M.Sc. Graduates
Convocation 2023
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CAMANTO, Omar. (Campbell, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). The Concept of Trust in Newly-formed versus Long-term Romantic Relationships.
ELOULABI, Rama. (Esses, Social, Personality and Developmental MER). Young Arabs in Canada: Ethnic Identity and Intersectionality.
HICKS, Owen. (Dozois, Clinical). The Effects of Self- and Partner- Schemas on Relationship Quality and Depression in Romantic Dyads.
HUI, Roy. (Evans, Industrial/Organizational). Affectivity and its Role in Predicting Sociometric Position in Small Group Networks.
JAGADEESAN, Ramkumar. (Grahn, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Spontaneous Intrapersonal Synchrony and the Effect of Cognitive Load.
KARAMALLY, Talib. (Robertson, Industrial/Organizational). Mindfulness Meditation Interventions as a Predictor of Environmental Leadership.
KHERA, Devinder. (Joel, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Exploring the Dimensions and Dynamics of Partnered Sexual Behaviours: Scale Development and Validation Using Factor and Network Analysis.
LONGORIA, Nini. (Sakaluk, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). What is Good Sex, and for Whom? A Psychometric Perspective.
RAYMOND, Kate. (Butler, Clinical). Assessing Misophonia: Cross-Cultural Validation of the MisoQuest and its Relation with Cognitive Functioning.
RICHARDS, Olivia. (Johnsrude, Clinical). The Development of the Experiential Impact of Mental Fatigue Scale.
SCHMIDT, Kendall. (Bodell, Clinical). Exploring the Impact of Mood States on Motivation to Consume Food and Non-Food Rewards in Individuals with Loss of Control Eating.
SCHNEEBERGER, Laura. (Stevenson, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Examining Age-related Enhancement of Multisensory Gain: The Role of Sensory Decline and Inverse Effectiveness.
SLACK, Madeline. (Minda, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). The Psychotherapeutic Effects of Consumer-Grade EEG Neurofeedback on Mental Health and Well-being.
SOOKNANAN, Vishal. (Weststar, Industrial/Organizational). An Investigation of LGBTQ+-Specific Workplace Microaggressions: Their Impact on Job Engagement and the Buffering Effects of Organizational Trust and Identity Disclosure.
STEWART, Kaycee. (Morton, Clinical). Individual Differences in Decision-Making and Emotions: A Study of Alexithymia Using the Columbia Card Task.
TURNER, Kate. (Stevenson & Stojanoski, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Investigating Neural Mechanisms Associated With the Double Empathy Problem Using fNIRS Hyperscanning.
Convocation 2022
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BELETSKI, Leonid. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Examining the Structure and Outcomes of Work Motivation Profiles: A Mindset-Based Approach.
BERGER, Sarah. (Batterink, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Developmental Differences in the Learning and Consolidation of Linguistic Regularities.
BESSELINK, Maria. (Esses, Social, Personality and Developmental MER). More than just virtual communication: Examining Canadian volunteers’ virtual contact experiences with refugees.
BIANCHINI, Genevieve. (Bodell, Clinical). The Impact Of An Online Self-Compassion Intervention On Thwarted Belongingness And Perceived Burdensomeness.
CHAVOSHI, Parisa. (Tremblay, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). The Relationship Between the Big-Five Personality Traits and Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis.
CHUNG, Jason. (Kaufman, Clinical). The Development and Validation of the Self-Validation and Invalidation Scale (SVIS).
COLTHIRST-REID, Mikayla. (Heerey, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Revisiting Cognitive Dissonance: A Closer Look at the Core Assumptions of a Classic Theory.
CRUZ, Anthony. (Minda, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). The Spacing Effect in Remote Information-Integration Category Learning.
DANIEL, Adira. (Sakaluk, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). How do individuals in intercultural romantic relationships use communication strategies to maintain their relationship? A qualitative analysis.
GREEN, Haley. (Hayden, Clinical). Characterizing and Predicting Canadian Adolescents’ Internalizing Symptoms in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
HOPPER, Justin. (Grahn & Batterink, Cognition and Perception). Investigating the Role of Targeted Memory Reactivation in Sleep Spindle Production.
JONES, Samantha. (Heerey, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Co-rumination In Social Networks.
KHEMANI, Neha. (Minda, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Culture and Classification: Investigating Analytic vs. Holistic Thinking Styles.
LIANG, Darren. (Kohler, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Role of the default-mode network during narrative integration in major depressive disorder.
LINDLOFF, Megan. (Calogero, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Development and Validation of the Fat Microaggressions Scale.
MEDDAOUI, Brianna. (Kaufman, Clinical). Interpersonal Problems and Suicidal Ideation in Daily Life: Examining the Moderating Role of Social Problem-Solving.
QUESNEL, Danika. (Calogero, Clinical). Evaluating the impact of a safe exercise training workshop on knowledge and self-efficacy to manage dysfunctional exercise among eating disorders clinicians at Alsana eating disorders center.
ROVETTI, Joseph. (Johnsrude, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Listening effort: Separating the subjective from the objective.
SCHAFFER, Somer. (Campbell, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Virtual Reality, Mindfulness and Their Associations to Personality Traits.
STEWART, Emma. (Hayden & Mitchell, Clinical). Early Childhood Impulsivity and Parenting Predict Trajectories of Externalizing Psychopathology.
TRAHAIR, Cassidy. (Saklofske & Nazarov, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). An Interview Study of Beliefs About Confidentiality and Attitudes Towards Disclosure of Moral Injury in the Canadian Armed Forces.
XU, Tianyue. (Benson, Industrial/Organizational). How Narcissism Relates to Social Rank Dynamics in Teams.
Convocation 2021
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ABBAS, Hana Hussein. (Johnsrude, Clinical). Inter-Subject Correlation Using Movie-Driven fMRI in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.
ALVAREZ RIVERO, Aymee. (Ansari, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Examining The Structure Of Symbolic Number Representations In The Parietal Cortex: An RSA Study.
BAERG MacDONALD, Kristi. (Schermer, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Loneliness Unlocked: Associations with Smartphone Use and Personality.
BROWN, Jocelyn. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). More than just shying away from conflict: The relationship between social anxiety and workplace incivility.
D'COSTA, Malvika. (Saklofske, Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology). Perpetrator Blame Attribution in Heterosexual Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gender and Perceived Injury.
HILLIER, Courtney. (Calogero, Social). The Effect of Feminist Identity on Women's Conceptualizations of Beauty and Body-Based Stigma: A Conceptual Replication and Extension.
HOLLYWOOD, Sarah. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Conscious Perception and Implicit Memory Formation of a Narrative Presented During Sleep.
KINNEAR, Abbigail. (Bodell, Clinical). Why Do People Engage in Eating Disorder Behaviours?
LAGACE CUSIAC, Rebekka. (Ansari & Grahn, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). A Sense of Proportion: How humans process relative magnitudes in space and time.
LAMMERT, Jessica. (Butler, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Visual Perception in Hearing Sign Language Users.
LI, Zhuo. (Benson, Industrial/Organizational). Intergroup Leadership: Two Paths to Encourage Positive Intergroup Behaviours.
LYNCH, Jennifer. (Benson, Industrial/Organizational). Timber! How Loss of Trust Contributes to the Downfall of Narcissistic Leaders.
McCURRACH, Cullen. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Improving the Accuracy of References: The Effects of Felt Accountability on Personality Ratings.
McKENZIE, Katarina. (Reid, Clinical). The relationship between neighbourhood-level and family-level factors and sleep problems among children and youth.
MORALES VALIENTE, Claudia. (McRae, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Likelihood and familiarity in the simulation of future events.
MULLEN, Jennifer. (Hayden, Clinical). Validating an Observational Coding System for the Dominance Behavioural System (DBS) in Childhood.
REYES, Stacey. (Batterink, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). The Role of Top-down Attention in Statistical Learning of Speech.
SALAGOVIC, Cailey. (Butler & Stevenson, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). Audiovisual integration in cochlear implant users and typical hearing controls: A study of group differences in syllable perception and effect of asynchrony on speech intelligibility.
