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 2024
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
Predictors of Canadians’ Psychological Well-Being in Retirement: A Mixed Methods Approach, Jessica Miller
Addressing Racial Trauma in Psychotherapy, Rajni Sharma
Workplace Wellbeing and Sense of Mattering Among Small and Medium Enterprise Workers in Canada, Kyle Smilovsky
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
"If we're not loud, we're not cared for": Empowerment in transgender peoples' healthcare experiences, Chase Valiant
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
HOW DO YOU TALK TO YOURSELF? – THE EFFECTS OF PRONOUN USAGE AND INTERPERSONAL QUALITIES OF SELF-TALK, Sonya M. Bisol
Sucrose Solution Access Influences Intake Value in Rats, Adam Celejewski
A Tale of Two Tweets: What Factors Predict Forgiveness of Past Transgressions on Social Media?, Andrew Dawson
Bicultural Identity and Academic Achievement: The Second-Generation Immigrant Student Experience, Karimeh Haddad
Rainbow Writes: Peer-Led Creative Writing Groups’ Potential for Promoting 2SLGBTQ+ Youth Wellbeing, Ceilidh Harrison
Reducing Anticipatory Anxiety: Does Values-Affirmation Increase Self-Compassion?, elena harwood
A Low Self-Esteem Perspective on Support Provision, Alexandra Hirniak
How Did We Learn About Sex? —— Sex Education and Sexual Health in Chinese Youth, Yujuan Liu
The Perceived Deservingness of Narcissistic Individuals, Danielle Lynch
To Like or to Want? Exploring the Psychobiological Processes of Human Food Reward, Angela Mastroianni
Microaggressions and Microaffirmations Experienced by LGBTQ2S+ People with Disabilities, Kathleen McKee
Investigating the Use of Mental-State Talk in Parent-Child Joint Reminiscing and Storytelling on Children’s Source Monitoring, Holly Autumn Nelson
Reading in Kapampangan, Filipino, and English: A Look at Multilingual Children in an Economically Challenging Philippine Community, Portia Padilla
Investigating the Inhibition of the Return of Attention in the Tactile Domain, Robert Plax
MOTHER-CHILD SHARED STORY TELLING OF WORDLESS AND WORDED PICTURE BOOKS: A WITHIN-SUBJECT DESIGN STUDY OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, Katherine Reid and Alexandra Gottardo
Is it just a dream? How attributions for successful and unsuccessful social mobility attempts maintain the myth of the American Dream, Erin Shanahan
Cambridge-North Dumfries Ontario Health Team: An Exploratory Evaluation of Service Integration Planning, Megan Strazds-Esenbergs
"Learning" to Feel Valued: Exploring the Impact of Community Service Learning on Student Mattering and Mental Health, Emily Weatherhead
Attained and Retained Employment of Employees with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Ontario, Michelle Willson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Housing First Model for Youth and its Relation to Social Integration, Alexandra Amiri
A program implementation fidelity assessment of a Housing First program in Ontario, Steven Bigioni
Positive Wellbeing Among University Students from Diverse Communities: A Place-Based Approach, Kevin Bonnell
Examining Gender Differences in Perceptions of Pay Negotiation and Remuneration Among Late-Adolescents, Meghan Borg
Domain-Specific Self-Compassion in Individuals High versus Low in Social Anxiety, Leah Brassard
Social Transition, Coming Out, and Challenging Transnormativity: Non-Binary Experiences in Healthcare, Drew Burchell
There is No Free: An Indigenous Informed Perspective on Free, Prior and Informed Consent, Nicole Burns
The Inclusive Nature of Mindfulness-Based Practice: Does Executive Functioning Play a Role in Children's Mindful Experience?, Kaitlyn Butterfield
Exploring Young ACB Women’s Experiences of Navigating Sexual Health in the Greater Toronto Area., Natasha Afua Darko
SPATIAL MEMORY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN THE GOTO-KAKIZAKI RAT MODEL OF DIABETES, Lorielle Dietze
Picture This: The Effect of Imagery Perspective on Affective Forecasting, Giselle Durand
Using Our Past to Predict Our Future: Applying Reference Class Forecasting to Debias Individual Project Completion Predictions, Rebecca Friesdorf
What Makes an Image Memorable? Effects of Encoding on the Mechanism of Recognition, Asiya Gul
The role of life events in older women's psychosocial development and well-being, Taylor Hill
The Effects of Dorsal Lateral Telencephalon Lesions on Zebrafish Social Behaviour, Hailey Katzman
Narrating a Conscientization journey on Crime Prevention through Social Development, Carlos Luis Zatarain
Examining the longer-term impact of a home-visiting intervention program on the school readiness skills of English language learners in kindergarten, Michelle McCann
Age, Access, and Sweets-Motivation, Gehan Senthinathan
Reducing Meat Consumption: Drawing on Participatory Action Research to Explore Ways of Engaging in a Process of Meat Consumption Reduction, Brittany Spadafore
Transforming relations: Anishnawbe Natural Law in the “Ring of Fire”, Darren Thomas
Narcissistic worldview: How narcissism relates to perceptions of conflict and exploitative behaviour, Nicola Urquhart
(Subjective) Time Heals All Wounds: The Competing Roles of Objective and Subjective Time in Reactions to Past Events, Sarah L. Williams
An Evaluation of the Timeline as a Memory Retrieval Aid for Children’s Recall of Specific Details from a Repeated Event, Huan Huan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Connectedness to Nature and Pro-Environmental Behaviour from Early Adolescence to Adulthood: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Canada, Daniel Anderson
Free, Prior, and Informed Decision-Making About Proposed Development on Indigenous Territories in Northern Ontario, Courtney Arseneau
EXPLORING THE FEMALE AUTISM PHENOTYPE: PERSONAL IDENTITY FORMATION AND WELL-BEING IN AUTISTIC FEMALES, Erinn Nell Barry
Started from the future now we're here: The effect of planning direction on motivation, Kaylee Boulton
“INVISIBLE” PARENT EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESSNESS AND SEPARATION FROM THEIR CHILDREN IN CANADA, Rachel A. Caplan
Neurogenesis and Hippocampus- and Olfactory-Dependent Learning in the Goto-Kakizaki Rat, Alanna Chalk
Older Adults’ Social Networks and the Role of a Telephone Helpline Program, Harmanpreet (Preet) Chauhan
Changing the Narrative of Social Determinants of Health: Messaging for Ontarians, Emily Churchill