Brown Bag Series 2021-22

In-House Research Presentations 

Come out and participate in the department’s Brown Bag meetings. 
Dates/Location/Presenters listed below - 10am to 12pm

Speakers typically present work in progress or give practice talks for conferences. All faculty and department trainees (including post-docs, graduate students and undergraduates working in our labs) are encouraged to attend.

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