Following tradition, Psychfest is an annual event where second-year UBC Psychology MA students and new PhD students present their research to the entire department.
Title: Reasoning about the Supernatural: A Cross-Cultural Examination of How and When Intuitions Shape Belief Committee: Ara Norenzayan (Supervisor) Susan Birch Kristin Laurin
Join UBC Language Sciences for a talk with Data Science Institute Director and UBC Computer Science Professor Raymond Ng. In the first half of this talk, he will give a short overview of some of the research he has done on analyzing various types of text data. This would include sentiment analysis and abstractive summarization. In […]
Title: We Cope Together: Predictors and Consequences of Social Support Mobilization Committee: Anita DeLongis (Supervisor) Christiane Hoppmann Victoria Savalei Frances Chen
Online Reassurance-Seeking in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Title: Examining the Consistency of the Good Target across Contexts and Domains of Personality Committee: Anita DeLongis (Chair) Jeremy Biesanz Christiane Hoppmann
Title: Seek and Ye Shall Be Fine: Attitudes towards Political Perspective-Seekers Committee: Steven Heine (Chair) Jessica Tracy Kristin Laurin
Title: Lives in Sync: Proximal and Distal Correlates of Cortisol Synchrony in Older Couples Committee: Christiane Hoppmann (Research Supervisor) Anita DeLongis Peter Graf
Title: Loneliness and the Parasympathetic Nervous System: The Relationship between Trait Loneliness, State Loneliness, and High-Frequency Heart Rate Variability. Committee: Anita DeLongis (Chair) Frances Chen Nancy Sin
Title: Low Status, Low Expectations: How, Why and So What that Socioeconomic Status Predicts Meta-Perceptions Committee: Toni Schmader (Chair) Kristin Laurin Azim Shariff