Psychology Graduate Students
2007-2008
Jennifer Barrett (graduated June 2010): jz_barrett@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Youth’s perceptions of cyber-bullying
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Levin
Funding: - Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2008-2009
- Graduate Fellowship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Laurentian
University, 2008-2009
Jennifer Bernier (graduated October 2010): js_bernier@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Relationships among attention, working memory and planning in an
on-clinical sample of children
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Levin
Jennifer Burgess (graduated June 2010): jl_burgess@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The effects of stress on consumption of liquids varying in palatability and caloric density by Wistar rats
Advisor: Dr. Michael Emond
Saoirse Delay (graduated June 2009):
Thesis Title: Frontal and temporal lobe development in healthy children and adolescence
Advisor: Dr. Glenn Legault
Jennifer Falcioni (graduated October 2010): jx_falcioni@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The progress of children diagnosed with autistic disorder who received intensive behavioural intervention
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Levin
Mark Fraser (graduated October 2010): mx_fraser@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Predicting behavioral outcomes of Northeastern Ontario children-in-care using the Assessment and Action Record (AAR-C2)
Advisor: Dr. Rashmi Garg
Alex-Andrée Madore (graduated October 2010): ax_madore@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Meanings parents ascribe to caring for their child with nonverbal learning disability
Advisor: Dr. Rashmi Garg
Julianna McConnell (graduated October 2010): jx_mcconnell@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Risk factors among sexually assaultive, assaultive, and
non-assaultive young offenders.
Advisor: Dr. Paul Valliant
Joshua Negusanti: jm_negusanti@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Emotional-social intelligence: A comparison of incarcerated sex offenders and non-sexual criminals
Advisor: Dr. Paul Valliant
Stephanie Ouellette: sa_ouellette@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: A retrospective descriptive study of child and adolescent psychiatric and multidisciplinary teleconsultations
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Levin
Awards: Won the prize for BEST POSTER during 2011 Research Awareness Week
Mandy Scott: mx_scott@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Evolving quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) profiles throughout remote viewing training in local and non-local participants
Advisor: Dr. Michael Persinger
Leslie Villeneuve (graduated June 2009)
Thesis Title: Reading disabilities and extended test time: the facts that predict who might benefit
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Levin
2008-2009
Vanessa Bassett: va_bassett@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Predictions of academic success of French Immersion children
Advisor: Dr. Linda Lysynchuk
Carolyn Bleach: cx_bleach@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Jugement de l'authenticité du sourire: Étude des processus perceptuels et des connaissances explicites qui sous-tendent l'appréciation des microexpressions faciales
Advisors: Dr. Mélanie Perron
Funding: - Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS), 2008
- Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada , 2009-10
Keith Brewster (graduated October 2010): kx_brewster@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The effects of stress on spatial skill acquisition and performance in rats selectively bred for the tendency to stress eat or not eat
Advisor: Dr. Michael Emond
Jamie-Lyn Flesch (graduated October 2010): jl_flesch@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Perspective-taking in attributions and conflict resolution in intimate relationships: The influence of gender and relationship expereince.
Advisor: Dr. Run-Min Zhou
Funding: - Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2008-2009
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2009-2010
David Gass: dx_gass@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Understanding circumscribed interests in individuals with autism-spectrum disorders and how they relate to families and school
Advisor: Dr. Shelley Watson
Funding: - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2008-2009
Kelly Hanlon: kx_hanlon@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The effects of stress and mild depressive symptoms in university students on the Groton Maze Learning Test.
Advisor: Dr. Paul Valliant
Funding: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2009-2010
Andrew Homeniuk: as_homeniuk@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Eye movements as an implicit measure of attentional bias towards alcohol-related stimuli in light and heavy drinkers
Advisor: Dr. Annie Roy-Charland
Funding: - Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2009-2010
2009-2010
Elizabeth Emptage: ex_emptage@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined
Co-Advisors: Dr. A. Robinson and Dr. C. Whissell
Funding: - Joseph Errington Scholarship ($800), 2010-2011
- L.U. Psychology Department Travel Grant ($100)
- L.U. Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($500), June 2010
Drew Gould: dx_gould@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Burnout and coping in correctional officers: A comparison of
officers working with adult and young offender centres.
Advisor: Dr. Paul Valliant
Funding: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2010-2011
Stephanie Hayes: sa_hayes@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Autism and the family: The experience of hope in families
in Northern Ontario
Advisor: Dr. Shelley Watson
Funding: - Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000), 2010-2011
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship,
Master's Scholarship (SSHRC) ($17,500), 2009-2010
- Northern Ontario Grant Assistantship Program (NOGAP),
September 2009 ($1500), September 2010 ($3000),
January 2011 ($1000)
Amanda Lalande: ar_lalande@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The attentional disengagement model of the Missing-Letter Effect:
A test of the attentional beam
Advisor: Dr. Annie Roy-Charland
Funding: Provincial Endowment Graduate Scholarship ($1200), 2009-2010
Association Canadienne Francophone pou le Savoir (ACFAS)
($500), 2009-2010
L.U. Psychology Department Travel Grant ($100), 2009-2010
L.U. Graduate Studies Travel Grant ($500), 2009-2010
Masters Canada Graduate Scholarship from NSERC ($17,500),
2010-2011
Bourse Donata Lajoie (550 $), 2010-2011
Consortium National de Formation en Santé (CNFS) ($860),
2010-2011
Christina Lavallée: cx_lavallee@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Utilizing quantitative electroencephalography to discern
cerebral dynamics in meditating subjects
Advisor: Dr. Michael Persinger
Funding: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2010-2011
Colleen O’Brien: cx_haaheim@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Not yet determined
Advisor: Dr. Paul Valliant
Erin O’Connor: ey_oconnor@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: The effect of the home environment on early literacy skills.
Advisor: Dr. Linda Lysynchuk
Funding: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
(SSHRC), 2010-2011
Kevin Saroka: kx_saroka@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Quantitative electroencephalographic profiles of individuals exposed
to weak-intensity physiologically-patterned electromagnetic fields
Advisor: Dr. Michael Persinger
Julie Shilhan: jx_shilhan@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Heteronormativity and the mismatch effect: The role of context
in the processing of schema incongruent information
Advisor: Dr. Joël Dickinson
Crystal Young: cb_young@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: A Canadian investigation for moderators of parental stress in lesbian mothers
Advisor: Dr. Joël Dickinson
2010-2011
Gillian Berman: gm_berman@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. L. Rousseau
Jennifer Bingley: jx_bingley@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: Home literacy practices and the development
of reading ability in children
Advisor: Dr. L. Lysynchuk
Mark Collins: mw_collins@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. M. Persinger
Joshua Hull: jx_hull@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. P. Valliant
Lynn Laverdière-Ranger: ld_laverdiereranger@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. C. Whissell
Emma Pote: ax_pote@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: True lies: Who can learn to tell?
Advisor: Dr. A. Roy-Charland
Elisa Radford-Paz: ex_radfordpaz@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: FASD in the legal system: Protective factors for delinquency in adults
with prenatal alcohol exposure
Advisor: Dr. S. Watson
Funding: - Bourse Donata Lajoie (550 $), 2010-2011
Constance Reed: cy_reed@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. M. Persinger
Funding: - Provincial Endowment Graduate Scholarship ($4,000), 2010-11)
Danielle Valcheff: dx_valcheff@laurentian.ca
Thesis Title: To be determined.
Advisor: Dr. C. Arpin-Cribbie