Profiles

I am a PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Waterloo, working under the combined supervision of Dr. Jonathan Fugelsang and Dr. Derek Koehler.

I received a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology (Biology Minor) from the University of Waterloo in 2016. I am currently working on a Master's of Psychology under the co-supervision of Drs. Jennifer Stolz and Jonathan Fugelsang.

I have just begun my MA candidacy at the same school that I received my BA (Hons) at - The University of Waterloo. Under the supervision of Drs. Derek Koehler and Jonathan Fugelsang, I explore the areas of reasoning and decision making.

I received Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Psychology and Journalism from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. After several years in the corporate world, I returned to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where I received my Master of Science in Research/Experimental Psychology in 2016. In 2017, I moved to Canada to pursue my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Waterloo.

Alex is a second-year Master’s student in Cognitive Psychology. She earned her BSc in Psychology (Hons) from Saint Mary’s University (Nova Scotia) in 2017. She then worked for 4 years as a Research Assistant in Geriatric Medicine, validating frailty assessment tools and exploring the precipitates of unhealthy aging. Alex’s current research interests intersect social, cognitive, and health psychology, with particular interest in a) the underpinnings of selfish, biased, or misinformed decision-making, and b) how we can harness that information to encourage people to engage in more accurate or prosocial behaviour (e.g. climate change, politics, public health).