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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 ... -
Attractiveness and Sexual Response
Gynephilic (attracted to women) men’s sexual responses are strongly dependent upon the gender of a sexual target, while androphilic (attracted to men) women’s sexual responses may be more dependent upon contextual cues ... -
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 ... -
Reducing Diagnostic Uncertainty in First-Episode Psychosis: A Neuropsychological Approach to Differentiating between Cannabis-Induced and Primary Psychotic Disorders
Background: Cannabis use is highly comorbid with psychotic disorders, especially among young people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The high rate of cannabis use in this population has led to uncertainty ... -
Development and Feasibility Trial of a Cognitive Behavioural Self-Management Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic illness marked by inflammation of the digestive system that is associated with physical and psychosocial symptoms. Psychotherapy interventions for IBD have yielded inconsistent ... -
Dialectical thinking and meaning-making in negative experiences
Three studies were conducted to examine how dialectical thinking may contribute to meaning-making in negative experiences (MINE) tendencies and subsequently to people’s coping styles as they confront stressful situations. ... -
Biopsychosocial Predictors of Suicide Risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a debilitating chronic medical condition affecting millions of people worldwide. Epidemiological data suggest suicidal behaviour is a persistent concern in IBD populations, but little ... -
Cognition, Plasticity, and Functioning After Childhood Adversity in Major Depressive Disorder
Background: There is a compelling association between childhood adversity and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in adulthood, including more severe and treatment-resistant presentations of illness. Childhood adversity is ... -
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 ... -
The Multidimensional Forgiveness Inventory: Developing a Dimensional Measure of Forgiveness
The present research sought to develop a dimensional model of forgiveness, and develop a questionnaire consistent with this model. Drawing from the tripartite theory of attitudes, this dimensional model focused on three ... -
Childhood Parental Invalidation and Young Adult Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent behaviour that serves many functions, but is associated with increased distress, impairment, and risk of death by suicide (Andover, Morris, Wren, & Bruzzese, 2012; Burke, ... -
Concurrent measurement of genital lubrication and blood flow during sexual arousal
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)Genital lubrication and blood flow are theoretically related outcomes of women’s sexual response that prepare the genitals for sexual activity. Despite its importance for sexual function, few experimental studies have ... -
The Role of Mode of Delivery in Postpartum Sexuality
This research program explored the role of mode of delivery in postpartum sexuality. The first study was an online survey of nulliparous individuals’ perceptions of how childbirth impacts sexuality (Chapter 2). The results ... -
The BEST Trials: Examining Brief Executive Skills Training for Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
Cognitive remediation is an efficacious treatment for schizophrenia that focuses on enhancing neurocognitive abilities and improving community functioning. However, there is currently no gold-standard cognitive remediation ... -
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 ...
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