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2014-10-07
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: Companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple have turned emerging technologies into pervasive products by quickly capturing dominant market shares and locking consumers into their eco-systems. Prior research has indicated that "cognitive lock-in" plays a...
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09/22/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research aims to understand the importance of collective memory and collective identity to the resilience and self-organization of nine Indigenous nations and communities across Canada on Turtle Island (North America). Specifically, the research focuses on processes of...
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Developing, Implementing and Evaluating a Mental Health Training Program for Police Officers
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Interactions between police and individuals suffering from mental illness are very frequent. Police forces are regularly first responders to those with mental illness. Unfortunately, on occasion interactions are violent and sometimes fatal. Despite this, training police how to best interact with...
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2019-10-15
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: Social desirability bias (SDB) is a significant threat to the validity of organizational research because it can inflate, attenuate, or moderate structural relationships depending on the testing situation, the questioning methods employed, individual differences in the...
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Ease of Imagination, Message Framing and Physical Activity Messages
2010
Abstract: Objectives. The purpose of this research was to replicate a study that examined how message framing and ease of imagination interact to influence attitudes towards the prevention of heart disease through physical activity and a healthy diet. Changes were made such that only physical...
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Employee Attitudes on Corporate Social Responsibility at the Frontline Level of an Energy Transportation Company
DownloadSpring 2014
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects the commitment businesses voluntarily undertake to integrate ethical behaviors and societal matters within their operating contexts, decision-making processes, strategies and corporate values while simultaneously maximizing economic objectives. As...
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Employer attitudes and the employment of people with disabilities: an exploratory study using the Ambivalence Amplification Theory
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Labor force statistics and other evidence have demonstrated that people with disabilities are under-represented in the work place in Canada and abroad. While an assortment of factors likely contributes to this disparity, the attitudes of employers towards hiring people with disabilities are often...
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English Canadian stereotyping of ethnic groups: The implications of warmth and competence stereotypes for intergroup affect, behaviour and attitudes
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This study examined the stereotypes, affect, behaviours and attitudes held by 167 English Canadian university students toward 16 ethnic groups. Participants completed a questionnaire which assessed their perceptions of each group’s competence and warmth (derived from the Stereotype Content Model;...