Ph.D. Graduates
Convocation 2023
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BAK, Michal. (Zarbatany, Developmental). Using an Evolutionary Framework to Test the Social Functions of Risky Behavior in Emerging Adulthood.
BRAININ, Leah. (Joanisse, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Examining the Paradox of Adult Second Language Word and Grammar Learning.
CHI, Zian. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Coding Flexibility of Radical Position in Chinese.
CLERKE, Alexa. (Heerey, Social). The Social Context of Nonverbal Behaviour.
DAOUST, Andrew. (Hayden, Clinical). A Multi-method Assessment of the Impact of Stress on Families’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
LOU, Chenglin. (Joanisse, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). White matter connectome associations with reading functions in children.
McGREGOR, Alexander. (Benson, Industrial/Organizational). Psychometric Validation of the Team Resilience Inventory.
MOHAMED ALI, Ola. (Hayden, Clinical). Childhood Irritability: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective.
NEWTON, Adam. (Reid, Clinical). The Developmental Importance of Napping in Preschool Children.
PALMA, Paolo. (Esses, Social MER). Economics Or Culture? Measuring Economic Thinking And Cultural Enrichment Beliefs About Immigration.
PARKS, Kaitlyn. (Joanisse, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Language, Reading, and Resting-state Oscillatory Power in ADHD, DLD, and Comorbid ADHD/DLD.
SARMIENTO, Catalina. (Reid, Clinical). Mental Health Walk-In Clinics for Children and Families.
SCHULZ, Samantha. (Stevenson, Clinical). Degree awarded posthumously.
WALKER, Deanna. (Saklofske, Clinical). The Initial Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometric Validation of the Impostor Phenomenon Assessment (IPA): A Novel Assessment of Impostor Phenomenon.
WILDE, Jesse Lee. (Dozois, Clinical). An Empirical Examination of the Dyadic Partner-Schema Model of Relationship Distress and Depression.
Convocation 2022
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BABCOCK, Sarah. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Bridging the Gap: Building More Collaborative Psychoeducational Assessment Practices.
CAMERON, Kyle. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). The Attitudinal and Motivational Consequences of Personality Differences in Teams.
CHARLOT, Nicolyn. (Joel & Campbell, Social). The Predictive Validity of Intimate Partner Violence Warning Signs.
ESPINOZA MOGOLLON, Jose. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). The Need for Purpose: The Desire for Meaningful Direction as a Fundamental Human Motivation.
HOSSEINI-KAMKAR, Niki. (Morton, Developmental). Early experience and the functional calibration of the stress-response systems.
KOESSLER, Rebecca. (Campbell, Social). A Demonstration of the Utility of Formalizing Theory: Mapping, Evaluating, and Testing the Theory of Devaluation of Alternatives.
LAFORGE, Geoffrey. (Owen & Stojanoski, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Movies on the Mind: Using Naturalistic Stimuli to Assess Perception, Cognition, and Awareness in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.
LAU, Chloe. (Saklofske, Clinical). The State-Trait Model of Cheerfulness: Psychometric Validation, Cross-Cultural Findings, and its Association with Well-Being.
LAU, Tsz Tan. (Ansari, Developmental). Cognitive and Affective Correlates of Math Achievement: An Examination of the Roles of Symbolic Number Development and Math Anxiety.
LYONS, Kathleen. (Owen & Stojanoski, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Examining the Relationships Between Socio-cognitive Factors and Neural Synchrony During Movie Watching Across Development.
RUIZ PARDO, Ana. (Minda, Clinical). It's Not My Phone, It’s Me: Investigating Smartphone Presence and Predictors of Smartphone Reliance.
SINCLAIR, Vanessa. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Development of a New Measure of Political Ideology.
STERNIN APRAMIAN, Avital. (Grahn & Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Neural Markers of Musical Memory in Young and Older Adults.
VANDERMEER, Matthew. (Hayden, Clinical). Neuroimaging Depression Risk in a Sample of Never-Depressed Children.
ZHU, Tianshu. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Temperament and Individual Differences in Category Learning.
Convocation 2021
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CHEN, Samantha. (Saklofske, Clinical). The Role of Social Disconnection in the Relationship between Perfectionism and Psychological Distress.
CUTLER, Colleen Diane. (Neufeld & Tremblay). Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia: Stochastic Modelling of Cognitive-Process Latencies and Nonlinear Dynamics of Neuro-signals.
DALJEET, Kabir. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Individual Differences and Social-Comparative Feedback.
MAEDA, Rodrigo. (Pruszynski, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Degree awarded posthumously.
NIELSEN, Emily. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Moving Beyond the Mat: Exploring the Application of Mindfulness Training in Professional and Educational Settings.
OUSLIS, Natasha. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Finding Teams that Fight Fair: Exploring Trajectories of Team Conflict Over Time.
PATENAUDE, Joshua. (Heerey, Social). Understanding Differences in Social Learning.
SHUMLICH, Erin. (Fisher, Clinical). An Information—Motivation—Behavioural Skills Model of Sexual Consent.
SIEGEL, Jaclyn. (Calogero, Social). A Mixed-Methods Examination of Modern Feminist Identity.
TURNBULL, Kathryn. (Reid, Clinical). Sleep Restriction in Children and Executive Function Performance.
Convocation 2020
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ANDERSON, Brittney. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). A longitudinal person-centred investigation of commitment in newcomers to the military.
BALAKRISHNAN, Anjana. (Esses & Saklofske, Social MER). Who I am is Shaped by my Past and Impacts my Future: Exploring Antecedents and Outcomes of Self-Views across International, Immigrant, and Canadian born Undergraduate Students.
CHO, Isu. (Morton, Developmental). The Relationship between Theory of Mind and Executive Function: Are They Two Facets of the Same Process or Two Distinct Processes?
DOBSON, Kiersten. (Campbell, Social). Recognizing Relational Boredom and Coping With It Through the Introduction of Novelty.
GOFFIN, Celia. (Ansari, Developmental). How does the brain represent digits? Investigating the neural correlates of symbolic number representation using fMRI-Adaptation.
HAHN, Christian. (Campbell, Clinical). Exploring the links between Social Anxiety and Depression in the Maintenance of Romantic Relationships.
HAWES, Zachary. (Ansari, Developmental). Cognitive, Neural, and Educational Contributions to Mathematics Performance: A Closer Look at the Roles of Numerical and Spatial Skills.
LI, Yixian. (Heerey, Social). What to Say and How to Say It: the Interplay of Self-Disclosure Depth, Similarity, and Interpersonal Liking in Initial Social Interactions.
MAIOLINO, Nadia. (Kuiper, Clinical). Examining the Self-Schema within a Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Framework of Mania.
MONTGOMERY-GRAHAM, Stephanie. (Fisher, Clinical). Assessment Instruments and Basic Personality Underpinnings of Hypersexuality.
PLOUFFE, Rachel. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Role of Dark Personalities in Intimate Partner Violence.
REID, Jeffrey. (Katz & Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Conceptual Metaphor False Memory Effect.
RNIC, Katerina. (Dozois, Clinical). Baseline and Stress-Induced Cognitive Control Deficits and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Currently, Remitted, and Never Depressed Individuals.
SOKOLOWSKI, Helen. (Ansari, Developmental). How Do Humans Process Magnitudes? An Examination of the Neural and Cognitive Underpinnings of Symbols, Quantities, and Size in Adults and Children.
