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Using Mental Set to Change the Size of Posner's Attentional Spotlight: Implications for how Words are Processed in Visual Space
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)The present thesis investigated how words are processed within the context of visual search. Both explicit and implicit measures were used to assess whether spatial attention is a prerequisite for words to undergo processing. ... -
Using Self-Affirmation to Persuade Male Engineers to Respect Female Engineers
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-29)Women are underrepresented in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology (STEM). Due to negative stereotypes, females in these fields are often treated with less respect from their male peers. In this study, we compared a ... -
Value Congruence in Perception and Support of Organizational Visions
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Leadership scholars assume that the values espoused in an organizational vision have motivational effects on employee actions, but this claim has rarely been subject to empirical testing. Two studies examined whether ... -
Value from adversity: How we deal with adversity matters
(Elsevier, 2012-07-01)Participants in our study worked on an anagram task to win a prize while aversive noise played in the background. They were instructed to deal with the noise either by “opposing” it as an interference or by “coping” with ... -
Verbal Repetition in the Reappraisal of Contamination-Related Thoughts
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the alteration of the relationship one has towards one’s thoughts, rather than attempting to change the content of thoughts. It seeks to promote ... -
Visual Word Recognition: Evidence for Global and Local Control over Semantic Feedback
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)Two semantic priming experiments in the context of lexical decision are reported that examine the joint effects of stimulus quality, semantic context, and strength of association when all these factors are intermixed in a ... -
Walk the line: Balancing conflicting goals through tension systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-20)Although our society esteems individuals who achieve it all, the 24-hour day and our limited resources means that attaining multiple goals is a difficult undertaking. This research draws upon Lewin’s theorizing on goal ... -
What Are You Really Saying? Verbal Irony Understanding in Children with Social Anxiety Symptoms and Shy Negative Affect
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Verbal irony, a form of figurative language, uses the discrepancy between a speaker’s intended meaning and the literal word meanings to achieve social goals. Yet, little research exists on individual differences that may ... -
What do you think? Associations between social anxiety, mentalizing, and social competence in middle childhood.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-21)Every individual brings a unique perspective and understanding to the social world that they inhabit. This is particularly true of socially anxious children, who view their social environments as a place of potential ... -
What Does Your Anxiety Mean About You? Evaluation of Anxious and Confident Partners in Social Anxiety Disorder
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Individuals with social anxiety engage in maladaptive interpersonal transactional cycles. They expect others to respond negatively to them, and engage in socially undesirable behaviours that lead to their predictions being ... -
What is the Function of Post-Event Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder? The Role of Metacognitive Beliefs, Memory Uncertainty and Perception of Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Post-event processing (PEP) can serve to maintain and worsen anxiety symptoms and negative interpretations of social events in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD; e.g., Cody & Teachman, 2010, 2011). However, little is known about ... -
What is the Nature of Anxiety-Related Attentional Bias to Threat?
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)Although attentional biases to threat (ABT) are thought to contribute to the development and persistence of anxiety disorders (e.g., Matthews & Mackintosh, 1998; Mogg & Bradley, 1998), it is not clear whether such biases ... -
What makes a few more than a lot: a study of context-dependent quantifiers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)“Hey can you help me move? I warn you I have a lot of books, though.” When we interpret such sentences we might assume that our friend is implying that there will be some heavy lifting, because she own “a lot of books”. ... -
What Makes us Think? A Three-Stage Dual-Process Model of Analytic Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2016-07-29)The distinction between intuitive and analytic thinking is common in psychology. However, while often being quite clear on the characteristics of the two processes (‘Type 1’ processes are fast, autonomous, intuitive, etc. ... -
What Predicts Safety Behaviour? Examining the Phenomenology of Compulsive Washing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)Leading models for understanding repetitive behaviour assert that concerns about the safety or well-being of oneself or others, combined with an overvalued sense of responsibility to protect oneself and others from harm, ... -
What Works for Me May Not Work for You: Predicting Self-Compassionate Responding Using an Interactionist Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Objective: Self-compassion has both trait and state-like properties (Kelly & Stephen, 2016), yet little research has investigated how dispositional and contextual factors interact to influence someone’s ability to be ... -
What you don't know can help you: Intuitive processing of incomplete visual stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-12)Intuition is an innate ability through which human beings acquire knowledge about the world around them. Throughout history people have speculated about how intuition operates and about the accuracy and usefulness of ... -
What’s behind the link between social anxiety and low friendship satisfaction? Exploring the role of perceived closeness, self-disclosure, friendship maintenance behaviours, and relational reciprocity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Prior studies have found that high socially anxious (SA) individuals suffer from lower quality friendships and poorer social supports, which contribute to chronic feelings of loneliness and social isolation as well as ... -
When and Why Women Apologize More than Men
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-15)Despite wide acceptance of the stereotype that women apologize more readily than men, there is little systematic evidence to support this stereotype or its supposed bases. In the present research, I explored whether gender ... -
When Being Agreeable Matters: The Importance of Agreeableness (and Self-Esteem) for Risk Regulation in Close Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)In the quest for satisfying close relationships, one is left vulnerable to hurt and rejection. For people with lower self-esteem (LSEs), such rejection seems unavoidable. To steel themselves against this inescapable hurt, ...