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GRADUATE STUDENTS are highly valued members of the Social/Personality area, of whom we are immensely proud. In general, each faculty member supervises 3 graduate students and over 60% of our students are currently funded by external grants, such as SSHRC doctoral fellowships, Canadian Graduate Scholarships, and Ontario Graduate Scholarships. Our students are also highly productive, publishing with faculty and other students. These publications have appeared as chapters in books, and as articles in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Science, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. They also present posters and give talks at international conferences. Over 75% of our Ph.D. graduates from the past 5 years have gone on to assume academic positions (e.g., tenure-track positions in North America and Europe, postdoctoral fellows) with the remainder taking on research-relevant positions at both government and non-government organizations. See a list of selected publications from our Graduate students.
Allison Bair (Steele; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: racial stereotypes and stigma from the persective of the targets of prejudice, the social determinants of body dissatisfaction and body type preference.
Jorida Cila (Lalonde; MA)	E-mail
Research interests: bicultural identities and conflicts, language/cultural brokering, interracial & inter-ethnic dating.
Melina S. Condren (Greenglass; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: minority stress, physical and psychological health in marginalized groups, social support as a coping resource.
Chelsea Ferriday (McGregor; MA)	E-mail
Research interests: defensive extremism, religious and political zeal, radicalization, aggression, and ideological leadership.
Kristine Fitzgerald (Schuller; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: the impact of various legal and extralegal factors (e.g., defendant race, gender stereotypes, expert testimony, eyewitness testimony) on juror decision-making; eyewitness processes; false confessions.
Katrina Fong (Mar; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: The impact of media on identity, individual differences, and social cognition; character identification and narrative engagement while engaged in video game play; individual and social outcomes of video game exposure.
Ingrid Galfi (McCann; PhD)	E-mail
Research Interests: Formation and change in the self-concept; influence of personality, social context, and social cognition. The intersection of personality and social, cultural environment; depression and distress.
Oshrat Hodara (Hynie; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: temporal focus (past/present/future thinking), affective forecasting, interpersonal processes (implicit/explicit interpersonal styles; intrapersonal/interpersonal conflict), self-monitoring (consistency/variability in interpersonal behaviour), others’ influence on the self-concept (self/other perception), self-construal.
Francine Karmali (Kawakami; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: predicted and actual responses to outgroup prejudice, suppression of stereotype activation and application, stereotype threat and self-knowledge, automatic associations related to social categories and the self.
Joana K. Katter (Greenglass; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: resilience, coping, and mental and physical outcomes, particularly in relation to economic stress; exploring the correlates of cheating behaviour; giftedness and creativity; economic psychology; health psychology.
Careen Khoury (Struthers; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: the interrelationship among repentance, forgiveness, right wing authoritarianism, and group membership following an interpersonal transgression.
David Li (Schuller; MA)	E-mail
Research interests: The influence of legal and extralegal factors (e.g., pre-trial publicity, stereotypes and prejudices, jury instructions, etc.) on jurors' decision-making processes, as well as factors influencing eyewitness memory.
Corey Lipman (Steele; MA)	E-mail Website
Research interests: Intergroup relations, prejudice, discrimination, development of implicit social cognition, social categorization, stereotype threat, activation of stereotypes during impression formation.
Aubrey Litvack (McCann; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: Personality vulnerabilities to psychopathology, depression, emotions and decision-making, perceptual consequences of emotion regulation.
Evelina Lou (Lalonde; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: Multicultural experiences and creativity; bicultural conflict, cultural values, and autonomy; multiracial identity and psychological well-being.
Nikki Harleen Mann (Kawakami; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: the differences and similarities in explicit vs. implicit goal pursuit; social exclusion/inclusion based on temporary (implicit) identification.
Kyle Nash (McGregor; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: My research is essentially about why certain people become defensively extreme after self-threat. I examine self-threatening events like failure or rejection and explore the underlying motivational and neurological processes of defensiveness from a goal-regulation perspective.
Taryn B. Nepon (Flett; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: The roles of trait perfectionism and perfectionistic self-presentation in depression, anxiety, rumination, and personal and social maladjustment; the links among personality, stress, coping, and health
Andy H. Ng (Hynie; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: Culture and Cognition; Social Cognitive Approach to Face Perception; Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination; Cultural Neuroscience
Curtis Phills (Kawakami; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, suppression, automatic activation of social categories, training to reduce prejudice, approach-avoidance, social embodiment, automaticity, identity.
Marina Rain (Mar; MA)	E-mail Website
Research interests: The effects of media on interpersonal perception and behaviour; Experiences with narrative fiction and the development of social and emotional knowledge; Mindfulness.
Tonia Relkov (McCann; MA)	E-mail
Research Interests: personality, the self concept and vulnerability to depression, stress and coping, lifestyle habits and mental health, social interaction and self-regulation.
James Roseborough (Wiesenthal; PhD)	E-mail
Research Interests: driving behavior, driver aggression, driver stress, anti-social and criminal behavior, neurological bases of psychological disorders.
Elizabeth Van Monsjou (Struthers; MA)	E-mail
Research Interests: forgiveness in interpersonal relationships, and how people respond when they are victims of a transgression.
Oth Vilaythong T. (Kawakami; MA)	E-mail
Research interests: Social categorization, social perception of race, prejudice reduction, stereotyping, discrimination, intergroup conflicts, religion and anti-gay attitudes, and social embodiment.
Wendy Zhao Wenfeng (McCann; MA)	E-mail
Research interests: The effects of perceived social support in the amelioration of stress and its role in psychopathology; attribution of personality differences to difficulties in emotion regulation and susceptibility to mood disorders; the operation of cultural stigmas as deterrents to treatment of depression and predictors of prognosis.
Amanda Williams (Steele; PhD)	E-mail Website
Research interests: The development of implicit and explicit social cognition across childhood; examining the properties of implicit measures when completed by children, adults, and cross-culturally; prejudice; stereotyping.
Sadia Zafar (Hynie; PhD)	E-mail
Research interests: Violence against women and children; Cultures of honour and violence; Perceptions of victims of sexual violence; Multiple identities - how religious, ethnic and national identities interact.