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 […]
York U Magazine recently interviewed Ph.D. candidate Joshua Quinlan's research on absurd humour, and released the article "A load of bull: The science of claptrap". You can read the article here!
Graduate student Kashmala Qasim (supervisor: Dr. Michaela Hynie) won the John Berry award for best paper in the International/Cross-Cultural section at the meeting for the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)! Awesome work, Kashmala!
As of May 1, 2019, recent graduate Dr. Jorida Cila started a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral position at Ryerson University working with Dr. Becky Choma. Jorida's postdoctoral research examines the role of identity and intergroup threat on attitudes toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians. Jorida completed her PhD in Psychology at York University in 2018 working with Dr. Richard Lalonde. We're […]
Raymond Mar was recently awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This prestigious award is given to researchers honoured for their outstanding research record. Excellent work, Raymond!