Psychology Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Psychology, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Validating an Observational Coding System for the Dominance Behavioural System (DBS) in Childhood, Jennifer Mullen
Finding Teams that Fight Fair: Exploring Trajectories of Team Conflict Over Time, Natasha E. Ouslis
The Role of Top-down Attention in Statistical Learning of Speech, Stacey Reyes
Audiovisual integration in cochlear implant users and typical hearing controls: A study of group differences in syllable perception and effect of asynchrony on speech intelligibility, Cailey A. Salagovic
A Mixed-Methods Examination of Modern Feminist Identity, Jaclyn Siegel
Trends in Mental Health Service Use Among Youth and Emerging Adults in Canada, Thipiga Sivayoganathan
Neural Markers of Musical Memory in Young and Older Adults, Avital Sternin
Sleep Restriction in Children and Executive Function Performance, Kathryn A. Turnbull
Neuroimaging Depression Risk in a Sample of Never-Depressed Children, Matthew R. J. Vandermeer
Testing Competing Mediation Models of the Effects of Weight Bias Internalization and Weight Suppression on Disordered Eating in Young Adults, Samantha J. Withnell
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Examining The Structure Of Symbolic Number Representations In The Parietal Cortex: An RSA Study, Aymee Alvarez Rivero
A longitudinal person-centred investigation of commitment in newcomers to the military, Brittney K. Anderson
Homotopic Coupling in Persons with Epilepsy using Movie-driven and Resting-state fMRI, Caroline M. Chadwick
Is Social Rank Correlated With Cognitive Ability in Black-capped Chickadees?, Gloria Hyun Young Cho
Recognizing Relational Boredom and Coping With It Through the Introduction of Novelty, Kiersten Dobson
Investigating the Relationship Between Event Knowledge, Autistic Traits, and Social Ability: A Network Science Approach, Kara E. Hannah
Conscious Perception and Implicit Memory Formation of a Narrative Presented During Sleep, Sarah E. Hollywood
Implementation of a Healthy Relationships Program with Youth at the Children’s Aid Society, Bridget E. Houston
‘Instead of Life in Prison, it Was Life in My Own Skin’: Scope and Limitations of a Week-Long Daily Online Self-Compassionate Writing Intervention for Young Women’s Body Image, Katarina Huellemann
The olfactory and auditory capabilities of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) for locating different quantities of food, Shayla Jackson
The Motherhood Penalty: Not so Black and White, Shruti Kumar
Multisensory Associative Learning and Multisensory Integration, Sebastien Lauzon
Linguistic Signaling in Speed-Dates, Negar Mohammad Vali Samani
Assessment Instruments and Basic Personality Underpinnings of Hypersexuality, Stephanie L. Montgomery-Graham
The Role of Neural Entrainment in Statistical Learning, Jordan-Jerrica Mulgrew
The Relationship Between Schizotypal Traits and the Perceptual Processes of Multisensory Integration, Temporal Processing, and Speech Perception, Anne-Marie Muller
Moving Beyond the Mat: Exploring the Application of Mindfulness Training in Professional and Educational Settings, Emily G. Nielsen
Mental Health Literacy and Initial Teacher Education: A Program Evaluation, Jasprit K. Pandori-Chuckal
Understanding Differences in Social Learning, Joshua Patenaude
The Role of Dark Personalities in Intimate Partner Violence, Rachel A. Plouffe
The Conceptual Metaphor False Memory Effect, Jeffrey N. Reid
An Information—Motivation—Behavioural Skills Model of Sexual Consent, Erin J. Shumlich
Autistic Traits and Cognitive Biases for Emotional Faces in Neurotypicals, Meara Stow
The Measurement of Job Satisfaction among Workplace Leaders: Scale Development and Validation of the Leader Satisfaction Assessment, Erica A. Sutherland
When Life Gives You Lemons: The Development and Validation of the Resilience Scale for Older Adults, Claire A. Wilson
The Impact of Text Orientation on Form Effects with Chinese, Japanese and English readers, Huilan Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
CEOs Don't Wear Afros: Exploring the Justification-Suppression of Prejudice Against Black Women in the Workplace, Bukun F. Adegbembo
Descriptive and Prescriptive Belief in a Just World, Joel Armstrong
Leadership on the Ropes: How Hostile Followership Affects Leadership Behaviour, Noelle Baird
Who I am is Shaped by my Past and Impacts my Future: Exploring Antecedents and Outcomes of Self-Views across International, Immigrant, and Canadian born Undergraduate Students, Anjana Balakrishnan
Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbances and Psychopathology in a Mental Health Clinic Sample, Aviva Blacher
Examining the Neural Correlates of Vocabulary and Grammar Learning Using fNIRS, Leah Brainin
The Effects of Feature Verbalizablity and Indirect Feedback on Implicit Category Learning, Bailey N. Brashears
The Origins and Development of Visual Categorization, Laura Cabral
Rudeness is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Gender Impacts Reactions to Incivility at Work, Sarah Carver
