Recent Honours Thesis

Recent honours thesis supervised by Psychology faculty members:

Adair, Wendi

  • The Association Between Cultural Values Orientations and Workplace Deviance (2024)

  • Camera-On Communication: Strengthening virtual team cohesion through nonverbal cues. (2023)

  • The impact of racial micro aggressions on interpersonal trust in the workplace (2022)

Anderson, Britt

  • Cash or Cancer? Effect of Visual Presentation and Mediation of Contextual Valence on Performance at Solving Conditional Probabilities (2023)
  • Dempster-Shafer Interval Subjective Assessments Reflect More Than Just Epistemic Uncertainty (2021)
  • Local and Global Updating of Mental Models (2021)
  • Probability matching and mismatching in hide and seek: Consequences for notions of similiarity in mental models (2020)

Beck, James

  • The  influence of confidence on the use of systematic data combination methods during personnel selection (2017)
  • Take a closer look at creativity under time pressure: time available and goal level iterate to predict creative behaviour (2015)
  • A meta-analysis of recovery experiences (2015)

Bergsieker, Hilary

  • (Dis)Comfort Disclosing and Discussing Experiences of Racism Across Racial Lines (2025)
  • Can I (Still) Trust You? Betrayal Type and Reparative Motives Matter in Romantic Relationships (2025)
  • Identity-Based Variation in How Organizational Cues Impact Expected Inclusion (2023)

Bobocel, Ramona

  • Do just actions beget just evaluations for supervisors with intersectional identities (2017)
  • Perceived unfairness of negative workplace events: the role of explanations and construal level (2015)
  • In search for true forgiveness in workplace transgressions: the moderating effect of forgiveness motives (2014)

Brown, Doug

  • The effects of leadership identity on thinking styles (2017)
  • Expressing your emotions: how gender stereotypes of emotional variability affect female leaders (2017)
  • Third party justice: relationships, emotions, and retaliation (2016)

Burris, Chris (St. Jerome's)

  • Does facial width-to-height ratio differentiate among types of male offenders? (2016)
  • Oughts and alts: an investigation of avatar creation norms and the self (2016)
  • Coping with the SCoPE: an examination of embodiment as an existential antecedent of substance uUse (2016)

Colombatto, Clara

  • The geography of social perception: How others’ intentions influence our perception of space (2024)

  • Navigating attention: Mapping the spatial distribution of social attention using ecologically valid cues (2024)

  • The role of eye gaze and head direction in first impressions of trustworthiness and attractiveness (2025)

Danckert, James

  • Willingness to exert cognitive and physical effort in individuals prone to boredom (2017)
  • Goal directed behaviour in boredom proneness (2017)

  • Using a dual task paradigm to explore mechanisms of mental model building and updating (2016)

Denison, Stephanie

  • Children’s Understanding of How Knowledge Changes Over Time

  • How Parent-Child Interactions on an Initial Task Affect Subsequent Independent Child Behaviour

  • The Development of the Representativeness Heuristic 

Drysdale, Maureen (St. Jerome's)

  • The impact of giftedness on the university experience (2017)
  • Sense of belonging, peer support and well-being in international studies (2016)
  • The effects of neurofeedback training on the intellectual functioning of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, and Asperger's Syndrome (2012)

Eibach, Richard

  • What would it take for you to read me? Applying the reactive approach motivation model to the narrative experience (2017)
  • Turning Over a New (Maple) Leaf: Predicting Temporal Distancing and Emotional Responses to Historical Injustices in Canada (2017)
  • Romantic rejection and masculinity threat: understanding the connection between rejection and masculine overcompensation (2016)

Fernandes, Myra

  • How does cardiovascular health impact test performance? The role of aging (2024)

  • Best strategies to learn a second language (2022)

  • The importance of performing versus observing meaningful actions on the enactment benefit to memory (2020)

Fong, Geoffrey

  • The relationship between perceived risk and intentions to quit among smoking youth
  • Cigarette smoking on TV: effects on explicit and implicit smoking identification, attitudes, and intentions
  • The impact of prepaid monetary incentives on response rates in a telephone based survey: an analysis of the International Tobacco Control (ITC) four country survey (2009)

Friedman, Ori

  • To own, and not to own, that is the dilemma: The dual character nature of ownership

  • When does incompetence undermine consent?

