Chanel Meyers has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Whitman College, starting August 2020! She is a post-doc working with Kerry Kawakami, and received her Ph.D. at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Awesome job Chanel!!
The SP area has been busy-busy at New Orleans for both the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference on February 27-29 and the American Psychology-Law Society (APLS) conference on March 5-7! Besides Mardi Gras, alligators, drag tours, jazz bars, and beignets, we also presented a ton of research! See below for the list of students who attended […]
Three of our own Social-Personality Psychology faculty members were named as 2020 York Research Leaders, who are recognized as leaders and pioneers in their field! Raymond Mar was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research focuses on how engaging with fiction can influence social cognition, empathy, and theory […]
We welcomed Dr. Jason Deska from Ryerson University on Feb 3rd to give a talk at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of his talk was "Reading Minds from Faces: Forming and Updating Impressions of Minds". Please see his website for more details about his research program! Abstract: Perceiving others' minds is a fundamental cognitive skill that is essential for […]
We welcomed Dr. Rebecca Neel from University of Toronto on Jan 20th to start off 2020 with a talk at our weekly Social-Personality Colloquium Series (Brownbag). The name of her talk was "The stigma of perceived irrelevance: A functional approach to social judgment and stigmatization". Please see her website for more details about her research program! Abstract: Black women, older adults, obese […]
Andy Ng, SP area alumnus from 2015, has accepted a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) position at Cardiff University in Marketing and Strategy. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Sabanci University. Awesome work Andy!
Dr. Rhonda Balzarini is a post-doctoral fellow working with Amy Muise, and she has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Texas State University. Rhonda previously completed her Ph.D. at Western University. Amazing work Rhonda, you will be missed here! Check out Rhonda's work here!
Three graduate students from the Social-Personality area were awarded in our annual Psychology awards ceremony. Alexandria West (supervisor: Amy Muise) and Joshua Guilfoyle (supervisor: Ward Struthers) were awarded the Sandra Pyke award, which is given to students who demonstrate graduate student excellence. Alisha Salerno-Ferraro (supervisor: Regina Schuller) was awarded not once, but TWICE! She was […]
2019 was a busy year for our faculty members! Jennifer Steele and Amy Muise were named York's Research Leaders in 2019 (named for 2018)! See more information here: http://research.info.yorku.ca/files/2019/04/York_University-booklset-for-printer.pdf Amy Muise and Joey Cheng were recently awarded the Sage Young Scholar Award at Society of Personality and Social Psychology for exception achievements in the area of […]
The Social-Personality Area held a welcome back orientation event to start off the 2019-2020 year! Thank you so much to Esther Greenglass and the SP Social Committee Daniel and Jon for throwing a fantastic, well-decorated party full of food and prizes for us at the Kaneff Tower. Our orientation is a social event that kicks […]