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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...
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A Replication of “The Experience of Ethical Dilemmas, Burnout, and Stress Among Practicing Counselors”
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This study is a replication and expansion on the study completed by Mullen, Morris, and Lord in 2017 which aimed to determine how experience and reflection on ethical dilemmas impacts burnout amongst counselors. One hundred, sixty-four counselors completed an in-person survey that measured...
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An examination of defensive accommodation to threat: exploring the conditions under which people will modify their protective beliefs
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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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Canadian Public Perspective of the Canadian Psychological Association's Code of Ethics for Psychologists Principle Ranking
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A professional code of ethics guides professionals in their ethical decision-making, and is also intended to protect the public from harm that may result from the activities of that profession. The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) created a Code of Ethics for Psychologists with four...
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Spring 2022
How does the brain represent musical properties? Even with our growing understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of music (Abbott, 2002; Peretz and Zatorre, 2003; Peretz and Zatorre, 2005; Zatorre and McGill, 2005), the answer to this question remains unclear. One method for conceiving possible...
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Fall 2019
The popularity of mindset theory has resulted in a surge of mindset interventions in the school systems (e.g., Brainology©). Nonetheless, Carol Dweck has recently emphasized that holding a growth mindset is much more than simply “positive thinking” and instead requires much more effort than...
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Learning Disabilities and Methodologies of Harm: Indigeneity, Pathologization, and Ambiguity in the Psychological Disciplines
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In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and the Psychological Foundation of Canada (PFC) issued a joint statement identifying the harms that psychological research and intervention have caused Indigenous communities, while...
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Older Adults and Generativity: Developmental, Experimental, and Clinical Advances in Terror Management Theory
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Terror Management Theory (TMT) (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) offers an empirical framework to explore how human beings function despite their fear of death. TMT studies have shown that in order to buffer death anxiety, people strive to meet the standards of their cultural worldview. ...
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On the Public Spaces of Resistance: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and the Material Conditions for Critique
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In this dissertation I adopt a broad phenomenological perspective in order to develop in outline a ‘new materialism’ that facilitates the thinking of public space as a condition for political resistance. The project is motivated by recent movements such as Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo...
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Fall 2010
When stress becomes distress, people seek to decrease their psychological pain using methods that seem convenient and appropriate. In an increasingly technology-based society, the Internet provides opportunities for individuals in distress to seek information and connections with others. Research...