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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 ... -
The Influence of Gender and Sexual Prejudice on Empathic Responding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Although studies of the relationship between empathy and racial prejudice have become increasingly popular in recent years, there is comparatively little research on the potential relationship between empathy and sexual ... -
The Influence of Global and Local Spatial Configuration on Wayfinding
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Knowledge about the configuration of an environment is used preferentially when navigating through an urban environment (Penn, 2003). However, it the locus of this effect is poorly understood. One possibility is that the ... -
The Influence of Implicit Norms on Cognition and Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-09)Recent development of implicit measures has enabled researchers to investigate the relation between implicit attitudes and automatic behaviours. Among these measures, the implicit association test (IAT: Greenwald, McGhee ... -
The influence of near-miss outcomes on the physiological and subjective experience of scratch card gambling
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-25)Scratch cards are an omnipresent gambling form in the Canadian marketplace that contain a special type of outcome called a near-miss. A near-miss is an outcome that appears to come close to a large win, but falls short ... -
The influence of redundant spatial regularities in statistical and sequence learning
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-22)The following two studies examined the influence of spatial regularities on our ability to learn and predict frequencies and sequences of events. Research into statistical and sequence learning has demonstrated that we can ... -
The Influence of Study Context on Recollection: Cognitive, Neural, and Age-Related Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-20)This thesis examines how the context in which an item is studied affects the phenomenological experience of the rememberer. Previous research has extensively studied how the match between study and test context affect ... -
The Influence of Task Demands on Manual Asymmetries for Reaching Movements to Tools
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-13)In this dissertation, three experiments were conducted that examined the influence of task demands on manual asymmetries for the performance of reaching movements to tools. In all three experiments, the difference between ... -
Institutional-level Contributors to Inequality: The Existence and Impact of Gendered Wording within Job Advertisements
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-08)The present research demonstrates a novel institutional-level contributor--that is, gendered wording used in job recruitment materials--that serves to perpetuate the status quo, keeping women underrepresented in traditionally ... -
Instructor presence effect: Liking does not always lead to learning
(Elsevier, 2018-07-01)Online education provides the opportunity to present lecture material to students in different formats or modalities, however there is debate about which lecture formats are best. Here, we conducted four experiments with ... -
An Integrative Cognitive-Motivational Model of Student Motivation to Engage in Activities for Development of Professional Competencies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This paper introduces an integrative, cognitive model of motivation, expanding on work by Bandura (1977) and Vroom (1964), to gain insight into students’ participation in activities to promote their development of professional ... -
Inter-item associations and memory for order
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Remembering the order in which a sequence of events occurred can be an invaluable function of memory. Although important, the quality of memory for order information has been shown to be significantly affected by the way ...