NEWS
October 18, 2021
Dr. Elizabeth Page-Gould
Workshop: Multilevel Modeling for Psychophysiologists
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Dr. Elizabeth Page-Gould & Dr. Cara MacInnis
Autonomic Responding During Social Interactions with Acquaintances and Strangers
October 1, 2021
Congratulations to Cendri Hutcherson for being awarded the Society for Neuroeconomics' Early Career Award!
October 1, 2021
Dr. Ian Roberts, Dr. Azadeh HajiHosseini, & Dr. Cendri Hutcherson
From valence to value: Neurocomputational mechanisms for transforming affect into decisionrelevant information
September 20, 2021
Congratulations to Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello and Daniel J. Wilson for joining the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society as graduate fellows. Graduate fellows serve a one year term and contribute to the SRI's research by fostering interdisciplinary connections and collaboration.
September 3, 2021
Congratulations to Sonia Kang, Penelope Lockwood, Elizabeth Page-Gould, and Nick Rule for being named SPSP Fellows!
Congratulations to all APA (American Psychological Association) 2021 Presenters
August 14, 2021
Gregory Depow
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life
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Dr. Jennifer Stellar
Empathy Is Not Monolithic: Empathic Responses to Emotional and Physical Suffering
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Yiyi Wang & Dr. Norman Farb
Mental Training for Academic Success During the Pandemic
July 31, 2021
Mariko was awarded a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (September 2020 Competition) to fund her research on the hidden potential of relational sacrifices for bolstering individual and relational well-being. Congratulations, Mariko!
Congratulations to CogSci 2021 presenters
July 29, 2021
Nathan Wheeler & Dr. William Cunningham
Deciding to be wrong: Optimism and pessimism in motivated information search
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Rebekah Gelpi
Sampling heuristics for active function learning, Modelling recognition in human puzzle solving
June 30, 2021
Dr. Felix Cheung
Revisiting the Income-Happiness Paradox: Testing the Rapidity of Income Growth as a Key to Happiness
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Dr. Penelope Lockwood
Narcissistic Posters and Threatened Scrollers: The Dynamic Process of Social Media Comparison
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Dr. Erika Carlson
Is meta-accuracy an ability?
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Dr. Geoff MacDonald (co-applicant)
"Support From My One and Only": Single Peoples' Perceptions of Social Support from Romantic Partners versus Close Others
June 30, 2021
Alison is a co-applicant to the grant Awakening Canadians to Ageing, which was awarded a Partnership Development Grant in the November 2020 Competition. Congratulations, Alison!
Thalia Vrantsidis joining Princeton University Psychology Department
May 1, 2021
Dr. Thalia Vrantsidis will be joining Tania Lombrozo's Concepts and Cognition Lab in Fall 2021 as a postdoctoral research associate. Congratulations, Thalia!
Congratulations to APS (Association for Psychological Science) 2021 Presenters
May 27, 2021
Greg Depow, Hause Lin, & Michael Inzlicht
Deciding Who to Help: Prosocial Apathy and the Role of Self-Other Overlap
Menxi Dong & Marc Fournier
What are the necessary conditions for wisdom? Examining intelligence, creativity, meaning-making, and personality traits
Jackie Koyama
From naming to blaming: Using ethnic/geographic (vs. medical) virus labels increases hostility, xenophobia, and stigma
Joel Le Forestier, Elizabeth Page-Gould, Alison Chasteen
Intergroup contact intervention on social media, Statistical power for a set of tests
Elia Lam
The effect of a growth mindset intervention on cultural competence
Penelope Lockwood, Claire Midgley, & Sabrina Thai
Can the social network bridge social distancing? Social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic
Elizabeth Page-Gould
Reducing Race and Other Disparities in and through Psychological Research
Jason Plaks
The aim versus the action: Race, intention, and moral judgment
Jordana Schiralli & Alison Chasteen
Perceptions of women who confront hostile and benevolent sexism
Kaitlin Werner & Brett Ford
Benefits of having a well-equipped strategy toolbox during goal pursuit
May 1, 2021
Norhan Elsaadawy is the recipient of UTM's Black, Indigenous, and Racialized Graduate Research Fellowship, which recognizes excellence in research and scholarly performance by a Black, Indigenous, or racialized graduate student of UTM. Congratulations Norhan!
