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Gender Stereotypes and the Relational Consequences of Interpersonal Justice Violations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-30)A large body of organizational justice research has demonstrated that manager-subordinate relationships are damaged when managers violate justice rules. Yet, this relational damage may be unequal across managers. In the ... -
Getting into the Game: The Precursors of Immersion into Violent Video Games and the Effect of Immersion on Post-Game Aggression
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)The hours many of us spend watching movies and television, playing video games, and reading books illustrate the prevalence of fantasy in our lives. But does spending so much time in fantasy worlds shape our real-world ... -
The Goal Fungibility Model: A Theoretical Account of Goal Persistence and Substitution After Failure
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-19)After failure at a goal, people have a variety of options for what to do next, including persistence at the goal or substituting it for a different goal. This thesis introduces a model of goal fungibility, which addresses ... -
Goal Models: A Lay Theory Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-16)Successful pursuit of multiple goals (e.g., health, career, family goals) is critical to personal well-being and social prosperity. However, despite significant research on how people manage single goals or even dynamics ... -
Goal-setting and unethical behavior: The journey toward the goal matters
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Unethical behavior in the workplace causes harm to organizations and has a widespread impact on society. Recent studies show that difficult and specific goals can lead to unethical behavior. Specifically, studies show that ... -
Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia Influences Overt Visual Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)Synaesthesia is a fascinating condition in which ordinary stimuli elicit extraordinary sensory experiences. For example, specific tastes may elicit unusual tactile sensations and standard black letters may elicit highly ... -
Great Expectations: The Role of Implicit Current Intentions on Predictions of Future Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)I present behavioural data contributing to existing research that (implicit) self-predictions are overly reliant on current intentions at the time of the decision (Koehler & Poon, 2006). Results are consistent with previous ... -
Handle with Care: Agreeableness and Responses to Hurt Feelings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)What factors predict people’s reactions to hurt feelings in romantic relationships? I propose that people higher in agreeableness (Agreeables) show more cognitive and behavioral responses to hurt feelings that reflect ... -
Helping in a Random World: Evidence that Prosocial Intentions and Behavior can Satiate Compensatory Control Needs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-07)The present research examines a unique motivator of prosocial intentions and behavior: the need to believe that the world is an orderly, predictable place. Previous social psychological research has explained helping ... -
The Hidden Cost of Hiding Feelings: Emotion Suppression and Inauthenticity in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Social anxiety is associated with an unusually high level of negative affect, yet little is known about the strategies used by socially anxious individuals to manage and regulate their emotions. The present research examined ... -
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Employee Reactions to Automation at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Automation is increasingly becoming a disruptive force in modern workplaces. For individual workers, the consequences of automation are varied; In some cases, employees may be harmed by automation (e.g., job loss), whereas ... -
Hostility in the context of depression: Testing the relevance of perceived social ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)Theoretical positions (Sloman & Gilbert, 2000), current research (Robbins & Tanck, 1997) and clinical observations (APA, 1994) have generally concluded that depressed populations tend to demonstrate an elevated level of ... -
How Does Economic Pressure Relate to Family Processes? A Systemic Test of the Family Stress Model
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Background: When evaluating family well-being, it is important to disentangle dyadic, individual, and family-wide variability. Presently, few studies have considered the role of social disadvantage and mental health across ... -
How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-Compassion Affects Emotional Distress Tolerance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted in a Sample of University Students and a Sample of Community Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)Emotional distress tolerance refers to the perceived ability to tolerate one’s negative emotions (Simons & Gaher, 2005). Low emotional distress tolerance is a transdiagnostic marker of psychopathology (Leyro et al., 2010) ... -
How interactions with sexist men can undermine women's performance in engineering and mathematics
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)The present research examined how interactions with sexist men can trigger stereotype threat among women, undermining their engineering and mathematical performance. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literatures on ... -
How Leader Role Identity Influences the Process of Leader Emergence: A Social Network Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Contemporary literature on leadership emphasizes the importance of having a leader identity in building leadership skills and functioning effectively as leaders. We build on this approach by examining and unpacking the ... -
How Locomotion Concerns Influence Perceptual Judgments
(Guilford Press, 2017-06-01)Successful self-regulation involves both assessment (e.g., making the right choices) and locomotion (e.g., managing change and movement). Regulatory mode theory is a motivational framework that highlights the ways in which ... -
How Members of Majority and Victimized Groups Respond to Government Redress for Historical Harms
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-21)Scholars speculate that government apologies and compensation for historical injustices promote forgiveness and reconciliation, as well as psychologically benefit members of the victimized group. However, they have not ... -
How Processing of Background Context Can Improve Memory for Target Words in Younger and Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)We examined how explicit instructions to encode visual context information accompanying visually-presented unrelated target words affected later recognition of the targets presented alone, in younger and older adults. In ... -
How Reading Difficulty Influences Mind-Wandering: The Theoretical Importance of Measuring Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)In many situations, increasing task difficulty decreases thoughts that are unrelated to the task (i.e., mind-wandering; see Smallwood & Schooler, 2006, for a review). However, Feng, D’Mello, and Graesser (2013) recently ...