed at alleviating others’ ... -
The Moderating Effects of Reported Pre-Pandemic Social Anxiety, Symptom Impairment, and Current Stressors on Mental Health and Affiliative Adjustment During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)It has been well-established within existing literature that individuals with social anxiety fear negative evaluation and exposure of self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing social anxiety ... -
The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-29)Background and objectives Individuals with social anxiety (SA) have well-established fears of being negatively evaluated and exposing self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing SA on ... -
Modulation of Facial Expression Perception by Body Context
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-16)The present study tested the emotion seed hypothesis, previously not fully tested, which states that facial expression perception is modulated by context based on perceptual similarities shared between facial expressions. ...