Dept. of Psychology
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Luke Clark, PhD
Professor
- Gambling
- problem gambling
- addiction
- decision-making
- reward
- cognitive neuroscience
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Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
- Social perspective taking
- social learning
- social cognition
- imitation
- nonverbal behavior
- confidence
- communication
- decision-making
- impression formation
- child development
- the study of children and adults' social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples' mental states--their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person's perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as 'the curse of knowledge bias' (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one's current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
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Paul Gabias, PhD, LLD
Associate Professor
- Visual perception
- haptic perception
- audition
- gustation
- olfaction
- cognition
- evolutionary psychology
- ecological approach to perception
- public education about blindness
- psychological aspects of advocacy
- rehabilitation
- health
- stress management
- picture perception
- wellness
- blindness
- guide dog training
- drawing development
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Dr. Lesley Lutes, R. Psych
Professor
- clinical health psychology
- lifestyle behavior change
- mental health and well-being
- obesity
- diabetes
- integrated primary care
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Nancy Sin, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Stress, emotions, well-being, positive experiences, adult development and aging, gerontology, depression, health behaviours, cardiovascular disease, health psychology, mental illness
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Connor Kerns, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Assessment and treatments of childhood anxiety disorders
- autism spectrum disorders
- anxiety and stress in children with ASD
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Dr. Lauren Emberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
- developmental cognitive neuroscience
- learning abilities
- memory
- perception (audition and vision)
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Eric Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor
- health psychology
- social epidemiology
- psychology of aging
- healthy aging
- resilience
- purpose in life
- meaning in life
- positive psychology
- psychological well-being
- optimism
- happiness
- volunteering
- altruism