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: September 2023, after completing PSYC 1103/1104

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

Projects as Student Lead Researcher: 

• Mindfulness Markers in EEG

Projects as RA: 

• EEG Lab Lead

• 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 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: August 2022, after finishing the introductory psychology courses

Area(s) Of Interest:  TBD

Projects As RA: 

• Gistification of Memory

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: October 2024, in the first term of her second year.

Area(s) Of Interest: Counselling Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Biopsychology.

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

Emma will be working with me as an honours student for the 2024-2025 academic year.  Her thesis is focused on understanding the relationship between a person's body image and the way they attend to and remember images of other people.  She also works as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Malinda Desjarlais.