IPSC Thesis Students
If you would like to be considered as a thesis student for the 2013-2014 academic year, please follow the instructions below. Please note that specialized honours students, students with experience working in the IPSC lab, and students with exceptional grades and/or experience will be given top priority.
To apply to conduct a senior thesis with Dr. Steele in the IPSC lab please email your resume, transcript (unofficial is fine), and a writing sample to Dr. Steele. Please note that, except in unusual circumstances, only students with a minimum of a B+/A average are given full consideration. Students with experience in our IPSC lab are typically given top priority.
Students from the IPSC lab have entered graduate programs in psychology, Education, and business as well as medical school and have earned prestigious OGS and SSHRC awards. The majority of our thesis students have been co-authors on poster presentations made at international conferences and on publication submissions.
If you would be interested in completing a thesis in the IPSC laboratory during the 2012-2013 academic year, and you have at least a B+ average, you might also consider joining our lab as a volunteer research assistant for the upcoming academic year or during the summer. For more information on how to gain volunteer research experience in the lab, please see the research assistant and independent study sections of this website. Paid positions are sometimes available to York students through the RAY program; please see the York student employment website for more information.
Students who conduct a thesis in the IPSC laboratory are often paired with a graduate student mentor and are expected to attend bi-weekly lab meetings. Thesis students in our lab are strongly encouraged to start into their thesis project over the summer to help ensure that they are ready to start running participants in early fall. Students with an interest in pursuing graduate studies are particularly encouraged to apply.
2013-2014
Maria Iankilevitch
Thesis:
2011-2012
Jonathan Canzio
Thesis: The development of implicit race bias: What about the minority?
Jonathan will be completing his B.Ed. in 2013.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams and Corey Lipman
Iljana Kasi
Thesis: Look at me when I’m talking to you! The effect of eye contact on cognitive depletion in intergroup interactions
Graduate Student Mentor: Yumi Sakamoto
Amanda Sharples
Thesis: You’re mean, he’s nice: Visual attention during person perception
*HONORABLE MENTION at the 2012 poster session for psychology thesis students at York University.*
Amanda will begin graduate studies in social psychology at the University of Toronto in the fall of 2012.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
2009-2010
Ratika Srivastava
Thesis: The South Asian persuasion: Implicit and explicit race attitudes and perceptions of relative status
After two years working at NIH, Ratika will start medical school in the fall of 2012.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
2008-2009
Elaine Tay
Thesis: A cross-cultural investigation of implicit racial attitudes and social status awareness: A social-cognitive-developmental perspective from Brueni Darussalam.
*WINNER of the 2009 W. B. Templeton Honours Thesis Award (for the top thesis in the Department of Psychology at York University) and a Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Certificate of Academic Excellence*
Elaine is pursuing graduate studies in clinical psychology in Australia.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
Summer Thesis
Thesis: Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes: A Function of Race or the Valence of a Statement?
Graduate Student Mentor: Leah Reisz
2007-2008
Stephanie Durante
Thesis: The relationship between implicit and explicit racial attitudes across the lifespan.
Stephanie began graduate studies in Education (OISE) in the fall of 2008.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
Jennifer Lamanna
Thesis: The Malleability of Racial Attitudes: The Effect of Interracial Interactions and Exposure to Racism on the Implicit and Explicit Expression of Prejudice
Graduate Student Mentor: Leah Reisz
Sheridy Leslie
Thesis: Does Racial Inequality Really Exist? Examining the Effects of Racism on System-Justifying Beliefs
Graduate Student Mentor: Allison Bair
2006-2007
Anna loi
Thesis: Children's implicit and explicit stereotyping in mathematics: Examining stereotype stratification in early elementary school
Anna began graduate studies in psychology in the fall of 2007.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
2005-2006
Marsha Dunkley
Thesis: The effect of social norms and gender on body type preferences.
Marsha began medical school in the fall of 2006.
Graduate Student Mentor: Allison Bair
Doriann Shapiro
Thesis: The effect of a brief role modeling intervention on children's implicit and explicit attitudes.
Doriann began graduate studies in Education (OISE) in the fall of 2007.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams
Jennifer Whittman
Thesis: The effect of stereotype stratificaiton in children's gender stereotypes and attitudes towards math.
Jennifer completed her B.Ed. in 2006-2007.
Graduate Student Mentor: Amanda Williams and Leah Reisz
2004-2005
Bryan Siekierko
Thesis: The contextual nature of personality: The effects of implicit priming on self-reported personality measures.
Bryan entered Schulich's MBA program in the fall of 2006.
Susan Staton
Thesis: Does race matter? The effects of social category priming on self-reported personality.
