Dept. of Psychology
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Janet Werker
Professor and Canada Research Chair
- Infancy
- speech perception
- early language acquisition
- bilingualism
- baby development
- infant development
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Kalina Christoff, PhD
Professor
- brain
- cognitive neuroscience
- psychology
- prefronal cortex
- fMRI
- neuroimaging
- neuropsychology
- executive functions
- problem solving
- reasoning
- thinking
- mind-wandering
- attention
- consciousness
- real-time fMRI
- trauma and PTSD
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Elizabeth Dunn
Associate Professor
- happiness
- prosocial behavior
- money and happiness
- emotion
- predicting emotions
- moods
- self-knowledge
- stereotypes
- savoring
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Ara Norenzayan, PhD
Professor
- Social psychology
- cultural psychology
- evolutionary psychology
- religion
- culture
- human cooperation
- human universals
- thinking across cultures
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Catharine Winstanley, PhD
Associate Professor
- Impulsivity
- gambling
- behavioural neuroscience
- frontal cortex
- dopamine
- serotonin
- addiction
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Peter Suedfeld, PhD
Dean and Professor Emeritus
- Decision-making under stress
- psychology of extreme environments (polar, space, etc.)
- genocide
- sensory deprivation
- flotation tanks
- resilience
- political psychology
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Jessica Tracy, PhD
Associate Professor
- Emotion
- nonverbal expression
- self-conscious emotions (pride, shame)
- the self
- self-esteem
- narcissism
- trends in psychological science