News
Congrats to Nicole Velev
Nicole won both the Rex Lucas Award and Jackman Scholars Award
New paper in Psychological Bulletin
Spike, Kathleen, Cecilia, and Joe's meta-analytic review of psychological consequences and antecedents of physical cleansing is accepted at Psychological Bulletin
2023-2024 Lab Members
Welcome to our new students, and welcome back to our returning ones. Looking forward to a productive school year together.
Congrats to Akil Huang
Akil won the Best Oral Presentation Award among 40 oral and poster presentations at the Summer Undergraduate Data Science (SUDS) Opportunities Program’s 2023 Showcase
Congrast to Spike Lee
Spike won the Applied Research on Intellectual Humility grant from the John Templeton Foundation to support his work on intellectual humility in the political domain
New paper in JPSP
Spike and Cecilia's paper showing that pain sensitivity predicts moral and political views is accepted at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Congrats to Joy Wang
Joy won the 2023 Climate Positive Energy Undergraduate Summer Research Program Award
Congrats to Joe Hoang
Joe won the Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award from the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) to support his PhD studies in 2023-2025
Congrats to Noah Laskey
Noah won the Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Master's Award from the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) to start his PhD program in Social/Personality Psychology at the University of Toronto in Fall 2023
Congrats to Norman Zeng
Norman won the Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Master's Award from the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) to start his PhD program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Toronto in Fall 2023
Congrats to Grace Yang
Grace has been admitted to the MD program at the School of Medicine, University of British Columbia starting Fall 2023
Congrats to Jules Convertini
Jules has been admitted to the Master's program in Applied Cognitive Psychology at Utrecht University starting Fall 2023
Congrats to Joy Wang
Joy won the 2023 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)
Congrats to Serena Honekin
Serena won the 2023 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)
Congrats to Joy Wang
Joy won the Jackman Scholarship to conduct research on higher education for sustainable development as a Jackman Scholar-in-Residence in summer 2023
Congrats to Jianing Lv
Jianing has been admitted to the PhD program in Education at Queen's University starting Fall 2023
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike won the DSI (Data Sciences Institute) Computational & Quantitative Social Sciences Grant
Congrats to Octavia Weng
Octavia won the Restracomp PhD Scholarship
New paper in PNAS
Spike's co-authored paper on the psychological bases of antiscience attitudes is accepted at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
New paper in SPPS
Phil, Alexa, and Spike's paper showing how cleaning attenuates the psychological and physiological effects of stressful events is accepted at Social Psychological and Personality Science
New paper in Cognitive Science
Spike's co-authored paper on the emergence of gender associations in child language development is accepted at Cognitive Science
Congrats to Daisy Liu
Daisy won the 2022 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)
Congrats to Lorenzo Cecutti
Lorenzo won the Best Poster Award (Track 2: Technology & Society) at the 2022 Society for Consumer Psychology conference
New paper in Behavior Research Methods
Phil, Alexa, and Spike's comprehensive tutorial paper on how to run a psychophysiological experiment on challenge and threat is accepted at Behavior Research Methods
Congrats to Norman Zeng and Sophia Wan
Norman and Sophia won the 2022 Undergraduate Research Fund (URF)
Congrats to Cecilia Ma
Cecilia won the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award from the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
New paper in Nature Human Behaviour
Lorenzo and Spike published a paper in Nature Human Behaviour on how technology changes cognition
New papers in BBS
Spike published a Target Article and a Response to 27 commentaries in Behavioral and Brain Sciences on the theory of grounded procedures
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike won the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Insight Development Grant
Congrats to Qianwen Xu
Qianwen has been admitted to the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2021
Congrats to Joanna Lo
Joanna has been admitted to the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at Columbia University starting Fall 2021
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia has been hired as a summer student at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP's Toronto office.
Congrats to Jianing Lv
Jianing has been admitted to the M.Ed. program in Developmental Psychology and Education at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2021
Congrats to Shenwei Hu
Shen won the 2021 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)
Congrats to Durra Kesibi
Durra has been admitted to the PhD program in Kinesiology and Health Science at York University starting Fall 2020
Congrats to Alexa Volkov
Alexa won the OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship) for her Master of Planning at Ryerson University
Congrats to Bentley Lo
Bentley has been admitted to the MSc/PhD program in Neuroscience at Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry starting Fall 2020
Congrats to Kristina Knox
Kristina has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2020
Congrats to Caroline Shi
Caroline has been admitted to the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago starting Fall 2020
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil won the CGS-D (Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral) from NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
Congrats to Octavia Weng
Octavia has been admitted to the PhD program in Physiology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2020
Congrats and Welcome to Cecilia Ma
Cecilia has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Social Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2020, and won a Faculty of Arts & Science Domestic Graduate Entrance Award
Congrats to Louisa You
Louisa has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Social Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2020, and won a CGS-M (Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s)
Congrats to Shan Zhang
Shan has been admitted to the MA program at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics starting Fall 2020 and received a summer research internship at the Yale School of Management
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won the 2019 Insulation Korea Dream Foundation Scholarship
Congrats to Kathleen Chen
Kathleen has been hired as a Research Professional at economic consulting firm Analysis Group starting August 2020
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won 3 scholarships/awards upon graduation from Trinity College at the University of Toronto:
1. Chancellor's Medal in Science: "These medals are awarded to the two graduating Trinity College students with the highest standing in a science program."