SPINELLI, Giacomo. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). Adaptation to Conflict Frequency: Non-Conflict Learning Is Not the Whole Story.
SUTHERLAND, Erica. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). The Measurement of Job Satisfaction among Workplace Leaders: Scale Development and Validation of the Leader Satisfaction Assessment.
TOMLINSON, Monica. (Dozois, Clinical). The Role of Cognitive Distortions in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Problematic Drinking and Depressive Symptoms.
VO, Andrew. (MacDonald, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Putting 'Dopamine Overdose' To The Test: A Psychopharmacological Investigation in Parkinson's Disease and Healthy Volunteers.
WILSON, Claire. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). When Life Gives You Lemons: The Development and Validation of the Resilience Scale.
YANG, Huilan. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Impact of Text Orientation on Form Effects with Chinese, Japanese and English readers.
Convocation 2019
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
AL-AZARY, Hamad. (Katz, Clinical). Semantic Processing of Nominal Metaphor: Figurative Abstraction and Embodied Simulation.
ARMSTRONG, Joel. (Olson, Social). Descriptive and Prescriptive Belief in a Just World.
BOYLAN, James. (Katz, Clinical). The Cognitive Psychology of Humour in Written Puns.
CABRAL, Laura. (Cusack & Culham, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Origins and Development of Visual Categorization.
GIBBINGS, Aaron. (Grahn, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Investigating how neural entrainment relates to beat perception by disentangling the stimulus-driven response.
GU, Chao. (Corneil, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Characterizing the Sensorimotor Properties of a Rapid Visuomotor Reach Movement on Human Upper Limb Muscles.
LADOWSKI, Daniella. (Johnsrude, Clinical). Using movies to assess cognitive and neural functioning in temporal lobe epilepsy.
MacDONALD, Beatriz. (Johnsrude, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Characterizing the Familiar-Voice Benefit to Intelligibility.
MATSUKI, Eriko. (Jared, Cognition and Perception). Conceptual Representation in Bilinguals: A Feature-Based Approach.
McPHEDRAN, Mark. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Proficiency and Task Context on L2-L1 Noncognate Masked Translation Priming in Chinese-English Bilinguals.
MOHAN, Melissa. (Kuiper, Clinical). Understanding and Coping with Possible Depressive Symptoms: An Extension of the Self-Regulation Model.
MOROZ, Sarah. (Campbell, Social). Modern Homonegativity and LGBTQ Activism: The Role of Identity and Behaviour in Attitude Formation.
PAN, Xuan. (Jared, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Linguistic Labels on Object Categorization and Perception.
TAIKH, Alexander. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Semantic Priming on Lexical Processing.
Convocation 2018
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BALZARINI, Rhonda. (Campbell, Social). Understanding Stigma, Secrecy, and Sex in CNM Relationships.
BLUMENTHAL, Anna. (Köhler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Object processing in the medial temporal lobe: Influence of object domain.
DOYLE, Kevin. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Examining Rating Source Differences in Narrative Performance Feedback.
FEENEY, Justin. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Assessing and Preventing Applicant Faking on Personality Tests.
HALLIDAY, Aaron. (Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Mindful Resilience: Investigating Mindfulness and Resilience in Relation to a Broad Range of Adversity.
MACPHERSON, Krista. (Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Time, Number, Space, and the Domestic Dog.
MISCHLER, Shannon. (MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The neural mechanisms underlying the perception and production of learned vocalizations in songbirds.
NGUYEN, Tram. (Grahn, Cognition and Perception). Examining the Differences in Beat Perception and Production Between Musicians and Dancers.
NOONAN, Nicolette. (Archibald & Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Exploring the Process of Statistical Language Learning.
SMITH, Martin. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Perfectionistic Strivings are Neither Adaptive, Healthy, Positive, Functional, nor Advisable: Findings From Six Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles.
STRANG, Caroline. (Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Behavioural Flexibility in Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens).
WRIGHT, Joshua. (Esses, Social MER). Development of a Three-Factor Model of Psychological Ownership of Country: Applications for Outgroup Attitudes and Citizenship Behaviors.
Convocation 2017
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CLOUTIER, Caylen. (Ossenkopp & Kavaliers, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Dose-related sex differences in the establishment of conditioned disgust (anticipatory nausea), and the effect of peripubertal and adult immune system stimulation with the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on learning and memory in the rat.
GIBSON, Raechelle. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Decoding Mental States after Severe Brain Injury.
KOTELNIKOVA, Yuliya. (Hayden & Vernon, Clinical). The Nature and Structure of Temperament in Early and Middle Childhood: A Multi-Method Approach.
MacEACHERON, Melanie. (Campbell, Social). Novel predictors of women's surname retention at marriage.
MACKRELL, Sarah. (Hayden & Vernon, Personality and Measurement). Vulnerability to Depression in Middle Childhood: The Role of Pubertal Development and Cortisol Reactivity in Risk for Depression.
MATEJKO, Anna. (Ansari, Developmental). The Neurocognitive Underpinnings of Arithmetic in Children and Adults: Examining the Roles of Domain General and Domain Specific Abilities.
NICHOLS, Emily. (Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). The Role Of Individual Differences In Bilingual Language Processing.
SCHRAEDER, Kyleigh. (Reid, Clinical). Transitioning from Children's Mental Health to Adult Care: Stakeholder Perspectives and Tracking Service Use into Adulthood.
SUTTER, Alina. (Social). The Behavioural Consequences of the Implicit and Explicit Dehumanization of Refugees.
TARRAF, Rima. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Understanding Workplace Incivility Experiences and the Moderating Role of Mindfulness.
WOODLEY, Hayden. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). That's not fair! Examining individual differences in perceptions of fairness.
ZHANG, Karen. (Swartzman & Minda, Clinical). Role of Causal Information in Patient Education: An Experimental and Clinical Approach.
Convocation 2016
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BREMNER, Nicholas. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). An Investigation of the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Features in Attracting and Retaining Employees. Independent Consultant and Researcher at Bremner Consulting.
CAIRD, Sara. (Martin, Clinical). An Examination of Daily Humour Styles and Relationship Satisfaction in Dating Couples. Therapist, Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
DUKE, Devin. (Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Neural and Cognitive Basis of Cumulative Lifetime Familiarity Assessment. Science writer at Diply.com, London.
FARRELL, Tara. (MacDougall-Shackleton). Developmental Stress and the Effects on Physiological and Cognitive-Behavioural Traits in European Starlings. Analyst, the Alberta Ministry of Education.
McLARNON, Matthew. (Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Resiliency and Well-Being: Trajectories of Change over Time. Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Oakland University, Michigan.
MUELLER, Alexandra. (Timney, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Effects of Motion Pattern Characteristics on the Perception of Visual Acceleration. Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for ADHD, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Ohio.
RABI, Rachel. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Category Learning in Older Adulthood: Understanding Age-Related Deficits. Post-doctoral fellow funded by Alzheimer’s Society, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto.
SCHNEIDER, Travis. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Social Networking Sites and Personnel Selection: An Initial Validity Assessment. Employment Services Manager, Kelowna Community Resources, Kelowna.
SHANAHAN, Matthew. (Neufeld, Clinical). Mathematical Modeling of Stress Management via Decisional Control. Sessional lecturer, King's College, London. Currently acquiring registration with the Ontario College of Psychology, for entry into private practice.
