Our very own Amy Muise was recently awarded the prestigious York Research Chair for her research in the maintenance of sexual desire and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships. Amazing work, Amy!
We welcomed Dr. Adam Waytz on March 4th for our final invited research talk of the year at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of his talk was "Humans and Machines". Please see his website for more details about his research! Abstract: Everyday life is increasingly human-less, with robotic technology replacing human jobs and performing tasks previously reserved […]
Fresh from Reading Week, on February 25th, 2019 we welcomed Dr. Yoel Inbar from the University of Toronto to give a fascinating talk at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of his talk was "Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Food and Other Controversial Scientific Technologies". Please see his website for more details about the research conducted in his […]
York U was well represented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in the (somewhat cold, fairly donut-y) city of Portland, Oregon from February 7-9, 2019.See below for our faculty, post-doc, and graduate student presentations! Amy Muise - Talk presented at the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award Address […]
On Dec. 5th, 2018, Professor Raymond Mar was awarded with the 2017-2018 Faculty of Health Research Award, Established Career for his program of research on the positive influences of narrative fiction on social cognition. Congratulations to Professor Raymond Mar!