Events

Winner of the 2017 Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award

Why Good is More Alike than Bad: Implications for Classification, Generalization, Recognition, Social Comparison and Evaluation

Common and specific factors in CBT: Theory and research from studies in the treatment of anxiety

The common vs. specific factors debate has been around for almost 90 years. Most advocates of CBT have suggested that common factors are necessary, but not sufficient. Others have argued that the Dodo Bird is alive and well, and that all treatments that are credible or bona fide yield similar results.

This year’s speaker will be Dr. John G. Holmes from the University of Waterloo.

The Structure of Interdependence Shapes Cognition in Relationships

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University; President of Association for Psychological Science

Title: The Power of Predictions: An emerging paradigm for psychologucal research

Location:  PAS 2083

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Reception to follow in PAS 3005

This year's speaker will be Dr. David Dunning from the University of Michigan.

Title: We are all flawed intellects: So can we really judge expertise in self and others?

Graduate students in the Clinical area of the Psychology Department will present a workshop on Happy Healthy Relationships at Forest Heights Community Library on April 29th from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.  

The Psychology Department at the University of Waterloo will host the 49th Annual Ontario Psychology Undergraduate Thesis Conference on May 3.  Read more about the conference. 

Speaker: Dr. Mangesh S. Pednekar

Title:  Can we scale tobacco control intervention research with school teachers in India?

Date: Friday, June 21, 2019

Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm

Location: LHS 1621

Speaker: Dr. Michael Ashton, Brock University 

Title: Recent Research with the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure

Location: HH 1102

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Reception to follow in PAS 3005

Speaker: Dr. Ayelet Fishbach, University of Chicago

Title:  Hidden Failures: Why We Don’t Share Negative Information and What We Might Miss

Location: HH 1102

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.