SIVAYOGANATHAN, Thipiga. (Reid, Clinical). Trends in Mental Health Service Use Among Youth and Emerging Adults in Canada.
STOW, Meara. (Stevenson, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Autistic Traits and Cognitive Biases for Emotional Faces in Neurotypicals.
WITHNELL, Samantha. (Bodell, Clinical). Testing Competing Mediation Models of the Effects of Weight Bias Internalization and Weight Suppression on Disordered Eating in Young Adults.
Convocation 2020
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ADEGBEMBO, Oluwabukunsola. (Esses, Social MER). CEOs Don't Wear Afros: Exploring the Justification-Suppression of Prejudice Against Black Women in the Workplace.
BLACHER, Aviva. (Reid, Clinical). Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbances and Psychopathology in a Mental Health Clinic Sample.
CHADWICK, Caroline. (Johnsrude, Clinical). Homotopic Coupling in Persons with Epilepsy using Movie-driven and Resting-state fMRI.
CHO, Hyun Young. (Roberts & Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Is Social Rank Correlated With Cognitive Ability in Black-capped Chickadees?
HANNAH, Kara. (McRae, Cognition and Perception). Investigating the Relationship Between Event Knowledge, Autistic Traits, and Social Ability: A Network Science Approach.
HUELLEMANN, Katarina. (Calogero, Social). ‘Instead of Life in Prison, it Was Life in My Own Skin’: Scope and Limitations of a Week-Long Daily Online Self-Compassionate Writing Intervention for Young Women’s Body Image.
JACKSON, Shayla. (Roberts & Sutton, Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences). The olfactory and auditory capabilities of dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) for locating different quantities of food.
KUMAR, Shruti. (Weststar, Industrial/Organizational). The Motherhood Penalty: Not so Black and White.
LAUZON, Sebastien. (Stevenson, Cognition and Perception). Multisensory Associative Learning and Multisensory Integration.
MOHAMMAD VALI SAMANI, Negar. (Heerey, Social). Linguistic Signaling in Speed-Dates.
MULGREW, Jordan-Jerrica. (Batterink, Cognition and Perception). The Role of Neural Entrainment in Statistical Learning.
MULLER, Anne-Marie. (Stevenson, Clinical). The Relationship Between Schizotypal Traits and the Perceptual Processes of Multisensory Integration, Temporal Processing, and Speech Perception.
NANTAIS, Melissa. (Sutton, Cognition and Perception). Exploring Cognitive Maps through Sketching.
YOSOPOV, Lital. (Saklofske, Clinical). The Relationship between Perfectionism and Procrastination: Examining Trait and Cognitive Conceptualizations, and the Mediating Roles of Fear of Failure and Overgeneralization of Failure.
Convocation 2019
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BAIRD, Noelle. (Robertson & Benson, Industrial/Organizational). Leadership on the Ropes: How Hostile Followership Affects Leadership Behaviour.
BRAININ, Leah. (Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Examining the Neural Correlates of Vocabulary and Grammar Learning Using fNIRS.
BRASHEARS, Bailey. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Feature Verbalizablity and Indirect Feedback on Implicit Category Learning.
CARVER, Sarah. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Rudeness is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Gender Impacts Reactions to Incivility at Work.
COPPINS, Trevor. (Weststar, Industrial/Organizational). Not in my Occupation: An Examination of Occupational Identification and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviour.
GABEL, Lindsay. (Hayden, Clinical). Development and Validation of a Battery of Emotionally Evocative Film Clips for Use with Young Children.
HEAD, Margaret. (Calogero, Social). (In)Visible: An Examination of Eating Disorder Detection in Marginalized Women as a Function of Weight Status and Ethnic Group Membership.
HESSEL, Kunio. (Zarbatany, Social). Who Should Defend Victims of Bullying? The Effects of Relative Status on Defender and Victim Outcomes.
JENSEN, Lynden. (Heerey, Social). The Effect of Perceived Role Suitability on Prestige, Dominance, Performance, and Communication.
KHARLAS, Daniel. (Tremblay & Neufeld, Personality and Measurement). The Development and Validation of a Preliminary Meditation Intentions Questionnaire.
KWAN, Teresa Eva. (Weststar, Industrial/Organizational). Double Jeopardy: What is Mentorship and Diversity-Valuing on Perceived Competence?
MOHAMED, Mirrah Maziyah. (Jared, Cognition and Perception). Interpreting intentions: evidence for cross-language influences in bilinguals.
MOREAU, Christine. (Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Neural Entrainment Indexes Statistical Learning in Children.
PARKS, Kaitlyn. (Stevenson, Cognition and Perception). The Impact of Statistical Learning on Language and Social Competency in ASD and ADHD: Divergent Findings.
SCIBERAS, Christopher. (Zarbatany, Developmental). The Moderating Role of Clique Stratification and Individual Centrality on Clique Socialization of Overt and Relational Aggression.
Convocation 2018
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CHARLOT, Nicolyn. (Campbell, Social). The Influence of Romantic Rejection on Change in Ideal Standards, Ideal Flexibility, and Self-Perceived Mate Value.
CRAGG, Chloe. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Empowering Employees to Reduce Perceptions of Workplace Incivility.
DAOUST, Andrew. (Hayden, Clinical). Examining Child Sex as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Cortisol Reactivity and Symptoms Over Time.
FACTOR, Rebecca. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Does Reflection Mitigate Negative Emotions Following Work Performance Feedback?
GILLIES, Jennifer. (Dozois, Clinical). Trajectories of the Effects of Sad Mood Induction Procedures (MIPs).
GLIZER, Daniel. (MacDonald, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Effect Of The Dopamine Agonist Pramipexole On Measures Of Impulsivity In Young, Healthy Participants.
GOLDSMITH, Samantha. (Morton, Developmental). Investigating the Interaction of Emotion and Cognition: Conflict Adaptation and the Impact of Emotionally-Salient Distraction.
JOHNSON, Laura. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Light Triad Scale: Developing and Validating a Preliminary Measure of Prosocial Orientation.
KOESSLER, Rebecca. (Campbell, Social). When Your Boo Becomes a Ghost: The Association Between Breakup Strategy and Breakup Role in Experiences of Relationship Dissolution.
LAFORGE, Geoffrey. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Identifying Electrophysiological Components of Covert Awareness in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.
LO, Ka Ho. (Roberts & Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Episodic-like Memory in Dogs: Solving What-Where-When Tasks.
MacDONALD, Hayden. (Roberts & Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Spatial memory for isolated arm locations on the radial maze.
McGREGOR, Alexander. (Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Does self-regulation mediate the relationship between locus of control and resiliency related outcomes?
MOHAMED ALI, Ola. (Hayden, Clinical). Girls’ Internalizing Symptoms and White Matter Tracts in Cortico-Limbic Circuitry.
NIDEL, Joseph. (Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Perceptual Fluency on Emotional Word Recognition.
OUSLIS, Natasha. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Testing a New Model of Team Interdependence.
PHELPS, Jordan. (Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Imidacloprid Impairs Performance on a Model Flower Handling Task in Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens).
POLITIS, Christina. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Women’s Experience of Incivility in Professional Occupations: The Roles of Gender Representation and Occupational Commitment.
SCHULZ, Samantha. (Stevenson, Developmental). Relating Sensory Sensitivity and Repetitive Behaviours in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
WAH, Deanne. (Kavaliers & Ossenkopp, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Effects of Early Adolescent Lipopolysaccharide or Cat Odour Exposure Followed by Propionic Acid Administration on Anxiety, Startle Response, and Sensorimotor Gating in Adolescence and Adulthood.
YANG, Xue. (MacDonald, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Dopaminergic Medication Decreases Motor Impulsivity on the Go/No-go Task in Parkinson's Disease.
ZHU, Tianshu. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Dual Route Model of Idiom Processing in the Bilingual Context.
Convocation 2017
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ATKINSON, Breanna. (Vernon, Personality and Measurement). The SELF-DISS: A Comprehensive Measure of Self-Defeating Interpersonal Style.
BABCOCK, Sarah. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Examining the Influence of Demographic Differences on Children's WISC-V Test Performance: A Canadian Perspective.
BRODBECK, Madeleine. (Sherry & MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Development of new methods to investigate the role of the avian hippocampus in memory formation in brown-headed cowbirds.
