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Investigating the Impact of the 2012 Canadian Graphic Health Warning Label Revisions: Findings from the ITC Canada Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)Background: Approximately 100 Canadians die every day from smoking-related illnesses. Health warnings labels (HWLs) on cigarette packages are a highly cost-effective strategy to inform the public on the health risks of ... -
Investigating the relation between boredom and media multitasking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks is based in media. Despite the abundance of research devoted to understanding the antecedents of media multitasking, little ... -
An Investigation into the Self-deployment of Attentional Reminders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)In a series of studies, we sought to determine whether 1) people will self-deploy attentional reminders when asked to complete an attentionally demanding task (Experiment 1 & 2), 2) people modulate the number of attentional ... -
The Investigation of Long-term Cognitive Changes after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury using Novel and Sensitive Measures
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Memory and concentration problems are frequently reported long after experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury (mild TBI), though conflict with null findings of deficits on standard neuropsychological tests. Experimental ... -
An Investigation of Perceptions of Partner Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-27)To date, only two studies have examined the accuracy of people’s perceptions of their romantic partners’ sexual satisfaction. These have yielded inconsistent results, with one study suggesting that men tend to overestimate ... -
Is Free Recall Actually Superior to Cued Recall? Introducing the Recognized Recall Procedure to Examine the Costs and Benefits of Cueing
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-10)A vast literature and our own common sense tell us that free recall (i.e., recalling information without hints) is harder and less successful than cued recall (i.e., recalling information with hints). In this dissertation, ... -
Is it about me? Time-course of self-relevance and valence effects on the perception of neutral faces with direct and averted gaze
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)Most face processing research has investigated how we perceive faces presented by themselves, but we view faces everyday within a rich social context. Recent ERP research has demonstrated that context cues, including ... -
Is it in the eyes? Dissociating the role of emotion and perceptual features of emotionally expressive faces in modulating orienting to eye gaze
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-03-21)This study investigated the role of the eye region of emotional facial expressions in modulating gaze orienting effects. Eye widening is characteristic of fearful and surprised expressions and may significantly increase ... -
Is Semantic Activation from Print Automatic? An Investigation Using the Psychological Refractory Period and Task Set Paradigms
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-31)The view that various visual word recognition processes are automatic in the sense that they are ballistic, intention free, unconscious, and capacity free, dominates the reading literature. Though results from multiple ... -
Is That How You Should Talk to Her? Using Appropriate Prosody Affects Adults’, But Not Children’s, Judgments of Communicators’ Competence
(Sage, 2019-08-31)Two studies explored whether the appropriateness of a speaker’s prosodic style (i.e., pitch, volume, speech rate) affects observers’ judgments of speakers’ and listeners’ competence. Adults and school-aged children ... -
Is the rapid adaptation paradigm too rapid? Implications for face and object processing
(Elsevier, 2012-03-29)Rapid adaptation is an adaptation procedure in which adaptors and test stimuli are presented in rapid succession. The current study tested the validity of this method for early ERP components by investigating the specificity ... -
Isovist Analysis as a Tool for Capturing Responses Towards the Built Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)Experience of the built-environment is said to be dependent on visual perception and the physical properties of space. Scene and environmental preference research suggests that particular visual features greatly influence ... -
It’s About Time (for the Next Task): Time Available and Next Task Valence Interact to Explain Velocity’s Influence on Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-14)Over the course of a typical day, employees often face a seemingly never-ending sequence of goals. Given the omnipresence and importance of goals in the workplace, a keen understanding of the goal pursuit process is ... -
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 ...