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Tempering optimistic bias in temporal predictions: The role of psychological distance in the unpacking effect
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-20)People typically underestimate the time it will take them to complete tasks, even when they are familiar with the process of executing those tasks (the “planning fallacy”; Kahneman & Tversky, 1979; Buehler, Griffin & Ross, ... -
Temporal Dynamics in the Interpersonal Behaviour and Perceptions of Romantic Partners
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)The current study investigates romantic partners’ perceptions of their own and their partner’s interpersonal behaviour as they unfold continuously over the course of an interaction. In particular, we examine the types of ... -
Testing the Biosocial Theory of Borderline Personality Disorder: The Association of Temperament, Early Environment, Emotional Experience, Self-Regulation and Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-14)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), as defined by the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000), is a multifaceted mental illness characterized by pervasive instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect and behavior. Despite ... -
Testing the spatial affordance hypothesis: Evidence from factor analysis, mathematical models, and behavioural analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)This thesis attempts to explain the apparent link between how we navigate the world around us and the physical properties that define that world. Despite a number of works indicating the substantial effect of the layout ... -
Therapeutic Benefits of an Enhanced Video Feedback Intervention for Socially Anxious Individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)Video feedback (VF) has been widely integrated into cognitive behavioural treatment protocols for socially anxious individuals due to its presumed efficacy in improving negative self-perception and reducing underestimations ... -
Therapeutic Benefits of an Enhanced Video Feedback Intervention for Socially Anxious Individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Video feedback (VF) has been widely integrated into cognitive behavioural treatment protocols for socially anxious individuals due to its presumed efficacy in improving negative self-perception and reducing underestimations ... -
Thought Suppression
(Oxford University Press, 2020-01-30)The idea that suppressing an unwanted thought results in an ironic increase in its frequency is accepted as psychological fact. Wegner’s ironic processes model has been applied to understanding the development and persistence ... -
The time-course of contextual valence and self-relevance effects on the perception of faces with direct versus averted gaze
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)We see faces every day within a rich situational context. Previous ERP research has demonstrated that priming faces with contextual sentences varying in self-relevance and valence alters electrocortical and emotional ... -
To Approach or to Avoid: The Role of Ambivalent Motivation in Attentional Biases to Threat and Spider Fear
(Springer, 2021-01-03)Background People with anxiety difficulties show different patterns in their deployment of attention to threat compared to people without anxiety difficulties. These attentional biases are assumed to play a critical role ... -
To Look, or Not to Look? Attention to Threat and Avoidance of Threat While Checking
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)It has been argued that people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibit facilitated attention to threat (early attentional capture) and difficulty disengaging from it (persistent attentional capture), which in turn ... -
Toward a Model of Boredom: Investigating the Psychophysiological, Cognitive, and Neural Correlates of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Boredom is a universal human experience that has the potential to impact a broad range of activities, especially when experienced at chronic and/or elevated levels. Despite this, research is only beginning to gain a better ... -
Towards a Theory of Visual Concealment
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)The goal of this dissertation is to take initial steps towards understanding concealment behaviour and ultimately developing a theory of visual concealment. Since there are relatively few studies of concealment in the ... -
Towards an Understanding of How People Build Mental Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-13)Navigating the environment and making everyday decisions is a process plagued by noise, uncertainty, and non-stationary contingencies. Efficient and effective action is predicated upon a stable internal representation of ... -
Towards an Understanding of Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)Sexual desire is deeply embedded in interpersonal relationships and cannot be fully understood outside of this context. As such, research that focuses on sexual desire problems at the level of the couple is critical for ... -
Tracking the Transition from Sublexical to Lexical Processing in Reading Aloud: On the Creation of Orthographic and Phonological Lexical Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)Participants read aloud a set of nonword letter strings, one at a time that varied in the number of letters. The standard result was observed in two experiments; the time to begin reading aloud increased as letter length ... -
Unclaimed Prize Information Increases the Appeal of Scratch Card Games
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-11-03)Previous research suggests that intuitively appealing, yet uninformative unclaimed prize information is capable of biasing gambling-related judgments when people compare scratch cards that vary in the number of unclaimed ... -
Underestimation of Dual-Task Response Time is Not Caused by Delayed Perception
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-01)In the Psychological Refractory Period (PRP) paradigm, the stimuli for two separate tasks are presented in rapid succession. The stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is typically varied, resulting in slower responses to Task 2 ... -
UNDERLYING COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN READING, MATH, AND COMORBID READING AND MATH LEARNING DISABILITIES
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-24)The performance of 223 Grade 4 children, with Average overall IQ and no disability (ND), or reading disability (RD), or math disability (MD), or reading/math disability (RD+MD), was compared on theoretically-derived factors ... -
Understanding Anxiety Through the Constructs of Attentional Bias and Attentional Scope
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-13)Anxiety disorders are common and debilitating, and there are substantial research efforts to better understand and treat them. These efforts are characterized by two leading trends: an emphasis on the role of attentional ... -
Understanding boredom proneness: Cognitive and affective correlates in healthy and traumatic brain injured individuals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-16)Boredom proneness has been associated with a raft of negative cognitive, affective, and behavioural consequences. Research has sought to better understand boredom proneness from both cognitive and affective perspectives; ...