{"id":155,"date":"2021-07-04T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/health\/research\/spdev\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:04:47","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/health\/research\/sp\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All faculty are accepting graduate students for the coming year, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maxwell Barranti <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The process and accuracy of personality judgements and self-knowledge. The intra- and interpersonal consequences of (in)accurate personality impressions. Pedagogical tools for teaching personality psychology, statistics, and research methods. 
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Joey T. Cheng <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of British Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The dynamics of competition and cooperation, particularly the psychological and biological mechanisms that operate when we compete with one another, and how we manage to successfully coordinate and orchestrate collective actions. Methodological emphasis is placed on studying social phenomena \u201cin the wild\u201d among naturalistic teams, communities, and organizations (e.g., sports teams, marching bands, military squads)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gord Flett<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The roles of trait perfectionism and perfectionistic self-presentation in personal adjustment, psychosocial functioning, and health problems. The associations among personality, coping, stress, and distress in adolescents, middle-aged individuals, and the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kerry Kawakami <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The automatic activation of associations related to social categories including stereotypes, prejudice, automatic behaviors, approach avoidance tendencies, and emotions. The implication of these associations for responding to target category members and the self. Strategies to reduce these activations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raymond A. Mar <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: Projection of the self into fictional narratives. Individual differences in, and the core processes of, empathy and social understanding. Imagination. The effects of various forms of media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Muise <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Guelph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The application of social psychological theories of close relationships to learn how couples can have more satisfying and fulfilling partnerships over time. Using dyadic and longitudinal research methods to understand the processes in romantic relationships, such as motivation, beliefs, and perceptions, that influence couples\u2019 sexual desire and satisfaction in daily life and over time as relationships grow and develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Steele <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Harvard University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination from the target\u2019s perspective. How people combat the effects of negative self-relevant stereotypes in academic settings. How stereotypes are activated and inhibited in impression formation. The development of gender\/ racial stereotypes and beliefs in children, examined from a social cognitive perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ward Struthers <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Manitoba<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: Social cognition or how people make sense of themselves and other people. Social and organizational psychology, including attributions, social motivation, forgiveness, coworker interactions, and decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cindel White <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of British Columbia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: The cultural, cognitive, and evolutionary foundations of diverse religious beliefs; the impact of religion on moral values, causal reasoning, attributions, prosocial behaviour, conflict, and perceptions of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul Kohn<\/strong><\/strong> | Contact: E-Mail<\/a> | (416) 736 2100 x66157<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Ross<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Lalonde<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni Sasaki<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irwin Silverman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick Goranson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vello Sermat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian McGregor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Wiesenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug McCann<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regina Schuller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norm Endler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathy Koeniu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Reid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Ziegler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Holmes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emily Cross<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

University of Auckland<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests: Intimate Relationships, Sexism, Gender, Aggression, Power, Dyadic Functioning. More specifically, I am interested in the intersection between sexist attitudes in intimate relationships, and investigating the ways both overt and covert gender-based attitudes influence intimate relationships. I integrate relationship science theories and methods with intergroup perspectives to examine how sexist attitudes impact relationship dynamics in complex, and at times oppositional, ways. I am also interested in power and aggression in intimate relationships, as well as how relationship transitions (forming new relationships, breaking up) can impact people\u2019s health and wellbeing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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