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I’ll Share With You But Only If… The influence of context, communication, and perspective taking on preschoolers’ social behaviours
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)A key aspect of children’s development is learning how to navigate the social world. To do so successfully, children must be able to adapt their social behaviours to the diverse social contexts and demands that they encounter ... -
Joint Modulation of Facial Expression Processing by Contextual Congruency and Task Demands
(MDPI, 2019-05-17)Faces showing expressions of happiness or anger were presented together with sentences that described happiness-inducing or anger-inducing situations. Two main variables were manipulated: (i) congruency between contexts ... -
Judgments of effort depend on the temporal proximity to the task
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-26)Cognitive effort is a central construct in our lives, yet our understanding of the processes underlying our perception of effort are limited. Performance is typically used as one way to assess effort in cognitive tasks ... -
June Must be Right and 9 is on Top: An Investigation of Time-space and Number-form Synaesthesia
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-04)Synaesthesia is a fascinating condition whereby individuals report extraordinary experiences when presented with ordinary stimuli. In this thesis, we examine an individual (L) who experiences time units (i.e., months and ... -
Knowledge Gaps, Perceived Barriers, and Perceived Rewards in Sexual Consent
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)Sexual consent, or the communication of willingness to participate in sex, is crucial in all sexual interactions. Whereas educators and researchers emphasize an ideal of consent (i.e., “affirmative” consent; Muehlenhard ... -
Lay misperceptions of the relationship between men’s benevolent and hostile sexism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Although there is a reliably positive association between hostile (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS), lay perceptions of this association have not been directly tested. I predicted that people perceive an illusory negative ... -
Lay Theories and Self-Perceptions of Maturity in Young Adulthood
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-25)There is concern that maturity is becoming more and more of an elusive goal for contemporary young adults. Cultural definitions of maturity often emphasize timely achievement of traditional adult goals such as buying a ... -
Learning to cooperate: The impact of executive functioning, theory of mind and externalizing behaviours on children’s social functioning
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-21)Developing the ability to interact in a socially competent manner (i.e., in which one’s own needs and goals are met and the needs and goals of others are considered) is a complex process that is likely influenced by one’s ... -
License to Misbehave: Organizational Citizenship Behavior as a Moral License for Deviant Reactions to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Abusive supervision research has found that subordinates engage in deviance following abuse despite the negative consequences of doing so. Why do individuals engage in deviance despite the expected sanctions? To explain ... -
Linguistic Features of Lectures and their Relationship with Student Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Lectures are an important part of the post-secondary experience. Optimizing various aspects of this experience for the benefit of students’ learning has been examined (Mayer, 2019). However, the linguistic features of ... -
Listening to their peers: An assessment of toddlers' processing of other children's speech
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-29)Young language learners acquire their first language(s) from the speech they are exposed to in their environment. For at least some children (e.g., those in daycare), this environmental speech includes a large quantity of ... -
Loading… Loading… The Influence of Download Time on Information Search
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)When browsing online, there is considerable variation in the amount of time that one has to wait for content to appear once the link to that content has been activated (i.e., clicked). In two experiments we examined how ... -
The Longitudinal Association of Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-04)Several prominent models of relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction imply directional relationships between these constructs (e.g., attachment theory, social exchange models of relationship satisfaction, the ... -
A Longitudinal Investigation of Leader Development and Leadership Emergence
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)Although it requires time to develop and emerge as leaders, there is a shortage of longitudinal research on these topics. Across two essays, this dissertation aims to address this gap in the literature. Essay 1 examines ... -
Losing Your Calm or Losing Control: Two Paths to Retaliatory Deviance in Response to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Retaliation is a well-established response to abusive supervision. Leading edge research explains the occurrence of supervisor-directed retaliation through processes associated with the strength model of self-control ... -
Marital Communication Behaviour: The Role of Marital Satisfaction, Depressive Symptoms and Proximal Appraisals of Marital Problem-Solving Ability.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)According to Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationship conflict, communication behaviour is likely influenced by relationship factors at both the distal and proximal level. The overall goal of the present ... -
Matters of the Heart: Patients' Intra- and Interpersonal Adjustment to Life Following a Cardiac Crisis
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Cardiac crises (e.g. heart attack or bypass surgery) have been shown to be related to poorer patient psychological and relational functioning. While these studies assume that the event significantly impacts patients, they ... -
Meaningful faces: Self-relevance of semantic context in an initial social encounter improves later face recognition
(Springer, 2021-02)Self-relevant stimuli (i.e. meaningful/important to the observer and related to the self) are typically remembered better than other-relevant stimuli. However, whether a self-relevance memory benefit could be conferred to ... -
Means-end Search for Hidden Objects by 6.5-month-old Infants: Examination of an Experiential Limitation Hypothesis
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Three experiments were conducted to investigate the hypothesis that young infants? failures to search for occluded objects arises, not from deficiencies in their object representations, but from limitations in experience ... -
Measurement and Factor Structure of Developmental Trauma Disorder Symptoms in Children Involved in Child Welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)Childhood trauma is associated with a wide array of neurodevelopmental, physiological, psychosocial, and emotional challenges beyond those captured by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—especially in instances of multiple ...