Our people

Lab director

Ramona Bobocel
Ramona Bobocel

Ramona received her Ph.D. in psychology from Western Ontario in 1992 and is psychology professor at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on social and organizational justice, with a continuing interest in understanding how people form judgments of fairness and how they cope with unfair treatment. Ramona's research has garnered continuous funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and has been published in leading scientific journals. She has received numerous awards for her contributions, including the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award. Most recently, she was made Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences and the Canadian Psychological Association for her sustained scientific contributions. She has served as editor and consulting editor for top journals in her field, is past president of the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In addition to her research, Ramona has consulted with several Canadian organizations to improve fairness in the workplace.

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PhD students

Midori Nishioka
Midori Nishioka

Midori completed her BA at McGill University where she trained in social psychology. She received her MA in industrial/organizational psychology from University of Waterloo. Midori is currently working toward her PhD in industrial/organization psychology and she is supervised by Dr. Ramona Bobocel and Dr. James Beck. Midori is interested in understanding when and why people engage in harmful and beneficial behaviors in organizations. In particular, she is interested in how situational factors at work push people toward engaging in these behaviors. Midori's research projects examine unethical behaviors, fair treatment of employees, helping, corner-cutting, and counter-productive behaviors.

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Tatiana Marques
Tatiana Marques

Tatiana is a PhD student at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and a researcher and lecturer at Catolica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics (Portugal). She received her BSc in psychology and MSc in social and organizational psychology from ISCTE. In her PhD, she is investigating the impact of an ageing workforce in preferences for job characteristics and fairness in the workplace, supervised by Dr. Sara Ramos (ISCTE) and Dr. David Patient (Catolica-Lisbon). She is currently spending three months at the Fairness at Work Lab, investigating age differences in justice salience and perceptions, together with Dr. Ramona Bobocel. She is enjoying every minute in Canada but terribly missing a good (and affordable) espresso coffee! She loves music, traveling and food.

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Amy Barron
Amy Barron

Amy completed her BA (hons.) in Psychology at the University of Calgary and her MASc in Industrial/Organizational psychology at the University of Waterloo. She is currently pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ramona Bobocel at the University of Waterloo. Her current research focuses on examining manager explanations of bad news. Her other research interests include: manager responses to sexual harassment claims, gender discrimination, and workplace forgiveness.

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Master's students

Taylor Carroll
Taylor Carroll

Taylor completed her Honours B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology at the University of Guelph. Her Honours Thesis project investigated how perfectionistic employees experience job satisfaction and trust in their supervisor. Taylor is currently working on her MASc in Industrial-Organizational psychology under Ramona’s supervision. Her research considers why leaders might be inconsistent in their fairness behaviours (“fairness variability”) and how leaders’ fairness variability can be mitigated. In general, Taylor’s research interests include organizational justice, leadership, self-regulation, and personality.

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Muriel Tang
muriel

Muriel completed her Honours BSc in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour at McMaster University. Her undergraduate thesis focused on identifying factors that could predict whether electroconvulsive therapy would be an effective treatment for certain patients with Major Depressive Disorder. She has also investigated patient-care initiatives at Toronto General Hospital and the effect of a suppressed immune system on Alzheimer’s Disease. Muriel is currently working toward a MASc in Industrial Organizational Psychology under the co-supervision of Dr. Ramona Bobocel and Dr. Wendi Adair. Her current research focuses on factors that could influence an employee’s willingness to voice concerns regarding practices that could result in negative consequences in workplace settings.

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harshadaa
Harshadda Deshpande

Harshadaa completed her undergraduate studies at McGill University in psychology and management where her research focused on decision-making, perfectionism, and STEM education. Harshadaa is currently working towards her MASc in Industrial/Organisational Psychology under Ramona’s supervision. Her current research is focused on construal level and interpretations of workplace interactions. Outside academia Harshadaa enjoys making digital art and playing tennis

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Recent Undergraduate Thesis Students

Valerie Chen
Valerie Chen

Valerie completed her BSc in psychology at the University of Waterloo. Her honours thesis examined how gender biases may influence observer reactions to non-forgiving victims. She is currently a research assistant at the Fairness at Work Lab. In the future, Valerie hopes to either pursue graduate studies in psychology or further her interest in the culinary arts.

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Chloe Fournier
Chloe Fournier

Chloe recently completed her undergraduate studies in psychology. Her interests are in fairness in the workplace. Her thesis focused on construal level and managers' fairness behaviour. Chloe currently works as a human resources assistant at a recruitment company and hopes to transition into the role of human resources coordinator in the future.

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Nadine Ivall Boileau
Nadine Ivall Boileau

This is Nadine; she is an amateur baker and a dessert enthusiast. Her interests include strength training and reading fiction literature. Nadine's research topic examines how contextual factors influence managers' fairness behaviour. Currently, she is applying to occupational therapy schools and plans to begin her studies in fall 2019.

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Adam Adivi
Adam Adivi

Adam Adivi is a graduating psychology undergraduate interested in the impact of cultural and individual differences in the workplace. Adam's thesis examines possible explanations for cultural differences in relationship restoration in the context of a negotiation. He is interested in pursuing research and will be applying to graduate programs in I/O Psychology.

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Mercedes King
Mercedes King

Mercedes is currently working toward completing her BSc in Psychology. She loves to travel and found her passion for research when working as a research assistant in Singapore. Her honours thesis focuses on examining possible paradoxical effects of employee perceptions of organization justice. Mercedes is looking forward to graduating and seeing what comes next.   

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