This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Exploring Engagement with the EcoSchools Platform: An Interactive Display Board Exploratory Evaluation, Kaitlyn E. Ashmore
Variables Related to School Readiness Among Canadian Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptomology, Carlye Brokl
Children's Peer Selection in STEM: The Influence of Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability, Meagan Girard and Kim P. Roberts
The Effects of Environmental Complexity on Brain Development and Personality Expression in Western Hognose Snakes, Gokulan Nagabaskaran
Adapting to Uncertainty: Effects of Environmental Instability on Zebrafish Behaviour, Britney Sekulovski
Exploring Parent-Child Reminiscing Style and Internal-State Talk When Discussing Positive and Negative Shared Events, Komal Verma Miss.
Neural Correlates of Cognitive Fatigue in Regular Cannabis Users and Non-users: A Pilot fNIRS Study, Mariia Vistyzenko
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
The Perceived Frequency and Effects of Multilingual Communication in Youth and Adolescent Soccer, Simao M. Araujo
A Pilot Study Examining Children’s Evaluations and Reasoning About Concealment and Instrumental Forms of Antisocial Lying, Noah Battaglia
Children's Interpretation of Others' Faces Covered with Medical Masks, Sevval Cinar
Legislating Trans Lives: An Archival Analysis on Trans Canadian Rights, Charlie E. C. Davis
Learning in Virtual Environments with Varying Levels of Sensory Information, Maryam Derayati Far
Measuring Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Victimization: Scale Development and Validation, Amanda N. Godes
Social Behavior & Personality in Corn Snakes, Maggie-Rose Johnston
2SLGBTQ+ Contact as a Vehicle for Promoting Alternative Sexual Scripts Through Exposure to Queer and Trans Ways of Knowing, Sophie R. Landry
Moral Identity: From Theory to Research, Jean Paul Lefebvre
Unraveling the Role of Posterior Parietal and Retrosplenial Cortices on Social Approach Behaviours, Mckenna I. Lowrie
Individual Differences in the Evolution of Strategies in Spatial Problem Solving, Jade T. Moussa
The Echoes of Heartbreak: Shaping Confidence in Future Relationships Through Metaperceptions of the Past, Anika P. Patychuk
Co-Creation, Interpretations and Engagement with a Movement-Based Symbol for Climate Justice: A Qualitative Inquiry, Kai Reimer-Watts
The Influence of Self-Efficacy on Support Provision in People with Low Self-Esteem, Daniella Rinaldo
THE BODY’S “Why?”: THERAPISTS’ EMBODIED APPROACHES TO MEANING-MAKING IN TRAUMA AND COMPLEX PTSD, Tanya D. Rock
Don’t Stop Believin’: Emotion Beliefs and Daily Affective Experiences across Adulthood, Jocelyn A. Rutledge
Exploring the Role of Collective Narcissism and Ideology in Support for Reparations, Melih Can Sahin
The role of the individual in animal collectives, Tanya T. Shoot
Knowledge, Efficacy, and Experience in Components of STEM Education: The Impact of Teacher Professional Development, Emily Krysten Marilyn Spencer-Mueller
Re-imagining Care for Aging Disabled Adults, Caitlin L. Tizzard
Examining the Impact of Early Literacy Interventions on Teachers’ and Parents’ Learning and Perceptions of Early Literacy Development, Abigael Mary Hogarth Todd Miss
Technology-Enhanced Professional Development for Early Literacy: A Comparative Study of Online Teacher Learning Models in Kenya, Constanza Uribe-Banda
Evaluating the credibility of online websites: A digital information literacy program, Emily C. Wood and Kim P. Roberts
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
PROPOSING A LIBERATORY PRAXIS FOR COMMUNITY WELLBEING AND MENTAL HEALTH IN LEBANON, Ramy Barhouche
Historical to Contemporary: Afro-Indigenous Experiences of Public Education and Gendered Violence in Colonial Canada, Ann Marie Beals
The Role of Care Webs in Sustaining Engagement and Well-being among Marginalized Emerging Adults Involved in Climate Justice Activism, Vincent Boisclair
Freedom of Emotional Expression: Exploring the Effects of Emotional Expression Restriction on Marginalized Identities, Erik Caceros
Is Trust a Zero-Sum Game? What Happens When Institutional Sources Get It Wrong, Andrew Dawson
Exploring the Transition from Childhood to Adulthood for Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Lauren Gnat
Grammatical Aspect, Temporal Adverbs, and Situation Models, Valerie Hemeon
The influence of visual perspective on the cognitive effort required for mental representation, Jeffrey P. Hong
Meta-Understanding: Implications for Psychological Well-Being in Diverse Communities, Ting Hsueh
Language Acquisition, Mental Health, and Acculturation among Migrants in Canada, Ali Jasemi
Moving Forward While Looking Back: How Expectations of Future Success are Linked with Past Experiences, Claire Jordan
