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Imagining story spaces: Young readers’ ability to construct spatial representations of narrative
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-18)Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. They are the bestsellers we read on the beach, the news stories we read online, and, most commonly, the anecdotes we hear from our friends and family. Narrative comprehension ... -
Impact and Moderators of a Self-Compassion Manipulation on Perceived Risk of Disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Disclosure of personal distress to others is linked to increased trust and intimacy between persons as well as to important psychological benefits for the individual such as reductions in stress and heightened life ... -
The Impact of Culture on Relationship Repair in Negotiation.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)Negotiation is an emotionally charged process, in which relationship rupture can occur. While past research has focused on predictors of relationship rupture in negotiation, there has been a dearth of research focusing on ... -
Impacts of implicit normative evaluations on stereotyping and prejudice
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)The present research examined how other people’s evaluations towards social groups will develop and how these evaluations will affect discriminatory behaviour outside of conscious effort. By living in a society people are ... -
The Implications of Relational Activity Motivations for Relationship Well-Being and Daily Relational Functioning in Marriage
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)People experience autonomy when they perceive their behaviour to be volitional and they feel controlled when their behaviour is driven by external demands or internal pressures. Gaine and La Guardia (2009) developed the ... -
Implicit Leadership: Exploring the Role of Leaders on the Implicit Activation of Self-Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Lord and Brown (Lord, Brown, & Freiberg, 1999; Lord & Brown, 2004) suggest that leaders may impact followers by priming certain goals or ideals in their followers’ minds, which in turn influence judgment and behaviour. The ... -
Implicit Processes in Smoking Interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-19)Although explicit attitudes have traditionally been used in predictive models of health behaviour, recent theorizing suggests that implicit attitudes might be more useful in predicting socially undesirable or addictive ... -
Implicit Theories of Attraction
(Guilford Press, 2015-08-01)Sexual satisfaction is an important component of relationship well-being within romantic relationships. Yet, relatively little is known about the psychological factors that predict responses to the inevitable sexual ... -
In pursuit of progress: Promotion motivation and risk preference in the domain of gains
(American Psychological Association, 2014)This article examines the role of promotion motivation in decision making in the domain of gains. Using a stock investment paradigm in which individuals believed that they were making decisions that were real and consequential, ... -
An in vivo study of compulsions
(Elsevier, 2021-07)Leading models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) assume that compulsions are enacted to neutralize distress over obsessions. However, lab-based research suggests that once a compulsion starts factors other than distress ... -
Increased Early Sensitivity to Eyes in Mouthless Faces: In Support of the LIFTED Model of Early Face Processing
(Springer, 2018-07-09)The N170 ERP component is a central neural marker of early face perception usually thought to reflect holistic processing. However, it is also highly sensitive to eyes presented in isolation and to fixation on the eyes ... -
Individual differences in recogn-eye-zing faces: Behavioural and neural underpinnings of face recognition in neurotypical and autistic adults
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)Attention to another’s eyes and face recognition are necessary building blocks for efficient social communication. Neurotypical adults show an attentional bias for the eye region and strong face recognition performance. ... -
Individual differences in the emotional modulation of gaze-cuing
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-07-08)Gaze-cuing refers to the spontaneous orienting of attention towards a gazed-at location, characterised by shorter response times to gazed-at than non-gazed at targets. Previous research suggests that processing of these ... -
Inducing Feelings of Ignorance Makes People More Receptive to Expert (economist) Opinion
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-19)While they usually should, people do not revise their beliefs more to expert (economist) opinion than to lay opinion. The present research sought to better understand the factors that make it more likely for an individual ... -
Inducing Slips of Action: Creating a Window Into Attention Failures
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)Many of our daily activities are achieved through goal-oriented routines which illustrates the adaptability and efficiency of information processing. Nevertheless, slips of action do occur. This study was designed to ... -
Inducing Support for Organizational Visions through Person-Vision Congruence in Values and Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)Organizational visions articulate a desirable future state in connection to some shared values or identity among organizational members. Theories in both visionary and transformational leadership suggest that values and ... -
Inflating and deflating the self: Sustaining motivational concerns through self-evaluation
(Elsevier, 2014-03-01)The ways in which individuals think and feel about themselves play a significant role in guiding behavior across many domains in life. The current studies investigate how individuals may shift the positivity of self-evaluations ... -
The Influence of Diabetes-Related Worry and Worry-Driven Behaviour on the Self-Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-22)Background. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) requires the ongoing self-management of blood glucose to minimize the likelihood of serious morbidity and premature mortality. Adherence to clinical recommendations is challenging ... -
The influence of emotion and observer characteristics on attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-13)For decades, emotion researchers have debated a series of issues related to the influence of emotionally laden information on the way in which people process and remember information. The present investigation was designed ... -
The Influence of Emotional Context on Memory for Faces
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)The present thesis investigates whether the emotional background (context) in which a neutral face is viewed changes one’s memory for that face. In Experiment 1, neutral faces were overlaid centrally onto emotional (positive ...