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Rain on My Parade: Perceiving Low Self-Esteem in Close Others Hinders Positive Self-Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Ample evidence suggests that the behaviour of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) can lead to problems in close relationships (Wood, Hogle, & McClellan, 2009). To my knowledge, however, no research has investigated the role ... -
Ratings of Everyday Executive Functioning (REEF): A parent-report measure of preschoolers’ executive functioning skills
(APA, 2016-04-07)Executive functioning (EF) facilitates the development of academic, cognitive, and social-emotional skills and deficits in EF are implicated in a broad range of child psychopathologies. Although EF has clear implications ... -
Rationalization and Regret among Smokers in Thailand and Malaysia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-11)The current study examines two psychological experiences—rationalization and regret—among smokers from Thailand and Malaysia and the behavioural impact of rationalization and regret—intentions to quit. More specifically, ... -
Re-evaluating Whether Bilateral Eye Movements Influence Memory Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-30)Several recent studies have reported enhanced memory when retrieval is preceded by repetitive horizontal eye movements, relative to vertical or no eye movements. This reported memory boost has been referred to as the ... -
Reading aloud as a distinctive context: Examination of the production effect as a context-based memory effect
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Research on the production effect has established that studying information aloud is a simple memory technique useful for learning new information in various settings; this memory benefit has been credited to the distinctive ... -
Reading Aloud in the Context of the Task Set Paradigm: New Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)In a series of five experiments I examined whether intention (as operationalized by task set) affects the processes involved in reading. The Task Set paradigm (Besner & Care, 2003) was used in all experiments. On each trial ... -
Reading aloud is not automatic: Processing capacity is required to generate a phonological code from print
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The process of generating a phonological code from print is widely described as automatic. This claim is tested in Chapter 1 by assessing whether phonological recoding uses central attention in the context of the ... -
Reading Aloud: Feedback is Never Necessary
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-16)Since McClelland and Rumelhart (1981) introduced the concept of interactive activation (IA) to the field of visual word recognition, IA has been adopted by all of the major theoretical models of reading aloud. This widespread ... -
Reading Aloud: Qualitative Differences in the Relation between Stimulus Quality and Word Frequency as a Function of Context
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-14)Virtually all theories of visual word recognition assume (typically implicitly) that when a pathway is used, processing within that pathway always unfolds in the same way. This view is challenged by the observation that ... -
Reading Your Counterpart: Culture, Meaning, and Function of Nonverbal Behaviour in Negotiation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-14)Literature on cross-cultural negotiation suggests that the challenges negotiators often face in intercultural interactions stem from miscommunication. While prior research examined verbal messages in this context, there ... -
Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Creativity is one of the most imperative of all psychological constructs to study, for the implications of understanding creativity have immense bearing upon our future as a species. Understanding creativity can reveal not ... -
The Receipt of Task-Related Help: Developing and Validating a Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Helping behaviors have been subjected to a substantial amount of research attention. However, organizational researchers have disproportionately focused on the help giver, neglecting the recipient of help. To stimulate ... -
Recognizing discrimination explicitly while denying it implicitly: Implicit social identity protection
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Past research suggests that members of devalued groups recognize their group is discriminated against. Do the implicit responses of members of these groups demonstrate the same pattern? I argue that they do not and that ... -
Refining Flow: The Re-conceptualization And Measurement Of Flow As Deep Effortless Concentration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-11)The work reported in this dissertation includes a series of studies that have the broad goal of understanding and encapsulating the experience of flow. In this chapter (Chapter 1), I have laid out the theoretical and ... -
The relation between math anxiety and basic numerical and spatial processing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)Math anxiety refers to the negative reaction that many people experience when placed in situations that require mathematical problem solving (Richardson & Suinn, 1972). This reaction can range from seemingly minor frustration ... -
The Relation Between Number of Smoking Friends and Adult Smoking Cessation Outcomes
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-14)Background: It is a basic principle of life that behaviour is guided by the social context. It matters to us whether significant others share with us the same likes and dislikes, and when they do not, that discrepancy is ... -
The Relation Between Smartphone Use and Everyday Inattention
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)In two studies, we explored the relation between subjective reports of smartphone use and eve-ryday inattention. We created two questionnaires that measured general smartphone use (i.e. how frequently people send and receive ... -
The relationship between children's executive functioning, theory of mind, and verbal skills with their own and others' behaviour in a cooperative context: Changes in relations from early to middle school-age
(Wiley, 2017-02-28)Learning to behave in socially competent ways is an essential component of children's development. This study examined the relations between children's social, communicative, and cognitive skills and their behaviours during ... -
The Relationship between Metamotivational Knowledge and Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Self-regulation research increasingly highlights the performance trade-offs of different motivational states. For instance, eager motivation promotes performance on divergent creativity tasks (e.g., brainstorming), and ... -
RELPH: A Computational Model for Human Decision Making
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)The updating process, which consists of building mental models and adapting them to the changes occurring in the environment, is impaired in neglect patients. A simple rock-paper-scissors experiment was conducted in our ...