Browsing Department of Psychology Graduate Theses by Title
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Pain Communication in Ethnically Concordant and Discordant Dyads
(2011-05-30)While ethnicity is often regarded as a factor in pain experience and expression, ethnic pain research has almost exclusively focused on the intrapersonal dimension of the pain experience and failed to recognize the complex ... -
Parent-Reported Behavioural Symptoms of Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders across Levels of Functioning
(2013-10-30)The current study examined anxiety and its observable correlates in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) across a broad range of levels of cognitive functioning that in the past have not been accurately explored. ... -
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 ... -
Patterns among emotional experience, arousal, and expression in adolescence
(2011-09-01)Adolescence is a developmental period marked by heightened emotional intensity, negative emotions, and self-consciousness. Problems with emotion regulation during adolescence have been linked to the development of internalizing ... -
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 ... -
Peer involvement in traditional and electronic bullying
(2012-10-15)Bullying continues to be a significant problem for children and adolescents. Peers are often involved in bullying as bystanders. Through their actions or inactions, bystanders can support the bullying, or can stop it by ... -
Peer Victimization in the School Context: A Study of School Climate and Social Identity Processes
Schools provide adolescents with opportunities to form healthy relationships and feel a sense of belonging connected to others. Although youth are provided with opportunities to belong at school, some adolescents are ... -
Perceived Social Support for Relationships As a Predictor of Relationship Well-Being and Mental and Physical Health in Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Relationships: A Longitudinal Investigation
(2012-05-30)Intimate relationships function not in isolation, but within a broader social network and social environment, in which the opinions and actions of close network members can play a role in how a relationship develops. The ... -
Perceptual Effects of Inconsistency in Human Animations
Animation retargeting is a method of producing human-like animations for use in research, video games, and movies. The procedure consists of capturing the motion of a performer and applying it to a computerized avatar. In ... -
The performance and feasibility of three brief alcohol screening tools in a senior population
(2013-08-23)Screening is the first step in identifying and treating alcohol-related problems among the senior population. This study was designed with two purposes. The first was to cross-validate the Senior Alcohol Misuse Indicator ... -
Personality, stressful life events, and treatment response in major depression
(2007-09-28)Major Depression (MD) currently affects over 17 million individuals in North America (Greenberg et al., 2003). Identifying factors predictive of MD treatment response is important for developing more efficacious treatments ... -
The Phenomenology of Role Play: Are Children “Thinking-As-If” or “Behaving-As-If”?
(2009-04-16)When children role play, they do things such as change their tone of voice or take on the character’s emotions or needs. These behaviours make it appear as though children adopt the mental perspective of the character they ... -
Please Stop Rubbing Your Relationship In My Face(book): An Investigation of Online Romantic Social Comparison
(2016-07-13)It is well-documented that social networking sites such as Facebook set the stage for social comparison. Such comparison has been linked to a number of negative outcomes including envy, negative moods, and lower self-esteem. ... -
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 ... -
Potential for change: Characterizing synaptic plasticity following visual discrimination learning in adult rats.
(2015-03-19)Synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation, LTP and long-term depression, LTD) plays an important role in processes of learning and memory formation. In order to provide a link between these neurophysiological and cognitive ... -
Predicting Parenting Practices: A Study of Individual and Contextual Predictors of Parenting Practices in Canada
(2009-09-15)Understanding factors that influence parenting practices is important, as parents play a critical role in the healthy development of children (Sanders, 1999). From an ecological perspective, both individual and contextual ... -
Prediction of Social Competence and Social Integration in Children with or at-Risk for Intellectual Disability
(2009-09-26)Research in the field of intellectual disability (ID) has long recognized that social skills and, in turn, social acceptance, are key areas of difficulty for children with ID. However, little work has been done to examine ... -
Preliminary Investigations of Dopaminergic Contributions to Preschoolers' Theory of Mind Development
(2009-09-09)During the preschool years, children across all cultures that have been tested seem to come to an explicit understanding of the fact that mental states are related to but ultimately separate from the reality that they are ... -
Preschool-aged children’s adherence to style conventions in a simple game.
(2008-09-17)Style conventions are specialized ways of performing a given activity (e.g., dressing, eating, etc.) that have minimal practical significance, but play a crucial role in signaling ones membership or status within a particular ... -
Preschoolers Restrict the Scope of Labels Within Their Own Linguistic Group
(2016-02-29)An understanding of the conventional nature of language entails a recognition that word meanings are shared widely within a group, but due to the arbitrary nature, vary across different groups and are limited to those ...