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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 ... -
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 ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Younger Adults on Cognitive Performance and Emotional Regulation: Comparisons with Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), are common and seemingly innocuous. However, even long after individuals experience a mTBI they often report psychological consequences such as fatigue, unstable mood, ... -
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 ...