Browsing Psychology by Subject "psychology"
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Anxiety and attention to threat: The psychometric properties of attentional bias scores
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-01)Attentional biases to threat are thought to play a central role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Various measures have been developed to index these biases; unfortunately, the psychometric properties ... -
Awe-Inducing Interior Space: Architectural Causes and Cognitive Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)The purpose of the present work was to investigate whether religious monumental architecture facilitates religious feeling by inducing a sense of awe. In order to elucidate how church interiors elicit awe and otherwise ... -
Bringing Indigenous Voices to the Workplace
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-06)Abstract I question how Indigenous identity, relationships, and the workplace environment affect an Indigenous employee’s experience in the workplace. I had the pleasure and opportunity of hearing and now sharing the ... -
Characterizing Colour-Word Contingency Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)Contingencies are constantly found in everyday situations and humans are extraordinarily adept at learning them, whether implicitly or explicitly. The learning of contingencies can benefit behaviour in many ways, some ... -
Dazzled and Confused: Bullshitting as a Strategic Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)While much work has focused on receptivity to bullshit as a form of irrational belief which may predict the endorsement of other irrational beliefs, much less has been done examining how bullshit may be used strategically. ... -
The Effect of Socializing During Exercise on Psychological Need Satisfaction, Motivation to Exercise, and Wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-20)Previous research has indicated that exercising with other people improves interest and engagement in physical activity (e.g., Christensen, Schmidt, Budtz-Jorgensen, & Avlund, 2006; Estabrooks & Carron, 1999). However, the ... -
Examining the relationship between boredom and creativity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-08)Popular sentiment expresses that boredom leads to creativity despite a lack of research investigating the relationship explicitly. Across two experiments this thesis examined the relations between both state and trait ... -
Handle with Care: Agreeableness and Responses to Hurt Feelings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)What factors predict people’s reactions to hurt feelings in romantic relationships? I propose that people higher in agreeableness (Agreeables) show more cognitive and behavioral responses to hurt feelings that reflect ... -
Investigating positive and threat-based awe in natural and built environments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Staggeringly immense or beautiful awe-inspiring structures, such as religious monumental architecture, have long been important to human culture and society. With the emerging psychological literature on awe, a nascent ... -
A Metamotivational Approach to Understanding Managers’ Beliefs About Motivationally Diverse Teams in the Domain of Regulatory Mode
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Cultivating effective teams requires managers to integrate the efforts of individuals who often vary in their backgrounds, skills, and identities. One way that team members can differ from each other is in their motivational ... -
Preschoolers’ reasoning about the “how”, “what” and “when” of ownership.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-30)My dissertation includes three papers. Paper one investigates preschoolers’ appreciation of how people become owners. In two experiments, 70 3-to-5-year-olds were asked to explain why a character owns, likes, or uses certain ... -
Seeking Safety: The Perceived Function and Consequences of Safety Behaviour Use in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)This study was designed to examine the perceived self-protective function and consequences of safety behaviour use in social anxiety. The research explores how individuals’ selection and use of different types of safety ... -
Single-Session Imagery Rescripting for Social Anxiety Disorder: Efficacy and Mechanisms.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-25)Cognitive theories of social anxiety propose that negative mental imagery plays a central role in the maintenance of the disorder. Research has indicated that the content of such mental imagery represents negative core ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Together I Strive: The Motivational Benefits of Shared Reality with Instrumental Others
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-17)Why are some people more successful than others? Thus far, research suggests that success is not only related to individual factors (e.g., self-control), but can also be facilitated by relationships with others. Successful ... -
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”. ...