Predictors of Canadians’ Psychological Well-Being in Retirement: A Mixed Methods Approach, Jessica Miller
Exploring The Impacts of Urban Mixed Nation Gathering Places on Urban Indigenous Peoples’ Wellbeing, Jazlyn O'Bonsawin
Overcoming the unseen: Understanding diverse Canadian workers’ well-being during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Tyler M. Pacheco
Addressing Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy, Rajni Sharma
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME: EMPATHY, COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL, AND MEDIA SOURCES, Gillian Sherman
Disentangling Counter-Empathy: Scale Development and Structural Analysis of an Emerging Construct, Jake Siamro
Social Interaction, Social Cognition, and Personality in Gartersnakes and Ball pythons, Morgan Skinner
Workplace Wellbeing and Sense of Mattering Among Small and Medium Enterprise Workers in Canada, Kyle Smilovsky
Parental evaluations and choice of math apps for their young children: Exploring the impact of individual differences, Nicola Urquhart
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Inspirational Bullshit: The Good, the Bad, and the Vacuous, Esther Abel
Vapourized Cannabis Extract Administration Impairs Memory and Alters Neural Activity in Laboratory Rats, Megan Chladny
Experiences of quality of life among youth experiencing homelessness, mental health problems, and addictions, Wilsy Choudhary
Transformations Towards Just Urban Sustainabilities: A community psychology approach to analyzing and fostering urban changes, Bianca C. Dreyer
A Close Look at the Connections Between Mental-State Talk, Theory of Mind, and Source Monitoring During Parent-Child Reminiscing of Emotional Events, Mallory Earnshaw
Intermittent sucrose access: Sweetness versus calories, Jarret Folmer and Rudy Eikelboom
The Contribution of Phonological Overlap to the Cognate Effect: An Event-Related Potential Study of Persian-English Bilinguals, Zahra Fotovatnia
The Long-term Effects of Cannabis on Attention to Motion, Rachel McCaig
The Power of Dissent: Mitigating False Polarization and Cross-Party Dislike in Online Interactions, Victoria Parker
Examining the Effects of Noise and Task Dependent Performance in Prosody Perception in Autistic Individuals, Zehranur Sasal
How narcissism relates to perceived conflict and cooperation in social situations, Sydney Sharp
Distinctiveness and Similarity: How the Sub-Trait Facets of the Big Five Self-Organize to Create Personality Types, Jonathan Thiessen
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Community stress and resilience during covid-19: Assessing the emotional profile of the City of Hamilton using a social media analysis, Senyo Agbeyaka
Relationships Between Executive Functioning, Memory, and Source Judgements on Children’s Responses to Online Advertising, Samantha Barbosa
Impression Management Among Municipal Employees as a Barrier to Engagement: An Explorative Study, Alicia Bevan
Inducing Kindness to Cope with Social Stress: Comparing Self-Compassion with Cognitive Reappraisal, Cortney Burnham
How Narcissism Relates to (Non-) Cooperation, Christopher Chinn
An Examination of External Threats on Romantic Behaviour in People with Low Self-Esteem, Melanie Christoforou
Feeling Fat: Theorizing Intergenerational Body Narratives Through Affect, Katie Cook
B-SURE (Bereavement Support Research): The Differential Experiences of Peer and Professional Support in Grief, Andrea Crowley
The Avian Hippocampal Declarative Memory System, Chelsey C. Damphousse
Thinking About Making a Connection: Exploring the Role of Metacognition in Recognition Memory for Associative Information, Mario E. Doyle
An Exploration on the Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Services Among South Asian Youth, Oeishi Faruquzzaman
The Electrophysiological Correlates of Text Integration and Direct vs. Indirect Articles: A Centralized and Lateralized Examination, Deanna C. Hall
Exploring individuals’ views on the malleability of their moral self-concept, Steven Hertz
First Language Loss and Maintenance in Adolescents and Young Adults from Immigrant Backgrounds, Wanxin Li
AGENTS AT WORK: MODELING HOW SPACE CAN INFLUENCE PEOPLE IN THE WORKPLACE, Jovan Poposki
Examining harm reduction in Housing First for youth experiencing homelessness and concurrent mental health and substance use issues, Victoria Rozycki
“What if this happiness doesn’t last forever?”: Stressors faced by racialized SOGIE refugees, Moni Sadri-Gerrior
Using Online Training Modules to Enhance Parents' Early Literacy Training Skills and Understanding, Ayodele Sanni
The Impact of Social Media Influencers on Emerging Adults, Avnee Sharma
Impact of Inducing Self-Compassion on the use of Safety Behaviours in Social Situations, Kamila Szczyglowski