Stanford professor and ‘big data’ expert Dr. Michal Kosinski will be giving a talk at 3pm on August 6th, 2015 in the Suedfeld Lounge. Title: “Predicting Personality from Digital Footprints” Abstract: Personality traits form a key driver behind people’s behaviour, cognitions, motivations, and emotions; therefore, assessing others’ personality is a basic social skill and a crucial […]
Starting at 11:00 am on August 7th, 2015 in the Suedfeld Lounge, Dr. Marek Malus of the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, will be giving a talk about his research on “dark therapy” (also known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy, or REST). Dr. Malek is a researcher at the University of Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. […]
In this brown bag talk, Dr. Kristen Hudec will be discussing ADHD symptoms from a developmental perspective.
In this talk, Dr. David Kealy will explore pathological narcissism in psychotherapy.
At this event, Dr. Paul Hewitt will give a talk concerning the matter of suicide across the adult age span and its relationship with perfectionistic behavior and other interpersonal factors.
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. Joachim Sehrbrock will be giving a talk titled, “Loss and mourning in the ‘coming out’ of gay men: Dynamics of sexual identity formation?”
Stay tuned for the topic of the talk!
This month’s brown bag event will have guest speaker, Dr. Ingrid Sochting, discuss her findings on group psychotherapy for depression in the elderly.
Please join us on May 24 for a special visiting speaker. Dr. Kenneth Craig is hosting Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, C.Psych (PhD UBC), who will present her talk ‘Integrating Attachment Theory into Pediatric Primary Care’. The full abstract is below. Bio Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, is Director […]