Derek Besner is the recipient of the 2021 Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science. Derek will receive the award, and be invited to give a plenary lecture, at the CSBBCS Annual Meeting in June 2021.
The Department of Psychology at University of Waterloo was recently ranked #4 in Canada by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
Dr. Christine Purdon answers questions about why some people aren't following Public Health guidelines regarding COVID-19 in today's Daily Bulletin.
Dr. Wendi Adair's work on the challenges of building work relationships via zoom and other platforms is featured in The Conversation.
Dr. Igor Grossman talks about Canada's COVID Alert system and how it can be made more effective in the fight against COVID-19.
Dr. James Danckert's new book, Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom, is featured in today's Daily Bulletin. Kitchener Public Library is hosting a virtual book launch on December 1 where James and his co-author John Eastwood, will discuss the potentially positive effects of boredom. You can register for the book launch on the KPL website.
The Department of Psychology moved up Times Higher Education (THE) Reputation Rankings. Psychology is currently ranked 78 in the world out of the approximately 1,000 universities ranked in the survey. Psychology becomes the first department in the Faculty of Arts at UW to crack the top 100 in their field. You can read more about the rankings and how UW fared on the University's website.
Congratulations to Gordon Pennycook, who graduated with a PhD in Psychology from University of Waterloo in 2016 and who was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars. Dr. Pennycook who is an expert on reasoning and decision making, is Assistant Professor at University of Regina.
If you find yourself wanting to strangle people in the grocery store lately you are not alone! Dr. Christine Purdon was interviewed by the Toronto Sun recently about how dealing with the stress of COVID can cause an increase in anger and what we can do to deal with those feelings.
Dr. Dillon Browne talks to the Daily Bulletin about what "back-to-school" looks like for kids this fall.