BROWN, Matthew. (Neufeld, Personality and Measurement). Initial Development of the Reasons for Reckless and Destructive Behaviours Inventory: Expanding the Role of Dissociation in Self-Destructive Behaviours.
CLERKE, Alexa. (Heerey, Social). The Influence of Similarity and Social Reciprocity on Decisions to Trust.
DELEEMANS, Julie. (Kavaliers, Tenk & Ossenkopp, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Oxytocin’s Effects on Sickness Behaviours, Anxiety Responses, and Immune Function in Adult Male Mice.
FALTYNEK, Pavlina. (MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The effects of corticosterone and social isolation on song stereotypy and neural plasticity in zebra finches.
FORCHUK, Callista. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Do You “Like” Me?: Reassurance Seeking on Facebook and Depression.
GRANT, Bryan. (Neufeld, Clinical). Individual Differences in Stress and Coping: Testing a Model of Decisional Control.
HATHERLEY, Joshua. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Attentional Preference After a Brief Mindfulness Meditation Intervention.
KAMKAR, Nahal. (Cohen, Developmental). What Are The Cognitive Mechanisms That Underlie Our Theory Of Mind? Potential Insights From Information Theory.
KELLER, Mikayla. (Sutton, Cognition and Perception). Individual Differences in the Allocation of Visual Attention during Navigation.
LAU, Chloe. (Saklofske & Stewart, Clinical). Development and Psychometric Validation of the interRAI Internalizing and Externalizing Subscales.
McMENAMIN, Julia. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). The Influence of Beliefs and Gender on Choosing, and Feeling Like You Belong in Engineering.
NEDJADRASUL, Daniel. (McRae, Cognition and Perception). Abstract and Concrete Concepts According to Word Association.
NEWTON, Adam. (Reid, Clinical). Parental Help-seeking for Pediatric Insomnia: Where, When, and Why Do Parents Seek Help?
NISBET, Kelly. (McRae, Cognition and Perception). Investigating the Influence of Grammatical Aspect on Eye-Movements.
PADGETT, Jessica. (Tremblay, Personality and Measurement). Mapping Alternative Masculinities: Development, Validation, and Latent Profile Analysis of a New Masculinity Measure.
PALMA, Paolo. (Esses, Social MER). Perception And Construction of Individuals At The Intersect Of Race And Immigration Status.
PATRYLUK, Carolina. (Tremblay, Personality and Measurement). Mixture Modelling of the HEXACO Personality Inventory.
RUIZ PARDO, Ana. (Minda, Cognition and Perception). Social Media and Cognition.
SARMIENTO, Catalina. (Reid, Clinical). Predictors of Re-Accessing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents.
SINCLAIR, Vanessa. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Heart of Ideology: Bringing Compassion Into the Political Sphere.
SPENCER, Caitlin. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). An extension of the Dimensional Comparison Theory: A test of emotional intelligence self-concepts.
STAFFORD, Clara. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of Motor Fibre Path Integrity and Overt Responsiveness in Disorders of Consciousness.
SZOTA, Lindsay. (Dozois, Clinical). Predictors of Cognitive Reactivity in Depression.
WILDE, Jesse Lee. (Dozois, Clinical). It's Not Me It's You: Examining the Link Between Partner-Schema Organization, Relationship Functioning, and Depressive Symptoms.
ZATOR, Krysten. (Katz, Cognition and Perception). Popular Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories - Developing a Database of Songs and Studying the Role of Cue Emotionality and Relevance on Recalled Memories.
Convocation 2016
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BOUGHNER, Emily. (Frewen, Personality and Measurement). Posttraumatic Substance Use Disorders (PTSUD): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-Related Symptoms and Substance Use Disorders.
CHIN, Kristi. (Vernon, Personality and Measurement). The Dark Side of Jealousy.
DeKRAKER, Jordan. (Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Unravelling The Subfields Of The Hippocampal Head Using 7-Tesla Structural MRI
DOBSON, Kiersten. (Campbell, Social). Are you coming on to me? Accuracy and bias in couples' perceptions of sexual advances
DOSSETT, Kimberly. (Reid, Clinical). Defining and Predicting Dropout from Children's Mental Health Services: A Novel Need-Based Definition Of Dropout.
ESPINOZA Mogollon, Jose. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Goal Alignment: Construct Development and Measurement of a Moderator of Commitment.
FEHER, Anita. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Influence of Self-Compassion, Compassion for Others, and Emotional Intelligence on Conflict Resolution Strategies.
GUITAR, Nicole. (Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Spatial Memory in Black-capped Chickadees: Studies of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Win-Shift/Win-Stay Spatial Search
LI, Yixian. (Norman, Social). Effects of Value Reasoning on Stigmatization of People with Schizophrenia.
LYONS, Kathleen. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Towards the use of transcranial direct current stimulation to improve motor function.
MACHADO, Daniel. (Dozois, Clinical). Cognitive Schemas as Longitudinal Predictors of Depressive Relapse/Recurrence in an Undergraduate Population.
PLOUFFE, Rachel. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Item Properties and the Validity of Personality Assessment.
REID, Jeffrey (Nick). (Katz, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Reading Metaphor on Perceptual Distance Judgments.
SERGEEVA, Valentina. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience).Dancing in the Dark:Sleep-dependent Motor Skill Memory Consolidation and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder
SHUMLICH, Erin. (Hoaken, Clinical). The Relationship Between Executive Dysfunction and Criminality in Forensic Psychiatric and Correctional Populations.
STERNIN, Avital. (Owen & Grahn, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Classifying music perception and imagination using EEG.
THOMSON, Clint. (Esses, Social MER). Helping the Transition Through Building New Friendships: A Psychological Perspective on Supporting International Students' Acculturation and Social Integration.
VICZKO, Jeremy. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Does Sleep Enhance the Consolidation of Implicitly Learned Visuo-Motor Sequence Learning?
WILSON, Claire. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Resiliency, and Mental Health in Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Savouring.
Convocation 2015
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BALAKRISHNAN, Anjana. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Asking the Right Questions: Insights into Assessing Intercultural Sensitivity.
BAUGHMAN, Holly. (Vernon,Personality and Mearsurement). Relationships between the Dark Triad and Delayed Gratification: An Evolutionary Perspective.
BEUKEMA, Stephen.(Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Event-related Potential Markers of Perceptual and Conceptual Speech Processes in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness.
CHEN, Samantha. (Saklofske, Clinical). A Latent Profile Analysis of Romantic Relationship Quality and Its Associations with Personality, Partner Support, and Psychological Well-Being.
CROSS, Alexandra. (Joanisse, Cognition). Eyetracking of Coarticulatory Cue Responses in Children and Adults.
CUTLER, Colleen. (Neufeld, Clinical). Addressing Very Short Stimulus Encoding Times in Modeling Schizophrenia Cognitive Deficit.
DALJEET, Kabir. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Reactions to Negative Feedback: The Role of Resilience and Implications for Counterproductivity.
DaSILVA, Monica. (Archibald, Developmental). Prosody: An Important Cue to Word Learning.
EASTWOOD, Christina. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). The Impact of the Operational Environment on the Commitment Profiles of Canadian Armed Forces Soldiers.
FALLOWFIELD, Hayle. (Morton, Developmental). Variability in the Function of the Mesocorticolimbic System During Feedback Processing is Associated with Individual Differences in Children's Physiological Response.
GOFFIN, Celia. (Ansari, Developmental). Beyond magnitude: Judging ordinality of symbolic number is unrelated to magnitude comparison and independently relates to individual differences in arithmetic.
HOSSEINI-KAMKAR, Niki. (Morton, Developmental). Neural And Behavioural Responses To Rewards And Losses In Early Development: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.
JOHNSON, Victoria. (Hayden, Clinical). Biological and Contextual Predictors of the Stability of Behavioural Inhibition in Early Childhood.
MALTSEVA, Margarita. (Culham, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Congruent familiar size relationships decrease size contrast illusion.
MATSON, Steven. (Timney, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). The effects of alcohol on different classes of motion perception.
