Recent Honours Thesis

Recent honours thesis supervised by Psychology faculty members:

Adair, Wendi

  • A qualitative analysis of "sharing knowledge-building relationships: Aboriginal experiences in the cross-cultural workplace" conference (2017)
  • Emotion perception in emails: effect of context dependence and culture (2017)
  • Urban Aboriginals' attitudes towards foreign culture inflow policies as a function of historical trauma (2016)

Anderson, Britt

  • Cathodal tDCS stimulation of the left frontal cortex improves mental model updating (2017)
  • Attention and contrast judgments: does attention alter appearance? (2017)
  • Attention and contrast judgements: does attention alter appearance? (2016)

Beck, James

  • The  influence of confidence on the use of systematic data combination methods during personnel selection (2017)
  • Take a closer look at creativity under time pressure: time available and goal level iterate to predict creative behaviour (2015)
  • A meta-analysis of recovery experiences (2015)

Bergsieker, Hilary

  • She said, he said: critical feedback from potential female (vs. male) coworkers signals lack of support for women in male-dominated careers  (2017)
  • Combating stereotypes about the sexuality of people with disabilities (2015)
  • Validation of the gait outcomes assessment list (goal - TM) questionnaire (2015)

Besner, Derek

  • Basic processes in reading aloud: towards a better understanding of the role of spatial attention (2012)
  • Semantic interference in the Stroop task: does practice reduce interference? (2012)
  • Reading aloud and the lexicalization hypothesis: is the additivity between stimulus quality and word frequency driven by orthography or phonology? (2012)

Bloom, Kathleen

  • Drunk on jealousy: a five factor model of social media hypervigilance in adolescent romantic relationships (2017)
  • Do rhyming abilities help children read, or do other abilities take the lead? A systematic review of the literature on rhyme and reading in children (2008)

Bobocel, Ramona

  • Do just actions beget just evaluations for supervisors with intersectional identities (2017)
  • Perceived unfairness of negative workplace events: the role of explanations and construal level (2015)
  • In search for true forgiveness in workplace transgressions: the moderating effect of forgiveness motives (2014)

Brown, Doug

  • The effects of leadership identity on thinking styles (2017)
  • Expressing your emotions: how gender stereotypes of emotional variability affect female leaders (2017)
  • Third party justice: relationships, emotions, and retaliation (2016)

Burris, Chris (St. Jerome's)

  • Does facial width-to-height ratio differentiate among types of male offenders? (2016)
  • Oughts and alts: an investigation of avatar creation norms and the self (2016)
  • Coping with the SCoPE: an examination of embodiment as an existential antecedent of substance uUse (2016)

Danckert, James

  •  Willingness to exert cognitive and physical effort in individuals prone to boredom (2017)
  • Goal directed behaviour in boredom proneness (2017)

  • Using a dual task paradigm to explore mechanisms of mental model building and updating (2016)

Denison, Stephanie

  • Hearing the difference: How do four-year-olds direct question asking when learning novel words? (2017)
  • Selection versus reception learning: are there advantages to selection learning in a memory task with preschoolers? (2017)
  • Children's use of causal information in classic base-rate neglect problems (2017)

Dixon, Michael

  • Force variability: a behavioural marker of mind wandering (2017)
  • Going with the flow: physiological and subjective correlates of flow state in videogames (2017)
  • Can synaesthetic photisms be experienced in the absence of awareness? (2016)

Drysdale, Maureen (St. Jerome's)

  • The impact of giftedness on the university experience (2017)
  • Sense of belonging, peer support and well-being in international studies (2016)
  • The effects of neurofeedback training on the intellectual functioning of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, and Asperger's Syndrome (2012)

Eibach, Richard

  • What would it take for you to read me? Applying the reactive approach motivation model to the narrative experience (2017)
  • Turning Over a New (Maple) Leaf: Predicting Temporal Distancing and Emotional Responses to Historical Injustices in Canada (2017)
  • Romantic rejection and masculinity threat: understanding the connection between rejection and masculine overcompensation (2016)

