2021-2022
June 23, 2022 - Zoom
Tiana Simovic
Title: Using Perspective Cues to Guide Pronominal Reference Interpretation
Thomas St. Pierre
Title: What Goes Up, Might Come Down: The Development of Language Biases Across Childhood
May 26, 2022 - Zoom
Norhan Elsaadawy
Title: Who Would Like Me? Within-Person Variability in Meta-liking Judgments at Zero-Acquaintance
Nathan Leonhardt
Title: Orgasm Consistency in Mixed-Gender Couples: Actor, Partner, and Discrepancy Effects from Dyadic Response Surface Analysis
March 24, 2022 - Zoom
Laura MacMullin
Title: A Qualitative Analysis of Risk and Resilience Among BIPOC Trans Youth
Jida Jaffan
Title: The Icing on the Cake. Or is it Frosting? How Group Membership Affects Children’s Lexical Choices
Yachen Li
Title: Hurting to Help the Ones You Love: Perception of Prosocial Immoral Acts
February 24, 2022 - Zoom
Mariela Faykoo-Martinez
Title: Transcriptional Changes in the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis in an Extreme Model of Pubertal Suppression
Jennifer Chan
Title: Associations amongst Police Lethal Force Errors, Stress, and Mental Health
Lindsey Thurston
Title: Sex/Gender Differences in Adolescent White Matter Microstructure
February 3, 2022 - Zoom
Debanjan Borthakur
Title: Breathing Biofeedback for Post-Traumatic Stress Injury
Luis De la Vina Simon
Title: Sociomoral Evaluations of Commitments and Violations of Interpersonal Trust in Testimonial Exchanges
Gideon Park
Title: Within-person Associations Between Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time
Ashley Kaur Dhillon
Title: Construct Validity of the Dual Gender Identity Interview
Victoria Pringle
Title: What Does it Mean to Get to Know Someone?
Zahra Siddiqi
Title: The Limit of Discriminability in Zebrafish
Jaweria Qaiser
Title: Understanding Compassion Fatigue
Levi Stutzman
Title: The Development of Sensitivity to Beat Gesture Asynchrony
Stephanie Shishis
Title: Have We Been Keeping Zebrafish Wrong? Housing Density and Tank Size Affect Behavioural Responses in Adult Zebrafish
November 25, 2021 - Zoom
Rebecca Horne
Title: Sacrifice and Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
Natalie Sisson
Title: The Benefits of Living with Close Others: A Longitudinal Examination of Mental Health Before and During a Global Stressor
Jason Payne
Title: The Personality Structure of Affect Revisited
October 28, 2021 - Zoom
Amanda Facciol
Title: Developmental Stage-Dependent Effects of Embryonic Ethanol Exposure on Social Behaviour and Neurochemistry in Adult Zebrafish
Jennet Baumbach
Title: Central Sensitization Regulates Responses to Painful and Stressful Stimuli after
Recovery from CFA-Induced Pain in Male Mice
Sandra Poulson
Title: Neural Basis for Socially Enhanced Pain in Mice
September 30, 2021 - Zoom
Navdeep Lidhar
Title: The Role of Opioid Receptors in Social Approach Behaviour to Conspecifics in Pain
Emma Mannan
Title: Role of Dynorphin in Chronic Pain and Associated Working Memory Impairment in Mice
Joseph Saito
Title: Judgments During Perceptual Comparisons Predict Distinct Forms of Memory Updating
2020-2021
June 17, 2021 - Zoom
Taylor Irvine
Title: Sociosexual, Anxiety-, and Depression-Like Behaviour in Transgenic and Hormonally Induced Models of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Caitlin Tozios
Title: The Multiple Encoding Benefit: Encoding Opportunities Amplify Benefits from Encoding Duration in Visual Long-Term Memory
Harashdeep Deol
Title: The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Vicarious Pain Perception in Undergraduate Students
Jason Payne
Title: A Look into the Construct Validity of Global Life-Satisfaction Judgments
May 20, 2021 - Zoom
Emma Galarneau
Title: Feeling Bad about Feeling Mad: Anger Predicts Lower Aggression and Higher Non-Aggressive Disruptive Behavior in Children with Higher Ethical Guilt
Yiyi Wang
Title: Mental Training for Academic Success during the Pandemic
Ruofang (Sonny) Wang
Title: Exploring Connections between Inference and Perspective Taking in Reading
April 22, 2021 - Zoom
Kyle Logie
Title: What's in a Breath? Clarifying the Role of Interoceptive Awareness in the Transfer of Arousal
Anas Reda
Title: Acetylation as a Modifier of H2A.Z Function in Memory
Tiana Simovic
Title: How does General Cognition fit into Real-time Language Comprehension?
