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Summary of Research Interests of Faculty
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Linda Lysynchuk, Ph.D. (Western)
Room: A221; Extension: 4244; Email: llysynchuk@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Psychology of reading. Early intervention. Cognitive strategies. Second-language learning.
PROFESSORS
Michael A. Persinger, Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Coordinator of Behavioural Neuroscience Program. Core Faculty: Biomolecular Sciences Program.
Rooms: S126/A227; Extensions: 4826/4824/4252; FAX: 671-3844
Email: mpersinger@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Discovery and the pursuit of infinite possibilities. Treatment of the behavioral and neuronal changes subsequent to mild closed head injuries in rats and humans; treatment and understanding of mechanisms involved with epilepsy (temporal lobe; partial complex) in rats and humans; the electromagnetic correlates of consciousness and experience; experimental simulation of mystical and religious experiences within the laboratory; treatment of depression and pain by physiologically-patterned transcerebral magnetic fields; identifying the "Rosetta Stone" for the equivalence of molecular structure with the temporal sequence of magnetic fields; the impact of modern neuroscience upon legal, philosophical, and psychological principles in modern society; integration of the central themes and problems of the social and physical sciences.
Robert Sinclair, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University)
Room: A361; Extension: 4250; Email: rsinclair@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Real-world judgments, affective states, motivation, and cognitive processes, cognitive approaches to person perception, social justice, methodology, program evaluation, cognition, motivation, and individual differences in survey/ questionnaire responses, and applications of social cognition to organizational behavior and marketing.
Paul M. Valliant, Ph.D. (Windsor)
Room: A 229; Extension: 4249; Email: pvalliant@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Domestic violence. Psychopathic and sex offender personality. Cognitive-behavioural therapy and its treatment of sex offenders. Moral reasoning in offender populations. Cognitive styles utilized by Caucasian and Aboriginal juvenile offenders. Personality of dangerous criminal offenders. Attitudes toward the mentally ill. Stress in the work setting. Psycho-development process of aging. Advent of sport in physically disabled. Sport psychology and personality development.
C.M. Whissell, Ph.D. (Purdue)
Room: A230; Extension: 4251; Email: cwhissell@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Emotion in language. Linguistics. Dictionary of emotion. Emotional phonetics. Language development; Psychology of religion; Bible studies.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Michael H. Emond, Ph.D. (McMaster)
Room: A238; Extension: 4246; Email: memond@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Interaction of stress and eating. Conditioned taste preferences. Evolutionary psychology. Physiological psychology.
Elizabeth Levin, Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Room: A240; Extension: 4242; Email: elevin@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Issues in psychological assessment including the Canadian context and learning disabilities. Stress and bullying in children. Parenting styles and children’s conceptions of parenting. Social cognitive development and developmental psychopathology. School-based interventions.
Luc Rousseau, Ph.D. (Laval)
Room: A231; Extension: 4253; Email : lrousseau@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Time perception. Social cognition. Video games and cognition. “Déjà-vu” phenomenon.
Annie Roy-Charland, Ph.D. (Université de Moncton)
Room: A237; Extension: 4247; Email: aroycharland@laurentian.ca
Research areas: Eye movement research. Missing-letter effect and cognitive processes involved reading. Shared book reading between parents and children. Selective attention and implicit cognitions in addiction.
Line Tremblay, Ph.D. (Montreal), C.Psych.
Room: A227A; Extension: 4245; Email: ltremblay@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Childhood and adolescence. Developmental psychopathology. Puberty. Stress. Obesity. Body image disturbance and eating disorders.
Run-Min Zhou, Dr.Psy. (U. de Provence, Aix-Marseilles)
Room: A232; Extension: 4276; Email: rzhou@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Social perception. Social cognition. Socio-cognitive development.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Chantal Arpin-Cribbie, Ph.D. (York University)
Georgian College Campus, Barrie. Email: carpincribbie@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: An important aspect of my current research focuses on the role of perfectionism in the overall health and well-being of individuals, with particular attention to related cognitive components. I am also interested in investigating novel intervention approaches in this area. More broadly, my research focus is in clinical intervention and positive psychology, including some of the methodological considerations in these research areas.
Joël Dickinson, Ph.D. (University of New Brunswick)
Room: A236; Extension: 4297; Email: jdickinson@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Cognitive psychology. Mental action words and their relation to behavioural output. Impact of sexuality schema on reading speed.
Reeshma Haji, Ph.D. (York University)
Georgian College Campus, Barrie. Email: rhaji@laurentian
Research Interests: The main focus of my current research is methods of decreasing religious prejudice. Other research interests include: intergroup relations, dimensions of religiosity, intergroup intimate relationships, relationship satisfaction, religious identity, cultural identity, rumination, and thought suppression.
Glenn Legault, Ph.D. (Queen’s at Kingston)
Room: A218; Extension: 4009; Email: glegault@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Functions served by sleep in mammalian brain. Learning during sleep. Sleep disorders. Impact of chronic sleep deprivation on activities of daily living. LC/ESI mass spectrometry of neurocompounds. Paramedicine and prehospital patient care.
Mélanie Perron, Ph.D. (Ottawa)
Room: A241; Extension: 4010; Email: mperron@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Development of understanding of emotions during infancy. Implications of emotional competence, notably understanding emotions in children’s social and academic adaptation.
Adèle (Lafrance) Robinson, Ph.D. (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto)
Room: A239; Extension: 4205; Email: acrobinson@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Eating disorder treatment (children, adolescents, families); emotional regulation and emotion-focused therapy; bilingual literacy development.
Josée Turcotte, Ph.D. (Laval)
Room: A216; Extension: 4238; Email: jturcotte@laurentian.ca
Research Areas : Learning and memory. Cognitive aging. Neuropsychology. Psychometric. Health. Meditation. Stress. Breastfeeding. Celiac disease. Cognitive development in children.
Shelley Watson, Ph.D. (University of Alberta)
Room: A233; Extension: 4223; Email: swatson@laurentian.ca
Research Areas: Developmental/intellectual disability. Sexuality issues. Genetic diagnosis.
Family adaptation to disability. Qualitative research methods. Human rights and disability. Experience of the diagnostic process.
SUPPORT STAFF
Secretary:
Claudette Larcher
Room: A222; Extension: 4240; Email: clarcher@laurentian.ca
Technician:
Stan Koren
Room: A225; Extension: 4257; Email skoren@laurentian.ca
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