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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, ... -
When Cultures Collide and Synergize: The Role of Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Negotiations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Negotiating a synergized solution is challenging under optimal circumstances. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural differences, cultural collision occurs leading to worse negotiation outcomes in intercultural negotiation ... -
When Empathy Backfires: How (Not) to Engender Warmth and Respect for Minorities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-10)The popular expression “walk in another person’s shoes before you judge them” implies that we must take the perspective of others to fully understand their emotions and experiences. Prejudice-reduction interventions have ... -
When my Anxiety Speaks to Me, What Does it Sound Like?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Anxiety disorders are some of the most commonly diagnosed mental health difficulties in the world. However, no study has examined the phenomenological qualities of anxious thoughts. Literature on mental health difficulties ... -
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 ...