UBC Psychology Imagine Day Orientation Presentation
Join us for a series of UBC Psychology information sessions and get connected to the psychology community. During these sessions, you will learn more about curricular and extracurricular opportunities available to psychology students, the Psychology Department’s BSc Program, the Psychology Department’s Honours Program, and upcoming events for psychology students. We will begin with a general […]
Catherine Rawn awarded 2014 Knox Master Teacher Award
Please join us in congratulating Catherine Rawn, recipient of the 2014 Robert E. Knox Master Teacher Award from the Department of Psychology. Catherine, a Senior Instructor in our Learning Enhancement area, received this award for her commitment to teaching excellence. This award recognizes our dedicated professors with significant career achievements in teaching. We are proud […]
UBC Psychology MA student Jennifer Lay is a Vanier Scholar
Congratulations to UBC Psychology MA student Jennifer Lay, recipient of a 2014 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship! Jennifer is one of thirty-two UBC doctoral students awarded $50,000 a year for three years. This award allows Jennifer to continue her research in ‘Overcoming barriers to social engagement: Exploring associations between self-esteem, social self-efficacy, everyday helping behaviour, and […]
New research on eye-tracking devices sheds light on the implications of wearable technologies
Wearers of smart glasses such as Google Glass can easily forget they’re recording what they see and despite the best of intentions, can violate other people’s privacy. That’s the suggestion of new research out of the Brain and Attention Lab in the University of British Columbia’s Dept. of Psychology. For a study just published in the […]
Professor Emeritus Stanley Coren featured in the UBC Annual Report
The Audience Sits Up, Rolls Over Popular author, lecturer, blogger, broadcast celebrity, academic researcher and canine expert; Professor Emeritus Stanley Coren received the Maxwell Medal of Excellence from the Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA). The author of some 400 research papers and articles on a wide range of psychological areas and 19 books for […]
Q and A with Luke Clark, leading gambling psychologist
Dr. Luke Clark, a global expert in the field of gambling research, joins the Department of Psychology as the inaugural director of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC. Clark, who led the UK’s largest study of pathological gamblers, will lead the academic and operational activities of the Centre beginning July 1, 2014. We sit […]
UBC Psychology research a feature story in UBC's 2013/14 Annual Report
On the UBC Vancouver campus, the walls do ‘speak’ and apparently, some far more persuasively than others. To assist the UBC Campus Sustainability Sort it Out program and to underline the campus as a ‘living lab’, the UBC Department of Psychology monitored the recycling outcomes at two popular eating areas in two very differently designed […]
Jason Snyder receives 2014 MSFHR Scholar Award
Join us in congratulating Assistant Prof. Jason Snyder on his recent Scholar award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. The award goes towards his project: functions for new neurons in remembering stressful experiences and repairing the adult brain. He is among thirty-two exceptional BC health researchers named recipients of Scholar awards through MSFHR’s […]
Canada’s Most Versatile Psychologist: Dr. Peter Suedfeld
At the 75th Annual CPA Convention in Vancouver, Dr. John Connors gave talk entitled, Canada’s Most Versatile Psychologist: Dr. Peter Suedfeld, where he highlighted Dr. Suedfeld’s background, history and groundbreaking research in the field of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST). Dr. Peter Suedfeld, professor emeritus in the department of psychology at UBC, has researched how human […]
UBC Psychology welcomes new Department Head
Dr. Geoffrey Hall begins his five-year term as Department Head on July 1. Hall is the Director of the Language Development Centre and a part of the Early Development Research Group, a group of five research centers interested in the development of language, learning, and social understanding in children. He succeeds Dr. Alan Kingstone, who […]