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Situation or Disposition? Wise Reasoning in Powerlessness: Power Divides and Rejection Sensitivity in Social Conflict
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Interpersonal conflict is full of uncertainty. How does one manage this uncertainty adaptively? Wisdom scholars propose wise reasoning is crucial to the successful management of uncertainty, but little work has actually ... -
Slow and Steady Improves Accuracy in Attention Tasks: Implications for Evaluating Attention Training
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)There have been increased efforts to develop methods for improving attention across a range of tasks including those assessing sustained attention. Using a variety of techniques, researchers have reported modest reductions ... -
SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE AND SELF-ESTEEM: TUNING THE SOCIOMETER TO INTERPERSONAL VALUE
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-14)The author drew on sociometer theory to propose that self-esteem is attuned to traits that garner others’ acceptance, and the traits that garner acceptance depend on one’s social role. Attunement of self-esteem refers to ... -
Social Anxiety and Negotiation: The Effects of Attentional Focus
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-18)Negotiation poses a unique challenge in the modern workplace which is likely to be especially difficult for socially anxious individuals. Previous research has shown that externally focused attention strategies are useful ... -
Social Anxiety and the Generation of Positivity During Dyadic Interaction: Curiosity and Authenticity are the Keys to Success
(Elsevier, 2021-03-31)What drives positive affective and interpersonal experiences during social interaction? Undergraduates with high (n = 63) or low (n = 56) trait social anxiety (SA) were paired with unfamiliar low SA partners in a 45-minute ... -
Social Anxiety and the Nature and Function of Social Pain
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-09)Humans have a fundamental need to belong that drives many of our present-day emotions and behaviours. When the need to belong becomes threatened, people experience “social pain,” which has been conceptualized as an adaptive ... -
Social Anxiety is Associated with Impaired Memory for Imagined Social Events with Positive Outcomes
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder suggest that memory biases for negative social information contribute to symptoms of social anxiety (SA). However, it remains unclear whether memory biases in SA are related to ... -
Social Anxiety: Perceptions of Impressions, Anxiety and Anxious Appearance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Schlenker and Leary (1982) and Clark and Wells (1995) each propose two highly influential models of social anxiety disorder with important implications for theory and treatment. In the current study, overlapping and ... -
Social Connection, Judgments of Similarity and Intergroup Relations
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)The purpose of this research is to test the idea that creating a social connection with an outgroup member by thinking about how the self is similar to this outgroup member produces positive intergroup outcomes, whereas ... -
Social disadvantage and the self-regulatory function of justice beliefs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-21)This thesis develops and tests the new theory that beliefs in societal justice offer a distinctive self-regulatory benefit for members of socially disadvantaged groups. Integrating concepts from the social justice and goal ... -
SOCIAL IDENTITY AND MEMORIES OF INJUSTICES INVOLVING INGROUP: WHAT DO WE REMEMBER AND WHY?
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Motivational changes due to individual differences and situational variations in ingroup identification can influence accessibility of memories of ingroup violence, victimization and glories. In Study 1, high identifiers ... -
Social problem solving in social anxiety disorder
(Elsevier, 2019-12)Successful social problem solving requires both an adaptive orientation toward the problem and the necessary skills to generate relevant and effective solutions. Surprisingly few studies have examined social problem solving ... -
The Source of the Positivity Bias in Older Adults' Emotional Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)According to socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), old age is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, a focus that fosters a bias in processing positively valenced material in older ... -
Spatial deficits in visuomotor control following right parietal injury
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Superior parietal cortex has been implicated in visuomotor guidance and is proposed to be specialised for action in the lower visual field and peripersonal space. Two patients, one with a right superior parietal lesion ... -
Spatial habit competes with effort to determine human spatial organization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)Despite the important role that the physical environment plays in shaping human cognition, few studies have endeavored to experimentally examine the principles underlying how individuals organize objects in their space. ... -
Species sensitivity of early face and eye processing
(Elsevier, 2011-02-25)Humans are better at recognizing human faces than faces of other species. However, it is unclear whether this species sensitivity can be seen at early perceptual stages of face processing and whether it involves species ... -
Speed of Response does not Affect Feelings of Rightness in Reasoning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)It has been argued (Thompson, Prowse Turner & Pennycook, 2011) that the experience of ease (i.e., the ability to quickly generate an initial response) during processing influences one’s likelihood of engaging reflectively ... -
Spontaneous eye-movements in neutral and emotional gaze-cuing: An eye-tracking investigation
(Elsevier, 2019-04)Our attention is spontaneously oriented in the direction where others are looking. This attention shift manifests as faster responses to peripheral targets when they are gazed at by a central face instead of gazed away ... -
Statistical learning in brain damaged patients: A multimodal impairment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-19)Spatial neglect has mainly been described through its spatial deficits (such as attentional bias, disengagement deficit or exploratory motor behavior), but numerous other studies have reported non-spatial impairments in ... -
A step at a time: An investigation of preschoolers’ simulations of narrative events during story comprehension
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-23)A growing body of work suggests that narrative comprehension involves the simulation of the events and actions described in a narrative (e.g., Barsalou, 2008; Matlock, 2004). Preliterate children’s ability to simulate a ...