PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS

Paul Adachi
PhD Candidate, Lifespan Development
email:  pa08fg@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Teena Willoughby
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in the effects of video game play on several different outcomes among adolescents. I am also interested in adolescent aggression.

Jasmine Bender
MA candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: jb11wp@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Angela Evans
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in children's social-cognitive development and lie-telling behaviours. I am also interested in honesty promotion techniques for children.
 

Amanda Bolger
MA candidate, Lifespan Development
Email:  ab03cy@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Tanya Martini

Tina Brook
PhD candidate (PT), Lifespan Development
email:  tb07mf@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Drew Dane
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Predicting the four dimensions of aggressive behaviour: Individual differences in adolescent temperament and goodness-of-fit with parent personality.
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Lesley Capuana
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email:  lc06ti@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Jane Dywan
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  I explore issues related to aging and cognition. I am currently examining whether age-related declines in cardiovascular modulation are, in part, responsible for the declines in attentional control that accompany the normal aging process.

Gillian Dale
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: gd03fh@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Karen Arnell
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am currently interested in exploring how individual differences in attentional focus/diffusion and cognitive control relate to selective attention performance. I am also interested in examining how manipulations of attentional focus or cognitive strategy can influence performance on tasks of visual attention.

Caroline Drolet
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email: cd11da@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Hafer

Angela Dzyundzyak
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: ad03cr@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Sid Segalowitz
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in examining brain responses, measured by event-related potentials, in reward-related and gambling contexts (e.g., anticipation of rewards, receiving win/loss feedback). Furthermore, I am interested in what role personality and individual differences have in modulating these brain responses.

Nathalie Gauthier
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email: ng04bn@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Angela Book

Shawn Geniole
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience/Social/Personality
Email: sg06qo@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl McCormick
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in examining the relationship between personality traits, hormones, and aggression. I am also interested in how we perceive aggression in human faces. Which cues are useful or misleading for such judgements?

Matthew Green
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
email:  mg06mc@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Cheryl McCormick

Chloe Hamza
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: ch08za@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Teena Willoughby
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Chloe is interested in externalizing and internalizing problems in adolescence and emergent adulthood.

Tina Hardman
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email: th06om@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Kathy Belicki

Jolene Hill
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email: jh10bd@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Kathy Belicki

Travis Hodges
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: th12iw@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl McCormick

Mark Hoffarth
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email:  mh10xc@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Gordon Hodson
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  I am interested in stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, in particular dealing with sexual orientation and gender roles. A main goal of my research is to contribute to an understanding of how stereotypes and prejudice impact our judicial and political systems.

Ashley Hosker
PhD candidate, Social/Personality
Email: ah03ez@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Angela Book

Beenish Khan
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email:  bk10kp@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Gordon Hodson

Chrissy Lackner
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: cl02zz@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Sid Segalowitz
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Working under the supervision of Dr. Sid Segalowitz, my research focuses on the association between ERP markers of attentional control and self-regulation (e.g., executive functioning) in adolescence. I also plan to study genetic polymorphisms that may be key to these associations.
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Michael Logue
PhD candidate (PT), Social/Personality
Email: ml10da@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Angela Book

Kevin MacDonald
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: km11pv@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Kimberly Cote

Cara MacInnis
PhD candidate, Social/Personality
Email: cm07jh@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Gordon Hodson
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research focuses on prejudice. I study perceptions of prejudice (including self, ingroup, and outgroup prejudice) and reactions to discoveries of outgroup membership. Specifically, I am interested in promoting intergroup contact and positive intergroup relations by examining factors contributing to outgroup avoidance and prejudice.
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Mary MacLean
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: mm07fi@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Karen Arnell
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research interests include the relationship between personality, emotion and cognition. I am currently examining this relationship in the context of individual differences in selective attention using both behavioral and electrophysiological methods.
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Samantha Metler
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email:  sm11fp@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Michael Busseri
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Some of my research interests include the emotional processing of traumatic events, emotion socialization, and elaboration within parent-child interactions. My current research focuses on Subjective Well-Being and its three components: Life-Satisfaction, Positive Affect, and Negative Affect. The goal of my research is to clarify the structure of Subjective Well-Being by examining the relationship between these three components, or lack thereof, as well as examining the effectiveness of experimental manipulations designed to target each component individually.

