David Manuel
Research Area
Education
BA (Honours), University of British Columbia, 2024
BFA, Simon Fraser University, 2013
About
David Manuel is a graduate student under the supervision of E. David Klonsky. His research is focused on better understanding and preventing suicide. His developing secondary research interest is in metascientific work toward improving inferential rigour in the social and behavioural sciences.
Alongside his primary research in psychology, David also writes about ideas related to the intersection of psychology and technology (especially AI), progress studies, and the political economy of ideas.
Research
Research interests include understanding suicide and how to prevent it, connectedness to being alive as a multidimensional construct, meaning-in-life as a protective factor, and metascience.
Publications
Talks:
Manuel, D. E. & Klonsky, E. D. (2024) Meaning-in-life may matter for suicide risk more than social connectedness: A psychometrically informed investigation. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Suicide Research Symposium, Virtual Conference.
Manuel, D. E. (2023) A psychometric comparison of the tripartite meaning model and alternative structures of meaning-in-life. Presented at the 25th Annual UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C.
Posters:
Manuel, D. E. & Klonsky, E. D. (2023) Experiencing significance is the part of meaning-in-life that most protects against suicide risk: A psychometrically informed examination. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.
Oloomi, S., Fan, O., Manuel, D., Rnic, K., & LeMoult, J. (2023) Assessing A Novel and Inclusive Canadian Demographic Questionnaire for Use in Clinical Research. Presented by Oloomi S. at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Seattle, Washington.
Manuel, D. E. & Klonsky, E. D. (2023) Non-social connectedness is more strongly associated with suicidal desire than social connectedness: Implications for testing suicide theory. Presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Suicide Research Symposium, Virtual Conference.
Manuel, D. (2022) Towards a more comprehensive understanding and measurement of connectedness. Presented at the 24th Annual UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C. Awarded best poster.
Manuel, D. & Klonsky, E. D. (2022) Emotional experience in depression and anxiety: revisiting and (slightly) revising the classic tripartite model. Accepted to be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Anxiety & Depression Association of America, Denver, Colorado. Did not present due to COVID-19.
Manuel, D. & Klonsky, E. D. (2021) Towards a more detailed understanding of emotional experience in nonsuicidal self-injury. Presented to the Suicide and Self-injury Special-Interest Group at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual Conference.
Awards
- ABCT Suicide & Self-Injury Special-Interest Group Student Award (2024)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award (2024)
- Dr. William Arthur Paskins Memorial Fellowship (2024)
- Morris Belkin Prize, Best Psychology Honours Thesis (2023)
- UBC Psychology Quinn Research Award (2023)
- UBC Arts Undergraduate Society x Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award, Empirical Stream, 1st place (2023)
- UBC Psychology Quinn Research Award (2022)
- UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, Best Poster(2022)
- UBC Arts Undergraduate Society x Undergraduate Research Opportunities Award, Empirical Stream, 3rd place (2022)