VESELKA, Livia. (Vernon, Clinical). When Life Gives You Lemons, Squeeze Them in People's Eyes: Humor Styles in Adaptive and Maladaptive Contexts. Lecturer at King's University College, London.
VESELY MAILLEFER, Ashley. (Saklofske, Clinical). Striving for Teaching Success: Enhancing Emotional Intelligence in Pre-Service Teachers. School Psychologist (Supervised P.), Toronto Catholic District School Board & Psychologist (Supervised P.), private practice, Forest Hill CBT.
XUE, Ya. (Moran, Clinical). Factors influencing Continuity of Attachment Quality in Early Childhood. IWK, Halifax.
Convocation 2015
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BARNES, Kelly. (Esses, Social ME). National Identity and Attitudes toward Immigrants: The Role of Social Comparison and Perceptions of Competition. Community planning and research associate, City of London.
BOTHA, Francois. (Dozois, Clinical). Mediators of change in the stigmatization of depression among Caucasian and Asian populations. Clinical Psychologist, Vancouver Coastal Health.
BUGDEN, Stephanie. (Ansari, Developmental). Characterizing persistent Developmental Dyscalculia: A cognitive neuroscience approach. Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
EVRAIRE, Lyndsay. (Dozois, Clinical). The Contribution of Attachment Styles and Reassurance Seeking to Daily Mood and Relationship Quality in Romantic Couples. Psychologist, private practice, Ottawa.
KRYSKI, Katie. (Hayden, Clinical). Biological and Contextual Correlates of Cortisol Reactivity in Early Childhood. Psychologist, Orion Health Rehabilitation & Assessment Centres, Calgary.
LAPSHINA, Natalia. (Esses, Social ME). Canadians' Attitudes Toward Immigrants Who Claim Employment Discrimination. Adjunct Research Professor, Western Univ., London.
MARTIN, Christopher. (Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Category-Specific Item Recognition and the Medial Temporal Lobe. Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, U of T., Toronto.
MCDERMOTT, Rebecca. (Dozois, Clinical). The Transdiagnostic Prevention of Emotional Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Study. Psychologist, private practice, Ottawa.
O'CONNOR, Kathleen. (Moran, Clinical). Attachment Relationships Across Siblings and their Common Mother: Patterns and Predictors. Clinical Psychologist at Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital & Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Alberta.
POUND, Maria Sol. (Kuiper, Clinical). The Role of Emotional Support in Emotional Well-being. Psychologist. Private practice.
SANKAR, Janani. (Hampson, Clinical). The Role of Androgens in Life History Theories of Attachment. Post-doctoral Fellow, DBT Centre of Vancouver.
SNOWSHOE, Angela. (Hinson, Clinical). The Cultural Connectedness Scale and its Relation to Positive Mental Health among First Nations Youth. Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Regina.
STANTON, Sarah. (Campbell, Social). Perceiving Behaviors That "Push a Partner's Buttons": Biased and Accurate Trigger Knowledge, Attachment, and Relationship Dynamics. Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
YE, Yang. (Sorrentino, Social). When Objects Become Part of Self: Effects of Ownership and Choice on Self-object Associations. Research Associate, Ghent University, Belgium.
Convocation 2014
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BOWES, Andrea. (Katz, Cognition & Perception). The Social Life of Metaphor. Higher Education Professional at UNB & St. Thomas University.
CONWAY, Paul. (Olson, Social). The Process Dissociation of Moral Judgments: Clarifying the Psychology of Deontology and Utilitarianism. Post-doctoral fellow, Universität zu Köln, Germany.
DeVAUL-FETTERS, Amanda. (Esses, Social ME). Reactions to Refugees: Do Stronger Believers in a Just World Compensate, Dehumanize, and Perceive Refugees as More Responsible for their Status? Senior Manager of Research, Public Policy, and Evaluation, United Way of Greater Kansas City.
EDWARDS,Kimberly. (Martin, Clinical). The Role of Humor as a Character Strength in Positive Psychology. Postdoctoral Fellow, Sick Kids, Toronto.
EVANS (Dyer), Kelly. (Hampson, Beharvioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Sexual Differentiation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Humans: Examining Behavioural Sex Differences and the Modulatory Role of Androgens. PhD Research Methodologist, Numeris, Toronto.
HANCOCK, Megan. (Hoaken, Clinical). Executive Dysfunction: A Contributor to Subtypes of Violence or General Criminality? Registered Psychologist, IDEAS, Calgary.
JOURAVLEV, Olessia. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). A Bayesian Model of Stress Assignment in Reading. Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT.
JUKES (Morley), Tara. (Moran, Clinical). The Role of Early Attachment Experiences in the Development of Self-Views and Emerging Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression. Post-doctoral Fellow, B.C. Children's Hospital, Vancouver.
KOHUT, Taylor. (Fisher, Social). An Empirical Investigation Of The Concept Of "Pornography". Post-doctoral Fellow, Western Univ., London.
MATSUKI, Kazunaga. (McRae, Cognition and Perception). The Roles of Thematic Knowledge in Sentence Comprehension. Consultant, BEworks, Toronto.
MEDIANU, Stelian. (Esses, Social ME). The Role of the Media in the Automatic Dehumanization of Refugees. Instructor & Research and Policy Consultant, Western University.
MEINZ, Paul. (Moran, Developmental). Attachment and Attention: An investigation of biases in attention as they relate to attachment security in infancy and adulthood. Research Analyst, Cosumnes River College, Shingle Springs, CA.
TAPSCOTT, Jennifer. (Hoaken, Clinical). Towards an Improved Understanding of the Heterogeneity of Violence: A Test of the Clinical Utility of the Reactive-Instrumental Distinction Among Adult Male Inmates. Institutional Mental Health Services, Bath Institution.
TRINH, Daniel. (Jared, Cognition and Perception). The Role of the Phonological Syllable in English Word Recognition.
Convocation 2013
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
ILIC-BALAS, Tatjana. (Pepper, I/O). Trust in Functional and Dysfunctional Organizational Leaders: The Role of Leadership Style, Employees' Emotions and Trustworthiness Perceptions. Organizational Effectiveness Advisor at Husky Energy, Calgary.
ISAACS, Corey. (Fisher, Social). He Says, She Says: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Safer Sex Behavior in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships. Instructor, King's College, London.
KRIENGWATANA, Pralle Buddhamas. (MacDougall-Shackleton, BCN). Timing of developmental stress and phenotypic plasticity: Effects of nutritional stress at different developmental periods on physiological and cognitive-behavioral traits in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Post-doctoral Fellow, St. Andrew’s University, Scotland.
MAXWELL-SMITH, Matthew. (Seligman, Social). The When (and How) of Intergroup Competition and Discrimination: Distinguishing the Contributions of Competitive Perceptions and Motivations. Visiting Professor at MOS, Western Univ., London.
McMILLAN, Neil. (Roberts, BCN). Stimulus Control by Timing in Pigeons. Part-time instructor, Psychology Department,University of Alberta.
MILES, Sarah. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Executive Functions and the Interaction Between Category Learning Systems. Research Coordinator, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto.
NADLER, Ruby. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). The Influence of Mood and Motivation on Cognitive Flexibility. Leadership coach and research scientist, Sigma Assessments, London.
