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Vanessa Huyder's thesis is entitled: "Learning to cooperate: The impact of executive functioning, theory of mind and externalizing behaviours on children's social functioning."

Vanessa’s thesis is available to view in Rita Cherkewski’s office (PAS 3028).

All are welcome to attend.

Stephanie Waechter's thesis is entitled: "Anxiety and attention to threat: The psychometric properties of attentional bias scores"

Stephanie’s thesis is available to view in Rita Cherkewski’s office (PAS 3028).

All are welcome to attend.

Reactive Approach Motivation for Religious Zeal

Evidence from laboratory experiments reveals that: 1. Anxious and approach motivated people respond to various anxiety-related threats with a generalized surge in approach motivation. 2. The same combination of traits and threats heightens zeal for religious beliefs and willingness to die, support war, and go to extremes for it.

Please join us as we welcome our second speaker, Alison Chasteen, from the University of Toronto. Alison Chasteen conducts research on prejudice and social stigma across the adult lifespan. She will be speaking about the social and psychological aspects of aging.

Complimentary lunches will be provided for attendees who have requested a lunch. You can request a lunch by e-mailing Igor Grossmann at igrossmann@uwaterloo.ca.

Kevin Leung's thesis is entitled: "Inducing Support for Organizational Visions Through Person-Visions Congruence in Values and Identity."

Kevin’s thesis is available to view in Rita Cherkewski’s office (PAS 3028).

All are welcome to attend.

Pierina Cheung's thesis is entitled: "The Nature of Representations of Number in Early Childhood: Numerical Comparison as a Case Study"

All are welcome to attend.

David Kille's thesis is entitled: "Who Gets You Going and Who Keeps You Going: Motivational Relevance Determines Role Model Effectiveness"

All are welcome to attend.

Cancelled

Worms are fascinating because of how efficiently they can participate in the recycling process of so much of what humans dispose of as “garbage”. They can eat our scraps of food waste and turn it into extremely nutritious fertilizer. Through construction, erosion and other actions, we are losing our healthy topsoil in massive amounts. Worm composting along with other forms of composting encourages the replenishing of the soil. By using

Data Wrangling in Organizational Science

The data organizational scientists work with are rapidly increasing in magnitude, velocity, and complexity. Data errors and analytic mistakes are, concomitantly, more likely. To motivate the talk, recent high visibility data and data analysis mistakes will be highlighted. Then examples of large, complex data will be presented. The remainder of the talk will focus on data 'best practices' emphasizing data fidelity testing, data cleaning, data scoring, and restructuring data into 'Tidy' form.

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PhD Oral Defence - Vanessa Huyder

PhD Oral Defence - Stephanie Waechter

Psychology Colloquium Series - Dr. Ian McGregor

Reactive Approach Motivation for Religious Zeal

Successful Aging Speaker Series - Alison Chasteen

PhD Oral Defence - Kevin Leung

PhD Oral Defence - Pierina Cheung

PhD Oral Defence - David Kille

Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Betsy Paluck

The Worm Wrangler - All About Vermicomposting

Psychology I/O Colloquium presents Richard P. DeShon, Michigan State University

Data Wrangling in Organizational Science