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Emotions and actions: eco-anxiety and pro-environmental behaviours
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-12-23)In 2017, the APA published a guide describing the mental health issues associated with climate change, including rising rates of stress, depression, and anxiety. The guide highlighted ways that psychologists can support ... -
Supporting resilience: investigating social support as a mediator of resilience in RCMP members
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2000-08-26)Background: In a Canada-wide survey of public safety personnel, Royal Canadian Mounted Police members (RCMP) scored especially high on screening measures of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), posttraumatic stress disorder ... -
Social and cognitive predictors of cognitive restructuring
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04-24)Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an efficacious treatment for many forms of psychiatric disorders; however, and despite its efficacy, a substantial minority of patients do not benefit from CBT. As such, there is a ... -
Multiple perpetrator crime: examining the impact of cognitive load during memory retrieval on eyewitness testimony during multiple perpetrator crimes
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Eyewitnesses are a very important part of police investigations and they play a prominent role in the criminal justice system. Judges and jurors hold what eyewitnesses say in high regard and, for this reason, eyewitness ... -
Are we more receptive to bullshit when it comes from a source we trust?
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)The current work sought to explore the relationship between trust and pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity. There is currently a gap in the literature when considering how trust in a source will impact an individual’s ... -
Image preference biases on manual and oculomotor tasks in preliterate children
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04-28)Pseudoneglect is a leftward spatial bias that is observed in neurotypical people, or people with no known brain damage (Bowers & Heilman, 1980). Line bisection tasks are commonly used to investigate this phenomenon that ... -
Language Effects on Children’s Opinions of Snakes
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04-18)As a society we can express fears over many things, with this fear sometimes escalating into a phobia indicating an even higher level of fear. However, knowing what is causing these fears and phobias has received much ... -
Effects of acute stress on emotion recognition in the menstrual cycle
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)The early follicular menstrual cycle phase is associated with enhanced female emotion recognition performance compared to the midluteal phase, likely due to differing estradiol and progesterone levels. Acute stress appears ... -
Linking contingent self-worth and terror management theory
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Self-esteem has been shown to act as a buffer between the self and death anxiety. Consequently, lowering self-esteem results in an increase of death anxiety. This basic hypothesis of Terror Management Theory (TMT) has been ... -
Can we hear it and does it matter?: examining the relationship between attention, music perception, and emotional responses to auditory stimuli
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Music is an inherently emotional feat of human creativity. Previous studies of music perception have followed the path of speech perception research, in which subjects were asked to simultaneously attend to multiple signals ... -
Perceptions of child witnesses: the impact of priming on adults’ perception of children’s credibility
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Adults, specifically police officers, jurors, judges, teachers, and parents, are often tasked with judging the credibility of children’s reports of an event. Those same individuals, who have a duty to be unbiased when ... -
Implementation and systematic evaluation of a knowledge translation initiative for improved pain management and assessment in dementia
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Pain is highly prevalent in older adults with dementia. Despite this, pain is routinely underassessed and undertreated in this population. Although a wealth of research has been produced in this area, transforming evidence ... -
Exploring the relationships among physical activity, social media use, and eating behaviours
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)According to the tripartite influence model of disordered eating, individuals develop disordered eating behaviours because they feel pressured by social agents to conform to appearance ideals, they engage in social comparison, ... -
Comparing traditional video game controls with eye tracking controls
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Videogame controllers have retained their general, two-handed shape for nearly 40 years. While this basic controller form works well for a lot of people, it is not inclusive or accessible for everyone. Those whose needs ... -
The understanding of arithmetic concepts across grades
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)The development of a firm grasp of arithmetic principles follows a conceptual understanding of the concepts in question, which helps in simplifying computation and eliminating errors that may occur during calculation. The ... -
Restorative justice: implications of categorization for reintegration into society
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04-20)The current study investigates the social categorization of offenders in the context of Allport’s (1954) contact hypothesis. Often members of society place labels on others they consider different from themselves, the ... -
Understanding the impact of institutional betrayal on individuals’ perceptions of authority
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Individuals’ perceptions and attitudes towards authority figures are determined by the nature of their interactions with this group of individuals (Chow, 2012). Studies have indicated that the way people feel about authority ... -
Illusion of explanatory depth and its (lack of) influence on the propensity to share fake news
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)When sharing news content online, people tend not to think critically about the headline veracity (Pennycook et al., 2019). Further, reasoning can be nullified by overconfidence (Pennycook & Rand, 2019). We hypothesized ... -
Examining heart rate variability and anxiety in children and adolescents with congenital heart disease
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04)Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a term which includes a range of developmental cardiac diseases with severe health impacts. In the past, research has solely focused on improving medical outcomes for individuals with CHD ... -
Examining the impact of list size and false memories on retrieval-induced forgetting
(Faculty of Arts, University of Regina, 2020-04-16)When the successful practice and retrieval of a target memory suppresses its closely associated competitors, the cognitive phenomenon known as Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF) has been indicated. RIF is observed in various ...
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