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Spring 2019

Shillabeer, Evan J

Cultural psychology has typically viewed culture as an abstract system of rules that are first internalized and then employed individually. Lev Vygotsky has been largely mobilized in cultural psychology to support such an account via emphasis on the priority of semiotic mediation and the role of...

Spring 2012

Lepine, Christopher B

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...

Spring 2011

Bakker, Colin

Charles Taylor writes that identity emerges from the reflection upon, and articulation of one’s lived experience. This account of identity precludes psychology from taking a natural science approach to the study of ‘identity’, or ‘the self’. Psychology has emerged within secular society, and...

Spring 2010

Cresswell, James

Theorists who endeavor to take sociality seriously have made substantial strides, but the phenomenological immediacy of experience has not been well explored or sufficiently addressed. This dissertation proposes an approach to cultural psychology that accounts for such experience. It addresses...

Fall 2018

Enns, Robyn

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is thought to be the far end of a spectrum of behaviours that include individuals from the neurotypical population. Characteristics associated with ASD are autistic-like traits such as decreased social skill and acute attention to detail. Language difficulties,...