Mark Zanna Graduate Scholarship in Psychology - 2021 awardees
Waterloo Psychology would like to announce the 2021 awardees of the newly established Mark Zanna Graduate Scholarship: Emily Cyr and Abdo Elnakouri.
Waterloo Psychology would like to announce the 2021 awardees of the newly established Mark Zanna Graduate Scholarship: Emily Cyr and Abdo Elnakouri.
Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA), in collaboration with the Graduate Student Association (GSA), established this award to recognize exemplary faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in graduate student supervision, through being a mentor, advisor, role model, humanist and a strategist who exemplifies a high level of energy and ingenuity.
Waterloo Psychology Professor Dr. Igor Grossmann invites colleagues and students to attend the free 2021 International Wisdom Summit, hosted virtually at UWaterloo on October 11 (Thanksgiving Monday). With more than 400 registered academics and interested scholars, this is the biggest scientific event exploring wisdom and its relationship to morality and culture.
Find out more:
The site provides information about the organizing group members’ reasons for participating, the committee’s goals and planned initiatives, and links to many helpful resources across campus.
Importantly, you can also find a “Join Psychology EDI” link from which you can sign up to participate.
Organizations working to meaningfully improve diversity and inclusion in STEM may be missing a crucial consideration, new research suggests.
In a two part study, researchers first examined whether acts of gendered social exclusion are systematically associated with men’s implicit gender stereotypes. They then turned to women’s experiences, investigating whether women’s workplace outcomes are associated with being socially excluded by male colleagues.
The Department of Psychology's very own Kristie Poole is featured this week for Postdoc Appreciation week! She is currently working at the Social Development Lab, studying the socio-emotional development of children, with a focus on the origins and outcomes of temperamental shyness.
You can view Kristies profile here
Congratulations to 2021 PS Early Career Award recipients Erin Maloney and Gord Pennycook!
This highly competitive award recognizes the outstanding scientific contributions of early career researchers in the field of cognitive psychology.
Best wishes, Gord and Erin, from all of us here in Waterloo!
How can anxiety seep into the health and happiness of those suffering from it? Due to its ability to control other processes in the body, it can be very detrimental to health.
Christine Purdon, a professor at the University of Waterloo, shares her insight into the world of anxiety and depression on the Finding Genius Podcast.
A recent study by Professor of Developmental Psychology Dr. Ori Friedman was featured in Forbes magazine, where they asked the question -do people expect their wishes to be granted more often by a good agent or by an evil one?
University of Waterloo researcher champions B.S. as the 'purest form of human social nature'