Join the Department of Psychology for a special guest talk with Dr. Nathan Hall, the man behind the hilarious Twitter account @AcademicsSay. The @AcademicsSay Experiment | @chroniclehttp://t.co/I3zDlA4vBGpic.twitter.com/UXQ95IMNW2 — Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) July 1, 2015 Professor Nathan Hall, associate professor in the Faculty of Education’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, started the […]
Learn how mental health research is benefiting men, and how Movember funds are being put to work to find innovative solutions to manage and treat mood disorders. In this interactive Cafe Scientifique-style session, you’ll learn what’s new in everything from clinical trials to e-health, and have an opportunity to speak with leading UBC scientists, clinicians […]
Title: Challenging Challenges to Challenging Challenges From channel factors to nudges, research has repeatedly shown that an effective way to encourage behavior change is to make behaviors easier. However, there are times where making things feel easy can reduce cognitive performance, undermine motivation, and lead to metacognitive mis-calibration. This talk reviews some studies from the […]
Dr. Stephen Lindsay, University of Victoria Title: Replication in Psychological Science Psychology journals have too often published Type I errors as real effects and too often greatly overestimated the sizes of real effects. As Interim Editor of Psychological Science, I am attempting to forge ahead on a path blazed by my predecessor Eric Eich: A […]
Title: Theory-Driven Approaches to Understanding and Changing Health Behaviours
Title: Family Stress & Child Development: A Focus on Mechanisms Abstract: Grounded in an ecological family systems approach to the study of developmental psychopathology, my program of research explores the mechanisms through which families transmit adaptive and maladaptive child behaviors with the goal of optimizing intervention outcomes. I have developed two interconnected lines of research focused on […]
Title: The Role of Cultural Fit in Addressing Health Disparities
Title: Why do we remember? Abstract: Memory is typically associated with remembering our past experiences. Yet humans spend only a minority of time reminiscing; the majority of our thoughts involve imagining and fantasizing about experiences we have never had. These thoughts tend to be episodic in nature—those that concern imagining a specific event unfolding in time […]
Title: Daily positive experiences and health: Biobehavioral pathways and resilience to stress
Title: The causes and consequences of analytic thinking Abstract: The ability to reason is the cornerstone of what makes us human, and is essential for scientific, technological, and cultural progress. Despite our species’ remarkable reasoning abilities, however, we also have a propensity to act without thinking carefully – often leading to bias and poor decision-making. […]