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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
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Anger Is A Feeling Too: An exploration of emotional work and the effects of gender based Emotional Language Competency development in heterosexual relationships
DownloadSpring 2024
In order to maintain or regain harmony in a romantic relationship, couples must carry out emotional work. It is possible that this work is not equitably distributed across both partners. A number of emotions have been gendered and stigmatized within society over the evolution of humanity with...
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Culture and Decision: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Variations in Resource Allocation between European Canadians and East Asians
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People engage in a variety of decision making tasks in daily life, in which people’s experiences and strategies during the decision making tasks are affected by cultural influences. The primary objective of this dissertation was to examine the role of analytic versus holistic thinking styles on...
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Fall 2014
Research on cultural products suggest that there are substantial cultural variations between East Asian and Western landscape masterpieces from the 15th to 19th centuries and contemporary members’ landscape artwork (Masuda, Gonzalez, Kwan, & Nisbett, 2008), and that these cultural differences in...
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The Development and Transmission of Culturally Unique Attentional Styles in Canada and Japan: A Demonstration of Children’s Cultural Learning and Parents’ Scaffolding Behaviors
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Accumulating evidence suggests systematic cross-cultural differences in patterns of attention, such that North American adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more selective and object-oriented, while East Asian adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more diffused and context-sensitive. ...
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Fall 2016
Recent cultural psychological theory proposes that social orientation differences lead to general differences in attention. Whereas independent cultures (i.e., European Canadians) are thought to see the self as separate from its context, or more generally, process the world analytically and...
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Spring 2011
Previous works suggest that North Americans perceive visual information more analytically while East Asians perceive visual information more holistically. However, salient objects are also known to naturally attract human attention. Current studies examined to what extent culture influences...