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A randomized comparison of individual cognitive-behavioural therapy and pelvic floor rehabilitation in the treatment of provoked vestibulodynia
(2013-11-20)Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most common condition leading to painful intercourse and is currently best understood within a biopsychosocial framework. Although the usefulness of non-medical treatment options for ... -
A randomized controlled trial of Bikram yoga and aerobic exercise in the treatment of depression: Efficacy and underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms
Empirical interest in alternative treatment options for major depression has been on the rise, in part because of the shortcomings of conventional approaches. Despite a growing body of evidence supporting the use of various ... -
Real or Artifact? Shedding light on how and when repeated expression can result in polarization
(2011-06-29)Researchers have long noted that repeated expression of a judgment can cause that judgment to become more extreme. Three perspectives were explored for why this effect occurs. The first perspective implied that repeated ... -
Redefining Attitude Importance: The Possible Existence of Associative and Subjective Types of Importance Under a Global Definition
(2016-09-20)Traditionally, importance has been measured using subjective measures. The present thesis explores the possibility of a second type of importance, designated as “associative importance”. A new measure, the IIAT, was designed ... -
Redefining Prosocial Behaviour: The Production of Helping, Sharing, and Comforting Acts in Human Infants and Toddlers
(2010-09-20)Prosocial behaviours are a diverse group of actions that are integral to human social life. In this dissertation I propose and test a three-factor model of prosocial behaviour. Specifically, in a series of four studies I ... -
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 ... -
Regulation of Emotion Systems: Assessing Acts of Down-Regulation of Negative Emotions
(2015-09-10)Research investigating emotion regulation (ER) has failed to accomplish three goals: (1) to develop a clear understanding of how ER relates to emotion theory; (2) to reach a consensus on which actions constitute ER; and ... -
Regulators of Sensory Cortical Plasticity by Neuromodulators and Sensory Experience
(2010-04-29)Recent evidence indicates that the mature neocortex retains a higher degree of plasticity than traditionally assumed. Up- and down-regulation of synaptic strength, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression ... -
The relation between emotional acceptance and emotion regulation in adolescent girls
(2009-10-06)Adolescents experience heightened emotional arousal and difficulty regulating that arousal. Adolescent girls have emotion regulation difficulties particularly associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety. In adults, ... -
The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality
(2016-09-21)The overall purpose of this study was to explain the overlap and distinctiveness of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidality from a diathesis-stress perspective. The first part of this study evaluated the third ... -
The Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity and Vasocongestion Due to Sexual Arousal in Women with Provoked Vestibulodynia
(2009-09-10)Women with chronic vulvar pain report reduced sexual function in comparison to non-affected women, including decreased sexual arousal. Experimentally induced sexual arousal has been examined in women with and without chronic ... -
The Relationship Between Psychosocial Functioning and Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control Function in Women With Provoked Vestibulodynia and Pain Free Controls
(2007-09-28)Provoked Vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most common form of chronic vulvar pain, affecting 12% of women in the general population. PVD is characterized by a severe burning pain in response to pressure localized to the vaginal ... -
The Relationship Between Self-Awareness and Psychotic-Like Experiences
(2016-09-10)The psychosis phenotype is thought to exist on a continuum, such that the same symptoms experienced by individuals diagnosed with psychotic disorders can also manifest in the general population to a less severe degree. The ... -
Relationship Status Disclosure: Associated Correlates and Behaviours
(2014-09-05)The present research introduces the construct of Relationship Status Disclosure, an individual difference variable that assesses the extent to which people are willing to disclose and discuss their relationship status with ... -
Relationship threat and self-regulation: The moderating effect of attachment anxiety
(2010-08-18)Integrating research on attachment anxiety, rejection, self-regulation and health behaviours, I investigated the interactive effect of attachment anxiety and relationship threat on self-regulation. I hypothesized that ... -
Religion and Self-Control
(2015-09-22)Unconscious reminders of religion boost people’s ability to exercise self-control even after they have completed an earlier self-control task. However, other research has shown that when people initially engage in a task ... -
Representing the properties of object classes in manipulation and weight perception
(2011-09-30)The ability to accurately predict object weight is essential for skilled manipulation and recent studies suggest that such prediction is based, in part, on learned size-weight maps associated with families of objects. ... -
Resurrecting the Error Choice Technique: The premature demise of an indirect measure of attitude?
(2010-04-21)The error choice (EC) technique was among the earliest indirect attitude measures developed and was originally designed to overcome social desirability concerns (Hammond, 1948). This programme of research set out to advance ... -
A Retrospective Study of Child and Adolescent Risk Factors and their Relation to the Dark Triad Core Personality Traits
(2012-08-30)The Dark Triad consists of three overlapping personality traits: Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism, (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). This investigation examines two main research goals. The first aims to identify ... -
Reward devaluation in a two-link chain schedule: effects of reward density in the proximal link and food restriction protocol in rats
(2007-09-13)Food restriction has been shown to affect responding for reward and has been manipulated to devalue reward. Reward density has been shown to alter responding in both first-order schedules and chain schedules. Devaluation ...