Psychology: Recent submissions
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The Influence of Gender and Sexual Prejudice on Empathic Responding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Although studies of the relationship between empathy and racial prejudice have become increasingly popular in recent years, there is comparatively little research on the potential relationship between empathy and sexual ... -
Adolescent Social Functioning: The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning and Adolescent Mentalizing in Predicting Adolescent Prosocial Behaviour and Peer Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which social relationships become especially influential, with social functioning producing a number of important downstream effects for adolescent’s psychological and ... -
How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-Compassion Affects Emotional Distress Tolerance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted in a Sample of University Students and a Sample of Community Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)Emotional distress tolerance refers to the perceived ability to tolerate one’s negative emotions (Simons & Gaher, 2005). Low emotional distress tolerance is a transdiagnostic marker of psychopathology (Leyro et al., 2010) ... -
A Critical Review of Measures of Mentalization from Peter Fonagy’s Conceptual Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)Background: Mentalization is an expansive and multifaceted construct with important implications for psychological research as well as the etiology and treatment of psychological disorders. It is defined as the process ... -
Worth the Effort? The Effects of Task-Centrality, Annoyance, and Arrogance on Manager Effort Allocation During Feedback-Seeking Episodes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-12)Employees seek feedback from managers to reduce work-related ambiguity. However, managers typically have other competing demands on their time, and as such, may not allocate sufficient effort to providing feedback. To this ... -
"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 ... -
Capturing Dynamic Fluctuations in Remembered Momentary Attentional States
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-11)States of attention such as engagement and mind-wandering fluctuate dynamically over time. Although aggregate retrospective reports of attention have been used in prior research, the full nature of people’s remembered ... -
Social Anxiety and the Nature and Function of Social Pain
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-09)Humans have a fundamental need to belong that drives many of our present-day emotions and behaviours. When the need to belong becomes threatened, people experience “social pain,” which has been conceptualized as an adaptive ... -
Are screens to blame? Children’s digital media use and emotional problems during the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-03)This study examined the relationship between digital media (“screen use”) and mental health in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. A multinational sample of caregivers (n = 549) provided bi-monthly reports on their ... -
The Role of Executive Functions and Emotion Knowledge in Children’s Communication Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-18)Young children often provide insufficient information when speaking with others, making the ability to identify miscommunications and repair inadequate messages essential skills within their set of communicative abilities. ... -
Examining the neural, behavioural, and social responses associated with affective self-referential processing in adults and children.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Information processing biases favouring self- compared to other-referential and positive compared to negative stimuli are theorized to be healthy, adaptive outcomes of well-regulated attention. Within the lab, self-referential ... -
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Employee Reactions to Automation at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Automation is increasingly becoming a disruptive force in modern workplaces. For individual workers, the consequences of automation are varied; In some cases, employees may be harmed by automation (e.g., job loss), whereas ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Equations for deriving effect sizes for individual predictors and sets of predictors under specified conditions in multiple regression analysis: A technical report
(2022-05-27)This technical report provides equations for deriving effect sizes for individual predictors and sets of predictors under specified conditions in multiple regression (MR) analyses. The effect size metric being obtained in ... -
Use of non-orthogonal factor analysis for gauging illusory halo: A technical report
(2022-05-27)Non-orthogonal factor analysis is examined as a possible aid in assessing the extent of illusory halo in survey responses. Data from several studies involving students' evaluation of teaching (SETs) are re-analyzed with ... -
Reading aloud as a distinctive context: Examination of the production effect as a context-based memory effect
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Research on the production effect has established that studying information aloud is a simple memory technique useful for learning new information in various settings; this memory benefit has been credited to the distinctive ... -
Contraband Cigarette Purchasing from First Nation reserves in Ontario and Quebec: Findings from the 2002–2014 ITC Canada Survey
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Backround: The availability of contraband cigarettes provides incentives for price-sensitive smokers to reduce their monetary costs of smoking. The objectives of this study were to examine whether Canadian smokers’ geographic ... -
Dose-dependent dissociation of pro-cognitive effects of donepezil on attention and cognitive flexibility in rhesus monkeys
(Elsevier, 2021-11)BACKGROUND Donepezil exerts pro-cognitive effects by non-selectively enhancing acetylcholine (ACh) across multiple brain systems. Two brain systems that mediate pro-cognitive effects of attentional control and cognitive ... -
The other side of the screen: The impact of perspective-taking on adolescents’ online communication
(Elsevier, 2021-10)Introduction: In recent decades, adolescents’ interactions with peers have increasingly transitioned online. While socially interactive technologies provide multiple avenues for positive communication between peers, ...