March 25, 2021 - Zoom
Greer Gillies
Title: Tracing the Emergence of Stimulus Memorability
Amanda Leonetti
Title: The Diversity of RNA Modifications at the Synapse and their Role during Memory Formation
Jida Jaffan
Title: Mirroring Language with Virtual Agents
Tim McLean
Title: Role of mH2A1 Splice Variants in Neuronal Transcription and Memory Formation
2019-2020
March 5, 2020 - DV UTM Room
Priscilla Fung
Title: Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers' Reliance on the Mutual Exclusivity Principle and Statistics to Learn Colour Labels
Madeleine Yu
Title: Re-evaluating the Other Accent Effect in Talker Recognition
Feb 20, 2020 - DV 3130
Rachel Forbes
Title: When the Mighty Fall: Harsher responses to the moral transgressions of the powerful
Yachen Li
Title: Awe and Perspective Taking
Jan 23, 2020 - DV UTM Room
Nathan Leonhardt
Title: Relationship Satisfaction and Commitment Trajectories in the Transition to Parenthood: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach
Raheleh Saryazdi
Title: Communicative Perspective Taking with a Social Robot
Nov 21, 2019 - DV 3130
Laura MacMullin
Title: Examining the Relation between Gender Nonconformity and Psychological Well-Being in Children: The Roles of Peers and Parents
Diana Peragine
Title: It's Not Who You Are, but Who You're With:Re-examining the Gender Gap in Coital Debut Satisfaction
Lindsey Thurston
Title: Mental Rotation Task Performance in a Gender Diverse Thai Sample: A Test of Neurohormonal Theory
Paula Di Nota
Title: Police Stress and Memory: Implications for Policy and Practice
2018-2019
May 27, 2019 - Council Chambers
Ilapreet Toor
Title: Tracking the Life History of the Naked Mole-rat
Robert Redford
Title: What Do People Tell Us When They Say They Are mindful? The Influence of Positive Biases and Mediation Experience
Thanh Phung
Title: Genital Stimulation Facilitates a Sexual Reward State in Male and Female Mice
Monica Ghabrial
Title: Exploring the Feasibility and Potential Benefits of Web-based Support for Women Living with HIV
April 29, 2019 - Council Chambers
Rebecca Horne
Title: The Sex was Good - No - Great! Emotion Regulation during Sex and Sexual and Relationship Well-being
Maxwell Barranti
Title: Evaluative Bias in Moral
Navi Lidhar
Title: The Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Social Modulation of Pain
Troy Collins
Title: The Effects of Social Novelty on Cell Proliferation in a Eusocial Mammal
April 15, 2019 - Council Chambers
Natalie Sisson
Title: How Do You Change a Narcissist? Partner Regulation As A Function of Narcissism
Mariela Faykoo-Martinez
Title: Identifying Molecular Mechanisms of Socially-Mediated Pubertal Suppression
Mahmoud Bitar
Title: Investigating The Androgenic Regulation of Sexually Dimorphic Mouse Major Urinary Protein Phermones
Vassilia Michailidis
Title: Characterizing Glial Changes in the Comorbidity Between Chronic Pain & Depression
April 1, 2019 - Council Chambers
James Kim
Title: Sociosexual Orientation as a Bidemensional Construct
Firyal Ramzan
Title: Androgen Receptors and Histone Variant H2A.Z Interact to Regulate Fear
Joanna Peplak
Title: Adolescents' Narratives of Schadenfreude
March 4, 2019 - Council Chambers
Raheleh Saryazdi
Title: Age Differences In Perspective Taking During Real-Time Language Comprehension
Erinn Acland
Title: Resting Vagal Activity & Prosociality in Children
Jennifer Chan
Title: HRV Biofeedback & Reducing Lethal Use-Of-Force Errors In Police Officers Exposed to Trauma
February 4, 2019 - UTM Room (Previously Faculty Club)
Eleanor Myatt
Title: Helping Others & Recieving Help: Refugee Children's Narration of Prosocial Receiving
Rachel Forbes
Title: Responses To The Moral Transgressions of The Powerful
Caitlin Tozios
Title: Successful Encoding Into Visual Long-Term Memory Is Determined By The Number of Encoding Opportunities Instead of Visual Working
January 21, 2019 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
Norhan Elsaadawy
Title: Self-Knowledge and Interpersonal Perception
Nathan Leonhardt
Title: An Organizational Framework for Sexual Media's Influence on Sexual Quality
November 26, 2018 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
Thomas Anderson
Title: Microdosing Psychedelics: Setting a Foundation
Laura MacMullin
Title: Self-Harm and Suicidality In Gender-Nonconforming Children: A Canadian Community-Based Study
Diana Peragine
Title: Sex Difference or Learned Difference in Sexual "Drive"? Towards an Incentive Motivation Model of Sexual Desire Development
2017-2018
January 22, 2018 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
Rebecca Horne
Title: "A Labour of Love? Emotion Work in Intimate Relationships"
Max Barranti
Title: "Is Personality Change Adaptive?"
January 29, 2018 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
Paula Di Nota
Title: Examining the Longitudinal Influences of a Physiological Intervention on Police Decision-Making
Malvina Skorska
Title: Physical and Family Demographic Correlates of Sexual Orientation
February 26, 2018 - Faculty Club
Raheleh Saryazdi
Title: Age-related differences in referential production
Natisha Nabbijohn
Title: Behavioural and Emotional Problems in a Community Sample of Gender-Nonconforming Children: The Mediating Role of Peer Problems
April 2, 2018 - Council Chambers (3130)
Ju-Hyun Song
Title: Taming Anger and Trusting Others: Distinct Correlates of Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Early Childhood
Stefannelli Gilda
Title: The histone chaperone Anp32E regulates H2A.Z eviction and turnover and regulates memory formation in the hippocampus
April 16, 2018 - Faculty Club
Lauryn Conway
Title: Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Epilepsy: A Focus on Measurement in Research and Clinical Settings
Robert Redford
Title: Measurement Invariance of Trait Mindfulness Scales Across Meditators and Non-Meditators
April 30, 2018 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
Rachel Forbes
Title: When the Ones We Love Misbehave: Exploring moral processes in intimate bonds
Norhan Elsaadawy
Title: Is meta-accuracy a trait? Meta-accuracy across social contexts
May 14, 2018 - Council Chambers (DV 3130)
James Kim
Title: Buffering Partners during Sexual Rejection: The Importance of Reassuring Behaviors
Firyal Ramzan
Title: Androgen Receptors and Histone Variant H2A.Z Interact to Affect Fear Memory