NOSWORTHY, Nadia. (Ansari, Developmental). An Investigation of the Association Between Arithmetic Achievement and Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Magnitude Processing in 5-9 Year-old Children: Evidence from a Paper-and-pencil Test. Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Andrews University, Michigan.
PODNAR, David. (Martin, Clinical). Friendly Antagonism in Humorous Interactions: Explorations of Prosocial Teasing. Assistant Professor, Dept of Clinical Health Psych, Univ Manitoba/Staff Psychologist, Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Winnipeg.
SEEDS, Pamela. (Dozois, Clinical). Interpretive Bias in the Context of Life Stress and Depression: An Examination of Stress Generation and Diathesis-Stress Models. Psychologist, Swanson, Moss, Heimpel & Associates, Psychologists, Waterloo, Ont., and clinical lecturer at Univ of Waterloo.
TOBON, Juliana. (Reid, Clinical). Continuity of Care in Children's Mental Health: Development of a Measure. Program Director, Youth Wellness Centre, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton.
VOGEL, Stephan. (Ansari, Developmental). Cortical Representation Underlying the Semantic Processing of Numerical Symbols: Evidence from Adult and Developmental Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria .
Convocation 2012
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BENNETT-ABUAYYASH, Caroline. (Esses, Social). The Experience of Religious Bias in the Evaluation of Foreign-Trained Job Applicants. Health Equity Specialist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
CAMPBELL, John. (A. Katz, Cognition & Perception). Investigating the Necessary Components of Sarcastic Context. Owner and Psychological Consultant at Campbell Consulting, London, and part-time professor at Western Univ., London.
CHEUNG, Irene. (J. Olson, Social). Deliberate Self-Persuasion and Forgiveness. Assistant Professor, Huron University College, London.
DICKSON, Karen. (V. Esses, Social). All Prejudices Are Not Created Equal: Different Responses to Subtle Versus Blatant Expressions of Prejudice. Senior Policy, Planning, and Research Analyst at Women's Policy Office, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
GRYFE SAPERIA, Naomi. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Relative Influences of Knowledge, Beliefs and Patient Preferences on Adherence to Asthma Preventer Medication. Psychologist, Assistive Technology Rehabilitation Clinic, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto.
HASTINGS, Stephanie. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). The Moderating Effect of Reciprocity Beliefs on Work Outcomes. Senior Consultant, Workforce Research and Evaluation, Alberta Health Services, Calgary.
HOLLOWAY, Ian. (D. Ansari, Developmental). Symbolizing number: fMRI investigations of the semantic, auditory, and visual correlates of Hindu-Arabic numerals. Yoga Instructor at Moksha Yoga, Halifax.
HSIAO, Celia. (G. Moran, Developmental). The Power of Dialogue: Understanding Developmental Origins and Processes Underlying Mother-Child Conversations About Past Emotional Events. Research Manager at Save the Children South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
JORDAN, Patrica. (B. Morton, Clinical). Individual Differences in Temperament and Cognitive Biases in Middle Childhood: Vulnerability to Internalizing Psychopathology. Psychologist, Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI), London.
KAM, Chun Seng Chester. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). The Role of Valence in Construct Dimensionality Debate. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Macau.
LEE, Vivien. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Flexibility in Parent-Child Interactions: The Application of Dynamic Systems Methodology to Dyadic Processes in Children with Beahviour Problems. Psychologist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.
LEITE, Catherine. (N. A. Kuiper, Clinical). A Self-Regulation Model of Depression: Content of Cognitive Representations and Prediction of Treatment Seeking.
MALTIN, Elyse. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Workplace Commitment and Employee Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis and Study of Commitment Profiles. Consultant, JMW Consultants, Toronto.
McINNIS, Kate. (J. Meyer , Industrial/Organizational). Psychological Contracts in the Workplace: a Mixed Methods Design Project. Learning and Leadership Development Specialist, Marathon Health, Winooski, Vermont.
PEDDEN, Vanessa. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioural Correlates in Children with Psychopathic Traits. Psychologist, Learning Support Services, Thames Valley District School Board, London.
ROSS, Erin. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Are Offence-Focused Correctional Rehabilitation Programs Affecting Inmates' Executive Cognitive Functions. Psychology Intern at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit.
RUBIN, Harris. (L. Campbell, Social). Inclusive Fitness, Reciprocal Altruism and Emotion: Testing a Social-Functional Model of Anger and Gratitude Across Kin and Non-Kin Relationships. Assist. professor, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta.
TAYLOR, Olusore Anita. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). The Effects of Culture on Counterproductive Work Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Senior Researcher, Fanshawe College, London.
Convocation 2011
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BATTISTA , Michael . ( Vernon , Personality and Measurement ). Does Anyone Really Like Horror Movies? Personality and Automatic Affective Reactions to Frightening Films. Research Analystt, InfoTech Research Group, London, Ontario.
BOWLES , Ben . ( Kohler , Neuroscience ). Contributions of Signal-detection Mechanisms and Semantic Memory Representation. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
BROCHU , Paula . ( Esses , Social ). The Prejudice Paradox (or Discrimination is Not Dead): Systematic Discrimination in Forced Choice Employment Decisions. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
CHAPMAN , Brendan . ( Corneil , Neuroscience ). Contextual Control of Orienting Eye-Hand Gaze Shifts in the Monkey.
CHAPMAN , Craig . ( Goodale , Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience ). Mental Blocks: The Behavioural Effects and Neural Encoding of Obstacles when Reaching and Grasping. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
COULOMBE , Aimee . ( Reid , Clinical ). Parenting at Midnight: Measuring Parents' Thoughts and Strategies to Help Young Children Sleep Through the Night. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Pediatric Pain Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
DUMAS , Tara M. ( Zarbatany , Developmental ). An Observational Assessment of Peer Group Contributions to Adolescent Identi Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, CAMH, London, Ontario.
HAMILTON , Leah K. ( Esses & Finegan , Industrial/Organizational ). A Model of Perceived Underemployment Among Immigrants in Canada.
LACKENBAUER , Sandra . ( Campbell , Social ). Do I Feel Dissonance over You? Gender Differences in the Experience of Dissonance for Romantic Partners. Instructor, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario.
LAZAR , Noah . ( Cain , Clinical ). The effects of the Proline Dehydrogenase and the Reticulon-4 Receptor genes in the development of schizophrenia Psychologist, Private Practice, Toronto, Ontario.
LEBEL , Etienne . ( Gawronski , Social ). The Utility and Feasibility of Metric Calibration for Basic Psychological Research. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
LEWIS , Rhys . ( Goffin & Gawronski , Industrial/Organizational ). Exploring Process Dissociation a Tool for Investigation Discrimination in Hiring Situations. Test Publisher, Research Psychologists Press, London, Ontario.
MASSAK , Agnes A. ( Hinson , Clinical ). The Use of Capacity as an Indicator of Automatic Processing: Is Smoking Automatic? Private Practice, London, Ontario.
O'CONNOR , Christopher . ( McRae , Cognition and Perception ). Causality and Similarity in Autobiographical Event Structure: An Investigation Using Event Cueing and Latent Semantic Analysis. Research Analyst, InfoTech Research Group, London, Ontario.
