• Friends-first romantic relationship initiation 

  Lowey, Erin (2022-12-23)

  Most romantic relationships begin as friendships, a process called friends-first initiation, yet very little research has been devoted to understanding how such relationships form. Instead, research has focused on dating ...
• Investigating the Neural Correlates of Social and Individual Singing in Persons with Dementia Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 

  Tamburri, Nicholas (2022-12-21)

  Introduction: While music interventions for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD) are increasingly utilized due to their documented cognitive and behavioral benefits, the neurological correlates ...
• Getting a Handle on Meaning: Planned Hand Actions' Influence on the Identification of Handled Objects 

  Moise, Noah (2022-10-03)

  We confirm that under certain conditions, constituents of motor actions afforded by handled objects play a role in their identification. Subjects held in working memory action plans specifying both the laterality of the ...
• Olfaction and Associations with Long-Term Cognitive Transitions and Short-Term Cognitive Variability 

  Knight, Jamie (2022-10-03)

  Olfactory function plays an important role in health and well-being. Deficits have been associated with a greater risk of cognitive decline, dementia, and death, indicating that olfactory ability may be an early marker of ...
• Neural mechanisms underlying fast face category and identity processing 

  Campbell, Alison (2022-09-28)

  Given the ecological importance of face recognition, it is not surprising that the visual system is capable of processing faces with remarkable efficiency. When presented with a face, information is rapidly extracted to ...
• A Person-Centred Analysis of Triadic Acculturation Gaps in Chinese Canadian Immigrant Families 

  Li, Jie (2022-09-22)

  Past research on the impacts of acculturation gaps among immigrant family members has yielded inconclusive results potentially due to inconsistent analytical methods, lack of consideration of family processes, and discrepant ...
• Walking Alongside Refugees: Strengths and Challenges of Canadian Private Sponsorship 

  Longtin, Emilie (2022-09-09)

  As the global refugee crisis grows increasingly dire, the Canadian government has raised quotas for refugee resettlement through the Privately Sponsored Refugees Program. Private sponsors provide emotional, financial, and ...
• The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Loneliness, Life Meaning, and Resilience among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Post-Secondary Students: Improving Academic Success, Inclusion, and Stress Recovery 

  Welch, Brooke Erin (2022-09-07)

  Background Research: The COVID-19 pandemic has likely impacted the resilience of Indigenous and non-Indigenous post-secondary students in Canada. Resilience may be negatively impacted by psychological experiences such as ...
• Representations automatically evoked by a depicted hand 

  Teskey, Morgan (2022-09-02)

  A conflicted and contentious literature has emerged from the proposal that visuospatial information from static images can automatically trigger associated motor representations. Curiously, investigations into this ...
• "Every Windmill is More Coal Mined" Perceptions of Decarbonization and Metallurgical Coal in BC's Elk Valley 

  Odland, Severin (2022-09-02)

  Decarbonizing the global economy is essential to reducing the effects of climate change, however doing so jeopardizes many communities economically dependent on fossil fuel extraction. A small but growing body of literature ...
• The Effect of Personality Traits on the Development of Predementia Cognitive States: Results from the Einstein Aging Study 

  Schaeffer, Morgan (2022-09-01)

  Dementia is a clinical syndrome characterized by sharp declines in cognition as well as a loss of ability to function independently. Several “predementia” syndromes exist including amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; ...
• Parenting Stress, Behaviour, and Parent-Child Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Light, Erin (2022-08-26)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted parents and children leading to increased stress and decreased psychological well-being (Black et al., 2021; Duan et al., 2020; Spinelli et al., 2020). Building on current research, ...
• No Barriers for Trailblazers? Empowerment Messaging Increases Women’s Burden and Blame for Gender Inequality in the Canadian Armed Forces 

  Desgrosseilliers, Elysia (2022-08-26)

  Gender inequality persists in the workplace, including in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The CAF is struggling to attain their goal of increasing the representation of women in uniform from 16% to 25%. One factor that ...
• Longitudinal Patterns and Predictors of Cognitive Impairment Classification Stability 

  McDowell, Cynthia (2022-08-19)

  Introduction: Classifications such as Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Cognitive Impairment, No Dementia (CIND) are thought to represent the transitory, pre-clinical phase of dementia. However, increasing research ...
• Does a Purposeful Life Mean a Healthy Life? Evaluating Longitudinal Associations between Sense of Purpose, Cognition, and Health 

  Lewis, Nathan (2022-08-19)

  Sense of purpose in life, or the view that one’s life has direction and is guided by overarching life aims, has been found to predict better health outcomes across the adult lifespan, including better cognitive functioning ...
• The Development of Executive Functioning and Hyperactivity Across the Preschool Period: A Longitudinal Approach to Identifying Early Predictors of Children’s Later Behavioural and Academic Adjustment to Formal Schooling 

  Graves, Abigail Reid (2022-08-16)

  Introduction: Executive functions (EFs) are a set of inter-related neurocognitive abilities, recruited for top-down, conscious control of thoughts, actions and emotions. EFs develop rapidly during the preschool period (age ...
• The Relationship between Minority Stress and Intimate Partner Violence in Women's LGBTQ+ Relationships: The Potential Mediating Role of Adult Attachment 

  Rodd, Keara (2022-06-09)

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a well-recognized public health issue with significant consequences for victims, families, communities, and society at large. Although IPV was once thought to be an almost exclusively ...
• Trauma-informed mindful embodied (TIME) yoga for childhood trauma survivors: self-regulation during a global pandemic 

  Silveira, Kristen (2022-04-29)

  Survivors of complex childhood trauma (CCT) tend to develop distinctive mental health challenges later on in adulthood, which may be exacerbated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. CCT survivors often struggle with ...
• The effect of stress on the explore-exploit dilemma 

  Ferguson, Thomas (2022-04-05)

  When humans are faced with multiple options, they must decide whether to choose a novel or less certain option (explore) or stick with what they know (exploit). Exploration is a fundamental cognitive process. Importantly, ...
• A multimodal neuroimaging investigation of normal brain aging in younger and older adulthood 

  Scarapicchia, Vanessa (2022-02-23)

  In many regions worldwide, older adults now form the fastest growing portion of the population. As such, aging research has seen tremendous growth in recent years, with a focus on identifying early biomarkers of age-related ...

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