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When our co-workers share their unfair experiences, do we believe them? Perceptions of workplace fairness are negatively related to perceived credibility of coworkers’ claims of injustice
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Prior research shows that when observing a co-worker being treated unfairly, employees who are third parties to the incident feel angry and want to punish the perpetrator. However, research has focused on situations in ... -
When Self-Doubt Sours Sweetness: Low Self-Esteem Undermines Romantic Partners' Sacrifices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)The partners of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) are just as loving and generous as the partners of people with high self-esteem (HSEs; Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005; Murray et al., 2000). Nonetheless, LSEs ... -
When Should We Disagree? The Effect of Conflict on Team Identity in North American and East Asian Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Prior literature on conflict in teams has generally established that team heterogeneity (vs. homogeneity) influences the extent to which conflict occurs in teams. However, to date literature has not examined different ... -
When Support Provision Hurts: Examining Individual and Relational Risks of Supporting an Inconsolable Partner.
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)When romantic partners provide support to one another, their attempts are not always successful in relieving the distress of the support recipient. While unsuccessful support transactions are sometimes caused by insufficient ... -
When threat matters: Self-regulation, threat salience, and stereotyping
(Elsevier, 2015-07-01)Four experiments examined whether information implying imminent threat to safety would interact with regulatory focus (Higgins, 1997) to affect the utilization of threat-relevant stereotypes. Because information suggesting ... -
Where Have You Been, What Did You See, and How Did You Get Here: Effects of Prior Trial History in the Context of Exogenous and Endogenous Spatial Cuing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)Three spatial cuing experiments assessed whether the nature of the prior trial affects performance in a two choice target identification task. In Experiment 1 current trial RT was strongly affected by whether prior trial ... -
Who Gets You Going and Who Keeps You Going: Motivational Relevance Determines Role Model Effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Role models are ubiquitous: They boost gym-goers’ motivation, encourage women to enter science-related fields, or even nudge people to eat the “right” kind of cereal. The present research provides an organizing framework ... -
Why and when workplace interactions can go wrong: Multilevel mediation and moderation of workplace social stressor-strain relations
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-16)Negative interpersonal workplace behaviours are an important but relatively infrequently studied occupational-stressor. The present research investigated the connection between these behaviours and employee well-being. ... -
Why Did I Apologize? Apology Motives and Offender Perceptions in the Aftermath of Workplace Conflicts
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)Despite an abundance of research demonstrating the importance of apologies in restoring damaged relationships, relatively little is known about the offender perspective after apologizing. Recent research on apology suggests ... -
Why Do Compulsions Persist?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-10)Leading models for understanding compulsive behaviour assert that concerns about the safety or well-being of oneself or others, combined with overestimates of responsibility for protecting oneself and others from harm, ... -
Why do people (not) take breaks? An investigation of individuals’ reasons for taking and for not taking breaks at work
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Employees sometimes need breaks to deal with the demands of their jobs. Indeed, studies show that breaks allow employees to stay energized and maintain high levels of performance throughout the day. However, few studies ... -
Why do you ask? The effects of perceived motives on the effort that managers allocate toward delivering feedback
(Springer, 2021)Although people are generally motivated to perform well at work, there is often ambiguity regarding whether they are meeting their organization’s standards. As such, people often seek feedback from others. To date, ... -
"Will I Be Happy in High School?” Exploring How Interpersonal and Executive Functions Influence Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Across the Transition to High School
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)The transition to high school is a stressful life event, with teenagers typically facing increased demands for independent academic work coupled with the need to establish new social networks. Students who successfully ... -
Winning While Losing on Multiline Slot Machine Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)On multiline slot machine games, small “wins” often amount to less than the spin wager, resulting in a monetary loss to the gambler. Nevertheless, these monetary losses are still accompanied by “winning” (and potentially ... -
Wisdom is a social-ecological rather than person-centric phenomenon
(Elsevier, 2020-04)Typical approaches to study practical wisdom are person-centric, use flawed methods, and produce insights of little relevance to the construct’s definition. We propose that understanding the processes underlying practical ... -
Witnessing-condition Heterogeneity and Witnesses’ Versus Investigators’ Confidence in the Accuracy of Witnesses’ Identification Decisions
(APA, 2000-06)Undergraduate participants were tested in 144 pairs, with one member of each pair randomly assigned to a “witness” role and the other to an “:investigator” role. Each witness viewed a target person on video under good or ... -
Women and (dis)interest in government: How the status quo affects attitudes toward female politicians and intentions to participate in politics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)When people are motivated to justify their socio-political systems they come to view the current status quo as the most desirable status quo--a process termed injunctification (Kay et al., 2009). Here, two studies suggest ... -
Workload, Risks, and Goal Framing as Antecedents of Shortcut Behaviors
(Springer, 2017-08-01)Purpose: Shortcut behaviors are methods of completing a task that require less time than typical or standard procedures. These behaviors carry the benefit of increasing efficiency, yet can also carry risks (e.g., of an ... -
Workplace Gossip, Paranoia, and a Deviance Dilemma: A Warning for Deviance/CWB Research
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-04)Organizational research has long conceptualized workplace gossip as a form of deviance and included gossip in many measures of deviance and counterproductive work behaviors (CWB). However, empirical evidence regarding the ... -
Workplace Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Employee Age
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Drawing on prior research from several areas of psychology, I predicted that different forms of organizational justice would predict counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) depending on employees’ age. In particular, I ...