O'NEILL , Thomas . ( Allen , Industrial/Organizational ). An Integrative Model of Conflict and Conflict Management in Organizational Work Teams. Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
PERRY , Jason . ( Lupker , Cognition and Perception ). An Investigation of Masked Priming Mechanisms in Binary Classification Tasks.
PETERS , Kurt R . ( Gawronski , Social ). Carving Cognition at its Joints: Insights from the Interaction between Explicit and Implicit Social Cognition. Assistant Professor, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.
ROSS , Sarah J. ( Allen , Industrial/Organizational ). A Social Relations Analysis of Transactive Memory In Groups. Instructor, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
SHULTZ , Sandy Richard Clarence . ( Cain , Neuroscience ). Fluid Percussion Injury in the Rat as an Animal Model of Concussion: Cumulative Effects of Repeated Concussion and its Treatment by Anti-CD11d Antibody.
SNIHUR , Adrian . ( Hampson , Neuroscience ). Sexual Differentiation in the Auditory System: An Investigation into Prenatal and Adult Sex Steroid Influences on Otoacoustic Emissions. Analyst, SHI Consulting, Toronto, Ontario.
VALYEAR , Kenneth . ( Culham , Neuroscience ). Perception meets action: fMRI and behavioural investigations of human tool use. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
WAXER , Matthew . ( Morton , Developmental ). Dissociable and Dynamic Components of Cognitive Control: a Developmental Electrophysiological Investigation.
WILBUR , Chris . ( Campbell , Social ). Judging Covers by their Books: Malleable Attractiveness Appraisals in Response to Belongingness Feedback. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Marathon County, Wausau, WI
Convocation Fall 2009, Spring and Fall 2010
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
CANT, Jonathan. (M. Goodale, Neuroscience). fMRI and Behavioural Investigations of the Processing of Shape and Surface Properties in Object Perception. Postdoctoral Fellow, Vision Sciences Laboratory, Psychology Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussets.
CARRASCO, Andreas. (S. Lomber, Neuroscience). Functional Interactions Between Fields in Auditory Cortex. Postdoctoral Fellow, Cerebral Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
FEENEY, Miranda. (W. A. Roberts, Behavioural and Cogntiive Neuroscience). Mental Time Travel in Adult Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus).
FRIESEN, Deanna. (D. Jared, Cognition and Perception). Semantic Activation in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition. Instructor, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
JACKSON, Timothy. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Leadership, Commitment, and Culture: A Meta-Analysis. Management Consulting, Jackson Leadership Systems, Toronto, Ontario.
KLEIN, Dana Ruzicka. (N. A. Kuiper, Clinical). The Humor Styles: Use, Impact and Relationship to Cognitive Appraisals. Private Practice, London, Ontario.
LAWSON, Andrea. (V. Esses, Social). The Association of Immigrants with Disease: Causes and Consequences.
LEWIS, Rhys. (R. Goffin & B. Gawronski, Industrial/Organizational). Exploring Process Dissociation a Tool for Investigation Discrimination in Hiring Situations. Small Business Owner, British Columbia.
MCINTYRE-SMITH, Alexandra. (W. A. Fisher, Clinical). Understanding Female Orgasm: An Information--Motivation--Behavioural Skills Analysis. Psychologist, Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Veterans Care Program, London, Ontario.
SZETO, Andrew. (R. Sorrentino, Social). A Cross-cultural Test of the Theory of Uncertainty Orientation: Performance as a Function of Uncertainty Orientation and Achievement-related Motives in Canada and Japan. Research Associate, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
WARD, Jennie. (R. Martin, Clinical). Interpersonal Uses of Humor and Well-Being Psychologist, Edmonton, Alberta.
Convocation Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BARZEL, Mor. (G. Reid, Clinical). Parenting a Child with Diabetes: The Relationship between Co-parenting and Child Adjustment. Pediatric Psychologist, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta.
BUTZER, Bethany. (L. Campbell, Social). Changes in Adult Attachment Over Time: The Effects of Positive and Negative Interpersonal Behaviours. Research Analyst at Infotech Research Group in London, Ontario.
CHUNG, Janet. (X. Chen, Developmental). The Social Functioning of the Peer Group: Contextual Effects on Social, School, and Psychological Adjustment in Chinese Children. Research Associate, Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
COTHROS, Nicholas. (P. Gribble, Neuroscience). The Learning of Multiple Motor Skills. Medical Student, MacMaster University Medical School.
DESROCHES, Amy. (M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Phonology in the Time Course of Spoken Word Recognition: Its Role in Typical Development and in Dyslexia. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
EVANS, Elspeth. (D. Pederson, Clinical). Understanding Maternal Trauma. Psychologist, Student Development Centre Counselling Services, The University of Western Ontario.
FORBES, Lindsey. (G. Moran, Clinical). Expressions of disorganized attachment beyond the strange situation: Precursors and correlates in naturalistic and experimental contexts. Clinical Psychologist, Riverside Educational Services (Private Practice), London, Ontario.
FREWEN, Paul. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Awareness, Expression, and Response to Emotion in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, The University of Western Ontario.
FUDGE, Melissa. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers, Neuroscience). Estrogen Receptor Modulators Produce Gustatory Conditioning. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physiology, Queens University.
HAWKINS, Erinn. (G. Moran, Clinical). Internal Working Models Revisited: Toward the Development of an Attachment Representational Network. Clinical Psychologist, Alberta Health Services.
HUSSEY, Karen. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). When the Professor is Dry Instead of Boring: Metaphorical Language and Gender in Discourse. Instructor, Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
KLAMMER, Joy. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Surface- and Deep Level Heterogeneity in Teams: Exploring the Moderators of Contact Time and Self-Monitoring. Canadian Military, Kingston, Ontario.
MCNORGAN, Chris. (K. McRae, Cognition and Perception). Integrating Conceptual Knowledge Within and Across Representational Modalities. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
PARFYONOVA, Natalya. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Employee Motivation, Performance, and Well-Being: The Role of Managerial Support for Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness Needs. Research Analyst, Human Resources Systems Group, Ottawa, Ontario.
QUINLAN, Derek. (J. Culham, Neuroscience). Kinematics of Reach and Grasp Actions Involving the Mouth. Lecturer and Research Project Manager, Department. of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario.
SHANLEY, Dianne C. (G. Reid, Clinical). Parents' Representations of Child Mental Health Problems: Development of a Self-Report Measure. Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
WANG, Xiaohua Frank. (J. Howell, Industrial/Organizational). Exploring the Dual-Level Effects of Transformational Leadership on Followers and the Underlying Inlfuence Processes. Instructor, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta.
WOYCHESHIN, David. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Testing the Dimensionality of Organizational Citizenship Behaviours and Contextual Performance Using Self-, Peer and Supervisor Ratings Canadian Military, Victoria, BC.
Convocation Fall 2007 and Spring 2008
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BEISSEL, Clara. (D. Wolfe, Clinical). Observations of Neglectful Mothers and Their Children: Towards an Understanding of Maternal Attributions. Psychologist, Private Practice, London, Ontario.
BOMAN, Jennifer. (H. Murray, Educational). Outcomes of a Graduate Teaching Assistant Training Program. Lecturer, King’s University College, London, Ontario.
BRINKER, Jaylene. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Dispositional Rumination and Depressed Mood. Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
CANN, David. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). Specifying and Examining Gist Components That Contribute to False Memory. Lecturer, King’s University College and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
CHAN, Alan. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Working Alliance as a Conceptual Framework of Patient-Centredness: The Development of the Primary Care Working Alliance Inventory. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.