2. Eric Jackman Scholarship in Psychology: "This award is for the highest standing in the Psychology specialist program by a graduating Trinity College student."
3. Provost’s Scholar: "This honour is reserved each year for a limited number of [Trinity] College’s strongest Honours Science, Arts and Commerce graduates.”
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike got tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor
Congrats to Shahd Fulath Khan
Shahd won the Dr. David Chu Scholarships in Asia-Pacific Studies
Congrats to Claire Yu
Claire has been admitted to the MSc program in Marketing at London School of Economics starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Joe Hoang
Joe won the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's (CGS-M) for his MA year in Social Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Alexa Volkov
Alexa won the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's (CGS-M) for her Master of Planning in Urban Development at Ryerson University starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Maleeha Khan
Maleeha has been admitted to the MSc program in Neuroscience at McGill University starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Joanna Lo
Joanna won the 2019 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Austin Zheng
Austin won the 2019 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats and Welcome to Joe Hoang
Joe has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Eileen Wu
Eileen has been admitted to the PhD program in Social Psychology at Northwestern University starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia has been admitted to the JD program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law starting Fall 2019
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia was awarded the Erik Jackman Scholarship in Psychology
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won the 2018 Galleria Supermarket Scholarship--yes, there's a supermarket scholarship out there. Julia also won the Cha and Mun Scholarship!
Congrats to Hailing Deng
Hailing has been admitted to the MSc program in Sociology at the University of Oxford starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike won the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
Congrats and Welcome to Chiara Simeon-Spezzaferro
Chiara has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Congrats and Welcome to Dominic Tong
Dominic has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil won the Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master's (CGS-M) for his MA year in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Welcome to Lorenzo Cecutti
Lorenzo has been admitted to the PhD program in Marketing at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Welcome to Laura Goodyear
Laura has been admitted to the PhD program in Marketing at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Fil Andjelkovic
Fil has been admitted to the MA program in Study of Religion at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Kathleen Chen
Kathleen won the 2018 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won the 2018 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil has been admitted to the MA/PhD program in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Helen Yu
Helen has been admitted to the MSc program in Psychology at the Villanova University starting Fall 2018
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won The Department of Psychology Student Award
Congrats to Chiara and Dominic
Chiara and Dominic were accepted to present at the 2018 annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association at Chicago
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia was awarded the Eric Jackman In-Course Scholarship (top student in each year of the Psychology Specialist program)
Congrats to Kathleen Chen
Kathleen won the 2017-2018 Clifton Graham Roberts Award
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil was awarded the Rotman Matching Research Grant
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike was awarded the Rotman Matching Research Grant
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia was awarded the University of Toronto Scholar Award from the 2016-2017 academic year (top 100 students of the year by GPA)
Congrats to Bethina Loiseau
Bethina has been admitted to the Master's program in Public Health at McMaster University starting Fall 2017
Congrats to Charlotte Lai
Charlotte has been admitted to the MSc program in Applied Psychology at the University of Southern California starting Fall 2017
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike received the SSHRC Insight Grant
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won the 2017 Yu-An Farm Scholarship
Congrats to Alexa Volkov
Alexa won the 2017 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil won the 2017 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Rebecca Zhu
Rebecca has been admitted to the PhD program in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley starting Fall 2017
Congrats to Stephanie Lung
Stephanie has been admitted to the MA-PhD program in School/Applied Child Psychology at McGill starting Fall 2017
Congrats to Spike Lee
Spike was designated a 2016 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
Congrats to Phil Johnston
Phil won the 2017 Al Mercury Scholarship
Congrats to Angela Zhong
Angela won the Master's full scholarship for studies at Institut Francais de la Mode in Paris starting September 2016
Congrats to Helen Yu
Helen won the 2016 University of Toronto Excellence Award
Congrats to Julia Won
Julia won the 2016 Korean Honor Scholarship
2019 Summer Students Appreciation Party
@ Octavia's party room (August 4, 2019). Students showered Spike's soon-to-arrive baby with lots of love!
2019 Winter Students Appreciation Activity
@ Joe Rockhead's Indoor Rock Climbing (April 29, 2019). Thank YOU for a fun and productive Winter semester!
2018 Fall Students Appreciation Dinner
@ Spike's house (December 9, 2018). Thank YOU for a fun and productive Fall semester!
2018 Summer Students Appreciation Dinner
@ Spike's house (September 9, 2018). Thank YOU for the productive summer!
2017-2018 Students Appreciation Party
@ Spike's house (April 27, 2018). Thank YOU lab for the incredibly productive year!
Lab Activity: Archery Tag
Lab members took this opportunity to express their hatred for Spike and Dom by shooting them down, literally
Fall 2017 Students Appreciation Party
@ Spike's house (December 8, 2017). Thank you lab for your amazing work this semester!