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The University of Waterloo was one of the first in Canada to have its own in-house training facility for their clinical psychology PhD program. Today, the Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment celebrates 10 years of excellence in research, practice and treatment services on campus and in the regional community.

The Psychology Department is a proud participant in the UWaterloo Green Office Initiative. As of March 13, 2017, Psychology has become a Bronze Certified Green Office, and is the first UWaterloo academic department to receive this certification.

Giving people time to think about co-operating on a task can have a positive effect if they are big-picture thinkers, but if they tend to focus on their own, immediate experience, the time to think may make them less cooperative, University of Waterloo research has found.

A series of three experiments, conducted by Waterloo researchers Igor Grossmann, Justin Brienza and Ramona Bobocel, also found that wise, or big-picture, thinkers were able to sustain their co-operation with others when given time to deliberate.

Group photo of five Accelerator Centre grads

The Accelerator Centre celebrated one of its biggest graduating classes last Thursday as four startups left the nest at the local high tech business incubator.

The most recent graduates — Ecopia, InTheChat, Knowledge in Development and Trending.Info — bring the total to 55 startups that have graduated from the centre in the last decade.

Annually, an award valued at $750.00 is provided to a graduating undergraduate student enrolled in any program at the University of Waterloo. Selection are based on academic excellence, prior research experience related to child language development, and a demonstrated commitment to future postgraduate study in the area of child language development. No application is required. This fund is made possible by a donation from Knowledge in Development Inc.

This year, the award was given to two recipients.

Henri (Hansky) Santos was this year’s winner of the Warren Ober Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student in the Faculty of Arts. The award is granted to a graduate students who has made significant contributions to teaching within the Faculty of Arts.

Congratulations Henri!

panel of scientist listening to Bob McDonald speak to audience at show taping

CBC Quirks & Quarks Question RoadShow with Bob McDonald was in Waterloo last night to record their show at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas.

The authors of a recent study linking smart phone use and lazy thinking say the results don’t mean users need to throw away their cellphones, but rather people should think twice before reaching for Google.

Shy babies need to have a strong bond with their parents to avoid developing anxiety disorders in their teens, according to a new study co-authored at the University of Waterloo.

Baby Boomers have been referred to as the Me Generation, but new research indicates that people actually started to become increasingly self-centred more than 100 years ago.

In the first study of its kind covering a 150-year period, researchers looked at U.S.

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Centre celebrates 10 years of evidence-based treatment for better mental health

Psychology is now a Bronze Certified Green Office

Want to co-operate effectively? Think about the big picture

Accelerator Centre graduates one of its largest cohorts with four companies ready for takeoff

Taylor Riemersma and Richard Holmes 2016 recipients of the Child Language Research Award

Henri (Hansky) Santos wins Warren Ober Award

Dr. Myra Fernandes on CBC Quirks & Quarks Question RoadShow

Think before you reach for your phone, authors of lazy-thinking study say

Shy babies need secure parent bond to help prevent potential teen anxiety

Tracing the roots of the "Me Generation"