After finishing her undergraduate degree in psychology and child and youth studies at Brock University, Ashley Hobden spent a good part of a year volunteering in impoverished communities in Brazil.
March 27, 2013 | Posted in
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It’s official: children as young as two years are capable of lying, and they actually do it.
January 25, 2013 | Posted in
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What is the H factor? And why should you care about it? A Brock personality psychologist and his research colleague have written a new book that explains the significance of the Honesty-Humility spectrum.
December 17, 2012 | Posted in
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Organizers of the World Conference on Psychology and Sociology have issued a call for papers from academics interested in attending the conference in Antalya, Turkey from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1.
August 13, 2012 | Posted in
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Many of us have had that morning-after revelation that sex can, indeed, occur without candlelight, flowers and moonlit serenades.
August 9, 2012 | Posted in
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It’s Friday night in one of the region’s many casinos. Clutching a tub of tokens in your sweaty palm, you drop them one by one into the machine.
It all started with one question on a survey that Royette Tavernier would later analyze for her master’s thesis: “Have you ever experienced a major turning point in your life that changed how you thought about something or how you behaved?”
New research shows we can look at other races and read aggression in their facial features.
February 29, 2012 | Posted in
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Michelle Jetha and Sid Segalowitz gave a keynote talk to the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services 2011 SPARKS Research Conference entitled “Brain Developmental from Pre-Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Implications for Policy and Service Delivery” on Nov. 23. The conference was webcast to Ministry personnel across the province.
December 1, 2011 | Posted in
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Professor Sid Segalowitz gave a colloquium talk to the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University on Nov. 17 on his research, entitled “Self-regulation and the medial prefrontal cortex: on the automaticity of controlled processing.”
December 1, 2011 | Posted in
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