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Memory across trials in visual search
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)In two experiments we evaluated whether memory for item locations across trials can improve visual search performance. Measuring both response times and eye movements we examined how visual search performance is influenced ... -
Memory Bias for Threat-Related Information in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-03)Biases in what is committed to memory and ultimately remembered are a key feature in individuals plagued by high levels of social anxiety. By selectively remembering the unfavourable aspects of past social situations, early ... -
Mental Model Updating and Eye Movements
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Two studies investigated what eye movements can reveal about how we process surprising information and use it to update mental models. Mental models guide our actions to make decisions in a dynamic environment. Participants ... -
Message Order and Culture: The Relationship between Cognitive Thinking Styles, Response Mode, and Order Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Previous research has documented the prevalent effects of message order on message persuasiveness. Based on the Belief Updating Model (Hogarth and Einhorn, 1992), response mode has been found as one moderator of primacy ... -
Metamotivation: Emerging Research on the regulation of motivational states
(Elsevier, 2020)Until recently, research examining the self-regulation of motivation focused primarily on the strategies people use to bolster the amount of motivation they have for pursuing a task goal. In contrast, our metamotivational ... -
Metamotivational Beliefs about Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-30)Although intrinsic motivation is often viewed as preferable to more extrinsic forms of motivation, there is evidence that the adaptiveness of these motivational states depends on the nature of the task being completed ... -
Misjudging How to Help: Barriers to Effective Social Support Provision
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Relying on others for support is a common coping strategy. However, support providers often fail to provide effective support. Past work suggests that support providers may prioritize help aimed at alleviating others’ ... -
The Moderating Effects of Reported Pre-Pandemic Social Anxiety, Symptom Impairment, and Current Stressors on Mental Health and Affiliative Adjustment During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)It has been well-established within existing literature that individuals with social anxiety fear negative evaluation and exposure of self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing social anxiety ... -
The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-29)Background and objectives Individuals with social anxiety (SA) have well-established fears of being negatively evaluated and exposing self-perceived flaws to others. However, the unique impacts of pre-existing SA on ... -
Modulation of Facial Expression Perception by Body Context
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-16)The present study tested the emotion seed hypothesis, previously not fully tested, which states that facial expression perception is modulated by context based on perceptual similarities shared between facial expressions. ... -
Modulation of Gaze-oriented Attention with Facial Expressions: ERP Correlates and Influence of Autistic Traits
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)The direction in which another is looking at triggers a spontaneous orienting of attention towards gaze direction in the viewer. However, whether the facial expression displayed by the gazing individual modulates this ... -
Mother-Child Communication: The Influence of ADHD Symptomatology and Executive Functioning on Paralinguistic Style
(Frontiers, 2016-08-10)Paralinguistic style, involving features of speech such as pitch and volume, is an important aspect of one’s communicative competence. However, little is known about the behavioral traits and cognitive skills that relate ... -
Motivated Resistance to Counterattitudinal Arguments: The effects of affirmation, argument strength and attitude importance
(University of Waterloo, 2000)In this study we explored some of the factors associated with biased processing of attitude-relevant information. We were particularly interested in the possibility that a self-affirmation, by reducing self-evaluative ... -
Motivating change through vision: The influence of personal values, self interest, motivational orientation and affect on people’s responses to a visionary presentation about diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-21)When the case for organizational change is presented as a “vision,” is action to support the change more likely? This notion was tested in two studies in the context of diversity issues at work. Diversity was selected as ... -
Motivational Affordance and Risk-Taking Across Decision Domains
(SAGE Publications, 2016-03-01)We propose a motivational affordance account to explain both stability and variability in risk-taking propensity in major decision domains. We draw on regulatory focus theory to differentiate two types of motivation ... -
Motivational Differences in Feedback-Seeking Intentions: A Cultural Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-17)Two studies examined cultural differences in the propensity to seek performance feedback using an experimental policy-capturing design. Findings demonstrated differences between European-Canadians and Chinese participants ... -
The Motivational Impact of an Ideal Self Intervention on Goal-Directed Behaviours as Mediated by Positive or Negative Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-02)This research examines the connection between the behavioural and affective responses to envisioning an ideal self. In Study 1, undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of two conditions and were given a workbook. ... -
Motivational Versus Metabolic Effects of Carbohydrates on Self-Control
(Sage Publications, 2012-10-01)Self-control is critical for achievement and well-being. However, people’s capacity for self-control is limited and becomes depleted through use. One prominent explanation for this depletion posits that self-control consumes ... -
Motives and Emotions behind Destructive Leader Behaviors towards Subordinates: A Supervisor Sensemaking Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Causes of destructive leader behaviors – i.e., intentional leader actions that harm organizations or their members that are normatively perceived as deviant – have been investigated extensively from followers’ perspectives, ... -
Moving beyond assumptions: The reconceptualization and measurement of workplace gossip
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Despite decades of research from other academic fields arguing that gossip is an important and potentially functional behavior, organizational research has largely assumed that gossip is malicious talk. This has resulted ...