Our Team

Kate recently completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Waterloo. She completed her thesis on how cognitive elements involved in parenting (i.e., parental reflective functioning) relate to adolescent wellbeing. Currently, her research focuses on perceptions of effort.

Michelle is completing her PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Her research focus is on how individuals judge the effortfulness of given cognitive tasks. Currently, she is investigating the way effort judgments, and the cues used to infer them, change across certain contexts.

Megan is completing her PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Her research focuses on memory and how it is influenced by the environment around us. This work involves a variety of subtopics within traditional memory research as well as considering the various qualities of external/environmental memory supports. 

Xinyi completed her undergraduate and MA degrees at the National University of Singapore. She joined the University of Waterloo in 2019 to complete her PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Xinyi’s research focuses on the broad topics of memory and learning — both within the lab as well as in applied educational contexts. Currently, she is studying how semantic categories and concepts influence both memory and metacognition.