Posters 2025

Beyond the binary: Attraction stereotypes across diverse groups

Krista Quinn* & Neil Hester

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How children talk to peers: Effects of language and cultural background on linguistic alignment

Ana Ljujic* & Katherine White

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How does language background influence bilinguals’ voiced-based personality judgments?

Mariam Mazen*, Suevin Un, & Katherine S. White

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Effects of grace on student motivation, meaning, and engagement

Alfredo Intriago* & Ian McGregor

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Children's reliance on visual input for native and non-native accented speech

Ashley Avarino, Madeline Wiseman*, & Katherine White

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Exploring university students’ willingness to seek peer support and establish a sense of belonging: Impact on perceptions of peer support, sense of belonging, and well-being

Nalini Jeyamohan*, Maureen T.B. Drysdale, & Sarah A. Callaghan

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Arousal vs. relatedness: Unpacking the emotional enhancement in memory

Brian Kim*, Myra Fernandes, & Katherine White

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The impact of an initial experience on a child's behaviour during a subsequent, open-ended task

Nisa Ardeshiri*, Heather A. Henderson, & Stephanie Denison

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Can computational sentiment analysis classify autobiographical memories? Comparing VADER and TextBlob

Khalil Husein*, Lakshay Goel, Eric Anderson, Ryan Yeung, Marek Stastna, & Myra Fernandes

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The impact of childhood maltreatment and sexual abuse on physical intimacy and emotional avoidance: Exploring physical touch and relational well-being

Kethmi Egodage*, Uzma Rehman, & Noémie Bigras

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What is this feeling?: The phenomenological correlates of fluency

Julianna Salvatierra*, Skylar J. Laursen, & Evan F. Risko

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Online mental health: An analysis of the benefits and risks of self-diagnosis in the modern age

Maaz Ghias*

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Effect of immediacy and searching on internet spillover confidence

Matthew Yeung*, Megan Kelly, & Evan F. Risko

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Children use category-level similarities to infer friendships

Ayshe Ozlu*, Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman

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Exploring the voice of OCD

Erin Bowman*, Tyler Eschenwecker, Karen Rowa, & Christine Purdon

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Older but not younger children distinguish between ability and proximity-based close counterfactuals

Amy Howard*, Ori Friedman, & Stephanie Denison

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Latent class analysis of discriminatory experiences among youth

Fatima Wasif* & Dillon T. Browne

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Can I (still) trust you? Betrayal type and reparative motives matter in romantic relationships

Aneek Romana*, Connery Knox, & Hilary Bergsieker

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Trusting the machine: Epistemic trust and anthropomorphism in generative artificial intelligence

Caroline Simpson* & Jonathan Fugelsang

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Be dominant, be a man!: Investigating targeted leadership messaging on women's leader prototypes

Aimee Landry*, Pearlyn Ng, & Douglas Brown

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Can 5- to 7-year-old children represent ratios in non-symbolic large number addition?

Candice Rubie* & Stephanie Denison

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Rewards of risky interdependence: Inducing trust (vs. liking) at zero acquaintance

Connery Knox*, Emily Cyr, & Hilary Bergsieker

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Discerning uncertainty using scalable approaches

Niyati Kachhiyapatel* & Igor Grossmann

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Disrupting the Dark Path: Testing interventions of mediating mechanisms linked to grandiose narcissism and self-interested unethical workplace behaviour

Caitlin Belfiore* & Annika Hillebrandt

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A fairness paradox: Are overall fairness perceptions associated with lower support for diversity initiatives?

Alison Stephens* & Ramona Bobocel

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Intervening with momentary self-criticism with single-session cognitive and compassion-focused online interventions

Michelle A. Korlacka* and Allison Kelly

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Self-compassionately or assertively? Exploring how best to intervene on behalf of the self during imagery rescripting of negative social autobiographical memories

Sara Al-Uqaili*, Jennifer E. Fudge, & David A. Moscovitch

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How gaze and head direction shape first impressions of attractiveness and trustworthiness

Simran K. Bal* & Clara Colombatto

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Consumer perspectives on payouts

Abby Alpaugh, Nicole Barkan, Shadarian McPherson & Simran Dahl

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Exploring the relationship between trait and state boredom, self-regulation and sleep

Yusra Khan*, James Danckert, & Jamie Nettinga

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Children’s belief about possibility: Could vs. has

Mopreet Pabla* & Ori Friedman

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Patience tested: Preliminary findings on the relations between ADHD, anxiety, and delay frustration

Pinar Gurgen*, Alexandria de Souza Mendes, Samantha Ayers-Glassey, Daniel Smilek, & Mike J. Dixon

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Activating allyship from advantaged groups: Does responsibility or relevance messaging increase intended action against discrimination?

Alyssa Ngo Bao Tran Nguyen*, Jessica Trickey, & Hilary B. Bergsieker

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Fear of guilt moderates the relationship between over-responsibility beliefs and obsessive compulsive disorder symptom severity

Aliya McNeil* & Christine Purdon

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Too good not to be true: Investigating the explanatory and narrative characteristics of conspiracy theories

Chelsea L. Russill*, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, & Derek J. Koehler

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Innocent but implicated: How employee wellbeing and self-esteem are affected by organizational transgressions

Esosa Omoregbee*, Annika Hillebrandt, & Maria F. Saldahna

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Is athleisure “nice”? Effects of identity, attractiveness, and formality on social judgments of dress

Kashish Kahlon* & Neil Hester

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Exploring the associations between parent and child affect during a problem-solving task

Annamaria Savic*, Heather Henderson, Stephanie Denison, & Nadine Ghanem

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Exploring gender differences in expectations and experiences in a self-compassion exercise

Hayden Azim Wong*, Jenessa Shaw, & Allison Kelly

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Does body compassion uniquely contribute to eating disorder experiences and psychosocial functioning in women with bulimia nervosa?

Samantha Beneteau*, Giselle E. Kraus, Aleece Katan & Allison C. Kelly

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Is it trash? Children's reasoning about inconsistency in function

Kirruthikah Vadivel*, Elizabeth Lapidow, & Stephanie Denison

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“If only I hadn’t said that...”: The nature and function of counterfactual thinking in social anxiety

Jennifer Graham* & David A. Moscovitch

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