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Part of the $15 million study, which will be led by MUSC Hollings Cancer Center over the next five years, will look into the impact of government policy on vaporized nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes.          

Do government policies geared toward reducing smoking tobacco really work?

Katelyn Rowe, an honours student in Psychology (supervised by Dr. Katherine White) will be awarded the Alumni Gold Medal at the spring Convocation.  This is the award for the top graduating student in all of Arts.

Katlyn also will receive the Psychology Department's Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement.

Congratulations Katelyn!!!

Psychology’s own Paul Seli has been awarded this year’s Governor General’s Gold Medal!  This award recognizes the top Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo.  Paul, under the supervision of Dr.

Dr. David Moscovitch has received the Scientist-Practitioner Early Career Award for 2016.  The Scientist-Practitioner Early Career award recognizes CPA Clinical Section members who exemplify the integration of the two core domains of clinical psychology: (1) clinical practice and training and (2) psychological science and research.

Research links heart rate fluctuations and wise judgement

You may have grey hair and your report cards from school showed straight As, but it's your heart that can tell whether you are wise.

I’m not a scientist. And chances are, neither are you.
That likely means we both find ourselves deferring to the opinion of others, of experts who know more about complex matters — like health or nuclear safety or vaccinations or climate change — than we do.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that drawing pictures of information that needs to be remembered is a strong and reliable strategy to enhance memory.

Writers, poets, and philosophers have continually searched for le mot juste, the right word, to describe human suffering. Of course there is dukkha, the Buddhist theory that pain arises out of attachment and impermanence; weltschmerz, the German term for ennui provoked by the clashing of the real world with an ideal one.