MONTGOMERY-GRAHAM, Stephanie. (Hoaken, Clinical). No Safe Base: An Attachment Theory Perspective on the Mediational Effects of Reappraisal and Resilience on the Well-being of Homeless Women in the Skid Row District of Los Angeles.
MOROZ, Sarah. (Campbell, Social). Discrimination is in the Eye of the Beholder: Perception of Discrimination and Microaggressions
NIELSEN, Emily. (Minda, Cognition). The Coffee Shop Effect: Investigating the Relationship between Ambient Noise and Cognitive Flexibility.
OSBORNE, Natalie.(Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). An fMRI Study of Command Following and Communication Using Overt and Covert Motor Responses: Implications for Disorders of Consciousness.
OUELLETTE, Sarah. (Hayden, Clinical). Hair Cortisol Concentrations in High- and Low-Stress Mother-Daughter Dyads.
SANTERRE, Kelsey. (McRae, Cognition). "She will drive the ____": Verb-Based Prediction in Individuals with Parkinson Disease.
SINAI, Leah. (Owen, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Naturalistic paradigms for neuroimaging and bedside measures of conscious awareness.
SOKOLOWSKI, Helen. (Ansari, Developmental). Common and Distinct Brain Regions Support Numerical and Non-numerical Magnitude Processing: A Functional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis.
SYNYAK, Kateryna. (Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Exploring Relationships Between Resume Fraud and Individual Differences.
THORNLEY, Elizabeth. (Frewen, Personality and Measurement). Posttraumatic Eating Disorders (PTED): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-related Symptoms and Eating Disorders.
TOMLINSON, Monica. (Hoaken, Clinical). The Impact of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy on Aggression, Anger, and Hostility in a Forensic Psychiatric Population.
VATERS, Chelsea. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Motivation and Well-being: A Test of Self-Determination Theory Using a Person-Centered Approach.
Convocation 2014
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ANDERSON, Brittney. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Psychological Contracts: A Feature Based Approach to Understanding Transactional and Relational Contracts.
CAMERON, Kyle. (Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Goal Orientation Heterogeneity in Teams: Investigating Implications for Individual Satisfaction with the Team and Team Conflict.
DUNPHY, Lauren. (Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). When faces "feel" familiar: The role of affective signals in face recognition.
GIAMMARCO, Erica. (Vernon,Personality and Measurement). The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Moral Orientation.
GIBBINGS, Aaron. (Grahn, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). How attention and beat perception modulate neural entrainment to rhythm.
HAHN, Christian. (Reid, Clinical). Multi-sector Service Use by Children in Contact with Ontario Mental Health Agencies.
MAIOLINO, Nadia. (Kuiper, Clinical). The Integration and Evaluation of Humor and Positive Psychology Approaches to Well-Being.
McPHEDRAN, Mark. (Lupker, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Semantic Neighborhood Density on the Processing of Ambiguous Words.
RNIC, Katerina. (Dozois, Clinical). Cognitive Predictors and Behavioural Mediators of Vulnerability-Specific Stress Generation in Depressed Adults.
SMITH, Martin. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). The Perfectionism-Psychological Outcome Link: The Mediating Effect of Personal Resiliency.
TOHVER, Gillian. (Saklofske, Personality and Measurement). Blame Recovery: Modeling the Effects Of Personality, Religious-spiritual Belief, and Gender On Blame Attributions and Psychological Wellbeing After A Failed Romantic Relationship.
Convocation 2013
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ARMSTRONG, Joel. (J. Olson, Social). The Moderating Effects of Target Status on the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Fairness.
CHOI, Joseph. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). The Independence of Burnout and Engagement: Incremental Predictive Validity and Construct Reappraisal as Different Combinations of the Same Components (Energy and Evaluation).
DOYLE, Kevin. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Subordinate Ratings: Balancing Accountability and Anonymity.
GUNAY, Barlas. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Effectiveness of Gain versus Loss Framed Advertisements in Moderating Binge Drinking Among University Students: A Regulatory Focus Approach.
HALLIDAY, Aaron. (M. Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Attributions & Resiliency: A Modeled Approach to Understanding Resiliency Using Causal Attributions.
KIRK, Chelsea. (W. A. Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Information Seeking in Rats on the Radial Maze.
NGUYEN, Tram. (J. Grahn, Cognition and Perception). Musical Mood and Arousal at Different Stages of Learning and Memory Performance.
NICHOLS, Emily. (M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language process: An fMRI study of Mandari-English bilinguals.
SEAH, Suzanne. (L. Zarbatany, Clinical). Socialization of Depressive Symptoms in Pre- and Early Adolescent Peer Cliques.
Convocation 2012
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ANDO, Eriko. (D. Jared, Cognition & Perception). Phonological Priming in Japenese-English Bilinguals: Evidence from Lexical and ERP.
HANNA, Brigitte. (E. Hayden, Clinical). Associations Between Maternal Personality and Parenting: A Multi-Informant Approach.
KISINGER, Kelly. (M. Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Job Search Experience Among Skilled Immigrants.
KOTELNIKOVA, Yuliya. (T. Vernon, Clinical). Reactive and Regulatory Temperament Traits as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood.
LEE, Helen. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). An Investigation of the Effects of Self-Construal, Self-Monitoring, and Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion on Negative Mood Contagion.
MATEJKO, Anna. (D. Ansari, Developmental). Individual Differences in White Matter Microstructure Predict Mathematical Abilities.
PINK, Jennifer. (L. Campbell, Social). Attachment and Information Seeking Strategy Preference in Romantic Relationships.
RABI, Rachel. (J.P. Minda, Cognition & Perception). Rule-Based Category Learning in Children: The Role of Inhibitory Control.
ROTMAN, Jeff. (R. Sorrentino, Social).On the One Hand and On the Other: The Effect of Embodying Balance and Uncertainty Orientation on the Confirmation Bias.
SCHRAEDER, Kyleigh. (G. Reid, Clinical). Why Wait? The Effects of Waiting Time on Subsequent Help-Seeking Among Families Looking for Children's Mental Health Services.
TARRAF, Rima. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Taking a Closer Look at Workplace Dimensionality and Source Effects.
WOODLEY, Hayden. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). The Effects of Equity Sensitivity and Teamwork Self-Efficacy on Team Reward Preference.
ZALTZMAN, Alina. (P. Ossenkopp, Clinical). The Effects of Neonatal Immune System Activation with Lipopolysaccharide on Adolescent and Adult Anxiety Behaviours in Male and Female Rats.
ZHANG, Karen. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). Identifying and Understanding the Impact of Competing Goals on Self-Care Compliance Among Patients with Congestive Heart Failure.
Convocation 2011
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BEST , Caitlin. (Moran, Clinical). Infant Emotionality, Maternal Sensitivity, and Attachment.
BOYLAN , James. (Katz, Cognition and Perception). Pragmatics of Ironic Criticism.
CAIRD, Sara. (Martin, Clinical). Humour Sytle in Dating Relationships.
CLOUTIER , Caylen. (Ossenkopp & Kavaliers, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Simultaneous Conditioning of Anticipatory Nausea and Taste Avoidance and the Influence of Immune System Activation.
CREIGHTON , Laura. (Gawronski, Social). Persuasive Effects of Source Likeability on Implicit and Explicit Evaluations: The Role of Cognitive Elaboration During Encoding Versus Judgment.
DALKE, Kimberly. (Sorrentino, Social). Attitudes and Intentions Towards Ex-convicts: an Individual Difference Approach.
DUKE , Devin. (Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Emotion's Influence on the Evaluation of Familiarity.
FEENEY, Justin. (Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Predicting Job Applicant Faking with Self-Control.
JI, Eugene. (Chen & Zarbatany, Developmental). The Social Behaviour of Shy Children in a Familiar Peer Group Context.
MACKRELL , Sarah. (Hayden & Vernon, Personality and Measurement). Longitudinal Associations Between Temperament, Social Competence, and Internalizing Disorders.
MCDERMOTT , Rebecca. (Dozois, Clinical). Attentional Bias' Causal Role in Depressive Sympotmatology.
MCLARNON , Matthew. (Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Development and Initial Validation of the Workplace Resilience Inventory: Evidence Supporting a New Model of Resilience.