COVIN, Roger. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Changing Self-Schema Organization Using an Evaluative Conditioning Procedure. Psychologist, Clinic, London, Ontario.
FAZAKAS-DEHOOG, Laura. (D. Dozois, Clinical). An Integrative Cognitive-Model of Suicidal Thinking and Behaviour. Psychologist, St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario and Lecturer, Dept of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
HAIGH, Corinne. (D. Jared, Cognition and Perception). Bilinguial’s Activation of Phonological Representations from Printed Words. Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Research in Language, Mind and Brain, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
HAYNES, Graeme. (D. Olson, Social). Investigating the Dynamics of Choice Overload. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
HERNANDEZ-SMITH, Alexandra. (S. MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Development of Geographic Song Preferences and the Neural Responses to Local Geographic Song I Songbirds. Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab. Ecologie et Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielles, Université Jean Monnet, France.
HONG, Ryan Yee-Shiun. (S. Paunonen, Personality and Measurement). Personality Vulnerabilities to Psychopathology: Exploration of Relations Between Trait Structures and Social-Cognitive Processes. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
HOSHOOLEY, Jennifer. (D. Sherry, Neuroscience). Lecturer, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
KIELAR, Aneta. (M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Representation of Language in the Brain: Behavioural and Imaging Investigations of English Past Tense Morphology. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University.
PETERMAN, Andrea. (W. A. Fisher, Clinical). Physician Initiated STI Prevention Counselling: Targeting Women to Reach Couples Psychologist. Oakville Centre for Cognitive Therapy, Oakville, Ontario.
POWELL, Deborah. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Assessing Personality in the Employment Interview: The Impact of Rater Training and Individual Differences on Rating Accuracy. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
ROBERTSON, Erin. (M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). The Relationship Between Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: Multiple Phonological Processing Deficits. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, L’Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec.
TENK, Christine. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers, Neuroscience). The Effects of Neonatal LPS on Adult Behaviours. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario and Part-time Instructor, Social Science Department, Brescia University College, London, Ontario.
TSE, Hennis. (X. Chen, Developmental). Peer Victimization and Adjustment: Moderating Effects of Social Functioning, Ethnicity, and Immigration Status. School Psychologist, York Region District School Board, Ontario.
Convocation Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BOKSMAN, Kristine. (R. W. J. Neufeld, Psychology: Clinical). Investigation of effective connectivity in schizophrenia using functional magnetic resonance imaging and Sternberg item recognition tasks. Psychologist, Early Intervention Psychosis Program, Hotel Dieu Hospital , Kingston , Ontario.
DESOUZA, Amanda. (X. Chen, Psychology: Developmental). Childhood Inhibition and Experience in the Context of Peer Interactions Psychoeducational Consultant, Toronto Catholic Districk School Board, Toronto , Ontario.
HEATHCOTE, Joanna. (J. Meyer, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). Predicting fair behaviour: Using Empathy to Understand a Manager's Procedural and Interactional Justice. Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto , Ontario.
HOSHOOLEY, Jennifer. (D. Sherry, Neuroscience). Seasonal neuroplasticity in the adult black-capped chickadee. Lecturer, Department of Psychology, the University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario.
KHAN, Sarah. (B. Timney, Neuroscience). Alcohol's effect on visual temporal processing. Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Psychology, the University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario.
LATTANZIO , Sara. (D. Sherry, Psychology: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Sex and seasonal differneces in brown-headed cowbirds. Maternity leave.
MADIGAN, Sheri. (D. Pederson, Psychology: Clinical). An investigation of the correlates and developmental sequelae of anomalous maternal behaviour and disorganized attachment relationships. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto , Ontario.
MIHIC, Ljiljana. (V. Esses, Psychology: Clinical). Personality Vulnerability and Stress Processes. Private Practice , Serbia.
Convocation Fall 2005 and Spring 2006
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
ANGLIN-BODRUG, Kristin. (H. Murray, Educational). Student Evaluation of High School Preservice Teachers: Rating Accuracy, Formative Feedback and Concurrent Validity. Psychologist, Thames Valley District School Board, London, Ontario, Canada.
BOISVERT, Michael. (D. Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Interval timing by bumble bees, bombus impatiens. Instructor, Dept of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
DUTRIZAC, Gwen Larsen. (Martin, Clinical). When Who I am Includes Close Relationships: Examining the Role of Relational Self-Construal in Social and Emotional Well Being. Private Practice with a group of psychologists, Waterloo, Ontario.
ELLIS, Wendy Belbin. (Zarbatany, Developmental). Peer Group Status as a Moderator of Group Influence on Children's Behaviour and Attitudes. Postdoctoral Fellow, CAMH Centre for Prevention Science, London, Ontario.
FRANCIS, Karen. (Wolfe, Clinical). Cognitive and affective factors among maltreating and nonmaltreating fathers. Psychologist, Chedoke-McMaster Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
GILL, Harjinder. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Reaction to Injustice: Development and Validation of a Measure. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
GILLESPIE, Joanne. (Rollman, Clinical). The Role of Temperament in Children's Predictin, Experience and Recall of Immunization Pain. Paediatric Psychologist, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
KIRSH, Gillian. (Kuiper, Clinical). Humor Generation and Reception: Relationships with Self-Concept and Well-Being. P/T Psychologist at Toronto District School Board, St. Joe's Hospital in Hamilton and Research at The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario.
LEVY, Lawrence. (Neufeld, Clinical). Empirical instantiation of a chaos-theoretic model of strees and coping: Evidence of the "edge-of-chaos" via electronic ecologica momentary assessment. Private Practice, Toronto, Ontario.
MCKENZIE, Tammy. (Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The role of category variability and perceptual similarity in categorization by pigeons. Assistant Professor, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba.
SHUPER, Paul. (Fisher, Social). Unprotected Sex Among HIV Seropositive Gay and Bisexual Men: The Role of Sexual Arousal, Partner Characteristics and HIV Viral Load. Assistant Research Professor, Center for Health/HIV Intervention and Prevention, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
STELZL, Monika. (Seligman, Social). MOATING: The strategic utilization of the dual social identities of the other. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB.
TAYLOR, Tamsen. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The critical role of time perception in speeded responding. Consultant, Humansystems Inc., Guelph, Ontario.
VEENVLIET, Scott. (Seligman, Social). Development of a belief in the nature and existence of evil scale. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, Ontario.
Convocation Fall 2004 and Spring 2005
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
CHIPMAN, Karen. (E. Hampson, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Sex Differences in the Limb Praxic Function of Children and Adults. Neuropsychologist, the Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
HILDYARD, Kathryn. (D. Wolfe, Clinical). An Investigation of Cognitive Mechanisms and Processes Underlying Neglectful Caregiving. Psychologist, Private Practice, Oakville, Ontario.
JONES, Kevin. (G. Rollman, Clinical). Selective Attentional Bias for Experimentally-Induced Pain. Psychologist, Chronic Pain Management Unit Chedoke Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
KOSTER-BAIER, Andrea. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). Predictors of Parental Management of Children's Pain after Paediatric Outpatient Surgery. Psychologist, Halton Child and Youth Services, Burlington, Ontario.