  • Does statement repetition affect judgments of possibility

Fugelsang, Jonathan

  • The role of intuitive and analytic thinking on the illusion of truth (2017)
  • Promoting analogical reasoning with mental construal (2017)
  • Enhanced expressive writing as a method of alleviating math anxiety (2017)

Grossmann, Igor

  • Training self-distancing strategies to promote wise reasoning (2017)
  • The role of self-distancing for emotional experiences depends on trust (2017)
  • Emotional complexity and wellbeing cross-culturally (2017)

Henderson, Heather

  • Getting to Know You: Dyadic Similarity and Social Avoidance in Children. (2022)

  • Children’s use of affiliative language with an unfamiliar peer: Effects of gender and task demands (2024)

  • The joint influence of child temperament and parenting behaviour during a parent-child problem-solving task (2025)

Hillebrandt, Annika

  • The Association Between Cultural Values Orientations and Workplace Deviance

  • The Forgotten Perpetrators: How Employee Affective Commitment and Work Engagement are Affected by Organizational Transgressions

Itier, Roxane

  • Effects of emotional prosodic priming on the neural processing of facial expressions (2025)

  • Going beyond the N170: Using mass univariate analyses to examine how face size and fixation location modulates face processing  (2021)

  • Watch where you are looking! Fixation location influences the early processing of fearful and happy expressions – a mass univariate analysis (2020)

Kelly, Allison

  • Denial, acceptance, challenge or "flexibility-encouragement:" what is the best response to fat talk? (2017)
  • Investigating the moderating role of emotional closeness to social comparison targets on response to self-help strategies for body image (2016)
  • The Relationship between intervention attitudes and ultimate intervention outcomes (2016)

Koehler, Derek

  • Inducing analytic thought: a dual process examination (2017)
  • Are intuitive tasks easy? the impact of cognitive load on strategy implementation in a binary choice task (2017)
  • Evaluating the Effect of Checklists on Rationality. (2016)

McAuley, Tara

  • Emotional reactivity as a moderator of the effect of mood on response inhibition (2017)
  • The effect of ADHD traits on binge-watching behaviour (2017)
  • The effect of sibship on executive functioning (2015)

McGregor, Ian

  • How Trait BIS and BAS Affect Self-Control (2017)
  • The Effect of Agreeableness on Relationship Conflict and Intervention (2017)

Moscovitch, David

  • Protection against social pain: Using positive memory recall to counter the effects of blundering and exclusion
  • Effects of social anxiety and self-schemas on the nature, accessibility, and appraisals of positive versus negative social autobiographical memories

  • Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts and Social Anxiety: Content and Attributions

  • Rewriting the Anxious Mind: Efficacy of Memory-based Interventions in Social Anxiety Disorder

Nilsen, Elizabeth

  • The social consequences of errors in communicative perspective taking (2016)
  • The paralinguistic behaviours of mothers in social interaction for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (2013)
  • Executive functioning, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) symptoms, and social interactions (2011)

Oakman, Jonathan

  • Distinguishing inferential confusion from threat appraisals in obsessive-compulsive cognition (2017)
  • The use of emotion-regulation strategies after a negative event (2017)
  • Specification-curve analysis: an application and evaluation (2017)

O'Neill, Daniela

  • The effects of electronic toys on parent-child talk (2012)
  • Relations between narrative ability and pattern abstraction in preschoolers. (2011)

Purdon, Christine

  • The role of self-mistrust and sensitive self-views in OCD symptom severity in a clinical sample (2017)
  • Guilt and the spectrum of self-other compassion (2017)
  • Verbalization during compulsions in OCD (2014)

Rehman, Uzma

  • Understanding barriers to sexual communication (2017)
  • The association between executive functioning skills and interpersonal behaviour in older married couples: An observational study (2015)
  • Life stress and sexual outcomes (2015)

Rempel, John (St. Jerome's)

  • Diminishing the hate motive without harming the hated target (2017)
  • Love your enemies: the effect of positive behaviour on experiences of hate and dislike (2012)
  • Self-justification: justifying a conceptual framework (2012)

Risko, Evan

  • Learning styles: what people prefer versus what helps them learn(2017)
  • What tricks does the Internet play on memory and judgments of learning? (2017)
  • Determinants of confidence in information retrieved from an external source (2016)

Rye, B.J. (St. Jerome's)

  • The relation between sexual identity and psychological well-being: a gendered analysis (2017)
  • Striving for perfection from the outside in: a proposed relationship between appearance investment, identity, and acceptance of cosmetic enhancements (2015)
  • Attitudes toward transgenderism (2014)

Serafini, Toni (St. Jerome's)

  • Striving for perfection from the outside in: a proposed relationship between appearance investment, identity, and acceptance of cosmetic enhancements (2015)
  •  Exploring the construct erotophobia-erotophilia: trait or attitude? (2011)
  • Bisexuality as a sexual moratorium: exploring the relationship between ego identity and sexual identity (2009)

Smilek, Dan

  • The next-in-line effect: extending prior research into new environments (2017)
  • Does increasing opportunities to media multitask lead to more media multitasking? (2017)
  • An investigation of flow in mind wandering (2016)

White, Katherine

  • Age-based Prediction in Language Processing (2024)

  • How Children Talk to Others: Effects of Linguistic and Cultural Affiliation (2024)

  • Why Did They Say That? Tolerance for Under-Informative Statements in Native vs. Non-Native Speech (2024)