MEPHAM , Jennifer. (Ossenkopp & MacFabe, Neuroscience). Time Course of Cognitive Deficits in PPA Rodent Model of ASD.
MILNE , Jennifer. (Goodale, Neuroscience). Effects of Object Connectedness on Rapid Reaching.
SMITH, Heather. (Hayden, Clinical). Genetic and Contextual Determinants of Effortful Control.
STANTON, Sarah. (Campbell, Social). Energized by Love: Physiological Consequences of Partner Reflection.
STRANG, Caroline. (Sherry, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Brain and Behaviour in Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): Serial Reversal Learning and Adult Mushroom Body Development.
ZHAO, Siman. (Chen & Zarbatany, Developmental). Psychology and School Adjustment of Migrant Children in Beijing: The Interactive Contributions of Child Aggression and Parenting Styles.
Convocation 2010
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BOTHA, Francis. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Effect of Causal Explanations for Depression on Stigma.
CHOI, Po Yee. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). Film Footage and Source Monitoring on Memory for News Events.
EVRAIRE, Lyndsay. (D. Dozois, Clinical). The Origins and Dynamics of Excessive Reassurance Seeking.
FARRELL, Tara. (S. MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Effects of Early Nutritional Stress on Physiology, Cognition and Song Production in European Starlings (Sturnus Vulgaris).
FERNANDO, Sherene. (B. Timney, Behaviour and Cognitive Neuroscience). Effects of Alcohol on the Perception of Visual Motion.
KHALKHALI, Saman. (K. McRae, Cognition and Perception). Ingegrative Event Priming.
KINAL, Megan. (L. Zarbatany, Developmental). Centrality as a Moderator of Group Influence.
KRYSKI, Katie. (E. Hayden, Clinical). Development and Validation of a Developmentally-Sensitive Task.
MEDIANU, Stelian. (V. Esses, Social). The Dehumanization of Refugees.
PURRING, Kevin. (L. Campbell, Social). Social Attention and Face Preferences in Person Perception.
SALISBURY, Claire. (W. A. Fisher, Clinical). Gender Differences Surrounding Coital Orgasm Occurrence.
SCHNEIDER, Travis. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Perceived Ability to Deceive and Personality Testing.
THUSSU, Sheerin. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Member Familiarity as a Predictor of Team Adaptation.
WESTMAAS-SWEET, Laura. (D. Jared & M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Effects of Semantic Transparency on Processing Comples Words.
WILK, Heather. (B. Morton, Developmental). Developmental Changes in Conflict Processing and Adaptation.
ZHOU, Chi Christy. (R.Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). Ratees' Perception of and Preference for Absolute versus Comparative Performance.
Convocation Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BOWES, Andrea. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). Biting Language and Fighting Friends: Sarcasm in Conversation.
EDWARDS, Kimberly. (R. Martin, Clinical). Are Witty People Healthier? The Relationship between Facets of Humour and Health.
FIFE, Jessica. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Is the Experience of Work-Family Conflict Moderated by Organizational Commitment?
HANCOCK, Megan. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). The Role of Executive Dysfunction in Predicting Violence.
IBARRA ROVILLARD, Maria Sol. (N. Kuiper, Clinical). The Role of Humor and Depression on Responses to Social Comments.
KOHUT, Taylor. (W. Fisher, Social). The Benefits of Bawdiness.
KRIENGWATANA, Buddhamas (Pralle). (S. MacDougall-Shackleton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Melatonin, Aggression, and Social Dominance.
LAU, Megan. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Executive Functioning as a Risk Factor in Recidivism.
LECHCIER-KIMEL, Rachel. (X. Chen, Developmental). Cultural Differences in Prosocial and Self-Expressive Behaviour with Friends and Unfamiliar Peers.
MALINS, Jeffrey. (M. Joanisse, Neuroscience). Tonal Information in Mandarin Spoken Word Recognition.
MARCOTTE, Erin. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Time-related Diversity and Team Conflict.
MARTIN, Christopher. (S. Kohler, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). déjà vu and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
MCMILLAN, Neil. (W. A. Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Cue Competition and Timing.
MILES, Sarah. (J.P. Minda, Cognition and Perception). Visual Working Memory and Categorization.
MOHAN, Melissa. (N. Kuiper, Clinical). Cognitive Representations of Depression.
MORLEY, Tara. (G. Moran, Clinical). Attachment in Infants of Adult and Adolescent Mothers.
O'CONNOR, Kathleen. (G. Moran, Clinical). Exploring the Roots of Attachment Within the Family.
SANKAR, Janani. (E. Hampson, Clinical). Testosterone, Androgen Receptor, and Spatial Cognition.
SHAMS, Soaleha. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers, Neuroscience). Propionic Acid Affects Social, Anxiety And Motor Behavior.
SHEPPARD, Leah. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). The Workplace Attractiveness Bias.
SHOEMAKER, Angela. (R. Hinson, Clinical). Alcohol Use in an Aboriginal Population.
STINCHCOMBE, Eric. (S. Lupker, Cognition and Perception). Transposed Letter Effects with Subset Primes Investigated Using a Mased Priming Lexical Decision Task.
TAPSCOTT, Jennifer. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Psychopathic Traits and the Severity and Frequency of Instrumental and Reactive Violent Offending.
TURNBULL, Kathryn. (G. Reid, Clinical). Positive Child Routines and Sleep Problems.
WILSON, Elizabeth. (P. Gribble, Neuroscience). Measuring Human Proprioception in a 2D Workspace.
WOOD, Daniel. (M. Goodale, Neuroscience). Response Ambiguity and the Selection of Action.
XUE, Ya. (G. Moran, Clinical). Origins of Continuity in Mother-Child Attachment.
Convocation Fall 2008 and Spring 2009
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CHEN, Jia. (X. Chen, Developmental). Parental Childbearing Attitudes and Their Relations.
CONWAY, Paul. (J. Olson, Social). Is There a Boundary to Morality or Justice? A Deservingness Perspective on Donations to Charity.
DEVANTIER, Sarah. (J. Minda and M. Goldszmidt, Cognition and Perception). The Effects of Expertise on Physicians' Use of Goal-Oriented Categories.
HALL, Amee. (S. Lomber, Neuroscience). Corticortical Projections from Auditory Areas to V1.
KAO, Cathy Kai-Ling. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Enhanced Detection of Visual Targets on the Hand and on Familiar Tools.
LIN, Pei-Shiunan Lily. (R. Sorrentino, Social). Attaining and maintaining clarity as self-regulatory goals: The underlying effects of uncertainty orientation and ego-depletion.
LOCKEY, Andrew. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers, Neuroscience). LPS Affects the Startle Response and Prepulse Inhibition.
MACPHERSON, Krista. (W. A. Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Studies of Spatial Memory in Domestic Dogs using a Radial Maze.
MARTINS, Jennifer. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & MacFabe, Neuroscience). Roles of Glutamate and Dopamine on PPA Induced Hyeractivity.
MATSUKI, Kazunaga. (K. McRae, Cognition and Perception). Dynamic Combination of Concepts During On-line Language Comprehension.
MAXWELL, Kathy. (M. Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). Reading Abilities in Young Deaf Signers: an Investigation of Sentence Processing.
O'NEIL, Edward. (S. Köhler, Neuroscience). The Role of Perirhinal Cortex in Memory and Perception.
PODNAR, David. (R. Martin, Clinical). Implications Regarding the Use of Humour in Early Mother-Infant Interactions.
RUBIN, Harris David. (L. Campbell, Social). The Influence of Ideal Standards on Explanation Processes in Close Relationships.
TAYLOR, Olusore Anita. (J. Dietz, Industrial/Organizational). Why Didn't They Help? The Effects of Perceived Relationships and High Costs on Observer Intervention in Incidents of Workplace Aggression.
TRINH, Daniel. (D. Jared, Cognition and Perception). The Role of Syllables in Reading English Multisyllabic Words.
VAN EIMEREN, Lucia. (D. Ansari, Developmental). White Matter Microstructure Underlying Mathematical Abilities.
YE, Yang. (R. Sorrentino, Social). Uncertainty Regulation, Motivation, and Daily Life Events Across Cultures.
