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 2016
Does Sleep Enhance the Consolidation of Implicitly Learned Visuo-Motor Sequence Learning?, Jeremy Viczko
Madness in the Media: Understanding How People With Lived Experience Interpret Newspaper Headlines, Da Qing Wang
The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Resiliency, and Mental Health in Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Savouring, Claire A. Wilson
Role of Causal Information in Patient Education: An Experimental and Clinical Approach, Karen M. Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Asking the Right Questions: Insights into Assessing Intercultural Sensitivity, Anjana Balakrishnan
Domestic Homicide Risk Factors: Rural and Urban Considerations, Victoria L. Banman
National Identity and Attitudes toward Immigrants: The Role of Social Comparison and Perceptions of Competition, Kelly L. Barnes
Relationships between the Dark Triad and Delayed Gratification: An Evolutionary Perspective, Holly M. Baughman
Event-related Potential Markers of Perceptual and Conceptual Speech Processes in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness., Stephen T. Beukema
An Examination of Daily Humour Styles and Relationship Satisfaction in Dating Couples, Sara Caird
Eyetracking of Coarticulatory Cue Responses in Children and Adults, Alexandra M. Cross
Addressing Very Short Stimulus Encoding Times in Modeling Schizophrenia Cognitive Deficit, Colleen D. Cutler
Reactions to Negative Feedback: The Role of Resilience and Implications for Counterproductivity, Kabir N. Daljeet
Prosody: An Important Cue to Word Learning, Monica DaSilva
The Impact of the Operational Environment on the Commitment Profiles of Canadian Armed Forces Soldiers, Christina L. Eastwood
Interactions Between the Basolateral Amygdala and Ventral Striatum During Probabilistic Learning in Children and Associations with Individual Differences in Free Cortisol, Haley J. Fallowfield
Developmental Stress and the Effects on Physiological and Cognitive-Behavioural Traits in European Starlings, Tara M. Farrell
Neural And Behavioural Responses To Rewards And Losses In Early Development: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study, Niki Hosseini-Kamkar
Biological and Contextual Predictors of the Stability of Behavioural Inhibition in Early Childhood, Victoria C. Johnson
Canadians’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants Who Claim Employment Discrimination, Natalia Lapshina
Congruent familiar size relationships decrease size contrast illusion, Margarita Maltseva
Category-Specific Item Recognition and the Medial Temporal Lobe, Christopher B. Martin
Talking to Parents about Student Mental Health: Understanding Parents' Perspective of Barriers and Enhancers to Effective Parent-Teacher Collaboration, Erica Robyn Masters
The Transdiagnostic Prevention of Emotional Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Study, Rebecca McDermott
No Safe Base: An Attachment Theory Perspective on the Mediational Effects of Reappraisal and Resilience on the Well-being of Homeless Women in the Skid Row District of Los Angeles, Stephanie L. Montgomery-Graham
Discrimination is in the Eye of the Beholder: Perception of Discrimination and Microaggressions, Sarah E. Moroz
Effects of Motion Pattern Characteristics on the Perception of Visual Acceleration, Alexandra S. Mueller
The Coffee Shop Effect: Investigating the Relationship between Ambient Noise and Cognitive Flexibility, Emily G. Nielsen
An fMRI Study of Command Following and Communication Using Overt and Covert Motor Responses: Implications for Disorders of Consciousness, Natalie R. Osborne
Hair Cortisol Concentrations in High- and Low-Stress Mother-Daughter Dyads, Sarah J. Ouellette
The Role of Emotional Support in Emotional Well-being, Maria Sol Pound
The Role of Androgens in Life History Theories of Attachment, Janani S. Sankar
"She will drive the ____": Verb-Based Prediction in Individuals with Parkinson Disease, Kelsey G. Santerre
Social Networking Sites and Personnel Selection: An Initial Validity Assessment, Travis J. Schneider
Mathematical Modeling of Stress Management via Decisional Control, Matthew J. Shanahan
Naturalistic paradigms for neuroimaging and bedside measures of conscious awareness, Leah J. Sinai
The Cultural Connectedness Scale and its Relation to Positive Mental Health among First Nations Youth, Angela Snowshoe
Common and Distinct Brain Regions Support Numerical and Non-numerical Magnitude Processing: A Functional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis, Helen Moriah Sokolowski
Perceiving Behaviors That "Push a Partner's Buttons": Biased and Accurate Trigger Knowledge, Attachment, and Relationship Dynamics, Sarah C. E. Stanton
Posttraumatic Eating Disorders (PTED): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-related Symptoms and Eating Disorders, Elizabeth Thornley
The Impact of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy on Aggression, Anger, and Hostility in a Forensic Psychiatric Population, Monica F. Tomlinson
Motivation and Well-being: A Test of Self-Determination Theory Using a Person-Centered Approach, Chelsea A. Vaters
Striving for Teaching Success: Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in Pre-Service Teachers, Ashley K. Vesely-Maillefer
Exploring Depression and Anxiety as a Result of Childhood Maltreatment and the Models of Social Support, Celia Wong
