Browsing Psychology by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Abusive Supervision and Organizational Deviance: A Mediated Moderation Model
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-02)In the current dissertation I investigated how abusive supervision promoted subordinate organizational deviance, by integrating and extending past work on mixed relationships (relationships characterized by both conflict ... -
Acceptability of Female Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use in Bangladesh and India
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-10)Background: Smokeless tobacco has a long history in Bangladesh and India, where it has become normalized as a socially acceptable behaviour, but the same level of social acceptance does not apply to smoking, especially ... -
Adapting to Change: The Role of Priors, Surprise and Brain Damage on Mental Model Updating
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-24)To make sense of the world, humans build mental models that guide actions and expectations. These mental models need to be receptive to change and updated when they no longer accurately predict observations from an ... -
Adaptive and Maladaptive Maximizing: Identifying the Correlates, Processes, and Outcomes of Maximizing in Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-04)Research on the affective outcomes of maximizing has been mixed, with some research indicating that people who seek the “best” option across decisions report lower happiness and life satisfaction, and greater depression ... -
Advice Giving Helps Advisors Reason More Wisely about Life Challenges and Interpersonal Conflicts
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-02)Does advice giving impact the advisor? While many studies have examined why it is helpful to receive advice, much less is known about what advisors gain when they give advice. Drawing on theories from adult development and ... -
Agreeableness and Close Relationships: Is it Trust That Really Matters?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-28)Three correlational studies and 2 experiments examined the influence of agreeable people’s trust on their close relationships. Studies 1-3 employed correlational methods to examine the association between agreeableness and ... -
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 ... -
The Asian-White Leadership Gap: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Explanations Based on Leader and Follower Stereotypes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)Despite demonstrating high levels of academic and professional competence, Asians are underrepresented in North American organizational leadership roles. The limited research on this issue has found that Asian Americans ... -
ATTENTION AND THE PARIETAL CORTEX: INVESTIGATIONS OF SPATIAL NEGLECT, OPTIC ATAXIA, AND THE INFLUENCE OF PRISM ADAPTATION ON ATTENTION
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-25)Some authors have argued that the primary function of the posterior parietal cortex is to control visual attention and awareness, whereas others have argued that the posterior parietal cortex is specialized for controlling ... -
A “BAD APPLE” OR A “SPOILED BARREL”?: OBSERVING OVERT RACISM PREDICTS DIVERGING PERCEPTIONS OF RACISM AND RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-03)Blacks and Whites draw different interpretations of the blatant racism that they witness, even when their reactions appear to be identical. Across three studies, we hypothesized that Blacks would endorse the idea that ... -
Baring Your Soul: The Good, the Bad, and the Bad Again
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-06)People with lower self-esteem (LSEs) exhibit a paradoxical pattern of self-disclosure (Wood & Forest, 2016). On one hand, they self-disclose less overall than people with higher self-esteem (HSEs), seemingly to protect ... -
Basic Processes in Reading: The Role of Spatial Attention in Visual Word Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)The present thesis is concerned with the role of spatial attention in visual word processing. Eleven experiments are reported each of which consists of the combination of a manipulation of spatial attention (i.e., cue ... -
The benefits and boundary conditions of drawing on episodic memory
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Drawing, as an encoding strategy for to-be-remembered words, has previously been shown to provide robust episodic memory benefits in young adults. In this dissertation, I provide experimental evidence that drawing enhances ... -
Beyond causality: Heuristics for inferring possibility
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Deciding what is possible is an essential human ability, and our judgments about possibility often appear effortless and straightforward. But how do we actually decide whether something is possible or impossible? This ... -
Beyond positive affect: enhancing our understanding of diminished positive emotions and experiences in social anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been found to be associated with decreased positive affect (PA) that is not attributable to depression or comorbidity with other disorders (e.g., Kashdan, 2007). Despite this, little is ... -
Blending in at the Cost of Losing Oneself: The Cyclical Relationship between Social Anxiety, Self-Disclosure, and Self-Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-18)Recent research has demonstrated that high social anxiety is associated with uncertainty about one’s self views and self-concept (Moscovitch et al., 2009; Stopa et al., 2010; Wilson & Rapee, 2006). However, no research has ... -
Characterizing Cognitive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-09)A series of experiments examined both the phenomenological nature and centrality of Cognitive Control in common cognitive paradigms. This was done primarily by employing manipulations of Congruency Proportion (CP), ... -
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 ... -
Children use ownership to understand actions and preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)Actions are often dictated by an individual’s desires. While this may be appropriate in many situations, there are important exceptions, such as when an individual desires someone else’s property. Across three papers, this ... -
Children use probability to infer other people’s emotions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-09)People’s emotional reactions often depend on probability. However, it is unknown whether children consider probability when inferring other people’s emotions. Across three papers, this dissertation shows that children (N ...