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"What the mind does not know, the eyes do not see": understanding the emerging health risk of food allergy in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-21)The epidemiologic transition demonstrates a relationship between infectious disease decline and the rise of chronic disease. In many developed countries, as rates of infectious disease fell from the 19th century, several ... -
What the wild things do: The use of crop wild relatives in public international breeding programs and implications for conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Wild species related to agricultural crops make agricultural systems around the world more resilient. Crop wild relatives (CWR) represent the largest pool of genetic diversity from which to draw when new variation for ... -
What We Do in the Shadows: Illuminating the Female Pederastic Tradition
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)In scholarship, the study of male pederastic practices in the ancient Greek world has been used time and time again to reinforce the existence of homosexuality across time, though the same attention has not been given to ... -
What Works for Me May Not Work for You: Predicting Self-Compassionate Responding Using an Interactionist Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-22)Objective: Self-compassion has both trait and state-like properties (Kelly & Stephen, 2016), yet little research has investigated how dispositional and contextual factors interact to influence someone’s ability to be ... -
What you don't know can help you: Intuitive processing of incomplete visual stimuli
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-12)Intuition is an innate ability through which human beings acquire knowledge about the world around them. Throughout history people have speculated about how intuition operates and about the accuracy and usefulness of ... -
What's Love Got to Do With It? A Study of the Effects of Infidelity on Contemporary Couples
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-31)Research on infidelity has been criticized for its lack of theoretical approach and emphasis on the negative impacts on marriage. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with individuals who had an affair, or experienced ... -
What's Up With the Downtown?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)What’s Up with the Downtown? uses North Bay, Ontario to examine issues of downtown core usage and design in rural North American cities. As malls and box retail have moved to the forefront of physical spaces catering to ... -
What’s behind the link between social anxiety and low friendship satisfaction? Exploring the role of perceived closeness, self-disclosure, friendship maintenance behaviours, and relational reciprocity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Prior studies have found that high socially anxious (SA) individuals suffer from lower quality friendships and poorer social supports, which contribute to chronic feelings of loneliness and social isolation as well as ... -
Wheat Straw-Clay-Polypropylene Hybrid Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-23)The preparation of polymeric hybrid composite consisting of organic and inorganic fillers is of interest for industries like automotive, construction and packaging. In order to understand and predict the physical and ... -
Wheat Straw-Polypropylene Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)Composites are combinations of mainly two different components: the matrix and the filler/reinforcement. In the thermoplastic composites industry, natural fibers from agricultural crops have been emerged as alternative ... -
When and Where?: Time and Space in Boris Akunin's Azazel' and Turetskii gambit
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-27)Boris Akunin’s historical detective novels have sold more than eight million copies in Russia, and have been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Boris Akunin is the pen name of literary critic and translator Grigory ... -
When and Why Women Apologize More than Men
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-15)Despite wide acceptance of the stereotype that women apologize more readily than men, there is little systematic evidence to support this stereotype or its supposed bases. In the present research, I explored whether gender ... -
When Being Agreeable Matters: The Importance of Agreeableness (and Self-Esteem) for Risk Regulation in Close Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-17)In the quest for satisfying close relationships, one is left vulnerable to hurt and rejection. For people with lower self-esteem (LSEs), such rejection seems unavoidable. To steel themselves against this inescapable hurt, ... -
When Cultures Collide and Synergize: The Role of Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Negotiations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Negotiating a synergized solution is challenging under optimal circumstances. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural differences, cultural collision occurs leading to worse negotiation outcomes in intercultural negotiation ... -
When Empathy Backfires: How (Not) to Engender Warmth and Respect for Minorities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-10)The popular expression “walk in another person’s shoes before you judge them” implies that we must take the perspective of others to fully understand their emotions and experiences. Prejudice-reduction interventions have ... -
When my Anxiety Speaks to Me, What Does it Sound Like?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Anxiety disorders are some of the most commonly diagnosed mental health difficulties in the world. However, no study has examined the phenomenological qualities of anxious thoughts. Literature on mental health difficulties ... -
When Nature Goes to School: A Green School Design for Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)It is generally agreed upon that environmental education has an important place in 21st century schools, as the need to educate the current and future generations of young people on how to live in a sustainable way grows ... -
When our co-workers share their unfair experiences, do we believe them? Perceptions of workplace fairness are negatively related to perceived credibility of coworkers’ claims of injustice
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Prior research shows that when observing a co-worker being treated unfairly, employees who are third parties to the incident feel angry and want to punish the perpetrator. However, research has focused on situations in ... -
When Self-Doubt Sours Sweetness: Low Self-Esteem Undermines Romantic Partners' Sacrifices
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-01)The partners of people with low self-esteem (LSEs) are just as loving and generous as the partners of people with high self-esteem (HSEs; Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005; Murray et al., 2000). Nonetheless, LSEs ... -
When Should We Disagree? The Effect of Conflict on Team Identity in North American and East Asian Teams
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Prior literature on conflict in teams has generally established that team heterogeneity (vs. homogeneity) influences the extent to which conflict occurs in teams. However, to date literature has not examined different ...