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The Effects of Ambiguity: A Feminist Study of Human Signifiers in Human-Computer Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-01)A lack of diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields has been a popular topic of discussion and a persistent challenge in terms of recruitment, engagement, opportunity and equality spanning decades. ... -
The Effects of Audit Methodology and Audit Experience on the Development of Auditors? Knowledge of the Client?s Business
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This dissertation examines how differences between the strategic-systems audit approach and the traditional, transaction-based audit approach affect the content and complexity of client business knowledge in long-term ... -
Effects of auditory context on face expression processing: An ERP Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Facial expressions of emotion are a critical source of social information within the environment, but their interpretation is seen to be modulated based on the situational context in which they are presented. Most empirical ... -
The Effects of Collagen Rehydration on Postmortem Fracture Morphology: Implications for the Perimortem Interval
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effect of water saturation on the fracture morphology of dry bones – specifically, this research sought to determine if rehydrating dry bones would cause skeletal material to ... -
Effects of Dysphoria on the Temporal Dynamics of Intimates' Interpersonal Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-12)When romantic partners interact together, they continually respond to each other in ways that yield distinctive across-time patterns of behaviour. To illuminate specific ways in which dysphoria may influence the dynamics ... -
The Effects of Eye Gaze and Head Orientation On Covert Attention Capture
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The direction of someone’s eye gaze plays a fundamental role during social interactions and may function to capture and engage attention in the environment. Research has shown that direct eye gaze can preferentially attract ... -
Effects of Gender and Gaze Direction on the Visual Exploration of Male and Female Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-13)The present study used eye-tracking to investigate whether a model’s gaze direction influences the way observers look at the entire body of the model and how this interacts with the observer and the model’s gender. ... -
The effects of imagery rescripting on memory outcomes in social anxiety disorder
(Elsevier, 2020-01)Imagery rescripting (IR) is an effective intervention for social anxiety disorder (SAD) that targets negative autobiographical memories. IR has been theorized to work through various memory mechanisms, including modifying ... -
Effects of Mask-Wearing on Social Anxiety: An Exploratory Review
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-01)Background A unique feature of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the widespread adoption of mask-wearing as a public health measure to minimize the risk of contagion. Little is known about the effects of increased ... -
The Effects of Narcissism and Perspective-taking on Managers’ Escalation of Commitment
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-19)Companies often have the opportunity to invest in capital assets. Unfortunately, the benefits of such investments are not always realized and managers are challenged with deciding whether they should withdraw their support ... -
The Effects of Performance Incentives and Creativity Training on Creative Problem Solving Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-09)I investigate the effect of different incentive schemes on employees’ effort and performance in a creative problem-solving task because current literature is divided on the effect of performance-based incentives on creative ... -
Effects of peripheral eccentricity and head orientation on gaze discrimination
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-11-26)Visual search tasks support a special role for direct gaze in human cognition, while classic gaze judgement tasks suggest the congruency between head orientation and gaze direction plays a central role in gaze perception. ... -
The Effects of Personal Religiosity and Spirituality on Informal Caregiving Activities
(2018-09-07)With data from the 2012 Canadian General Social Survey on Caregiving and Care Receiving, this study measures how religion and spirituality impact a respondent’s informal caregiving activities. Building on existing psychology ... -
The effects of positive interpretation bias on cognitive reappraisal and social performance: Implications for social anxiety disorder
(Elsevier, 2020-08)People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) lack non-socially anxious individuals' tendency to interpret ambiguous social information in a positively biased manner. To gain a better understanding of the specific in-vivo ... -
The Effects of Reward Type and Relative Performance Information on Budget Slack and Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-07)To motivate effort, organizations commonly use budget-based tangible rewards (e.g., gift cards, merchandise) in lieu of or in addition to cash rewards and they can distribute tangible rewards to employees either directly ... -
The Effects of Situated Client Identity and Professional Identity Salience on Auditor Judgments
(University of Waterloo, 2011-11-29)Recent accounting research suggests that auditor identification or familiarity with their clients may be an additional threat to auditor independence, which may be mitigated by a strong professional identity (King 2002; ... -
Effects of Social Status on Concerns with Status Losses and Status Gains in Impaired Driving Scenarios: Loss Aversion and Deviance in Peer Groups
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)At the forefront of current peer influence research in criminology is an attempt to understand how peers impact an individual’s participation in crime and deviance. Research seeks to explore whether social forces shape ... -
The effects of temporal orientation on reasoning over relationship conflicts
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Past research on construal level theory (CLT) has shown that adopting a temporally distant (vs. temporally close) orientation facilitates a more abstract, “bigger picture” representation of events. Furthermore, research ... -
The Effects of Video Quality on Online Video Lectures
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-23)With the increase in online learning, there is an increasing need to determine the most effective way to present lectures online (e.g., video lectures). While video lectures have several benefits, when delivered online as ... -
Effects of Visual Perspective in Video Games on Activity Construals and Behavioural Intentions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)The perspective from which people view or imagine a situation has downstream effects on the construal of that situation and subsequent cognitions and behaviours. My study suggests that these effects from the mental and ...