Full Time Faculty

 

Research Interests

Daniel Ansari

Dr. Daniel Ansari
Professor
daniel.ansari@uwo.ca
WIRB 5180
519-661-2111 ext. 80548
Curriculum Vitae

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
•Mind, Brain and Education
•Development of numerical and mathematical skills
•Developmental Dyscalculia

Mike Atkinson

Dr. Mike Atkinson
Associate Professor
atkinson@uwo.ca
SSC 6316
519-661-2111 ext. 84644
Curriculum Vitae

•Effective teaching in a large class format
•The use of multimedia in the classroom

Dr. Laura Batterink
Assistant Professor
lbatter@uwo.ca 
WIRB 5140
519-661-2111 ext. 85409
Curriculum Vitae

•language acquisition
•learning and memory
•sleep-dependent memory consolidation
•implicit processing and conscious awareness

Alex Benson

Dr. Alex Benson
Assistant Professor
abenson3@uwo.ca
SSC 8408
519-661-2111 ext. 85895
Curriculum Vitae

•Group dynamics related to the arrival of new members
•The leader-follower dynamics that develop in teams
•Narcissism and group functioning
Lindsay Bodell

Dr. Lindsay Bodell
Assistant Professor
lbodell@uwo.ca
WH 324E
519-661-2111 ext. 80486
Curriculum Vitae

•Eating disorders
•Overlap between eating disorders and suicidal behaviors
•Body image; weight-control behaviors 

Carrie Lennette Branch

Dr. Carrie L Branch
Assistant Professor
cbranch6@uwo.ca
AFAR 201
519-661-2111 x84659
Curriculum Vitae

•Animal Behavior
•Comparative cognition
•Communication and signaling
•Avian systems

Blake Butler

Dr. Blake Butler
Assistant Professor
bbutler9@uwo.ca
WIRB 5150
519-661-2111 ext. 85831
Curriculum Vitae

•Sensory Systems Development
•Sensory Loss & Neuroplasticity
•Multisensory Integration

Rachel Calogero

Dr. Rachel Calogero
Professor
rcaloger@uwo.ca
WH 321
519-661-2111 ext. 80403
Curriculum Vitae

social psychology of gender and the body
self-concept, stigma, objectification, social identity, system justification
need for cognitive closure, prejudice, resistance
collective action and social change

Lorne Campbell

Dr. Lorne Campbell
Professor
(Associate Chair-Undergraduate Affairs)
lcampb23@uwo.ca
SSC 6328
519-661-2111 ext. 84904
Curriculum Vitae

•Romantic relationships:
   What we seek in potential partners
   What helps or hurts relationships

Jesus Chavarria

Dr. Jesus Chavarria
Assistant Professor
jchavarr@uwo.ca
WH 320E
519-661-2111 ext. 81332
Curriculum Vitae

•substance use disorders
•risk-factors and mechanisms driving the development and maintenance of substance use disorders
•development of substance use disorder treatments, particularly among marginalized groups

Brian Corneil

Dr. Brian Corneil
Professor
bcorneil@uwo.ca
519-663-5777 ext. 34132
Curriculum Vitae

•Neurophysiological and behavioural studies of the neural control of movement

Jody Culham

Dr. Jody Culham
Professor
jculham@uwo.ca
WIRB 4118
519-661-2111 ext. 85643
Curriculum Vitae

•Neuroimaging of human brain regions involved in vision and hand actions

David Dozois

Dr. David Dozois
Professor
(Chair-Clinical and Psychopathology)
ddozois@uwo.ca
WH 313 East
519-661-2111 ext. 84678
Curriculum Vitae

•Cognitive vulnerability to depression
•Factors related to the onset, maintenance, improvement, and recurrence of depression

Vicki Esses

Dr. Victoria Esses
Professor
vesses@uwo.ca
SSC 6222
519-661-2111 ext. 84650
Curriculum Vitae

•Immigration and Cultural Diversity
•Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations
•Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination

Blair Evans

Dr. M. Blair Evans
Assistant Professor
mevan3@uwo.ca
SSC 6310
519-661-2111 ext. 84663
Curriculum Vitae

• Influence of interpersonal relationships on health behavior
• Social identities and interdependencies in groups
• Multilevel models and network analysis

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Dr. Laura Fazakas-DeHoog
Assistant Professor
lfazakas@uwo.ca

