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Ability to Extract Extrafoveal Information Modulates Object Processing in Naturalistic Scenes
In naturalistic scene processing, individuals adopt multiple resources to facilitate their object identification processes. For instance, scene context information contains many cues to facilitate recognition of an object, ... -
Online Self-Management Treatment Program for Women Diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome
Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic pelvic pain condition. An agreed-upon etiology for IC/BPS remains unspecified and medical treatment is often inadequate. Research has demonstrated the ... -
HPA Axis Reactivity in Depression: Relation of Childhood Maltreatment, Affect Lability, & Testosterone
Stress is one of the most important etiological factors implicated in depression. A principle physiological stress response system is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Dysregulation of the HPA axis is proposed ... -
Patient Narratives and Medical Decision Making: The Role of Transportation in Treatment Selection Bias
Patient decision aids (PDAs) are tools that help patients select a treatment option for a medical condition. PDAs often include narratives about other patients’ experiences, but this inclusion may lead to biased decisions ... -
The Peer Context of Sexual Harassment in Early Adolescence
This dissertation is composed of three studies that examined the relationship between early adolescents’ sexual harassment experiences (as targets, witnesses, and perpetrators) and the peer environments in which they are ... -
The Effects of Self-Guided Meditation and Napping on Memory Consolidation in Humans
Numerous studies have reported that, compared to an equivalent period of wakefulness, post-training sleep (overnight or daytime naps) benefits memory consolidation (Diekelmann & Born, 2010; Mednick, Nakayama, & Stickgold, ... -
Examination of Psychological Factors in Chronic Pelvic Pain
Many forms of chronic pelvic pain have no specific etiology or curative treatment. Catastrophizing, behavioural coping strategies, and depressive symptoms have all been noted in the chronic pain literature for their negative ... -
Emotion regulation success and strategy choice during adolescence
Emotion regulation (ER) involves the ways individuals influence which emotions they have, when these emotions occur, and how they are experienced and expressed. During adolescence, youth transition from a child-like form ... -
Picking up good vibrations: Discrepant vibrator use, sexual functioning, and sexual well-being in women with male partners
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Vibrator use is thought to be associated with positive sexual functioning for women with female or male partners. Vibrator use that is discrepant across contexts (i.e. the individual uses a vibrator in solitary but not ... -
Neuroimaging predictors of creativity in healthy adults
(Elsevier, 2019-10-22)Neuroimaging has revealed numerous neural predictors of individual differences in creativity; however, with most of these identified in only one study, sometimes involving very small samples, their reliability is uncertain. ... -
Characterizing Statistical Learning of Music
Understanding how we gain representations of music is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of music perception. Several studies suggest that listeners extract statistical regularities in music via passive exposure, ... -
Childhood Maltreatment and Adulthood Depression Severity: Using Structural Equation Modelling to Uncover Maltreatment-Symptom Specificity
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is highly heterogeneous in its etiology, symptom presentation, course, and treatment response. Despite knowing this for decades, however, clinicians and researchers have generally treated ... -
The Role of Napping in the Consolidation of Clinically-Relevant Information in Non-Depressed and Depressed Participants
The hypothesis that sleep may have beneficial effects on memory consolidation has been widely reported for many years (Jenkins & Dallenbach, 1924; Van Ormer, 1933; Fowler, Sullivan, & Ekstrand, 1973). Since then, these ... -
The Impact of Acute Social Stress on Approach and Avoidance Motivation in Individuals with Depression: An Examination of Behavioural and Neurophysiological Indices of Motivation
Stress is considered proximal to the maintenance of depression. However, precise mechanisms linking stress to depression maintenance are largely unknown. Depression is characterized by decreased motivation for, and response ... -
Pleasure as a source of meaning or a motivator for meaning search: The Cross-cultural investigation
The present work investigates how the relation between pleasure and meaning may vary across cultures, focusing on comparisons between Koreans and Euro-Canadians. Guided by the idea that culture shapes people’s perceptions ... -
Causal Uncertainty and Romantic Relationships
Causal uncertainty (CU) is a social cognitive construct where individuals believe that they may not accurately understand the cause and effect nature of social events (Weary & Edwards, 1994). Research examining how CU in ... -
Explicit-Implicit Attitudinal Ambivalence in Romantic Relationships: Antecedents and Outcomes
Previous research has shown that the attitudes individuals hold towards their romantic partner often greatly impact relationship outcomes. Traditionally, attitudes towards one’s romantic relationship were assessed using ... -
The Influence of the Level of Representation of Information on Belief Formation and Change
The upward extrapolation of information from an individual to a category and the downward extrapolation of information from a category to an individual are pervasive social-cognitive processes. People can form beliefs using ... -
The influence of persistent genital arousal (PGA) on romantic relationships
Persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) is characterized by sensations of physiological genital sexual arousal that occurs in the absence of subjective feelings of sexual desire. Although partner factors have been ... -
A Multimethod Investigation of Women's Sexual Arousal
The research program presented in this dissertation describes a multimethod investigation of women’s sexual arousal. Across three empirical studies, alternative approaches to sexual psychophysiology research were adopted ...
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