The Social-Personality Area held a welcome back orientation event to start off the 2019-2020 year! Thank you so much to Esther Greenglass and the SP Social Committee Daniel and Jon for throwing a fantastic, well-decorated party full of food and prizes for us at the Kaneff Tower. Our orientation is a social event that kicks […]
York U Magazine recently interviewed Ph.D. candidate Joshua Quinlan’s research on absurd humour, and released the article “A load of bull: The science of claptrap”. You can read the article here!
Graduate student Kashmala Qasim (supervisor: Dr. Michaela Hynie) won the John Berry award for best paper in the International/Cross-Cultural section at the meeting for the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)! Awesome work, Kashmala!
As of May 1, 2019, recent graduate Dr. Jorida Cila started a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral position at Ryerson University working with Dr. Becky Choma. Jorida’s postdoctoral research examines the role of identity and intergroup threat on attitudes toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians. Jorida completed her PhD in Psychology at York University in 2018 working with Dr. Richard Lalonde. We’re […]
Raymond Mar was recently awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This prestigious award is given to researchers honoured for their outstanding research record. Excellent work, Raymond!
Our very own Amy Muise was recently awarded the prestigious York Research Chair for her research in the maintenance of sexual desire and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships. Amazing work, Amy!
We welcomed Dr. Adam Waytz on March 4th for our final invited research talk of the year at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of his talk was “Humans and Machines”. Please see his website for more details about his research! Abstract: Everyday life is increasingly human-less, with robotic technology replacing human jobs and performing tasks previously reserved […]
Fresh from Reading Week, on February 25th, 2019 we welcomed Dr. Yoel Inbar from the University of Toronto to give a fascinating talk at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of his talk was “Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Food and Other Controversial Scientific Technologies”. Please see his website for more details about the research conducted in his […]
York U was well represented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the (somewhat cold, fairly donut-y) city of Portland, Oregon from February 7-9, 2019.See below for our faculty, post-doc, and graduate student presentations! Amy Muise – Talk presented at the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award Address […]
On Dec. 5th, 2018, Professor Raymond Mar was awarded with the 2017-2018 Faculty of Health Research Award, Established Career for his program of research on the positive influences of narrative fiction on social cognition. Congratulations to Professor Raymond Mar!