Past lab members

Postdoctoral fellows

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Leanne Gosse (2012-2014)

Leanne Gosse accepted a position as assistant professor in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Conestoga College.

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Agnes Zdaniuk (2007-2008)

Agnes Zdaniuk accepted a position as assistant professor in the Business School at the University of Guelph.

PhD students

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Frank Mu (2020)

Frank Mu accepted a research position in industry, as Assessment Research Manager at CodeSignal.

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Justin Brienza (2017)

Justin Brienza accepted a position as assistant professor in the Business School at the University of Queensland.

Dissertation title: Exploring the utility of state-level wise reasoning: New assessment and facilitation methods

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Sana Rizvi (2015)

Sana Rizvi accepted a position as assistant professor in the Business School at the University of New Brunswick.

Dissertation title: The Role of Psychological Distance in Forgiveness

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Katrina Goreham (2009)

Katrina (Goreham) Hitchman accepted a position as Director of Program Development at Canadian Water Network.

Dissertation title: Does unfairness have a ripple effect? The impact of independent and interdependent self-construals

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Agnes Zdaniuk (2005)

Agnes Zdaniuk accepted a position as assistant professor in the Business School at the University of Guelph.

Dissertation title: Who is most likely to avenge an injustice, and why? The role of independent self-construal

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Samantha Montes (2005)

Samantha (Montes) Hanson accepted a position as assistant professor in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Dissertation title: Psychological contracts: Assessing underlying assumptions and expanding understanding (co-supervised with G. Irving, Wilfred Laurier University)

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Camilla Holmvall (2003)

Camilla Holmvall accepted a position as assistant professor in Psychology at St. Mary's University.

Dissertation title: Procedural and interactional justice: Examining the links between employees' fairness perceptions and work attitudes

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Leanne Son Hing (2000)

Leanne Son Hing accepted a position as associate professor of industrial/organizational psychology at the Department of Psychology at University of Guelph.

Dissertation title: Does the perception of discrimination mitigate justice-based opposition to affirmative action?

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Master's students

Igor Mitrovic (2021)

  • Thesis title: Blinded from the Truth? Perceptions of Racial Discrimination During COVID-19

Jennifer Lau (2021)

Midori Nishioka (2018)

  • Thesis title: Goal-setting and unethical behavior: The journey toward the goal matters

Frank Mu (2016)

  • Thesis title: Why Did I Apologize? Apology Motives and Offender Perceptions in the Aftermath of Workplace Conflicts

Tanya Zarina (2015)

  • Thesis title: When leaders make mistakes: Perceptions of leader competence after sex-typed errors

Justin Brienza (2013)

  • Thesis title: Workplace Injustice and Counterproductive Work Behaviour: The Moderating Role of Employee Age

Jayna Mitchell (2012)

  • Thesis title: Power and Procedual Justice

Elizabeth Shantz (2011) 

  • Thesis title: Self-construal and Forgiveness

Corey Bainerman (2010)

  • Thesis title: First Impressions of Manager Fairness: Set in Stone or Revision-Prone?

Sean Schofield-Hurwitz (2010)

  • Thesis title: The cloud of the social contract: Conformity effects in novel contexts of risk and consequence

Graham Nagy (2009)

  • Thesis title: The bad news bearers: Examining the effect of self-construal on interactional justice

Kathy Tsang (2008)

  • Thesis title: Forgiving unfair treatment: The role of the interdependent self-construal

Katrina Goreham (2004)

  • Thesis title: Exploring the delicate art of bearing bad news: Effects of dispositional self- and other-focus on managers' expectations and distancing behaviours

Agnes Zdaniuk (2002)

Camilla Holmvall (1999)

Leanne Son Hing (1997)

Kim Baron (1997)

Liane Davey (1995)

Nicole Whyte (1995)

Julie Patenaude (1994)

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Undergraduate students

Honours thesis students

Olha Mendelenko (2021)

  • Thesis title: Leader Gender and Apology Effectiveness

Adam Adivi (2019)

  • Thesis title: Explaining Cultural Differences in Relationship Restoration

Mercedes King (2019)

  • Thesis title: Paradoxical Effects of Organizational Justice

Nadine Ivall Boileau (2018)

  • Thesis title: Fairness in the Face of Uncertainty: An Examination of Manager Behaviour

Chloe Fournier (2018)

  • Thesis title: Delivering Negative News: The role of Construal Level

Valerie Chen (2018)

  • Thesis title: Third-Party Reactions to Non-Forgiveness: The Role of Amend Strength, Victim Gender and Dyad Gender Composition

Yufei Luo (2017)

  • Thesis title: Reactions to Interpersonal Justice Violations: The Effect of Supervisor Gender on Supervisory Commitment

Joel Becker (2015)

  • Thesis title: Do just actions beget just evaluations for supervisors with intersectional identities

Jordan Kemp (2015)

  • Thesis title: Perceived unfairness of negative workplace events: The role of explanations and construal level

Frank Mu (2014)

  • Thesis title: Uncovering motives for apologies in workplace transgressions

Yoon Chu (2014)

  • Thesis title: In search for true forgiveness in workplace transgressions: The moderating effect of forgiveness motives

Eileen Qian (2014)

  • Thesis title: The Effects of Overall Justice and Psychological Distance on Reactions to Workplace Injustice

Lisa Massaro (2011)

  • Thesis title: Managers’ perceptions of interactionally sensitive and insensitive males and females

Amanda Briganti (2010)

  • Thesis title: The Effects of Self-Construal on Memory of Injustice in the Workplace

Jayna Mitchell (2010)

  • Thesis title: The Effects of Being Treated Fairly: The Moderating Role of Leader Gender

Edwina Cheung (2009)

  • Thesis title: A New Perspective: Managers’ Self-Construal on Organizational Justice Behaviours in the Workplace

Sean Schofield-Hurwitz (2008)

  • Thesis title: A Lawful Mind: The Effects of Self-Identity on the Causal Attribution Process and Behaviour in the Context of an Injustice

Domenica De Pasquale (co-advised with C. MacLeod; 2007)

  • Thesis title: Procedural Fairness: The Effects on Memory

Pauline Kuk (co-advised with D. Brown; 2003)

  • Thesis title: Can leaders who are fair prime fairness implicitly?

Amber Christie (2000)

  • Thesis title: Examining the effects of the consistency rule on judgments of procedural justice

Agnes Zdaniuk (2000)

  • Thesis title: When is the violation of procedural consistency perceived as fair?

Harjinder Gill (1997)

  • Thesis title: Construction and validation of three components of justice:  Distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice

Siobhan Lydon (1996)

Graham Machacek (co-advised with M. Zanna; 1996)

David Stanley (co-advised with M. Zanna; 1995)

Michelle Debeyer (1995)

Aaron Farrell (1994)

Lisa Ridley (1993)

Manjeet Sehra (1993)

Directed studies students

Meha Chauhan (2018)

Yiyi Hu (2017)

Jayna Mitchell (2010)

Adam Halpert (2007)

Catherine Rawn (2003)