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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 ... -
Moving On Up: Investigating the Embodied Metaphor of Verticality and its Effect on Overconfidence
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)As investment in Virtual Reality (VR) continues, we sought to better understand the unique value proposition this technology has to offer by testing the impact of a virtually embodied metaphor on self-evaluation. In both ... -
A Multi-Method Study of the Role of Alexithymia and Emotion Self-Awareness in Couples’ Social Support
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The overarching goal of the present study was to examine associations between measures of alexithymia (i.e., difficulty identify and describing one’s feelings) and perceptions of social support receipt and provision in a ... -
Music Performance Anxiety and Arousal Imagery: Development of the Musician’s Self-Regulation Imagery Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a common experience for musicians regardless of their level of expertise and can have a negative impact on performance quality. Arousal imagery is a technique that has been used to help ... -
The Nature of Representations of Number in Early Childhood: Numerical Comparison as a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)What is the nature of non-verbal representations of number? Broadly speaking, non-verbal representations of number can be divided into two categories: representations of particular numerosities and representations of ... -
Negative Encoding Contexts Create a Downstream Memory Advantage for Foils
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Research has suggested that during a recognition test, we re-enter the mode of processing engaged at encoding to help constrain our memory search during retrieval (Jacoby, Shimizu, Daniels, & Rhodes, 2005). A by-product ... -
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: The core of social cognition
(Elsevier, 2009-02-24)Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention and intentions of others could be ... -
Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach
(Elsevier, 2016-09-01)Research suggests an important role of the eyes and mouth for discriminating facial expressions of emotion. A gaze-contingent procedure was used to test the impact of fixation to facial features on the neural response to ... -
Neural Processing of Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions: Effects of Fixation to Facial Features and Task Demands
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-25)The current literature regarding the time course of facial expression processing is inconsistent and early emotion effects are debated. Facial expressions are well-known to be characterized by “diagnostic” facial features ...