Ellard, Colin

  • How Central and Peripheral Vision Affect Experiences of Stress
  • Immersive virtual environments and their effects on prosocial behaviour (2017)
  • Observer effect on the experience of environment and risk: a behaviour and distance estimation study in immersive virtual environments (2016)

Fernandes, Myra

  • Drawing with your eyes: extending mnemonic research (2017)
  • Memory for maps: the influence of gender and age (2016)
  • A survey of senior citizens’ perspectives on research in aging (2016)

Fong, Geoffrey

  • The relationship between perceived risk and intentions to quit among smoking youth
  • Cigarette smoking on TV: effects on explicit and implicit smoking identification, attitudes, and intentions
  • The impact of prepaid monetary incentives on response rates in a telephone based survey: an analysis of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) four country survey (2009)

Friedman, Ori

  • Children's sensitivity to advisers' confidence and knowledge levels (2017)
  • Morality and fiction in categorization (2016)
  • Children's concept of ownership: the relation between ownership rights and body rights (2012)

Fugelsang, Jonathan

  • The role of intuitive and analytic thinking on the illusion of truth (2017)
  • Promoting analogical reasoning with mental construal (2017)
  • Enhanced expressive writing as a method of alleviating math anxiety (2017)

Grossmann, Igor

  • Training self-distancing strategies to promote wise reasoning (2017)
  • The role of self-distancing for emotional experiences depends on trust (2017)
  • Emotional complexity and wellbeing cross-culturally (2017)

Henderson, Heather

  • The Effect of Similarity in Temperamental Surgency on Dyadic Interaction Quality and Performance Anxiety in 10-year olds (2017)
  • Everyday executive functioning behaviours of siblings of children with autism during a clean-up task (2016)

Itier, Roxane

  • Examining the effect of face size and fixation location on the N170 ERP component (2017)

  • The impact of emotionally expressive gaze cues on memory (2016)

  • Fixations to specific emotional facial features and the N170 event-related potential (2014)

Kelly, Allison

  • Denial, acceptance, challenge or "flexibility-encouragement:" what is the best response to fat talk? (2017)
  • Investigating the moderating role of emotional closeness to social comparison targets on response to self-help strategies for body image (2016)
  • The Relationship between intervention attitudes and ultimate intervention outcomes (2016)

Koehler, Derek

  • Inducing analytic thought: a dual process examination (2017)
  • Are intuitive tasks easy? the impact of cognitive load on strategy implementation in a binary choice task (2017)
  • Evaluating the Effect of Checklists on Rationality. (2016)

MacLeod, Colin

  • Shapes, tones and associations: exploring cross-modal contingency learning (2017)
  • Context and production in Memory (2016)
  • Cost benefit analysis of the production effect (2013)

McAuley, Tara

  • Emotional reactivity as a moderator of the effect of mood on response inhibition (2017)
  • The effect of ADHD traits on binge-watching behaviour (2017)
  • The effect of sibship on executive functioning (2015)

McGregor, Ian

  • How Trait BIS and BAS Affect Self-Control (2017)
  • The Effect of Agreeableness on Relationship Conflict and Intervention (2017)

Michela, John

  • Inducing UX intent: application of an expanded model of career choice intervention (2017)
  • Personal values and attraction to careers (2016)
  • Organizational vision support through value congruence (2013)

Moscovitch, David

  • Generate closeness or make a good impression? The impact of interpersonal mindsets on self-focused attention and social outcomes in high vs. low socially anxious participants (2017)

  • Web based micro-interventions for social anxiety: how helpful is a single guided session of individualized CBT case conceptualization? (2016)

  • Embarrassing oneself or bothering others: The locus of concern in social anxiety (2015)

Nilsen, Elizabeth

  • The social consequences of errors in communicative perspective taking (2016)
  • The paralinguistic behaviours of mothers in social interaction for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (2013)
  • Executive functioning, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) symptoms, and social interactions (2011)

Oakman, Jonathan

  • Distinguishing inferential confusion from threat appraisals in obsessive-compulsive cognition (2017)
  • The use of emotion-regulation strategies after a negative event (2017)
  • Specification-curve analysis: an application and evaluation (2017)