Convocation Fall 2007 and Spring 2008
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BOWLES, Ben. (S. Kohler, Neuroscience). Impaired Familiarity with Temporal Lobe Lesion.
BROCHU, Paula. (V. Esses, Social). Old-Fashioned and Modern Prejudice Against the Overweight: Scale Development and Validation.
BURNHAM, Priscilla. (B. Morton, Developmental). Disentangling Automatic and Controlled Processes in Children’s Attention to Negative Emotion.
CABRERA, Christine. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Association Between Anxiety and Medication Use in Adult Asthmatics: The Mediational Role of Symptom Senstivity.
CHAPMAN, Craig. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Obstacle Avoidance While Reaching: The Effect of the Size and Position of Non-target Objects on Reach Movements.
CHEUNG, Irene. (J. Olson, Social). Forgiving Others: Understanding the Role of Subjective Temporal Distance.
GALLIVAN, Jason. (M. Goodale and J. Culham, Neuroscience). FMRI Activation in Parietal Cortex for Reachable Objects.
GRYFE, Naomi. (L. Swartzman, Clinical). The Impact of Manipulated and Non-manipulated Expectations on Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Responses in a Sample of Fibromyalgia Patients.
HASTINGS, Stephanie. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). The Role of Ethical Ideology in Reactions to Injustice.
HOLLOWAY, Ian. (D. Ansari, Developmental). Developmental Changes in the Neural Correlates of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Comparison.
HSIAO, Celia. (X. Chen, Developmental). Social Interactions of Shy-Anxious Children with Friends and Non-friends.
KOTACK, Rachel. (L. Zarbatany, Developmental). Processes Underlying Obesity Stigma Contagion in Middle Childhood and Pre-adolescence.
LEBEL, Etienne. (B. Gawronski, Social). "I like my group because I like myself": Underlying Mechanisms of Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Bias.
LEE, Adrienne. (C. Seligman, Social). Relative Versus Absolute Measures as Predictors of Attitudes from Values.
MAXWELL-SMITH, Matthew. (V. Esses, Social). The Role of “Minimal Competition” in Determining Individual and Group Impressions.
MBIRKOU, Sawsan. (B. Gawronski, Social). What You See Is What You Eat: The Impact of Distraction and Visual Salience on Self-regulation of Food Intake.
McCORMICK, Sarah. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). Context Effects in the Comprehension and Production of Figurative Language.
McINNIS, Kate. (J. Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Beyond the Dotted Line: Psychological Contracts and Their Relations with Organizational Commitment.
NADLER, Ruby. (P. Minda, Cognition and Perception). The Effect of Regulatory Fit on Nonlinearly Separable Category Learning.
OUIMET, Allison. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Induced Attention Bias as Causal Factors in Emotional Vulnerability.
ROSS, Erin Haley. (P. Hoaken, Clinical). Executive Cognitive Function Capacity of “First Timers,” “Return Offenders,” and Controls.
SEEDS, Pamela. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Self-schema Organization and Reactivity to a Negative Mood Induction Procedure.
SHANAHAN, Matthew. (R. W. J. Neufeld, Clinical). Quantative Properties of the Environment and Psychological Implications of a Normative Model of Decisional Control.
SHULTZ, Sandy. (P. Cain, Neuroscience). The Effects of Propionic Acid on Social Behavior.
SMITH, Glen. (M. Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Job Similarity and Emerging Job Performance.
WONG, Jeremy. (P. Gribble, Neuroscience). Visual and Proprioceptive Determinants of Stiffness Control.
Convocation Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BATTISTA, Michael. (T. Vernon, Psychology: Personality and Measurement). Creativity=Intelligence + Intuition? The Relationship Between Intuition, Creativity, and Intelligence.
BENNETT-ABUAYYASH, Caroline. (V. Esses, Psychology: Social). The Role of Religious Prejudice in the Evaluation of Foreign-Trained Job Applicants.
CHAPMAN, Brendan. (B. Corneil, Neuroscience). Properties of Human and Non-human Primate Eye-head Gaze Shifts in an Anti-gaze Shift Task.
BLANK, Acia. (G. Moran, Psychology: Clinical). Exploring Continuity and Change in the Maternal Sensitivity of Adolescent Mothers.
DYER, Kelly. (P. Cain, Psychology: Behaviour and Cognitive Neuroscience). Toward an Animal Model for Spatial Navigation Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Somatostatin and Serotonin in the Acquisition of the Morris Water Maze.
FEENEY, Miranda. (W.A. Roberts, Psychology: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Temporal and Environmental Influences on Foraging Choices: Expressions of Impulsivity and Self-Control by Rats on the Radial Maze.
GUILCHER, Sara. (L. Swartzman, Psychology: Clinical). Self-Regulation and Physical Activity: Investigating the Predictive Utility of Motivational and Cognitive Factors.
HAMILL, Vanessa. (P. Hoaken, Psychology: Clinical). The Multifaceted Construct of Impasivity: A Factor Analytic Study of Self-Report and Behavioural Measures of Impulsivity and Disinhibition.
HOFFMAN, Jennifer. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers, Neuroscience). The Effects of Acute and Chronic Intracerebroventricular Infusions of Propionic Acid on Locomotor Activity in Long-Evans Rats.
JACKSON, Timothy. (J. Meyer, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). A Pathway for Transformational Leadership's Effects: Testing Relations Between Transformational Leadership, Identification and Commitment.
KUMSAR, Ayca Yaprak. (Meyer, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). Extension of the Three-Component Model of Commitment to Teams.
LEWIS, Rhys. (R. Goffin &B. Gawronski, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). What Happens to the Male Advantage in Female Jobs? Separating Gender/Job Match from the General Male Advantage Using Process Dissociation.
MALTIN, Elyse. (J. Meyer, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). Occupational Commitment, Organizational Commitment, and Work Motivation: Integration and Effects on Stress and Strain in Teachers.
O'CONNOR, Christopher. (K. McRae, Psychology: Cognition and Perception). Conceptual Hierarchies Arise from the Dynamics of Learning and Processing: Insights from a Flat Attractor Network.
STEVENSON, Tyler . (S. MacDougall-Shackleton, Neuroscience). Distribution and Reproductive Context of Gonadotropin Releasing-Hormone -II in the House Sparrow Brain.
TOBON, Juliana. (G. Reid, Psychology: Clinical). Children's mental health services: Investigation factors related to help-seeking and agency involvement patterns.
VALENTINE, Robyn. (J. Finegan, Psychology: Industrial/Organizational). The Effect of Work Engagement on Person-Organization Fit.
VECCHI, Juile. (J. Finegan, Psychology: Industrial/Organizationa). Understanding the Dimensionality of Emotional Labour.
WAESE, Michelle. (D. Jared, Psychology: Educational). The Role of Intervocalic Consonants in Disyllabic Word Naming.
Convocation Fall 2005 and Spring 2006
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
COULOMBE, Aimee. (G. Reid, Clinical). Sleep Problems, Fatigue and Psychopathology in a Representative Sample of Ontario Children.
GRIGG, Melissa. (R. Sorrentino, Social). The Role of Uncertainty Orientation on Self-Regulatory Focus: An Integrative Approach to the Study of Achievement.
GRONDIN, Ray. (K. McRae, Cognition and Perception). Shared features dominate the number-of-features effect.
LACKENBAUER, Sandra. (L. Campbell, Social). Self-regulation and the Ideal Standards Model: The Emotional and Behavioural Consequences of Partner Discrepancies.
LAZAR, Noah. (D. P. Cain, Clinical). The effect of nerve growth factor in the developing prefrontal cortex on social interaction in a rat model of schizophrenia.
McINTYRE, Barbara. (R. Goffin, Industrial/Organizational). The Effects of Interpersonal and Informational Justice on Motivation and Performance.
NAQSHBANDI, Mariam. (W. A. Roberts, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Anticipation of future events in Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri Sciureus) and Rats (Rattus Norvegicus).
PERRY, Jason. (S. Lupker, Cognition). Lexical Retrieval Processes in the Interactive-Activation Model Evaluated in a Masked Priming Lexical Decision Task.
ROSS, Sarah Irwin. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Evaluating Shared Mental Model Measures.