Factors influencing Continuity of Attachment Quality in Early Childhood, Ya F. Xue
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Psychological Contracts: A Feature Based Approach to Understanding Transactional and Relational Contracts, Brittney K. Anderson
Mediators of change in the stigmatization of depression among Caucasian and Asian populations, Francois B. Botha
Characterizing persistent Developmental Dyscalculia: A cognitive neuroscience approach, Stephanie D. Bugden
Goal Orientation Heterogeneity in Teams: Investigating Implications for Individual Satisfaction with the Team and Team Conflict, Kyle A. Cameron
Reactions to Refugees: Do Stronger Believers in a Just World Compensate, Dehumanize, and Perceive Refugees as More Responsible for their Status?, Amanda N. DeVaul-Fetters
When faces "feel" familiar: The role of affective signals in face recognition, Lauren E. Dunphy
The Contribution of Attachment Styles and Reassurance Seeking to Daily Mood and Relationship Quality in Romantic Couples, Lyndsay E. Evraire
The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Moral Orientation, Erica A. Giammarco
How attention and beat perception modulate neural entrainment to rhythm, Aaron WC Gibbings
Multi-sector Service Use by Children in Contact with Ontario Mental Health Agencies, Christian M. Hahn
Executive Dysfunction: A Contributor to Subtypes of Violence or General Criminality?, Megan B. Hancock
A Bayesian Model of Stress Assignment in Reading, Olessia Jouravlev
An Empirical Investigation Of The Concept Of “Pornography”, Taylor A. Kohut
Biological and Contextual Correlates of Cortisol Reactivity in Early Childhood, Katie R. Kryski
The Integration and Evaluation of Humor and Positive Psychology Approaches to Well-Being, Nadia Maiolino
The effects of alcohol on different classes of motion perception, Steven J. Matson
The Effects of Semantic Neighborhood Density on the Processing of Ambiguous Words, Mark J. McPhedran
The Role of the Media in the Automatic Dehumanization of Refugees, Stelian Medianu
Attachment and Attention: An investigation of biases in attention as they relate to attachment security in infancy and adulthood, Paul J. Meinz
Attachment Relationships Across Siblings and their Common Mother: Patterns and Predictors, Kathleen Anne O'Connor
The use of technology and electronic media in adolescent dating violence, Katherine Reif
Cognitive Predictors and Behavioural Mediators of Vulnerability-Specific Stress Generation in Depressed Adults, Katerina Rnic
The Perfectionism-Psychological Outcome Link: The Mediating Effect of Personal Resiliency, Martin M. Smith
Exploring Relationships Between Resume Fraud and Individual Differences, Kateryna Synyak
Towards an Improved Understanding of the Heterogeneity of Violence: A Test of the Clinical Utility of the Reactive-Instrumental Distinction Among Adult Male Inmates, Jennifer L. Tapscott
The Role of the Phonological Syllable in English Word Recognition, Daniel Trinh
Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia, Ashleigh Vella
When Objects Become Part of Self: Effects of Ownership and Choice on Self-object Associations, Yang Ye
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Tough But Fair: The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness, Joel Armstrong
The Social Life of Metaphor, Andrea Bowes
The Process Dissociation of Moral Judgments: Clarifying the Psychology of Deontology and Utilitarianism, Paul Conway
Subordinate Ratings of Supervisor Performance: Balancing Accountability and Anonymity, Kevin Doyle
The Role of Humor as a Character Strength in Positive Psychology, Kimberly R. Edwards
Sexual Differentiation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Humans: Examining Behavioural Sex Differences and the Modulatory Role of Androgens, Kelly L. Evans
Attributions & Resiliency: An Analysis of the Resiliency-Attribution Association, Aaron J. Halliday
Children's Understanding and Experience of Anger Within Their Peer Groups, Nicole J. Hamel
The Relationship Between Male Batterers' Self-Disclosure and Treatment Outcome, Armita Hosseini
Trust in Functional and Dysfunctional Organizational Leaders: The Role of Leadership Style, Employees’ Emotions and Trustworthiness Perceptions, Tatjana Ilic-Balas
He Says, She Says: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Safer Sex Behavior in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships, Corey Isaacs
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury with Girls in Tertiary Care: Implications for Assessment and Treatment, Amanda J. Kerry
Information Seeking in Rats on the Radial Maze, Chelsea R. Kirk
Timing of developmental stress and phenotypic plasticity: Effects of nutritional stress at different developmental periods on physiological and cognitive-behavioral traits in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Buddhamas Kriengwatana
The Roles of Thematic Knowledge in Sentence Comprehension, Kazunaga Matsuki
Stimulus Control by Timing in Pigeons, Neil McMillan
A Comprehensive Mental Health Training Format for Adult Education Teachers, Fiona Meek
Executive Functions and the Interaction Between Category Learning Systems, Sarah J. Miles
The Influence of Mood and Motivation on Cognitive Flexibility, Ruby Nadler
Musical Mood and Musical Arousal Affects Different Stages of Learning and Memory Performance, Tram Nguyen
The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals, Emily S. Nichols