Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological condition typically diagnosed in early adulthood that often requires lifelong treatment for symptom management. Despite pharmacological treatment, many individuals with MS ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected everyone in the world, however the phenomenon of growth following intense suffering has been well-documented over the past few decades (e.g., Tedeschi et al., 2018). Less ...
The climate change mitigation targets to maintain a relatively stable climate may not be met. Even if targets are met, substantial climate change could occur. In a changing climate, how can social science facilitate composed ...
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly experience reading difficulties, especially in reading comprehension. Children with ASD also commonly experience deficits in cognitive processes, including attention, ...
Background: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD; self-perceived decrements in cognitive functioning in spite of objective cognitive performance within the normal range) subtle cognitive decline (subtle CD; objective sub-clinical ...
Many theories of decision-making consider pain, monetary loss, and other forms of punishment to be interchangeable quantities that are processed by the same neural system. For example, standard reinforcement learning models ...
There is growing evidence to suggest an inverse association between physical activity and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, the mechanisms are not well understood and much of the research in this ...
Prospective memory (PM) refers to a person’s ability to remember to do something in the future. It is a complex behaviour that is essential for the daily functioning of young and old alike. Despite its importance in everyday ...
Rooted in adult identity development and social identity theories, this dissertation investigated the experiences of discrimination, ethnic and national identity, and psychological distress amongst immigrant adults (ages ...
Understanding eyewitness lineup judgment processes is critical, both from a theoretical standpoint (to better understand human memory) and from a practical one (to prevent wrongful convictions and criminals walking free). ...
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) refers to direct and deliberate damage of one’s bodily tissue without the intent to die. Although NSSI abates over time for most young people, 8-32% of those with a history of NSSI exhibit a ...
This dissertation aimed to investigate the utility of the ex-Gaussian approach to estimating intraindividual variability (IIV) of response times (RT) in diagnosing attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children ...
Due to the cultural preoccupation with romantic love and marriage, little is known about single people (i.e., singles) except that they tend to be stigmatized and to exhibit worse well-being relative to married people. ...
The process of controlling executive and motor behaviours is central to one’s ability to self-regulate and accomplish day-to-day goals across the lifespan. Executive and motor control share a set of underlying neural ...
There is much debate in the field of cognition on the nature of affordances; a concept originally invoked by Gibson (1986, as cited in Chong & Proctor, 2019) in reference to the possible actions furnished by a solid object ...
Violating social norms often elicits a negative public response aimed at punishing norm violators and dissuading others from following their lead. One way to understand reactions to norm violations is through the moral ...
Substantial research has been done on the electroencephalogram (EEG) neural signals generated by feedback within a simple choice task, and there is much evidence for the existence of a reward prediction error signal generated ...
Those who experience relational traumatic events (i.e., traumatic events wherein there is a pre-existing relationship with the perpetrator such as intimate partner violence or some types of child maltreatment) often present ...
Pregnancy is a unique developmental period in a woman’s life, characterized by numerous psychological, behavioural, and biological changes. How a biologically female woman experiences her pregnancy is impacted by her ...
Being in nature has been associated with many positive outcomes, including well-being and, more recently, with sophisticated outcomes such as goal orientation. We proposed that the dialectic between the organismic valuing ...