SLADE, Heather. (S. Paunonen, Personality & Measurement). Effects of Socially Desirable Responding on the Prediction of Behaviour.
WALL, Patricia. (B. Morton, Clinical). Towards an understanding of cognitive flexibility in preschoolers: A bottom-up approach.
WAXER, Matthew. (B. Morton, Developmental). Children's Attention to Emotional and Non-Emotional Information in Speech.
WIGINGTON, Tara. (L. Campbell, Social). An Exploration of Gender Asymmetrical Cues to Romantic Trust.
WILBUR, Christopher. (L. Campbell, Social). Making Sense of Humor: Differences in Men's and Women's Humor Strategies within Mating Contexts.
WONG, Joanne. (L. Campbell, Clinical). Humor in Marriage: The Relationship Between Humor Use and Well-Being.
Convocation Fall 2005 and Spring 2006
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
MARTIN, Lindsay. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers). Effects of exposure to cat odour on locomotor activity and anxiety in male mice.
SNIHUR, Adrian. (D. P. Cain). The role of ovarian and adrenal hormones in spatial learning and memory in rats.
Convocation Fall 2004 and Spring 2005
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BUTZER, Bethany. (Kuiper, Clinical). Self-Uncertainty, Psychopathology, and Social Comparison: An Intergrative Perspective.
CAMPBELL, John. (Katz, Cognition and Perception). An Examination of the Impact of Context on the Comprehension of Reversed Metaphors.
CHUNG, Janet. (Chen, Developmental). The Contextual Effect of the Peer Group on the Relation Between Aggression and Social Adjustment in Children.
DESROCHES, Amy. (Joanisse, Cognition and Perception). How Noise Affects Phonological Processing in Dyslexia: Evidence from Eyetracking.
FRIESEN, Deanna. (Jared, Educational). Cross-Language Transfer of Word and Text Level Infomration in Fluent Reading.
ILIC, Tatjiana. (Pepper, Industrial/Organizational). Work Values, Experiences and Work Attitudes: A Study of Immigrants from Former Yugoslavia.
LEE, Vivien. (Wolfe, Clinical). Evaluation of a Comprehensive Violence, Sexual and Substance Use Prevention Program: A Pilot Study of the 'Fourth R'.
LEITE, Catherine. (Kuiper, Clinical). Implicit Theories of Sense of Humor: A Multidimensional Approach.
LI, Miao. (Chen, Developmental). Emotion Expression in Chinese Children: Relations with Social and School Adjustment.
MASSAK, Agnes. (Hinson, Clinical). Encoding and Retrieval of Novel Information Using Smoking as a Secondary Task to Investigate the Automaticity of Smoking.
MCINTYRE-SMITH, Alexandra. (Wolfe, Clinical). Sex, Drugs, and Violence: Patterns of Adolescent Risk Behaviour.
MCNORGAN, Christopher. (McRae, Cognition and Perception). Explicit Feature Relation and Implicit Feature Correlation Knowledge in Semantic Memory.
PETERSON, Alexandra. (Olson, Social). Cognitive Dissonance and Goal Pursuit.
SETHIAN, Taline. (Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). The Impact of Self-Monitoring on the Adjustment of International Students Studying in Canada.
SZETO, Andrew. (Sorrentino, Social). Compensatory Conviction as a Function of Uncertainty Orientation, Culture and Explicit and Implicit Self-Esteem.
WARD, Jennie. (Martin, Clinical). Styles of Humour and their Relation to Friendship.
Convocation Fall 2004 and Spring 2005
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CANT, Jonathan. (M. Goodale.) Material and Form Perception in Human Vision.
FUDGE, Melissa. (M. Kavaliers & K.-P. Osssenkopp.) The effects of allopregnanolone on feeding: A behavioural investigation.
Convocation Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ANDERSON, Sari. (E. Hampson, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Waist-to-Hip Ratio Is Positively Associated with Bioavailable Testosterone in Healthy Premenopausal Women.
BIRD, Leanne. (W. Roberts, Animal Cognition). Concept Learning in Pigeons (Columbia Livia): Examining the Importance of Categorical Exemplar Comparison.
EVANS, Elspeth. (G. Moran, Clinical). Assessing Maternal Atypical and Insensitive Behavior in a Longitudinal High-Risk Attachment Study.
FORBES, Lindsey. (G. Moran, Clinical). An Introduction to the Interesting-But-Scary Paradigm: A New Procedure for Assessing Quality of Attachment in Toddlerhood.
FREWEN, Paul. (D. Dozois, Clinical). Processing of Facial Expressions in Dysphoria.
HAYNES, Graeme. (J. Oslon, Social). Coping with Threats to Justice: Help, Blame or Derogate?
HUSSEY, Karen. (A. Katz, Cognition and Perception). An Examination of Gender and Common Ground Differences in Nonliteral Language Production.
ISAACS, Corey. (W. Fisher, Social). An Internet-Driven Educational Immunication Against Possible Negative Effects of Internet Pornography.
KEALY, Kinda. (N. Kuiper, Clinical). Event Characteristics: The Influence of Depression and Depressive Personality Constructs.
KENTON, Laura. (D. Cain, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience). Effects of Combined Serotonergic and Beta-Adrenergic Blockade on Navigation in the Rat: A Detailed Behavioural Analysis.
NEVILL, Stephanie. (B. Timney, Sensation and Perception). The Effects of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Motion Perception.
ROBERTSON, Erin. (M. Joanisse, Cognition). Breadth and Basis of Overlapping Reading and Language Deficits in Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: The Phonological Deficit Theory.
SZEKERES, Bridgette. (D. Sherry, Animal Cognition). Spatial Orientation and Landmark Use in Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapilla).
Convocation Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
QUINLAN, Derek. (M. Goodale & J. Culham). FMRI Investigation of Depth Specificity in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex.
TENK, Christine. (K.-P. Ossenkopp & M. Kavaliers). Corticosterone, Lithium Chloride and Conditioned Place Aversion.
Convocation Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BOMAN, Jennifer. (Swartzman, Educational). The Role of Attitude Strength and Topic Knowledge in Critical Thinking Performance.
BRINKER, Jaylene. (Dozois, Clincial). Cognitive Organization, Rumination and the Congruency Effect.
CHIODO, Debbie. ( Vernon , Personality). Selective Information Processing of Food and Body Shape/Weight Related Stimuli n Women with Unhealthy Eating Attitudes.
COVIN, Roger. (Dozois, Clinical). Mood Regulation and Personality Vulnerability to Depression.
HADLEY, Dianne. (Reid, Clinical). Seeking Services from a Children's Mental Health Centre: The Impact on Children, Their Families and the Social System.
HAIGH, Corinne. (Jared, Educational). The Activation of Phonological Representations in Bilinguals while Reading Silently.
HAWKINS, Erinn. (MORAN and Pederson, Clinical). Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Representations: The Role of Reflective Function.
KIELAR, Aneta. (Joanisse, Cognition). Working Memory and Sentence Comprehension in Adult Listeners Under Stress as a Function of Memory Span and Syntactic Complexity.
POWELL, Deborah. (Meyer, Industrial/Organizational). Becker's Side-Bet Theory Revisited: Application to a Three-Component Model of Commitment.
RUZICKA, Dana. (Kuiper, Clinical). Perceptions of Realness and Phenomenological Characteristics Associated with Real and Imagined Events: The Effects of Event Valence , Personality and the Passage of Time.
THOMAS, Caroline. (Esses, Social). Reactions to Disparagement Humour: The Role of Individual Differences and Perceived Threat.
Convocation Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
BROWN, Matthew. (M. A. Goodale). Comparison of Memory and Memory- and Visually-Guided Saccades Using Event-Related FMRI.
FRANKLIN, Andrew. (D. P. Cain). Light-Dark Modulation of LPS-Induced Hypoactivity.
GAROFEANU, G. Gina. (G. K. Humphrey & M. A. Goodale). Naming and Grasping Common Objects: A Priming Study.
Convocation Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CANN, David. (A. Katz, Cognition). Habitual Susceptibility to Misinformation: An Examination of Individual Differences and a Source Monitoring Explanation.
CHO, Mi-Jin. (K. McRae, Cognition). The On-Line Influence of Distinguishing Features in Living and Non-Living Things.
