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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Two years ago our team undertook a small “side” project exploring the experience of grief among the IranianCanadian community in Edmonton in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Flight 752 tragedy that took the life of 176 passengers, and affected the Edmonton community...
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Mobilizing Mindsets: The Effects of Growth Mindset Messaging on Elementary Students' Emotions
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Sierra L. P. Tulloch, Bryce S. Dueck, Lauren D. Goegan, Nigel M. Lou, Morgan Klevyer, Darren Sweeney, Sarah Holmgren, Kimberly A. Noels, Lia M. Daniels
Evidence generally supports a positive association between growth mindset and academic outcomes, even if the experimental evidence for growth mindset interventions precisely is somewhat more tenuous. This is promising as the concept of growth mindsets have grown in popularity with a proliferation...
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09/15/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Moving the needle toward pro-climate action requires better understanding of the antecedents to personal and collective climate behavior. Our research questions include the following: 1. How do personal and intersectional attributes shape emotion-cognition pathways to...
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Investigating Human Brain Function and Human Brain Organization Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 4.7 T
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Understanding the brain-cognition association has been a major goal of neuroscientists for more than 50 years. The discovery of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast by Ogawa and colleagues (1990, 1992) has fundamentally transformed the field of...
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Spring 2017
This dissertation explores philosophical issues in autism and defends a new version of the enactive approach to autism and social cognition. The discussion in this dissertation centres around the question “why do autistics encounter social interaction problems?”, addressing this question in ways...
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Examining Practicing Teachers’ Cognitions and Emotions Towards Students with FASD Using Attribution Theory
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The importance of teachers’ emotions has been well-established in educational research, particularly when confronted with challenging student behaviour. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) impact many Canadian children, and these students are likely to experience difficulty in the classroom....
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2016-11-01
Thank you to the 139 students in EDPY 304 who participated in this research on emotions and immediate test score feedback. Below are some initial results that we found from the data and that we think you might find interesting. Any questions or comments can be directed to acme@ualberta.ca.
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"Just Breathing Isn't Living": Disability and Constructions of Normalcy in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
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This study seeks to demonstrate the ways in which disability is negatively and stereotypically presented in classic children’s literature and how it is used to prescribe constructions of normalcy. Although disability studies have become an increasingly popular avenue for critical study, one...
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Spring 2015
Believable, realistic video game character behaviour continues to lag behind the improvements in graphics, stories and game play in video games. In this dissertation we focus on the use of two techniques, emotional gaits and emotional incidents, as a way to add easily identifiable, non-verbal,...