Browsing Psychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality) by Issue Date
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The Effects of Ostracism on Self-Regulation for Sociotropic and Autonomous Individuals
(2014-07-09)The present study investigated individual differences in the relation between ostracism and self-regulation. Previous research shows that being excluded leads to reduced performance on tasks that require self-regulation. ... -
Space Invaders: Examining the Effects of Portable Music Players on Perceived Crowding
(2014-07-09)An invasion of personal space occurs when levels of contact with others exceed desired levels of contact and can lead to feelings of crowding, anxiety and stress. The current study investigated whether the use of portable ... -
Retaliatory Aggressive Driving: A Justice Perspective
(2015-01-26)Aggressive driving behaviours such as rude hand gestures, horn honking, tailgating, or causing damage to another vehicle continue to be a threat to motorist well-being. Based on the General Aggression Model and the ... -
The Effects of Power and Assurance of No Future Transgressions on Post-Transgression Responses
(2015-01-26)The primary aim of this Dissertation was to investigate the effect of power on victims’ decision to seek revenge against, or hold a grudge against, or forgive the transgressor following a transgression. The secondary aim ... -
Racial Stereotypes, Identity, and Identity Denial among East Asian Canadians
(2015-01-26)The model minority stereotype ascribes East Asian minorities with positive characteristics such as intelligent and hardworking, and at the same time, with negative traits like socially-awkward and emotionally-reserved. ... -
Forlorn and Fervent: Religious Radicalization of the Meek
(2015-08-28)Compensatory Control Theory posits that the belief in an orderly and willed world that is under the control of external or personal forces is an innate human need, and people will use whatever sources of control are at ... -
The Effects of Post-Trangression Responses on Apology
(2015-08-28)Individuals struggle with offering an apology following a transgression. The present research examined how victims’ post-transgression response (PTR; forgiveness, grudge, revenge) interacts with PTR expression (direct and ... -
Having the Time of Our Lives? How Threat Appraisal is Influenced by the Subjective Nature of Time
(2015-12-16)Temporal construal is the cognitive process that determines an event’s location in time and the experience of its distance from the present. The greater the temporal distance, the more likely events are represented in ... -
Cultural Differences in Indecisiveness
(2015-12-16)East Asians endorse naïve dialecticism, a lay belief system that tolerates contradictory information (Peng & Nisbett, 1999). Accordingly, individuals of East Asian (vs. European) cultural backgrounds are more likely to ... -
Familial Abuse of South Asian Immigrant Women: Analysis of the Narratives of Victims
(2015-12-16)This qualitative study examines the familial violence experiences of South Asian immigrant women in Toronto. An important focus of the investigation was the contribution of honour ideology toward these experiences. Ten ... -
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Minority and Non-White Majority Children's Implicit Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups
(2015-12-16)In this research I aimed to increase our understanding of the early emergence of racial biases by examining the implicit racial attitudes of minority and non-White majority children in two cultures. In Study 1, minority ... -
Effects of Self-Distancing and Mindfulness Instructions on Anxiety and Approach Motivation
(2015-12-16)Two experiments tested the effects of self-distancing and mindfulness instructions on approach motivation and state anxiety. Following Kross and Ayduk (2011), we expected that the self-distancing and mindfulness instructions ... -
Are Bicultures More Than the Sum of Their Parts? Exploring Context Sensitivity in Relation to Cultural Frame Switching and Well-Being
(2016-09-20)Identifying with multiple cultures is increasingly common. In negotiating their two cultures, biculturals engage different cognitive systems depending on contextual cues a phenomenon called cultural frame switching. ... -
The Effect of Expectation and Intention on the Appreciation of Absurd Humour
(2016-11-25)Violations to our sense of meaning have traditionally been thought of as a source of anxiety and threat. However, meaning violations can also be a source of humour, as is evidenced by their abundant use within comedy in ... -
Inducing the Use of Racial Labels: The Impact of Defying Colourblind Norms on Explicit Prejudice
(2017-07-27)In society today, there exist strong norms against outwardly expressing prejudice and mentioning group differences such as race is often discouraged. Though people who act according to these colourblind norms appear to ... -
Pro-Black, Pro-White, or Proactive: Examining Predictors of Implicit Racial Bias in Black Participants
(2017-07-27)The majority of research examining implicit racial bias has focused on the biases held by White participants (Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004). By contrast, the implicit racial bias of minority group members has been largely ... -
The Influence of Self-Esteem on Reactions to Challenge and Threat
(2018-03-01)Abstract Stress has been described as a universal phenomenon, which results in distressing experiences that ultimately influence our behaviours. Whenever individuals encounter an event, they make an appraisal and may ... -
The Effect of Culture on Load and Distractor Processing
(2018-03-01)The present study examined perceptual load capacity as a potential mechanism that may contribute to visual attention differences between East Asians and North Americans. Participants identified targets in a low or high ... -
Police Response to Developmental Disability
(2018-03-01)Individuals with developmental disabilities (DD) are at considerable risk for encounters with the criminal justice system. This study examined the experiences and perceptions of people with DD, and caregivers of people ... -
Attitudes Towards Children of Divorce Among European Canadian and South Asian Canadian Young Adults: The Role of Divorce Norms and Cultural Identification
(2018-03-01)Since the latter half of the 20th century, divorce has become relatively common in individualist cultures (e.g., European countries), while it is still rather uncommon in collectivist cultures (e.g., South Asian countries). ...