O'Neill, Daniela

  • The effects of electronic toys on parent-child talk (2012)
  • Relations between narrative ability and pattern abstraction in preschoolers. (2011)

Purdon, Christine

  • The role of self-mistrust and sensitive self-views in OCD symptom severity in a clinical sample (2017)
  • Guilt and the spectrum of self-other compassion (2017)
  • Verbalization during compulsions in OCD (2014)

Rehman, Uzma

  • Understanding barriers to sexual communication (2017)
  • The association between executive functioning skills and interpersonal behaviour in older married couples: An observational study (2015)
  • Life stress and sexual outcomes (2015)

Rempel, John (St. Jerome's)

  • Diminishing the hate motive without harming the hated target (2017)
  • Love your enemies: the effect of positive behaviour on experiences of hate and dislike (2012)
  • Self-justification: justifying a conceptual framework (2012)

Risko, Evan

  • Learning styles: what people prefer versus what helps them learn(2017)
  • What tricks does the Internet play on memory and judgments of learning? (2017)
  • Determinants of confidence in information retrieved from an external source (2016)

Rye, B.J. (St. Jerome's)

  • The relation between sexual identity and psychological well-being: a gendered analysis (2017)
  • Striving for perfection from the outside in: a proposed relationship between appearance investment, identity, and acceptance of cosmetic enhancements (2015)
  • Attitudes toward transgenderism (2014)

Scholer, Abigail

  • Redirecting the focus: investigating the effects of time horizon perspectives on regulatory focus state motivations (2017)
  • Consequences of loss: regulatory focus and risky behaviour across domains (2014)
  • Switch or persist? The role of regulatory focus on goal management after failure (2014)

Serafini, Toni (St. Jerome's)

  • Striving for perfection from the outside in: a proposed relationship between appearance investment, identity, and acceptance of cosmetic enhancements (2015)
  •  Exploring the construct erotophobia-erotophilia: trait or attitude? (2011)
  • Bisexuality as a sexual moratorium: exploring the relationship between ego identity and sexual identity (2009)

Shen, Winny

  • Do just actions beget just evaluations for supervisors with intersectional identities (2017)
  • Sex differences in perceptions of work-family conflict and associated emotions: an experimental approach (2017)
  •  A case for a more dynamic,  within-person model of workplace impression management (2016)

Smilek, Dan

  • The next-in-line effect: extending prior research into new environments (2017)
  • Does increasing opportunities to media multitask lead to more media multitasking? (2017)
  • An investigation of flow in mind wandering (2016)

Spencer, Stephen

  • How the belief's of one's cognitive capacity can effect depletion levels after an interracial interaction (2013)
  • Defensive high self-esteem and power: a combination for self-entitlement (2012)
  • Do cosmetic products help or hinder self-esteem in women? (2012)

Stolz, Jennifer

  • The over-interpretation of abstract art (2017)

  • Evolution's rle in lying and lie detection (2017)

  • Building a monte carlo simulator to predict performance on a time estimation task (2016)

White, Katherine

  • She said grawss, not gruhss: do toddlers show long-term memory for a talker’s specific accent characteristics? (2016)
  • The effect of language experience on visual coding (2016)
  • I remember thee, uh blicket! – how disfluencies influence children’s memory of novel words (2016)

Wood, Joanne

  • Relationship disclosure in threatened individuals: differences between high self-esteem and low self-esteem individuals (2016)
  • To share or not to share? The effect of relationship threats vs. affirmations and self-esteem on the likelihood and enthusiasm of capitalization attempts (2016)
  • Self-esteem and negative expressivity in romantic relationships (2015)

Woody, Erik

  • Does hostility subvert reciprocity? The relationship between affiliation and control in interpersonal complementarity(2013)
  • The relation of patterns of clients’ and therapists’ warmth to the therapeutic alliance (2013)
  • Segmented coding of responsiveness in dyadic discussions on experiences about a cardiac arrest (2012)

Updated: June 29, 2017