Browsing Psychology by Supervisor "Ellard, Colin"
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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 ... -
COVID-19 Risk Perception in Urban and Architectural Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)The COVID-19 pandemic presented a profound challenge for cities. Cities are designed to maximize the benefits of density, yet this same density becomes a liability during an outbreak of a socially communicable infection. ... -
The Downside of Building Up: An Exploration into the Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Exposure to High-Rise Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-17)Cities are densifying at a rapid rate and, accordingly, are constructing high-rise buildings to accommodate more people. The aim of this dissertation was to quantify the physiological and psychological impacts of being in ... -
Emotions and the Environment: The Variable Effect of Environmental Complexity on Pleasure and Interest
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-03)This dissertation establishes a more comprehensive examination of the often discussed environmental complexity effect on emotional response by addressing four specific considerations. First, positive emotional response was ... -
Identifying the function of peripheral vision in early and late scene processing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)The vast majority of visual information is located in the peripheral visual field. Our understanding of the functionality of peripheral vision is limited. This thesis investigates the function of peripheral vision during ... -
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 ... -
Moving On Up: Investigating the Embodied Metaphor of Verticality and its Effect on Overconfidence
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)As investment in Virtual Reality (VR) continues, we sought to better understand the unique value proposition this technology has to offer by testing the impact of a virtually embodied metaphor on self-evaluation. In both ... -
Parameterizing Inanimate Agents: The Motion of a Virtual Ball and the Behaviour of a Machine-Learning Interactive System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)In this thesis we parameterized interactive objects and systems and investigated their effects on perceived agency. In one experiment we developed a virtual reality simulation in which the motion path of a virtual ball is ...