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Egalitarian yet Unequal? Gender Stereotyping in Romantic Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)In three studies (Ns = 225, 182, 378), heterosexual participants reported their career / family priorities, plus those of their romantic partner, in 10-15 years. Predictions for romantic partners’ career / family goals ... -
Electrophysiological indices of information processing in psychopathy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Psychopathy is a severe personality disorder associated with a range of affective, interpersonal, and behavioural abnormalities. Evidence suggests that psychopaths show marked deficits in processing emotional information, ... -
Emotion Dynamics Among Pre-Adolescents Getting to Know Each Other: Dyadic Associations with Shyness
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-13)Background. Shy children have difficulty forming new friendships. Central to friendship initiation are emotion exchanges between new social partners. Past research based on trait and global measures of emotion suggest that ... -
Emotional Encoding Context Leads to Memory Bias in Individuals with High Anxiety
(MDPI, 2018-01)We investigated whether anxious individuals, who adopt an inherently negative mindset, demonstrate a particularly salient memory bias for words tainted by negative contexts. To this end, sequentially presented target words, ... -
Emotional Labour in the Global Context: The Roles of Intercultural and Intracultural Service Encounters, Intergroup Anxiety, and Cultural Intelligence on Surface Acting
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Research on emotional labour has shown that surface acting is the main correlate of employee ill-being such as emotional exhaustion, but culture moderates this relationship, highlighting the importance of considering the ... -
Emotional modulation of attention orienting by gaze varies with dynamic cue sequence
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07-03)Recent gaze cueing studies using dynamic cue sequences have reported increased attention orienting by gaze with faces expressing fear, surprise or anger. Here, we investigated whether the type of dynamic cue sequence used ... -
Emotional Reactivity, Negative Affect, and Executive Functioning: Does Physiology Matter?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-12)Emotional reactivity reflects the activation, intensity, and duration of an emotional event. Although it is well-established that emotional reactivity has negative implications on psychological functioning, studies have ... -
Emotions and the Environment: The Variable Effect of Environmental Complexity on Pleasure and Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)This dissertation establishes a more comprehensive examination of the often discussed environmental complexity effect on emotional response by addressing four specific considerations. First, positive emotional response was ... -
Employee Gratitude: A New Direction for Understanding Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is extra-role behaviour that is not formally required by organizations, but benefits the organization and its members (Organ, 1988). OCB is considered to be a core dimension of ... -
Enhancing Memory by Enactment: Does Meaning Underlie the Advantage of Producing or Observing an Action?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-11)Enactment is an encoding strategy in which performing an action depicting a word (relative to reading) enhances its memorability. Precisely how this motor activity aids recall is unclear. In our Experiments, we investigated ... -
Environmental Influences on the Development of Child-Directed Speech Modifications in Young Children
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Background. Siblings play a big role in our early lives. Having an older sibling has been shown to contribute to later-born children’s socio-emotional understanding and prosocial skill development (Barr & Hayne, 2003; ... -
Equations for deriving effect sizes for individual predictors and sets of predictors under specified conditions in multiple regression analysis: A technical report
(2022-05-27)This technical report provides equations for deriving effect sizes for individual predictors and sets of predictors under specified conditions in multiple regression (MR) analyses. The effect size metric being obtained in ... -
Escaping the woes through flow
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)Recently there has been concern surrounding the relation between flow (a state of deep and effortless concentration) and the development of problematic gaming among players who game to escape noxious mood states (Hull et ... -
Establishing the Construct of Boredom as Distinct From Apathy, Anhedonia and Depression
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Boredom is a common human experience that has received little attention in the literature. To date, researchers have been unable to agree on a unified theory and definition of the construct. The present study investigated ... -
Evaluating Case Conceptualizations in Psychotherapy Reports: Links to Therapy Outcome and the Alliance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)Case conceptualizations are a key component of cognitive behavioural therapy (Beck, 1995; Persons, 2005; Needleman, 1999). Despite the theoretical importance of case conceptualizations, the question of whether they actually ... -
Evaluating the Effect of Basic Psychological Needs Support and Thwarting on Motivation for Emotionally Demanding Behaviour Change
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-20)According to numerous sources, common factors found in all psychological intervention methods are significant predictors of treatment outcome, potentially holding even greater predictive power than treatment techniques ... -
Evaluation of the City of Woodstock’s Outdoor Smoking By-law: A Longitudinal Study of Smokers and Non-Smokers
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)PURPOSE: To evaluate Canada’s most comprehensive outdoor smoke-free ordinance, in Woodstock, Ontario, using both quantitative (longitudinal cohort survey) and qualitative methods (key informant interviews with policy ... -
Examination of the Belief Bias Effect across Two Domains of Reasoning
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)The belief bias effect – the finding that prior beliefs influence judgments of logic and evidence – has been a topic of much empirical investigation in both deductive and causal reasoning. However, to date, no research has ... -
An Examination of Whether Hearing a Display of Self-Compassion in Someone Else Impacts One's Own Level of Self-Compassion
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Self-compassion is the ability to be kind and understanding towards oneself in times of distress or failure (Neff, 2003a). Self-compassion in adulthood is linked to childhood experiences of care and compassion (Gilbert ... -
Examining mechanisms of self-control improvement
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Prior research provides evidence that people can improve their self-control performance through practice (e.g., Muraven, Baumeister, & Tice, 1999). Building on the Strength Model of self-control (Baumeister, Heatherton, & ...