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

Started in the Lab: March 2020, part way through her second intro psych course

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling psychology; School psychology

Projects As Lead Investigator:

• Meaning Salience and Burnout in Students

Projects As RA: 

• Individual Differences in Semantic Fluency

• Program Evaluation of PSYC 1103 Micro-WIL

Honours Project Topic:

• It’s a Family Thing: Examining How Family Values Impact Undergraduate Students’ Career Choices - supervised by Dr. Ines Sametband.

Date Joined: January 2019, while taking PSYC 2213 - Research Methods I.

Area(s) Of Interest: Clinical neuropsychology; EEG/ERP methods; Cognitive psychology

Projects As RA: 

• Attention deficit relationships with alexithymia and facial emotion recognition

• EEG lab development

Honours Project Topic:

• Self-Reflection and Student Outcomes - supervised by Dr. Mitch Clark.

Date Joined: January 2021, after her first intro psych course

Area(s) Of Interest: Everything!

Projects As RA: 

• Participated in the Research Team 1 Journal Club

Date Joined: January 2021, after her first intro psych course

Area(s) Of Interest: Positive psychology; Trauma; Health psychology; Indigenous psychology; Cross-cultural psychology; Somatic therapy; Gender and sexuality

Projects As RA: 

• Participated in the Research Team 1 Journal Club

• Gistification of Memory

Date Joined: May 2022, after taking PSYC 2213 - Research Methods I

Area(s) Of Interest: Clinical psychology; Counselling psychology

Projects As RA: 

• EEG lab development

• Program Evaluation of PSYC 1103 Micro-WIL

• Gistification of Memory

Date Joined: July 2022, after taking PSYC 2213 - Research Methods I

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling psychology, Psychopathology, Trauma; Child development

Projects As RA: 

• Gistification of Memory

Date Joined: August 2022, after finishing the introductory psychology courses

Area(s) Of Interest:  TBD

Projects As RA: 

• Gistification of Memory

Date Joined: August 2022, after completing PSYC 2213 - Research Methods I

Area(s) Of Interest: TBD

Projects As RA: 

• Gistification of Memory

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

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

Projects As RA: 

• Nonlinearity in Locus Of Control Effects

Date Joined: February 2023, after completing PSYC 1103

Area(s) Of Interest: Behavioural Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology

Projects As RA: 

• Nonlinearity in Locus Of Control Effects

Date Joined: May 2023, after completing PSYC 2213 - Research Methods I

Area(s) Of Interest: Human Sexuality, Psychopathology/Mental Illness, and Social Psychology

Projects As RA: 

• Nonlinearity in Locus Of Control Effects

Date Joined: September 2023, after completing PSYC 1103/1104

Area(s) Of Interest:  Child Psychology, Social Psychology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Projects As RA: 

• Nonlinearity in Locus Of Control Effects

Kaitlin will be working with me for the 2023-2024 academic year.  Her thesis is focused on enriching our understanding of the dynamics of loneliness in university students and the variables that predict student loneliness.