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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Chen, Jiawen
- 2Evans, Annabel Ness
- 2Fang, Shichen
- 2Hall, David L.
- 2Heller, Robert Barry
- 2Hensch, Shirley-Anne.
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An examination of defensive accommodation to threat: exploring the conditions under which people will modify their protective beliefs
DownloadFall 2011
Although terror management research has focused extensively on defensive responses to threat such as derogation, scant research to date has assessed alternative responses. One such alternative, termed accommodation, involves accepting and incorporating parts of the threatening information into...
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Fall 2014
The present research examined social motivation in dementia within the theoretical framework of socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Carstensen, 2006). SST is a lifespan theory of social motivation that argues goal selection and pursuit are inextricably related to perceived time remaining in...
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An Examination of the Interaction Between Hormonal Contraceptive Use, Behaviour, and Psychology
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The objective of the following studies was to investigate the associations of hormonal contraceptives (HC) with several psychological, behavioural, and hormonal variables. Previous research has suggested that HCs may be linked with a wide variety of changes in women, including increases in...
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An Exploratory Study of Ethnic Differences in Parent Cultural Socialization Practices and Children’s Experiences of Peer Ethnic Victimization
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Research suggests that visible ethnic minority parents engage in cultural socialization practices and that visible ethnic minority children experience peer ethnic victimization more often than ethnic majority Caucasian children. Limited research has assessed ethnic differences in the construct...
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Spring 2012
Modern experience is replete with expressions of spatiality. When people try to express their experience for others, they rely centrally upon spatial metaphors to make sense of things. Expressions of being “aimless” or “disoriented” in life, “close” to or “distant” from other people, “inner” and...
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An investigation of sex differences in acoustic features of the chick-a-dee call of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)
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The chick-a-dee call of the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is composed of four main note types (A, B, C, and D) that occur in a fixed order. Sex differences have been identified in a number of black-capped chickadee vocalizations (including tseet calls and fee-bee songs) and in the...