The Role of Social Disconnection in the Relationship between Perfectionism and Psychological Distress, Samantha Chen
Not in my Occupation: An Examination of Occupational Identification and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviour, Trevor Thomas Coppins
Characterizing the Familiar-Voice Benefit to Intelligibility, Beatriz Ysabel Domingo
Development and Validation of a Battery of Emotionally Evocative Film Clips for Use with Young Children, Lindsay Gabel
Investigating how neural entrainment relates to beat perception by disentangling the stimulus-driven response, Aaron WC Gibbings
Exploring the links between Social Anxiety and Depression in the Maintenance of Romantic Relationships, Christian M. Hahn
Cognitive, Neural, and Educational Contributions to Mathematics Performance: A Closer Look at the Roles of Numerical and Spatial Skills, Zachary C.K. Hawes
Who Should Defend Victims of Bullying? The Effects of Relative Status on Defender and Victim Outcomes, Kunio Hessel
The Effect of Perceived Role Suitability on Prestige, Dominance, Performance, and Communication., Lynden Jensen
Double Jeopardy: What is Mentorship and Diversity-Valuing on Perceived Competence?, T. Eva Kwan
Using movies to assess cognitive and neural functioning in temporal lobe epilepsy, Daniella Ladowski
Examining the Self-Schema within a Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Framework of Mania, Nadia Maiolino
Interpreting intentions: evidence for cross-language influences in bilinguals, Maziyah Mohamed
Neural Entrainment Indexes Statistical Learning in Children, Christine Moreau
Modern Homonegativity and LGBTQ Activism: The Role of Identity and Behaviour in Attitude Formation, Sarah E. Moroz
Exploring Cognitive Maps through Sketching, Melissa M. Nantais
The Effects of Linguistic Labels on Object Categorization and Perception, Xuan Pan
The Impact of Statistical Learning on Language and Social Competency in ASD and ADHD: Divergent Findings, Kaitlyn M.A Parks
The Moderating Role of Clique Stratification and Individual Centrality on Clique Socialization of Overt and Relational Aggression, Christopher Sciberas
How Do Humans Process Magnitudes? An Examination of the Neural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Symbols, Quantities, and Size in Adults and Children, Helen Moriah Sokolowski
Adaptation to Conflict Frequency: Non-Conflict Learning Is Not the Whole Story, Giacomo Spinelli
The Role of Cognitive Distortions in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Problematic Drinking and Depressive Symptoms, Monica F. Tomlinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Semantic Processing of Nominal Metaphor: Figurative Abstraction and Embodied Simulation, Hamad Al-Azary
Understanding Stigma, Secrecy, and Sex in CNM Relationships, Rhonda Balzarini
Object processing in the medial temporal lobe: Influence of object domain, Anna Blumenthal
The Cognitive Psychology of Humour in Written Puns, James Boylan
Examining Stigma Among Preservice Teachers Following the Completion of a Mental Health Literacy Course, Nella Cautillo
The Influence of Romantic Rejection on Change in Ideal Standards, Ideal Flexibility, and Self-Perceived Mate Value, Nicolyn H. Charlot
Empowering Employees to Reduce Perceptions of Workplace Incivility, Chloe A. Cragg
Examining Child Sex as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Cortisol Reactivity and Symptoms Over Time, Andrew R. Daoust
Examining Rating Source Differences in Narrative Performance Feedback, Kevin Doyle
Assessing and Preventing Applicant Faking on Personality Tests, Justin Feeney
Trajectories of the Effects of Sad Mood Induction Procedures (MIPs), Jennifer C. P. Gillies
Assessing the Perceptions of the Use of a Courthouse Facility Dog Program with Child and Youth Witnesses, Melissa Glazer
Investigating the Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: Conflict Adaptation and the Impact of Emotionally-Salient Distraction, Samantha Goldsmith
Mindful Resilience: Investigating Mindfulness and Resilience in Relation to a Broad Range of Adversity, Aaron J. Halliday
The Light Triad Scale: Developing and Validating a Preliminary Measure of Prosocial Orientation, Laura K.D. Johnson
The Development and Validation of a Preliminary Meditation Intentions Questionnaire, Daniel Kharlas
When Your Boo Becomes a Ghost: The Association Between Breakup Strategy and Breakup Role in Experiences of Relationship Dissolution, Rebecca B. Koessler
Episodic-like Memory in Dogs: Solving What-Where-When Tasks, Ka Ho Lo
Spatial memory for isolated arm locations on the radial maze, Hayden MacDonald
Time, Number, Space, and the Domestic Dog, Krista M. Macpherson
Conceptual Representation in Bilinguals: A Feature-Based Approach, Eriko Matsuki
Does self-regulation mediate the relationship between locus of control and resiliency related outcomes?, Alexander J. McGregor
A Role for the Somatosensory System in Motor Learning by Observing, Heather R. McGregor
The Effects of Proficiency and Task Context on L2-L1 Noncognate Masked Translation Priming in Chinese-English Bilinguals, Mark J. McPhedran
Girls’ Internalizing Symptoms and White Matter Tracts in Cortico-Limbic Circuitry, Ola Mohamed Ali