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Faculty's Academic Interests |
* Indicates faculty members who are not currently recruiting graduate students.
| Aknin, Lara (Social)Research Interests: Happiness, well-being, prosocial behavior/altruism, social relationships, emotion, money.Teaching Interests: Social psychology, research methods, happiness, positive psychology.
| *Bartholomew, Kim (Social)Research Interests: Adult attachment, abuse in intmate relationships, male same-sex relationships.Teaching Interests: Close relationships, research methods.
| Blair, Mark (History, Quantitative & Theoretical, Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: The development of expertise, particularly in the context of video games. Attentional learning and eye-tracking. The lab uses experimental methods, computational modelling, and machine learning/data mining techniques. Teaching Interests: Cognitive Science, consciousness.
| Broesch (MacGillivray), Tanya (Developmental)Research Interests: Culture and development, social development, social learning and understanding, parenting practices and socialization goals across cultures.Teaching Interests: Child development, culture and development, infancy.
| Carpendale, Jeremy (Developmental)Research Interests: Cognitive development, social cognitive development, moral development.Teaching Interests: Developmental: cognitive, social cognitive, moral, language; epistemology.
| Chapman, Alexander (Clinical Science)Research Interests: Borderline Personaltiy Disorder (BPD) emotion regulation, self-harm, treatment (including DBT).Teaching Interests: Evidence-based psychological treatment and assessment (primarily CBT); Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), personality disorders.
| Cobb, Rebecca (Clinical Science, Social)Research Interests: Developmental trajectories of and transitions in close relationships; factors that predict relationship success (e.g., aggression, support, forgiveness); intrapersonal correlates of relationship functioning (e.g., anxiety, depression, health); prevention of relationship distress.Teaching Interests: Marriage, close relationships, human sexuality, couples and individual therapy.
| Connolly, Deborah (Law and Forensic)Research Interests: Law and psychology, children's suggestibility, children's memory for repeated events, court response to cases of historical child sexual abuse.Teaching Interests: Law and psychology, children and the law, eyewitness memory.
| *Cox, David (Clinical Science, Social)Research Interests: Sports and human performance, health and health risk behaviour, forensic issues and risk taking.Teaching Interests: Health psychology, sport psychology, cognitive-behaviour therapy, intervention.
| Douglas, Kevin (Law and Forensic, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Violence, risk assessment and management, mental disorder and violence, forensic assessment, law and psychology.Teaching Interests: Forensic assessment, psychopathology, research methods.
| Fouladi, Rachel (History, Quantitative & Theoretical)Research Interests: Multivariate statistics, analysis of correlation and covariance structures, robustness, small sample characteristics, simulation; modelling phenomena in the behavioral, social, and health sciences, especially the modelling of emotional and physical function.Teaching Interests: Introductory and advanced statistics, multivariate analysis, research design and analysis.
| Hart, Stephen (Law and Forensic, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Psychology and law, psychopathy, mentally disordered offenders, violence risk, wife assault, psychological assessment, personality disorder.Teaching Interests: Forensic assessment, research design.
| Iarocci, Grace (Developmental, Clinical Science, Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; the development of attention and perception in individuals with pervasive developmental disorders, mental retardation, risk and protective factors in the development of First Nations children.Teaching Interests: Atypical development, developmental theory, developmental psychopathology, development and attention in typical & atypical populations, educational policies for children with developmental disabilities, social development in typical populations.
| *Jones, Janelle (Social, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Identity, self, health and well-being, intergroup processes.Teaching Interests: Social Psychology, Research Methods.
| *Krane, William (History, Quantitative & Theoretical)Research Interests: Multivariate statistics, especially the analysis of covariance structures, theory of psychological scaling, personality assessment.Teaching Interests: Introductory and advanced statistics, multivariate analysis, factor analysis, measurement theory, research design and analysis.
| Ley, Robert (Clinical Science, Developmental)Research Interests: Forensic psychology (criminal and civil), trauma and PTSD, adolescent psychopathology and delinquency, psychodynamic psychotherapy, personality theory and assessment.Teaching Interests: Forensic psychology, sexual offenders, murderers, family violence, delinquency, adolescent self esteem, suicide, post traumatic stress disorder, cerebral laterality for emotions and imagery.
| Liotti, Mario (Cognitive & Neural Sciences, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Human Functional Neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG) applied to: normal and abnormal mood states (depression and anxiety); normal and abnormal development of attention and executive functions (ADHD).Teaching Interests: Cognitive and affective neuroscience, experimental and clinical neuropsychology, clinical neuroscience, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
| *Mansour, Jamal K. (Law and Forensic, Social, Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Eyewitness memory, lineups, applied decision making, face recognition.Teaching Interests: Law and psychology, eyewitness memory, memory and decision making, statistics.
| *Maraun, Michael (History, Quantitative & Theoretical)Research Interests: Psychometrics, measurement, philosophy of science.Teaching Interests: Statistics, psychometrics.
| Martin, Jack (History, Quantitative & Theoretical, Developmental)Research Interests: History of psychology, theoretical psychology.Teaching Interests: Theory and history of psychology, philosophical psychology, social developmental psychology,
educational psychology, psychology of personhood.
| McDonald, John (Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Human electrophysiology, attention, multisensory perception, executive function, error processing.Teaching Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, human electrophysiology.
| McMahon, Robert (Clinical Science, Law and Forensic)Research Interests: Developmental course, assessment, prevention, and treatment of children and adolescents with conduct problems; family based interventions for young children with conduct problems.