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to Kristina Schrage and Natalie Sisson for being awarded Love Consortium Graduate Student Research Grants. Over the next year, they will be conducting research to advance the science of relationships using data available in the Love Consortium Dataverse.
April 21, 2021
Dr. Brett Ford is a recipient of the 2021 UTSC Pre-Tenure Faculty Award. Congratulations, Brett!
April 16, 2021
Arasteh Gatchpazian
Resilience in the Face of Discrimination: Emotional Acceptance Buffers the Link Between Discrimination and Worse Health
Yachen Li
Awe and Perspective Taking with Ideological Opponents
Jaweria Qaiser
Physiological Synchrony During Compassion Induction
Angela Smith
Coping with Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions
Jenny Stellar
The Evolution of Emotion Semantics
April 14, 2021
Dr. Y. Andre Wang will be joining the Psychology Department as an assistant professor in the summer of 2021. His lab at UTSC will focus on understanding how people connect their abstract ideas - about themselves, other people, and the world - to concrete experiences. Welcome, Dr. Wang!
Welcome to new SPRG members
April 1, 2021
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all those joining SPRG in Fall 2021:
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Hyuna (Hannah) Cho
Graduate student, Dr. Erika Carlson
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Fred Duong
Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Jennifer Stellar
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Victoria Pringle
Graduate student, Dr. Erika Carlson
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Jaweria Qaiser
Graduate student, Dr. Jennifer Stellar
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Alexa Sacchi
Graduate student, Dr. Christina Starmans
Yoobin Park wins Ken Dion Award
March 26, 2021
Congratulations to Yoobin Park for winning the 2021 Ken Dion Graduate Student Award, which recognizes the top SPRG graduate student each year based on research excellence and outstanding contributions to service. Congratulations, Yoobin!
Kaitlin Werner joining Character Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
March 15, 2021
Dr. Kaitlin Werner will be joining Dr. Angela Duckworth's Character Lab at the University of Pennsylvania this summer as a provost's postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations, Kaitlin!
Dr. Rebecca Neel and Bethany Lassetter win ISCON Best Paper Award and Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize
March 1, 2021
Congratulations to Becca and Bethany for winning the ISCON Best Paper Award at the SPSP 2021 Social Cognition pre-conference, as well as the SPSP 2021 Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize. Their paper on the stigma of perceived irrelevance is available here.
SPSP 2021 Conference Student Awards
March 1, 2021
Congratulations to all SPSP 2021 Student Award winners!
Graduate Student Poster Award
Y. Yang Teoh (runner up)
The games we play: Prosociality under time pressure reflects context-sensitive information priorities
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Outstanding Research Award
Yoobin Park
Singles’ Sexual Satisfaction is Associated With More Satisfaction With Singlehood and Less Interest in Marriage
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Sze Yuh Nina Wang
Moral Language Use by U.S. Political Elites
Congratulations to SPSP 2021 Presenters
February 10, 2021
Congratulations to all SPRG speakers, poster presenters, and panelists at SPSP 2021!
Dr. Joanne Chung
Rachel C. Forbes
Greg Depow
Dr. Brett Q. Ford
Arasteh Gatchpazian
Rebekah Gelpi
Rebecca M. Horne
Dr. Maria Iankilevitch
Dr. Emily A. Impett
Joel Le Forestier
Nathan Leonhardt
Yachen Li
Dr. Geoff MacDonald
Natalie Sisson
Angela Smith
Dr. Mariko L. Visserman
Dr. Kaitlyn M. Werner
Dr. Hause Lin joining MIT and the University of Regina
January1, 2021
Dr. Hause Lin has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT and the University of Regina, working with Dr. Gordon Pennycook and Dr. David Rand. Congratulations, Hause!