KRAJEWSKI, Henryk. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Development and Validation of the Approach Coping Efficacy Scales: Predicting Quality fo Work-Life and Adaptive Performance Outcomes. Leadership Consultant, Jackson Leadership Systems, Inc., Toronto.
POWER, Tara. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Decision to Undergo Genetic Testing for BRCA1/2 in a Community Sample of Ashkenazi Jewish Women: Coping with the Risk of Cancer or with the Anticipated Emotion. Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Cancer Society, Calgary.
PUHLIK-DORIS, Patricia. (R. Martin, Clinical). The Humor Styles Questionnaire: Investigating the Role of Humor in Psychological Well-Being. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, King's College, London, Ontario.
STANLEY, David. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Measuring Affect with the 2-Dimensional Circumplex: Choosing the Right Rotation. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
Convocation Fall 2004 and Spring 2005
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
CROSS-MELLOR, Shelley. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers). The Effects of LPS and LiC1on Feeding Behaviours. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, London, Ontario.
KROLICZAK, Greg. (M. Goodale.) Top-Down Perceptual and Semantic Cues and the Visual Conrol of Reaching and Grasping. Postdoctoral Fellow, CIHR Group for Action and Perception, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Convocation Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BAILEY, Heidi. (G. Moran, Clinical). Associations between Childhood Abuse History, Unresolved Attachment and Trauma Symptoms in a High-Risk Sample of Adolescent Mothers. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
BOIES, Kathleen. (J. Howell, Industrial/Organizational). The Impact of Leadership, Teamwork Mental Models and Affect on Team Trust and Perceived Team Performance and Viability. Assistant Professor, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
CARSWELL, Julie. (S. Pepper, Industrial/Organizational). Securing Senior Management Commitment to Organizational Change: The Role of Influence Strategies. Management Consulting Firm, Toronto, Ontario.
CONNOLLY, Jason. (M. Goodale.) The Neural Correlates of Preparatory Set. Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology.
GOLDBERG, Esther. (P. A. Vernon, Educational). The Contribution of Advisor Behaviours to Measures of Graduate Student Success and Satisfaction. Educational Psychologist, Thames Valley District School Board, London, Ontario.
HERSCOVITCH, Lynne. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Resistance to Organizational Change: Toward a Multidimensional Conceptualization. Independent Management Consulting Practice, Toronto, Ontario.
JELLEY, R. Blake. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Rater Personality and Peformance-Evaluation Leniency. Research and Evaluation Unit, Ontario Police College, Aylmer, Ontario.
JETTE, Jennifer. (R.W.J. Neufeld, Clinical). Empirical Validation of a Six-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical System of Stress and Coping. Psychologist, Secure Treatment Facility, Hull Child & Family Services, Calgary, Alberta.
LIU, Mowei. (X. Chen, Developmental). Autonomy vs. Connectedness-Oriented Parenting Behaviors in Chinese and Canadian Mothers. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
ROSE, Kristopher. (R. Martin, Clinical). The Influence of Mood on the Accessibility and Importance of Regulatory Focus Goal. Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Toronto, Ontario.
Convocation Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
CLOW, Kimberley. (V. M. Esses, Social). Challenging the Pervasiveness of Sex and Race Categorizations: Looking at the Mental Representation of Familiar Others. Instructor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
CREE, George. (K. McRae, Cognition). Exploring the Factors Underlying the Structure and Computation of the Meaning of Concrete Nouns: Constraints Imposed by Category-Specific Semantic Deficits. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia.
HECHT, Tracy Doreen. (N. J. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Person-Job Fit on the Dimension of Polychronicity: An Examination of Links with Well-Being and Performance. Assistant Professor, I. H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
HONG, Sungjin. (R. A. Harshman, Measurement). Factor Analysis Methods Useful for the Rotational and Dimensional Indeterminacies. Postdoctoral Fellow, Offord Centre for Child Studies, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
JANES, Leslie. (J. M. Olson, Social). The Effect of Goals on Self-Assessment versus Self-Protection. Assistant Professor, Brescia University College, London, Ontario.
JOHNSTON, Kevin. (B. Timney). Effects of Ethanol on Measures of Lateral Inhibition. Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
MacDONALD, Paul. (S. V. Paunonen, Measurement). Computer Adaptive Test for Measuring Personality Factors Using Item Response Theory. Senior Consultant, Assessment Strategies Incorporated, Ottawa, Ontario.
MASGORET, Anne-Marie. (R. C. Gardner, Personality). Investigating Cross-Cultural Adjustment, and the Influence of Foreign Language Instructors on Second Language Achievement. Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
McCARTHY, Julie. (R. D. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Applicant Anxiety and the Employment Interview: Develoment of a New Realm. Assistant Professor, Division of Management, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario.
MEADOWS, Ken N. (L. Zarbatany, Developmental). Agency and Communion: Multifaceted or Unitary Constructs. Transition Student Advisor, Centre for New Students, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
NOWICKI, Elizabeth. (R. Sandieson, Educational). A Developmental Analysis of Children’s Negative Biases Towards Target Children with Learning Disabilities. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
PRATT, Adelle. (R. A. Martin, Clinical). Relations Between Adult Attachment Representations, Affect Regulation and Affect Expression in Marital Relationships. Clinical Psychologist, Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Convocation Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
ARMSTRONG, Tamara. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). Integration of New Self-Aspects into the Structure of the Self: Implications for Management of Chronic Illness. Psychologist, Private Practice, London, Ontario.
BENN, Kelly. (R.W.J. Neufeld, Clinical). Formal Modelling of Decisional-Control Preferences and Mechanisms Underlying Stress Negotiation. Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice, Hamilton, Ontario.
DANSO, Henry A. (V. Esses, Social). Superior Test Performance: Reasserting Group Dominance Under Threat of Competition from Outgroup Members. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
DE OLIVIERA, Carey Anne. (G. Moran, Clinical). Understanding the Function of Emotions within the Framework of Attachment Organization. Clinical Psychologist, Madame Vanier Children's Services, London, Ontario.
FITZSIMMONS, Kathleen. (R. Martin, Clinical). Peer/Partner Attachment and Emotion Regulation as Transmission Mechanisms of the Relationship between Perceived Parental Attachment and Dysphoric Mood. Psychologist, Whitby Psychiatric Hospital.
GRASLEY, Carolyn. (D. Wolfe, Clinical). Violence in Teen Dating: A Multi-factorial Analysis of the Association between Child Maltreatment and Abuse in Subsequent Intimate Relationships. Private Consulting Practice, Ingersoll, Ontario.
HAFFENDEN, Angela. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Control of Visually Guided Grasping: Contributions of Learned Perceptual Information. Psychologist, Neuropsychology/Rehabilitation Section, Calgary Health Region Psychology Section.
JAMES, Karin Harman. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Controlling What We See: The Effects of Active Exploration on Object Recognition. Research Associate, Vanderbilt Vision Research Group, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
JAMES, Thomas W. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). fMRI Response Characteristics of Object-processing Regions of the Brain. Research Associate, Vanderbilt Vision Research Group, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
JOHNSON, Andrew. (P. A.Vernon, Measurement). Cognitive and Motoric Sequelae of Dopaminergic Intervention in Parkinson's Disease. Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario.
JONES, David A. (G. Rollman, Clinical). An Investigation of Relationships between Affective Experience, Affect Regulation, Coping and Chronic Pain. Clinical Psychologist, Pierce Health Services, Waterloo, Ontario.
