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Dahwi Ahn

Dahwi Ahn

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

My program of research examines various ways in which research in cognitive psychology can be applied to benefit education, focusing on learning and memory. Specifically, I'm interested in learning strategies and effective instructional designs.

My postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo is threefold: 1) examine how characteristics of online lectures influence students' affect, mind wandering, metacognition, and learning; 2) examine strategies to maximize the benefits of the production effect (i.e., reading information aloud results in better learning and memory than does reading information silently) in educational settings; and 3) examine how to leverage current advances in artificial intelligence to benefit both research and education.

Dr. Linda Bream

Linda Bream

Psychologist
Dr. Linda Bream

BA (University of Minnesota) PhD (Waterloo)

Registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario in Clinical and School Psychology with children, adolescents, and families.

Contact information

PAS 1421 x48960 lbream@uwaterloo.ca)

Sarena Daljeet

Sarena Daljeet

MA Candidate
Sarena Daljeet

Research Interests 

Sarena is a graduate student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Waterloo. She is working under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Oakman as part of the Psychological Intervention Research Team.

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Jenna Gilchrist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

My program of research examines emotions and emotion regulation among youth. Examining emotions among youth is complicated by the presence of multiple, co-occurring processes reflecting long-term change (e.g., developmental processes) and short-term variability (e.g., day-to-day variability). To accommodate this complexity, my research aims to characterize emotions in the daily lives of youth and the implications for health and well-being by employing longitudinal designs and advanced statistical analyses.

As an AMTD postdoctoral fellow, I am examining affective adaptation during the transition to university. Through the information that emotions provide, we can better understand how students adapt during this critical juncture. At present, our understanding of students’ adaptation is represented by static, often cross-sectional approaches that do not capture the dynamic nature of this transitional period, thus limiting our understanding of how this process unfolds in daily life, what resources may facilitate adaptation, and implications for student health, well-being, and academic retention. Findings from this research can inform programs and policies to better support students' adaptation to university life and holds the potential to disrupt historical patterns of inequities evident in higher education.

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Anvita Gopal

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

As a cognitive scientist specializing in personality, stress, and health psychology, my doctoral work focused on understanding how personality traits and coping with stress impact an individual’s health and well-being. This interdisciplinary background has enabled me to bring a unique perspective to my research. My postdoctoral research focuses on examining the psychological and neural correlates of boredom. As a multifaceted state, boredom influences our internal and external behaviors and responses to the world. What happens to us when we get bored, behaviorally, and what effects does it have on our brain?

As an uncomfortable sensation of wanting, but being unable to engage in some meaningful action, boredom has detrimental effects on an individual’s physical and mental health. Examining the role played by social and environmental factors will help develop an in-depth understanding of the nature of this complex state, its triggers, and effects on the individual and society.

Liz Lapidow

Liz Lapidow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

I investigate how learners seek to figure out the world around them by taking actions and considering possibilities. My research examines how children (and adults) learn and reason about causal systems and how learners make decisions during exploration. By integrating cognitive development with ideas from philosophy and computational modeling, I aim to better understand the spontaneous (and sometimes puzzling) behavior of human learners."

Colin MacLeod

Colin MacLeod

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Colin MacLeod

BA (McGill University)

PhD (University of Washington)

Contact information

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada

Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association

Fellow, American Psychological Association (Divisions 1 and 3)

Megan McCarthy

Megan McCarthy

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Megan McCarthy

BA (Brock University)
MA (Wilfrid Laurier)
PhD (University of Waterloo)

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Effie Pereira

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

My research program studies the moment-to-moment ebbs and flows and fluctuations in cognitive processes over time to better understand the temporal dynamics of human cognition. By bridging together behavioural, psychophysiological, computational, and neuroimaging methods, I have studied temporal dynamics within attentional processes to uncover aspects of internal attention, social attention, and embedded attention. Over the years, my work has revealed that seemingly random variations in attentional patterns over time are in fact quite predictable and highly specific to each individual, advancing our fundamental understanding of the intrinsic and internal regularities that govern individual behaviour.

Anju Philip

Anju Philip

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Research Interests

My research focuses on fields of Organizational Behaviour and Leadership, specifically topics of work-life balance, social networks, and racialized employees. My current research focuses on understanding the work-life experiences of professionally employed racialized women, with a present focus on South Asian women.

I have over a decade of academic and industrial work experience. A steadfast advocate of lifelong learning, my primary career goal is to be an effective educator – to teach future professionals to ask questions, find solutions and be kind and compassionate individuals that not only thrive in the workforce but make it a better place to be! I am interested in examining the effect of instructor kindness and care in relation to overall course learning and satisfaction. 

Teaching Interests

I am cross appointed to the Psychology Department and the Arts and Business Program (ARBUS). I currently teach Practical Business Skills (ARBUS 300) for the Arts and Business program. My overall teaching experience covers a variety of Organizational Behaviour and Business courses including Human Resource Management, Foundations of Leadership, International Business, Business Communications, Business Report Writing and Personal Computer Systems in Business.

In Winter 2023 I will be teaching Strategy and Program Integration (ARBUS 400), the capstone course in the Arts and Business Program.

Selected Publications

Moore, E. & Philip, A. (2022). Black Lives Matter: True commitment or tokenism? In King, E. B., Roberson, Q. M., & Hebl, M. R. (Eds.), Research on Social Issues in Management (V.3): The Future of Scholarship on Diversity & Inclusion in Organizations (pp.137 - 177). Information Age Publishing.

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Marjory Phillips

Director, Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment

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BA (Western); PhD (Waterloo)

Registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario in Clinical, Counselling and Rehabilitation with Children, Adolescents and Families

Contact Information

Joshua Quinlan

Joshua Quinlan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

I have a variety of research interests, many of which relate to media and individual differences in some way. My dissertation research, for example, examined the role of videogames in need satisfaction and how different genres of games might satisfy these needs differently for different people. I am passionate about research methods, quantitative methods, and open science, and am eager to work towards a more robust and replicable science. My postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo will investigate individual differences in susceptibility to misinformation. Specifically, I’m interested in how need dissatisfaction and uncertainty might make us more susceptible to misinformation, across a variety of contexts.

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Kate Ratliff

Associate Professor
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Associate Professor (Beginning Summer 2025)

B.S., Belmont University; PhD, University of Virginia

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Maksim Rudnev

Research Associate

Research Interests

I am a quantitative social scientist interested in human values and social perception, their cultural variability, and data science informed by psychometrics. I have an MA in Psychology, a PhD in Sociology, and substantial training in statistics and psychometrics. I have lived and worked in three countries and have taught methods at various levels. I am looking into the determinants of values and worldviews across individuals in various countries and cultures. I believe this mystery can be unravelled through various scientific methods, which I take very seriously. This belief shapes my dual-focused research interest: understanding the substance of cultural (in)variability and the methods intrinsically linked to cross-cultural inference.

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Joanne Wood

Distinguished Professor Emerita

BA (Wisconsin), MA, PhD (California, Los Angeles)

Contact information

Recipient, 2017, University Professor (a title bestowed by the university to recognize “exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence,” currently held by 16 faculty members)