SSC 6330
519-661-2111 ext. 83677

•Understanding suicidal behavior and violent behavior
•Understanding psychopathy

Joan Finegan

Dr. Joan Finegan
Associate Professor
finegan@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 84932
SSC 8413

How values influence ethical decisions in business and reactions to workplace injustice
•Job empowerment

Paul Frewen

Dr. Paul Frewen
Associate Professor
pfrewen@uwo.ca
519-685-8500 ext. 77760
Curriculum Vitae

•Psychological trauma, sense of self, meditation, neurofeedback

Richard Goffin

Dr. Richard Goffin
Professor
goffin@uwo.ca
SSC 8406
519-661-2111 ext. 84641
Curriculum Vitae

•Improving hiring decisions through pre-employment testing
•Improving job performance management and measurement

Mel Goodale

Dr. Mel Goodale
Professor
mgoodale@uwo.ca
WIRB 3188
519-661-2070
Curriculum Vitae

•Visual perception and visually guided actions, using behavioral studies, fMRI, and neuropsychology

Jessica Grahn

Dr. Jessica Grahn
Associate Professor
jgrahn@uwo.ca
WIRB 5118
519-661-2111 ext. 84804
Curriculum Vitae

•Neuroscience of music

Paul Gribble

Dr. Paul Gribble
Professor
pgribble@uwo.ca
WIRB 4122
519-661-2111 ext. 82237
Curriculum Vitae

•How the brain controls voluntary movement, and how movement is learned

Morgan Gustison

Dr. Morgan Gustison
Assistant Professor
mgustiso@uwo.ca
SSC 9232
519-661-2111 ext. 82721
Curriculum Vitae

• Social behaviour
• Animal communication
• Neuroethology
• Mammalian systems

Raha Hasan

Dr. Raha Hassan
Assistant Professor
WIRB 5170
519-661-2111 ext. 88519
raha.hassan@uwo.ca 
Curriculum Vitae

• social and emotional development
• temperament and individual differences
• self and affect regulation
• developmental psychopathology

Elizabeth Hayden

Dr. Elizabeth Hayden
Professor
ehayden@uwo.ca
WIRB 5122
519-661-2111 ext. 83686
Curriculum Vitae

•Developmental psychopathology of mood disorders
•Assessment of temperament and personality

Dr. Erin Heerey

Dr. Erin Heerey
Associate Professor
eheerey@uwo.ca
SSC 6322
519-661-2111 ext. 86917
Curriculum Vitae

How people use and understand social cues during face-to-face interactions
Biological underpinnings of social behaviour
Social difficulties in clinical populations

Riley Hinson

Dr. Riley Hinson
Associate Professor
hinson@uwo.ca
SSC 6334
519-661-2111 ext. 84649
Curriculum Vitae

•The influence of psychological factors, particularly expectations, on drug (alcohol, tobacco) use in humans

Debra Jared

Dr. Debra Jared
Professor
djjared@uwo.ca
WIRB 5150
519-661-2111 ext. 84631
Curriculum Vitae

•Mental processes involved in skilled reading
•How these processes differ in mono versus bilingual individuals

Marc Joanisse

Dr. Marc Joanisse
Professor
marcj@uwo.ca
WIRB 5174
519-661-2111 ext. 86582
Curriculum Vitae

•How children acquire and their brains process first language
•Language impairment
•Dyslexia

Samantha Joel

Dr. Samantha Joel
Assistant Professor
sjoel2@uwo.ca
SSC 6314
Curriculum Vitae

•Decision making in the context of romantic relationships
 Relationship initiation, investment, commitment, and dissolution

Ingrid Johnsrude

Dr. Ingrid Johnsrude
Professor
(Department Chair)
ijohnsru@uwo.ca  
SSC 7412
519-661-2111 ext. 82066
Curriculum Vitae

•Diagnosing and treating hearing problems
•Hearing impairment
•Brain disease in the aging and elderly

Stefan Kohler

Dr. Stefan Köhler
Professor
(Chair Cognitive, Developmental and Brain Sciences)
stefank@uwo.ca
WIRB 5138
519-661-2111 ext. 86364
Curriculum Vitae

•The relationship between the cognitive and neural processes that allow humans
to remember their past