KNUDSEN, Erin. (D. Jared, Educational). Understanding Reading Comprehension Difficulties at the University Level. Teacher and/or School Psychologist, British Columbia.
RENAUD, Robert. (H. Murray, Educational). The Effect of Higher-Order Questions on Critical Thinking Skills. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba.
RODGER, Susan. (H. Murray, Educational). Teacher Clarity and Student Anxiety: An Aptitude-Treatment Interaction Experiment. Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario.
SCOTT, Katreena. (D. Wolfe, Clinical). An Application of the Transtheoretical Model to Understanding Change among Male Batterers. Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
SUTTON, Jennifer. (W. A. Roberts, Animal Cognition). Mechanisms of Multiple Landmark Piloting in Pigeons. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.
TOPOLNYTSKY, Laryssa. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Commitment in an Era of Change: The Role of Culture, Culture Fit, and Justice. Management Consultant, Mercer Delta Consulting Ltd., Toronto.
Convocation Fall 2000 and Spring 2001
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
BAXTER, Bruce. (R. Hinson, Clinical). Is Smoking Automatic? The Role of Attention and Intention in Smoking Behaviour. Psychologist, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
DESTUN, Lisa Maria. (N. Kuiper, Clinical). Realness Perceptions of Real and Made-Up Stressful Childhood Events: Effects of Elaboration and Individual Differences. Psychologist, Student Development Centre, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
DUFF CANNING, Sarah. (E. Hampson, Behavioural And Cognitive Neuroscience). Sexual Differentiation of Working Memory in Humans. Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neurology Unit, Sunnybrook & Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.
FERRETTI, Todd Randall. (K. McRae, Cognition). Situation Schemas, Thematic Roles and Grammatical Morphemes. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at San Diego.
GLEASON, Karin Elizabeth. (D. Pederson, Clinical). Attachment and Object Relation Theories: Understanding Adolescent Mother-Infant Relationships. Psychologist at the Child, Parent Research Institute, London, Ontario.
HOH, Timothy En-ming. (P. Cain, Psychobiology And Clinical Neuropsychology). Investigating the Role of the Neocortex in the Water Maze Task Using Detailed Behavioral Analyses and the Golgi-Cox Method. Engineering Student, Detroit, Michigan.
McDERMID, Ann. (G. Rollman, Clinical). Generalized Hypervigilance in Chronic Pain Patients. Psychologist, Private Practice, London, Ontario.
OLTHOF, Anneke. (W. A. Roberts, Learning And Animal Behaviour). Individual Representation and Summation of Symbols Associated with Food Quantities. Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at San Diego.
PELLIZZARI, Joseph Robert. (D. Evans, Clinical). An Investigation of the Structural Relationships Among Well-Being and Quality of Life Components. Psychologist, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario.|
QUINN, Kimberly Ann. (J. Olson, Social). Expectancies and the Processing of Social Information: Implications for Person Perception and Person Memory. Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
TOMES, Jennifer. (A. Katz, Cognition). Illusory Memories: An Investigation of Differences Between ‘Memories', the Confidence-Accuracy Association and Other Issues. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.
ZEBIAN, Samar. (P. Denny, Cognition). Influences of Cultural Artifacts and Social Practices on Number Conceptualization: Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches to Everyday Numeric Cognition. Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut.NICHOLSON, Karen. (K. Humphrey, Sensation and Perception). Role of Surface Cues in The Recognition of Rotated Objects.
Convocation Fall 1999 and Spring 2000
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
ANDERSON, David. (D. N. Jackson). Personality, Self-Efficacy and Managerial Leadership Behaviour. Management Consultant, Towers Perrin, Toronto, Ontario.
BALSOM, Rod. (R. Martin). Information Processing of Health Threat Stimuli in Individuals High in Negative Affectivity. Instructor, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario and Psychologist, St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital.
BELL, David. (J. Olson). Ambivalence and Response Polarization Toward Native People: A Motivational Perspective. Instructor, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
DINDOFF, Kathleen. (M. Rothstein). Recruiter Impressions of Potential for Job-Specific and Organizational Fit in Resume Screening: Three Field Studies. Murray Axmith & Assoc. Outplacement.
ELLISON, Deborah. (D. Pederson). Mother-Child Interactions with Developmentally Disabled Children: An Intervention Study. Instructor, The University of Western Ontario and Director, Autism Program, Child, Parent Research Institute, London, Ontario.
HODSON, Gordon. (R. Sorrentino). Uncertainty in the Group Context: Categorizational Effects on Persuasive Message Processing and Ingroup Favouritism. Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario and Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
LEE, Kibeom. (N. Allen). Job Affect as a Predictor of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Workplace Deviance. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia.
MACUDA, Todd. (B. Timney). Equine Colour Vision. Postdoctoral Fellow, The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
NICOL, Adelheid. (S. Paunonen). A Measure of Workplace Honesty. Kingston, Ontario.
WINTER, Kathy Ann. (N. A. Kuiper). Cognitive Emotion Theory: Cognitive Postdoctoral Fellow, Appraisals, Core Themes, and Individual Differences. Postdoctoral Fellow, Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital.
Convocation Fall 1999 and Spring 2000
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis. Current Employment
ASHTON, MICHAEL. (S. Paunonen). A Comparison of Personality Item Selection Strategies. Research Associate, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
BELLISARIO, LISA. (G. Moran). Gender-Based Processes in Parental Identification.
CHOVAZ MCKINNON, CATHY. (D. Pederson). Relationship Representations of Deaf Adults. Robarts School for the Deaf, London, Ontario.
HANNA, STEVEN. (R. Sorrentino). Personal Relevance, Comparative Context and Uncertainty Orientation as Determinants of Perceived Ingroup Homogeneity.
HARRIS, JULIE. (P. A. Vernon). Personality and Measured Intelligence. Scientist 2, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, London, Ontario.
LOTECKI, NANCY. (B. Timney). Temporal Integration of a Binocular AND Channel. Peel Region Department of Health, Brampton, Ontario.
MAROTTA, JONATHAN. (M. Goodale). The Visual Control of Grasping: The Role of Static Monocular Cues. Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
McKEE, SHERRY. (R. Hinson). Social Learning Determinants of Alcohol Outcome Expectancies. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
MITCHELL, STEPHEN. (P. A. Vernon). Two Mode to Three Mode Factor Analysis (223): A Solution to the Factor Rotation Problem Using Bootstrapping and Randomization Techniques. Assessment Resource Officer working in standardized testing and evaluation, Alberta Learning (formerly Alberta Education), Edmonton, Alberta.
PEXMAN, PENELOPE. (S. Lupker). Strategic Control and Phonological Processing in Visual Word Recognition. Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
PHILLIPS, JENNIFER. (G. Moran). The Acquisition of Representational Abilities within the Context of the Attachment Relationship. (deceased)
TREMBLAY, PAUL. (R. C. Gardner). Development and Construct Validation of the Academic Motivation Inventory. Director of Test Development, Research Psychologists Press, Inc., Edmonton, Alberta.
WEN, FRANCES. (L. Swartzman). Examination of the Relative Influences of Neuroticism and Hypochondriasis on Health Behaviour Associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Psychotherapist/Psychology Assistant, Layh & Associates, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
