Developmental / Behaviour
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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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Clinical Associate Professor
- Adolescent Medicine
- Adolescent Health
- Resilience
- Mental Health
- Mindfulness
- Eating Disorders
- Substance Use Disorders
- *Note that as I am a clinical faculty member, employed by PHSA / BC Children's Hospital all media interviews must be approved by PHSA Communications Office
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Professor
- Urban health
- drug policy with regards to marijuana/cannabis
- overdoses
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Clinical Assistant Professor
- Child and adolescent mental health
- mood and anxiety disorders
- family therapy
- interpersonal psychotherapy for depression
- mindful parenting
- parenting
- relationships
- parental mental health
- social determinants of health
- school-based mental health
- psychotherapy
- emotion-focused therapies
- physician wellness
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Professor
- Youth and adult substance use and abuse
- cognition and substance use
- prevention and intervention
- measurement of substance use and program effectiveness
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Assistant Professor
- Concussion
- traumatic brain injury
- adolescent brain development
- infant brain development
- perception-action development
- perception-emotion development
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Professor
- Synapse biology
- neuroscience
- neurodevelopmental biology
- cellular and molecular approaches
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Professor
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- genetics
- neurobiology
- brain imaging
- mental health
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Assistant Professor
- developmental cognitive neuroscience
- learning abilities
- memory
- perception (audition and vision)
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