Steve Lupker

Dr. Steve Lupker
Professor
lupker@uwo.ca
SSC 7436
519-661-2111 ext. 84700
Curriculum Vitae

•Understanding the processes involved in perceiving and identifying words and pictures

Scott Macdougall-Shackleton

Dr. Scott MacDougall-Shackleton
Professor
smacdou2@uwo.ca
AFAR 200
519-661-2111 ext. 84629
Curriculum Vitae

•How hormones and the brain respond to environmental cues to coordinate behaviour, primarily in songbirds

Ken McRae

Dr. Ken McRae
Professor
(Associate Chair- Graduate Affairs)
kenm@uwo.ca
WIRB 5148
519-661-2111 ext. 84688
Curriculum Vitae

•How people understand language

John Meyer

Dr. John Meyer
Professor
(Chair-I/O)
meyer@uwo.ca

SSC 8411
519-661-3679
Curriculum Vitae

•Work attitudes and motivation
•Development and consequences of employee commitment

Paul Minda

Dr. Paul Minda
Professor
jpminda@uwo.ca
WIRB 5158
519-661-2111 ext. 84689
Curriculum Vitae

•How people learn about categories and concepts and how conceptual structure influences behaviours like thinking, problem solving, and decision making

Bruce Morton

Dr. J. Bruce Morton
Professor
bmorton3@uwo.ca
WIRB 5178
519-661-2111 ext. 84795
Curriculum Vitae

•The development of self-regulation and control, and its link with changes in brain function in children and teens

Dr. Marieke Mur

Dr. Marieke Mur
Assistant Professor
mmur@uwo.ca
WIRB 4148
519 661 2111 ext. 85058
Curriculum Vitae

•Neural and computational mechanisms of visual cognition

Adrian Owen

Dr. Adrian Owen
Professor
uwocerc@uwo.ca
WIRB 6176
519-661-2111 ext. 84672
Curriculum Vitae

•Disorders of consciousness
•Neurodegenerative diseases
•Frontostriatal systems
•Web-based cognitive assessment

Penny Pexman

Dr. Penny Pexman
Professor
ppexman@uwo.ca
WIRB 5146
Curriculum Vitae

•How we derive meaning from language and how those processes are changed by damage or experience

Graham Reid

Dr. Graham Reid
Associate Professor
greid@uwo.ca
WH 319 East
519-661-2111 ext. 84677
Curriculum Vitae

(see also Department
of Family Medicine)
•How families access mental health services for children or teens
•Teaching parenting skills
•Child sleep problems

Dr. John Sakaluk

Dr. John Sakaluk
Assistant Professor
jsakaluk@uwo.ca
SSC 6312
519-661-2111 ext. 87755
Curriculum Vitae

Romantic and Sexual Relationships
•Measurement Modeling
•Research Syntheses
•Inclusive, Replicable, and Transparent Research Methods

Julian Scheffer

Dr. Julian Scheffer
Assistant Professsor
(starting Aug. 2024)
Curriculum Vitae

•Compassion, Empathy, Morality, Effort-Based Decision-Making
•Interpersonal and Intergroup Dynamics
•Psychophysiology, Social Neuroscience

Dr. Julie Aitken Schermer

Dr. Julie Aitken Schermer
Professor
jharris@uwo.ca
SSC 4429
519-661-2111 x84699

•Personality
•Intelligence
•Behaviour Genetics
•Vocational Interests
•Psychological Assessment

Ryan Stevenson

Dr. Ryan Stevenson
Associate Professor
(Associate Chair - Research)
rsteve28@uwo.ca
WIRB 5146
519-661-2111 ext. 81182
Curriculum Vitae

Visual and auditory sensory perception
Developmental cognitive neuroscience
Autism
How perception influences the development of cognition and social communication

Leora Swartzman

Dr. Leora Swartzman
Associate Professor
lswartzm@uwo.ca
WH 312 East
519-661-2111 ext. 84654
Curriculum Vitae

•The impact of beliefs and expectations on how we experience and respond to physical symptoms and illness

Paul Tremblay

Dr. Paul Tremblay
Assistant Professor
(Chair-Social, Personality and
Developmental Psychology)
ptrembla@uwo.ca
SSC 6336
519-661-2111 ext. 85644
Curriculum Vitae

•Structural equation and multilevel modeling
•Longitudinal methods
•Test construction