People

I'm the person who is officially responsible for the lab.  By training, I'm an industrial engineer who later studied cognitive psychology in graduate school.  The topics in psychology that I gravitate toward are cognitive ones, particularly memory and attention -  I see those as involving processes that fundamentally shape how we interpret and respond to the world.  However, my lab students usually drag me into other topics. :-/

Since 1994, I've been teaching at post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Alberta.  I have previously taught cognitive psychology and the history of psychology, but my current teaching load focusses on introductory psychology, research methods, and statistical analysis.

Examples of projects I've initiated:

• Mechanisms of retrieval inhibition in memory

• Impact of exposure to nature stimuli on attention capacity

• Effect of contextual reinstatement on estimation of time

Date Joined: February 2023, after her first intro psych course

Area(s) Of Interest: Social psychology; Clinical psychology; Applied psychology

Projects as Student Lead Researcher: 

• Creating the Healthy/Unhealthy Food Picture Set

• Orthorexia's Relationship with Perfectionism

Projects as RA: 

• Nonlinearity in Locus Of Control Effects

Date Joined: October 2024, in the first term of her third year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychopathology, and ADHD.

Projects as Student Lead Researcher:

• Dissatisfaction with Body Dissatisfaction

• Using a Large Language Model to Try to Reconceive Body Dissatisfaction

Projects As RA: 

• Cognitive and Emotional Processes Related to Images and Representations of the Body

• EEG Markers of Mindwandering

Date Joined: January 2025, in the second term of her first year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling Psychology, Child Psychology.

Projects As RA: 

• Cognitive and Emotional Processes Related to Images and Representations of the Body

• EEG Lab Development

Date Joined: January 2025, in the second term of her first year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Child/Adolescent Psychology.

Projects As RA: 

• Cognitive and Emotional Processes Related to Images and Representations of the Body

• Dissatisfaction with Body Dissatisfaction