Taysa-Rhea Mise
MA candidate, Social/Personality
Email: tm11hs@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Michael Busseri

Alexandra Morden
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: am05kp@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Stefan Brudzynski

Kevin Mulvihill
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: km07gk@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Stefan Brudzynski

Emma Pote
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: ew10ih@brocku.ca
 

Kathryn Quinlan
MA candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: kq11pa@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Drew Dane

Sean Robb
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: sr07by@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Dawn Good

Alicia Rubel
PhD candidate, Social/Personality
Email: ar10hd@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Hafer
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in a broad range of topics that can be fit into three intersecting lines of research:
1) Belief in Just World; Meaning in Life; Existential Anxiety; Activism
2) Dual-Process Theory; Consciousness; Automaticity; Self-Concepts; Forgiveness
3) Polyamory; Relationship Structures; Discrimination; Human Sexuality
My PhD Thesis examines the possibility that believing that the world is just provides individuals with a sense of meaning in life.

Thalia Semplonius
MA candidate, Lifespan Development
Email:  ts11jy@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Cathy Mondloch
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested in how cross-race effects influence our perception of faces, and also our perception of traits (specifically aggression) when we view adult and child faces.

Tanvi Sharan
MA candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email:  ts05jo@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Dawn Good

Lindsey Short
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: ls08ts@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Cathy Mondloch
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research interests centre on the organization of older adults' and young children's face space and the way in which experience can potentially influence the development and use of multiple face prototypes. The overriding goal of my PhD dissertation is to examine the way in which experience and social context influence both adults' and children's mental representation of various face categories.
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Malvina Skorska
PhD candidate, Social/Personality
Email: ms10yp@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Tony Bogaert
RESEARCH INTERESTS: I am interested generally in human sexuality. Currently, my interests lie in examining biological and social factors involved in sexual orientation development, specifically birth order, height and facial characteristics. I am also interested in research on intergroup relations and am currently focused on investigating essentialism.

Julie St.Cyr-Baker
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: js01cb@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Dawn Good
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research focuses on emotional arousal (self-report and physiological indices) and neurocognitive functioning of persons who have sustained mild head injuries (e.g., concussion). As a member of the Neuropsychology Cognitive Research Lab at the Lifespan Development Research Institute at Brock University I am also involved in research projects examining personality characteristics, emotionality, and health-related behaviours in individuals with mild head injuries.

Tammy Stewart
PhD candidate (PT), Social/Personality
Email: tstewart2@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Nancy DeCourville
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Building upon previous research in which Nancy DeCourville , Kathy Belicki, and I found that people's reasons for forgiving were related to their experiences of forgiveness and feelings toward the offender after having forgiven, I am interested in looking at what motivates people to forgive someone who has hurt them. Specifically, I am interested in examining how people's regulatory focus and attachment style influences their decision to forgive.

Elizabeth Stoakley
MA candidate (PT), Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: es11zb@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Kimberly Cote

Kirk Stokes
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: ks03xo@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Karen Arnell
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My interests centre on accounting for cognitive impairments associated with various forms of distraction. Through examining which types of material are distracting and for whom distraction is maximal, I hope to better our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms and behavioural outcomes of distraction.

Amanda Stoner
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: ah09lb@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Drew Dane
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research interests include antisocial behaviour in adolescence, and how it may be predicted by individual temperament traits, and parent and peer socialization processes.

Royette Tavernier
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email:  rt09la@brocku.ca
Supervisor:  Dr. Teena Willoughby
RESEARCH INTERESTS:  My research focuses on examining various sleep variables (e.g., subjective sleep quality, sleep duration, and morningness-eveningness) in relation to psychosocial functioning among emerging adults. In terms of psychosocial functioning, I am particularly interested in academic achievement, interpersonal relationships, and intrapersonal adjustment. Additionally, I am also interested in how turning points (i.e., significant life events) and meaning-making are associated with psychological well-being among adolescents and emerging adults.

Stefon VanNoordt
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: sv05lz@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Sid Segalowitz
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research examines the functional role of the ACC (and medial prefrontal cortex in general) in performance monitoring using EEG/ERP technology.
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Meghan Weissflog
PhD candidate, Behavioural Neuroscience
Email: mw08nh@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Sid Segalowitz
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research has largely focused on identifying electrophysiological correlates of abnormal emotion recognition processes associated with psychopathic personality traits. In addition, I am also currently using event-related potential and physiological technology to examine the relationship between sociopolitical ideology and on-going performance monitoring during task performance. Finally, I am generally interested in the application of various EEG/ERP signal decompositions methods (e.g., independent components analysis, time-frequency analyses) to further understand the underlying processes that contribute to the generation of these signals at the scalp.

Narnia Worth
PhD candidate, Social/Personality
Email: nw05ea@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Angela Book
RESEARCH INTERESTS: My research focuses on the connections between personality and virtual behaviour. I am specifically interested in examining the ways that different individuals behave and represent themselves in massively-multiplayer online video games.

Junru Zhao
PhD candidate, Lifespan Development
Email: jz04zy@brocku.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Linda Rose-Krasnor