DeSOUZA, Amanda. (X. Chen, Developmental). Children's Peer Interactions in Cultural Context: Social Initiation and Responses of Shy-Anxious Children in Canada and China.
GIGNAC, Gilles. (P. A. Vernon, Measurement). Degree of Lateralization and Intelligence.
KELLY, Elizabeth. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). The Effects of Task, Outcome, and Identity Interdependence on Individual Performance and Satisfaction.
KOTOVYCH, Maria. (A. Katz, Cognition). Effect of Alcohol Placebos, Individual Differences and Alcohol Expectancies on Eyewitness Memory.
MADIGAN, Sheri. (D. Pederson & G. Moran, Developmental). Bridging the Gap between Unresolved States of Mind and Disorganized Attachment Relationships: Links to Atypical Maternal Behaviour.
McNALLY, Jeff. (J. Finegan, Industrial/Organizational). Factors and Outcomes of Trust: An Experimental Manipulation.
MILLER, Christina. (J. Olson, Social). Demonization: Remorse, Motive and Just World Beliefs.
MOODIE, Eloise. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Choosing to Work Alone or with Others: Exploring the Roles of Task Success Expectancy and Self-Esteem.
ROSS, Erin. (N. Allen, Industrial/Organizational). Evaluation of Task Performance: Does Working in a Group Make a Difference?
SARDONE, Domenica. (C. Seligman, Social). Effect of Optimal Distinctiveness Threat on Value Change.
SEMENYA, Antoinette. (V. Esses, Social). Intergroup and Intragroup Attitudes of Ethnic Minority Groups.
YUEN, Yolanda. (S. Lupker, Cognition). Is the Feedback Consistency Effect Real? Spelling-to-Sound Consistency Effects in Visual and Auditory and Lexical Decision.
Convocation Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
KHAN, Sarah. (B. Timney, Sensation and Perception). Moderate Alcohol and Visual Sensitivity.
KROLICZAK, Greg. (M. Goodale, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience.) The Effects of Different Aperture-Viewing Conditions.
Convocation Fall 2000 and Spring 2001
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
ANGLIN-BODRUG, Kristin. (S. Paunonen, Measurement). Predicting Job Preferences using Personality and Job Interest Measures.
BEISSEL, Clara. (D. Pederson, Clinical). The Provision of Social Support within Close Friendships: The Effects of Adult Attachment.
BOKSMAN, Kristine. (R.W.J. Neufeld, Clinical). Investigation of Cognitive Deficits in First-Episode Drug-Naïve Schizophrenic Patients Using fMRI.
FOY, Andrea. (P. A. Vernon, Personality). Examining the Dimensions of Intimacy in Twin and Peer Relationships.
FRANCIS, Karen. (D. Wolfe, Clinical). Perceptions of the Emotion and Consequences Experienced by Male and Femail Victims in Response to Abuse in Dating Relationships.
HEATHCOTE, Joanna. (S. Pepper, Industrial/Organizational). The Effects of Voice, Expectancy, and Reputation on Judgments of Organizational Justice.
JONES, Camille. (X. Chen, Developmental). An Investigation of the Structure and Dynamics of Children's Peer Groups.
KIRSH, Gillian. (N. Kuiper, Clinical). Relation to Positive and Negative Aspects of Sense of Humour to Individualism, Relatedness and Affects.
KRAJEWSKI, Henryk. (R. Goffin, Industrial/organizational). Responses to Occupational Stress: Predicting Coping Strategies with Narrow versus Broad Personality Traits.
LARSEN, Gwendolyn. (R. Martin, Clinical). Mapping the Empathy Domain: A Clarification of the Structure of Trait Empathy.
LEVY, Lawrence. (R.W.J. Neufeld, Clinical). Application of Chaos Theory to a Multidimensional, Psychological System: Simulation Evidence of Fixed, Periodic, and Chaotic Attractors in a Model of Stress and Coping.
MENDAROZQUETA, Nicole. (M. Goodale, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience). The Role of Binocular Vision in the Control of Prehension.
PARKES, Michael. (M. Rothstein, Industrial/Organizational). Personality and Managerial Competencies.
Convocation Fall 2000 and Spring 2001
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
JOSHI, Anish. (K. Humphrey, Sensation and Perception). Modeling Visual Object Recognition.
WAREHAM, Jonathan. (B. Timney, Sensation and Perception). On Knowing With Which Eye One Is Seeing.
Convocation Fall 1999 and Spring 2000
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
AKST, Lesley. (V. Esses). Perceived Value Threat as a Predictor of Discrimination Toward Homosexuals within the Legal Context.
BOISVERT, Michael. (D. Sherry). Winter Food-Caching, Feeding, and Body Weight in Relation to Social Dominance in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus).
BUHRMANN, Oswald. (J. Olson). The Comparison Conundrum: Social and Counterfactual Comparisons.
GILL, Harjinder. (J. Finegan). The Relation Between Person-Organization Value Fit and Organizational Commitment: A Multidimensional Perspective.
GILLESPIE, Joanne. (G. Rollman). Perceptual Differences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
HERSCOVITCH, Lynne. (J. Meyer). Employee Commitment to Organizational Change: Extension and Evaluation of a Three-Component Model.
HILDYARD, Kathryn. (D. Wolfe). Relational and Physical Aggression in Adolescent Dating Relationships: Prevalence, Associated Maladjustment, and Gender Differences.
JONES, Kevin. (G. Rollman). Gender-Related Differences in Response to Experimentally Induced Pain: The Influence of Psychosocial Variables.
LEWIS, Wendy. (W. A. Fisher). Effects of Physician Gender on the Self-disclosure of Reproductive and Sexual Health Information by Erotophobic and Erotophilic Men and Women.
MIHIC, Ljiljana. (R.C. Gardner). Dual Cultural Affiliation And Personality.
POWER, Tara. (L. Swartzman). Choosing among Multiple Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Independent & Interactive Influences of Cognitive Heuristics, Gender and Preference for Information.
PUHLIK-DORIS, Patricia. (R. Martin). The Humor Styles Questionnaire: A New Multidimensional Measure of Sense of Humor.
SHUPER, Paul. (R. Sorrentino). Uncertainty Orientation and Minority Versus Majority Influence: Processing Persuasive Messages Based on Situational Expectancies.
WU, Huafeng. (X. Chen). Family Interaction with Preschoolers in Chinese Families.
Convocation Fall 1999 and Spring 2000
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
GORDON, Amy. (D. Sherry). The Effects of a Predation Risk on Chickadees.
Convocation Fall 1998 and Spring 1999
Name. (Supervisor, Area). Title of Thesis.
CLOW, KIMBERLEY. (V. Esses). Developing Group Stereotypes from Descriptions of Group Members: An Individual Difference Approach.
CREE, GEORGE. (K. McRae). An Attractor Model of Lexical Conceptual Processing: Statistical Feature and Semantic Similarity Priming.
EIDLITZ, MICHELLE. (M. Simner). The Nature of Dysgraphic Handwriting in Grade-1 Children.
HOGARTH, LAURA. (W. Roberts). Limitations on Rats' Ability to Understand Relations Between Landmarks and Goals on the Radial Maze.
JELLEY, BLAKE. (R. Goffin). Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Ratee Performance: Effects of Rater Priming and Rating Scale Format.
JONES, Jennifer. (P. A. Vernon). Personality and Health: A Twin Study.
KACINIK, NATALIE. (S. Lupker). The Effect of Prime Letter Search on Semantic Versus Associative Priming.
LIU, MOWEI. (X. Chen). Friendship Networks and Individual Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents.
McCARTHY, JULIE. (R. Goffin). The Standardized Letter of Recommendation as a Predictor of Performance: An Assessment of Three Rating Formats.
STELZL, MONIKA. (C. Seligman). The Relationship Between One's Multiple Ethnic Identities and One's Multiple Value Systems: The Immigrant's Experience.
SUTTON, JENNIFER. (W. Roberts). Attention to Time, Space and Visual Pattern by the Pigeon.
STANLEY, DAVID. (J. Meyer). Employee Cynicism About Organizational Change: Development and Validation of a Measure.