Teaching Interests: Family based interventions for young children with conduct problems; developmental psychopathology of conduct problems.
| Mistlberger, Ralph (Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Neural mechanisms and functions of circadian rhythms and sleep, shiftwork adaptation.Teaching Interests: Behavioural neuroscience, animal behaviour.
| Moretti, Marlene (Clinical Science)Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; violence/aggression; sex and gender differences; attachment; self-regulation; intervention for children and adolescents; program evaluation; knowledge translation.Teaching Interests: Psychopathology (developmental and adult); professional practice and ethics; personality theory; intervention; attachment.
| Racine, Tim (Developmental, History, Quantitative & Theoretical)Research Interests: Joint attention, nonverbal communication, evolutionary theory, philosophy of psychology.Teaching Interests: Evolution and psychology, child development, communication and thought in nonhuman animals.
| *Read, Don (Law and Forensic, Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Memory in forensic contexts, applied cognition, recovered memory debate and memory impairments, autobiographical memory and eyewitness testimony, detection of deception.Teaching Interests: Psychology and the law, applied cognitive psychology.
| Ribary, Urs (Cognitive & Neural Sciences, Developmental, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience brain imaging: non-invasive structural/functional brain imaging; brain network analysis, oscillation dynamics, distributed network functional connectivity; underlying neuronal diagnostic marker development related to cognitive alterations/clinical diseases (therapeutic interventions).
| *Roesch, Ronald (Law and Forensic, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Law and psychology, including forensic assessment, competency to stand trial, jail mental health, juvenile justice.Teaching Interests: Psychology and the law, research design.
| *Rose, V. Gordon (History, Quantitative & Theoretical, Law and Forensic)Teaching Interests: Experimental design and analysis, law and psychology, and writing-intensive learning.
| Schmitt, Michael (Social)Research Interests: Intergroup relations, collective identity, responses to social inequality, coping with discrimination, and environmental sustainability.Teaching Interests: Social psychology, intergroup relations, self.
| Slaney, Kathleen (History, Quantitative & Theoretical, Developmental)Research Interests: Philosophy of psychological science, analysis and critique of empirical methodologies, study of scientific practices in psychology, history/philosophy of psychological measurement, theoretical and applied psychometrics.Teaching Interests: History of psychology, philosophy of science, introductory and advanced quantitative methods, research methods, psychological measurement.
| Spalek, Thomas (Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Cognition, visual attention, memory.Teaching Interests: Perception.
| Thornton, Allen (Clinical Science, Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Adult neuropsychological assessment, neurocognitive disorders in medical and psychiatric patients, neuropsychology of memory.Teaching Interests: Neuropsychology.
| Thornton, Wendy (Clinical Science)Research Interests: Positive and negative modifiers of healthy aging, everyday problem solving, neurocognitive correlates of renal disease and other chronic illness.Teaching Interests: Neuropsychology, cognitive aging.
| Viljoen, Jodi (Law and Forensic, Clinical Science)Research Interests: Adolescent offenders, youth violence, mental health of adolescent offenders, adolescents' legal rights and competencies, youth forensic assessment, treatment of adolescent offenders.Teaching Interests: Psychology and the law, adolescents and the law, clinical-forensic assessment and treatment, research design.
| Watson, Neil (Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Hormones and behaviour, sexual differentiation of the nervous system, reproductive behaviour, psychopharmacology, human neuropsychology, neurobiology.Teaching Interests: Biological psychology, behavioural neuroendocrinology, neuroethology, psychopharmacology.
| Wright, Richard (Cognitive & Neural Sciences)Research Interests: Visual attention, motion perception.Teaching Interests: Perception, attention.
| Wright, Stephen (Social)Research Interests: Generally my research investigates the social psychology of intergroup relations: The scientific study of how our membership in groups influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions and, more specifically, how our interactions with others are affected by our (and their) group memberships. Within this domain, my own research has focused on 3 broad topics: 1) the responses of members of societally disadvantaged groups to the inequalities they face (the impact of prejudice and discrimination on the targets; collective action and social protest),
2) prejudice and its reduction (contact across groups and the role of crossgroup friendships, intergroup anxiety), and 3) minority language & culture maintenance and the role of minority language education (heritage language education, bilingual education).Teaching Interests: Social psychology, intergroup relations, self.
| *Young, Arlene (Clinical Science, Developmental)Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology, learning disabilities, language disorders; anxiety disorders, distress and coping in childhood.Teaching Interests: Developmental psychopathology, psychological assessment, child assessment.
| Zaitsoff, Shannon (Clinical Science)Research Interests: Prevention and treatment of eating and weight disorders in children and adolescents. The influence of family meals on eating and weight. Peer relationships and psychopathology.Teaching Interests: Developmental psychopathology, evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents.
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