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The interpretation of ambiguous words in psychosis
(2014-08-29)Semantically ambiguous words are ubiquitous in daily communication. Neurotypical individuals are able to resolve ambiguity with ease and efficiency, whereas individuals with schizophrenia tend to exhibit ambiguity-processing ... -
Investigating Multiple Roles of Vocal Confidence in Persuasion
(2016-10-03)Although persuasion often occurs via oral communication, it remains a comparatively understudied area. This research tested the hypothesis that changes in three properties of voice influence perceptions of speaker confidence, ... -
Investigating the Dopaminergic and Glucocorticoid Systems as Underlying Mechanisms of Anhedonia
Anhedonia, a severe deficit in reward processing, is an endophenotype of several neuropsychiatric disorders (APA, 2000) and increases susceptibility to depression (Atherton et al., 2015), substance abuse (Hatzigiakoumis ... -
Investigating the Role of Neuropeptide Y in the Ventral Hippocampus in Regulating Rats’ Elevated Plus-Maze and Shock-Probe Burying Behaviours
(2015-09-25)Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has recently gained interest as a potential regulator of anxiety-like behaviours. However, its anxiety-associated effects in the ventral hippocampus are not well known, even though this structure is ... -
Investigating the role of Neuropeptide Y infusions to the dorsal hippocampus in mediating behaviour in several animal models of anxiety
(2014-10-21)Both Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and the dorsal hippocampus have consistently been found to regulate anxiety-related behaviours in both humans and animals. However, although the dorsal hippocampus contains a high concentration ... -
Language, Cultural Norms, and Behaviours – How the Language Bilingual Chinese
(2010-04-13)The purpose of this research was to determine if Chinese- English bicultural individuals show discomfort when conflicting behavioural norms are simultaneously activated. I first identified behaviours that differentiated ... -
Laser Doppler Imaging: a New Measure of Genital Blood Flow in Female Sexual Arousal
(2009-08-27)Female sexual arousal refers to one’s feelings of sexual excitement and pleasure and has both physiological (i.e., objective) and psychological (i.e., subjective) components. It is an important, yet difficult phenomenon ... -
Leader Inconsistency, Subjective Attitude Ambivalence and Follower Outcomes
Leadership research has a long and impressive history in identifying how followers are affected by their leaders’ behaviours. Such research, however, has tended to study one leadership “style” at a time, which does not ... -
Life After Prostate Cancer: An Investigation of Patients' Health-Related Quality of Life, Sexual Outcomes, Mental Health, Social Support, and Healthcare Experiences
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canadian males. Survivorship rates, particularly for early-stage diagnoses, are high, meaning that the majority of diagnosed individuals must live with the consequences ... -
Lineup Size and Number of Cues: When Bigger Isn’t Better
(2016-10-03)Larger lineups could protect innocent suspects from being misidentified; however, they can also decrease correct identifications. Bertrand (2006) investigated whether the decrease in correct identifications could be prevented ... -
Longitudinal Dynamics of Trait Emotional Intelligence: Measurement Invariance, Construct Stability, and Mean Level Change from Late Childhood to Adolescence
(2013-01-31)Emotional intelligence (EI) encompasses abilities (ability EI; AEI) and self-perceptions (trait EI; TEI) related to the expression, understanding, and management of emotions. Research on its developmental dynamics remains ... -
Matching and Mismatching Vocal Affect with Message Content
(2012-08-14)Two experiments examined the influence of affective vocal qualities on attitude change according to the degree of congruency between vocal qualities and the message content (i.e., the extent to which the vocal qualities ... -
Maternal Depression and Children's Theory of Mind Understanding
(2015-10-03)This study examined group differences in theory of mind understanding of children with versus without a maternal history of major depressive disorder (MDD) and potential mechanisms underlying these differences, in particular, ... -
Mechanisms Behind Directed Forgetting: Exploring the Selective Rehearsal and Attentional Inhibition Accounts Using the Double-Item Method Paradigm
In an item-method directed forgetting paradigm, participants are instructed to remember some items from the study list and forget others. On a subsequent memory test, participants demonstrate better memory for remember ... -
Mechanisms Contributing to the Specificity of Gynephilic Men’s Sexual Responses
Men’s sexual responses have historically been characterized by their gender specificity, meaning that men show stronger genital and subjective arousal to preferred (i.e., sexual stimuli that include one’s preferred gender) ... -
Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Early Episode Psychosis
The mental abilities required to identify, understand, and respond to social information are broadly referred to as social cognition, and individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders display significant impairments ... -
The Mechanistic Role of Pain Appraisals and Behavioural Coping Strategies between Pain and Quality of Life in Chronic Prostatitis/ Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS)
(2013-08-27)Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a prevalent, refractory pelvic pain condition characterized by pain in the pelvic area and urinary frequency, largely unresponsive to medical interventions. ... -
Methodological Factors Impacting Sexual Concordance in Women
(2014-08-28)A growing body of research investigating sexual concordance (the degree to which genital and subjective arousal are related) suggests that on average, women exhibit a weak, positive correlation between their genital and ... -
A model for Free Recall
(2013-01-29)Abstract A model for free recall of words is presented and applied to representative free-recall experiments. According to the model, a subject's lexicon contains a representation for each word and for the association ... -
Motivation to expend physical and cognitive effort as predictors of functioning in major depression
Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with severe functional disability; however, the mechanisms of impaired functioning are understudied. Cognitive deficits is one known mechanism of functional impairment ...