Congrats to Claire Robertson

Claire will be an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colby College starting Fall 2025

Congrats to Lorenzo Cecutti

Lorenzo will be an Assistant Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris starting Fall 2025

Congrats to Spike and Cecilia

Their Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article has been designated an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award by the International Social Cognition Network, "the only paper that we are designating for special recognition as an honorable mention” this year for its “outstanding work"

Congrats to Spike Lee

Spike is now a Fellow with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Congrats to Daisy Liu

Daisy won the 2024 OGS-M (Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Master's)

New paper in PNAS Nexus

Louisa and Spike's paper is accepted at PNAS Nexus. It shows that ingroup norm perception plays a big role in explaining and intervening against affective polarization. The paper is scheduled to come out right before the U.S. presidential election in November 2024.

New paper in PNAS Nexus

Spike's co-authored paper on the emergence of moral foundations in child language development is accepted at PNAS Nexus

Congrats to Norman Zeng

Norman won the CGS-D (Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral) from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to support his ongoing graduate studies starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Noah Laskey

Noah won the CGS-D (Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral) from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to support his ongoing graduate studies starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Benjamin Lawson

Ben won the CGS-M (Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's) from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to support his ongoing graduate studies starting Fall 2024

Congrats to James Jiang

James will be joining the Master of Arts in Political Science program at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Joanna Lo

Joanna will be joining the Master of Science in Statistics program at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Spike, Kathleen, Cecilia, and Joe

Their Psychological Bulletin article has been designated an "Editor's Choice" by the American Psychological Association journal editors to "represent the best science in each area of our discipline, reflecting science that is exceptionally important, impactful, and deserves additional visibility for the whole field”" 

Congrats to Christopher Cao

Chris won the 2024 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)

Congrats to Joshua Fisseha

Joshua won the 2024 Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)

Congrats to Daisy Liu

Daisy will be joining the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences stream of the Dalla Lana Master of Public Health program at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Zoha Sojoudi

Zoha won the 2024 University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA-SSH)

Congrats to Ali Hajian

Ali will be joining the PhD in Social Psychology program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Jiessie Tie

Jiessie will be joining the Master in Computer Science program at the University of Toronto starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Ziqi Shu

Ziqi will be joining the Master of Science in Education Data Science program at Stanford University starting Fall 2024

Congrats to Janice Hou

Janice won the 2024 Jackman Scholars Award

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.”

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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)