Research for Department of Psychology

Research

Psychology

Faculty members are happy to involve undergraduate students in their research projects, using state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, often collaborating with other departments, community members and employers on research projects.

That gives you the opportunity to get additional hands-on experience. Senior undergraduate students may have the unique opportunity to work with faculty and graduate students in research labs to get an up-close and personal view of Psychology in action. In addition to on-campus research facilities, Psychology researchers have carried out studies in South Africa, Japan, Samoa, Bonaire and China, often with the help of student assistants.

Dr. Paul Vasey
Faculty Research Interests
Louise Barrett (PhD University College London) 
  • The evolution and development of social cognition in human and non-human primates, embodied and distributed cognition, ecology and evolution of primate sociality, including sexual conflict, parental investment and maternal effects

Peter Henzi (PhD Natal) 
  • The evolution and development of social cognition in human and non-human primates, embodied and distributed cognition, ecology and evolution of primate sociality, including sexual conflict, parental investment and maternal effects
Jean-Baptiste Leca (University Louis Pasteur) 
  • Intergroup behavioural variation in nonhuman primates, behavioural innovation and traditions, social learning, cultural behaviours, adaptive and non-adaptive behaviours, Developmental, mechanistic, functional, and phylogenetic approaches to primate behaviour

Fangfang Li (PhD Ohio State University) 
  • Child speech development, acoustic phonetics, cross-language comparison of fricatives

     

David Logue (PhD Colorado State University) 
  • Animal communication, bioacoustics, individual differences.

Jennifer Mather (PhD Brandeis) 
  • Behaviour of octopuses, eye movement in schizophrenics, Alzheimer's disease

Javid Sadr (PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
  • Object and person perspective, neural mechanisms of high-level vision, face and biological-motion processing, motor control and learning
     
Paul Vasey (PhD Université de Montréal) 
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition, primate neuroanatomy, human evolution, evolutionary psychology, sexuality and gender

John Vokey (PhD McMaster) 
  • Implicit memory, concept formation, computer algorithms, numerical analysis
Robert Williams (PhD McMaster) Associate Member 
  • Gambling social and economic impacts of gambling, risk taking and its utility, internet gambling, the cross-cultural meaning of gambling, behavioural/psychological patterns of stock market players, and all aspects of problem gambling (assessment, etiology, prevention, and treatment)]; assessment, etiology and treatment of addiction and mental health problems