Psychology and cognitive sciences

This group comprises research and experimental development in psychology and cognitive sciences.

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Psychology, social and behavorial aspects

Graduate Degree Programs

Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD)

The Counselling Psychology Program, in line with the mission of the research-intensive University of British Columbia, creates, advances and critically examines knowledge in counselling psychology, especially with respect to its validity, applicability, limits, and interface with other disciplines…

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

The PhD in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary program which allows students to explore their interests in diverse areas while employing feminist, intersectional, and decolonizing methodologies. It is intended to be flexible and to accommodate the needs of individual…

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Psychology is a diverse discipline that attempts to understand the basis of behaviour, thoughts and emotions. Psychology at UBC was introduced as a single course in 1915 and was initially offered by the Department of Philosophy. Over the years, the number of courses and instructors grew until we…

Doctor of Philosophy in School and Applied Child Psychology (PhD)

The doctoral program in school and applied child psychology is designed to prepare psychologists who can serve as practitioners and supervisors in the field, trainers of school psychologists, researchers, and leaders in school psychology. The typical doctoral program is 39 credits, beyond…

Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MA)

Counselling Psychology (CNPS) offers a Master of Arts Program that is accredited by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Our masters CNPS programs allow students to focus on one of the three areas for which we have accreditation. Community and Agency Counselling Counselling in…

Master of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (MA)

The MA program at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice is a vibrant, interdisciplinary graduate program, that attracts excellent scholars from around the world. Our MA program incorporates research and theory from the social sciences, humanities, science, education, and law…

Master of Arts in Psychology (MA)

Master of Arts in School and Applied Child Psychology (MA)

The primary goal of the program is to develop professional psychologists whose research, training and practice activities increase the educational and psychological well-being of children and youth. The School and Applied Child Psychology program follows a scientist-practitioner model, with…

Master of Education in Counselling Psychology (MEd)

Counselling Psychology (CNPS) offers a Master of Education Program that is accredited by Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Our Masters CNPS program allows students to focus on one of the four areas for which we have accreditation. Community and Agency Counselling Counselling in…

Master of Education in School and Applied Child Psychology (MEd)

The School and Applied Child Psychology program prepares graduate students to become psychologists who work in schools, academic, research, community and private practice settings. The primary goal of the program is to develop professional psychologists whose research, training and practice…

UBC Researchers

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Bedi, Robinder

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Counselling psychology; Investigating counselling and psychotherapy as Western cultural healing practices; Counselling psychology disciplinary and professional issues in Canada; Heterodox issues in counselling psychology that challenge its dominant narratives and sacred ideas; Counselling/psychotherapy/mental health with Punjabi/Sikh individuals; Neglected topics in the Psychology of Men and Masculinity

Bennett, Erica

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sport and exercise psychology; stress, emotion, and coping; Aging; sport; chronic illness; disability; Physical Activity; community and critical perspectives in physical activity psychology

Black, Alexis

School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory

Boerner, Katelynn

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Pediatrics; Health equity; Gender and health relationship; Sex and gender-based analysis; Health psychology; Clinical child psychology; Developmental psychology; Patient and citizen engagement research; chronic pain; pediatric psychology; Qualitative research; intensive longitudinal methods; sex and gender based analysis; gender diversity; Autism; neurodiversity; clinical psychology; Health Equity; rehabilitation; chronic illness; eating disorders; medical trauma; Health Psychology; Development; Adolescence

Bouchard, Katrina

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical sexology; Mental health and wellbeing; Sexual identy, sexual attraction and sexual behaviour; Sexual health; sexual response; sexual well-being; women's health; couples

Bredin, Shannon

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Indigenous health; Physical education and development curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Health promotion and disease prevention; Motor Behaviour (Motor Expertise, Learning, and Development); Human Performance; Physical Activity; Knowledge Translation and Mobilization; Indigenous Health and Physical Activity; Long-Term Athlete Development; Childhood Development; sport

Brotto, Lori

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human reproduction and development sciences; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Clinical psychology; mindfulness; Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual desire; treatment of sexual concerns; women's sexual health; asexuality; digital health interventions

Brussoni, Mariana

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Population health interventions; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science

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Chen, Frances

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health psychology; social connection; social support; stress; coping; conflict and negotiation; hormones; Neuroendocrinology

Cox, Daniel

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Counselling psychology; Motivations and Emotions; Anxiety; depression; Mental Health and Society; stress; Suicide

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Dawson, Samantha

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Interventions for sexual dysfunction; Sexual function and dysfunction in individuals and couples

DeLongis, Anita

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; social determinants of health; chronic illness; coping; couples; families; health; Health Psychology; marriage; social support; stress

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Eben, Charlotte

Faculty of Arts

Postdoctoral Fellow

Psychology of addiction; gambling; open science; Impulsivity; Emotion

Engle, Jennifer

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Cognitive sciences; Neuropsychology; epilepsy surgery; Brain Injury

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Flake, Jessica

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology, social and behavourial aspects, n.e.c.; applied measurement and modeling research; psychological measurement; theoretical and qualitative issues in instrument development; psychometric latent variables models; open science

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Goetz, Friedrich

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Geographical psychology; Causes and consequences of regional personality differences; Mobility and migration; Wanderlust; Courage; Entrepreneurship; Personality development; open science

Guhn, Martin

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Developmental psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health

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Hall, Kathleen

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology; Sign Languages

Hamlin, Kiley

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Cognitive development; Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals; Infant / Child Development; Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts; Infant moral cognition; infant social cognition

Hansson, Gunnar

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Cognitive sciences; theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic

Hodges, Nicola

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sport and exercise psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory; action anticipation and observation; coaching and motor skill expertise; skill acquisition; Motor learning; observational learning and instruction; sports skill development

Hoppmann, Christiane

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Aging Process; Social Aspects of Aging; stress; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health and well-being across the adult lifespan and into old age; individual differences in goals

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Kim, Eric

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); psychological well-being; Purpose in life / Meaning in life; resilience; Optimism / Hope; Health Psychology; Social Epidemiology; Aging

Kim, Hyosub

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sensorimotor control; Motor systems; Sensorimotor neuroscience; Sensory processes, perception and performance; Motor learning; motor control; Computational modeling; Bayesian Methods

Kingstone, Alan

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cognitive sciences; Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations

Klonsky, Elisha

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical psychology; Suicide (theory, motivations, transition from suicidal thoughts to attempts); Metascience; Emotion; Psychological/Clinical Assessment

Koralesky, Katherine (Katie)

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sociology and related studies; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Humane animal treatment; Agricultural biotechnology; Emerging technologies in agriculture; Responsible innovation; Farmer views on animal welfare; Public perceptions of animal welfare; Institutional ethnography; Animal welfare law and policy; Animal sheltering and protection

Kroc, Edward

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Statistical theory and modeling; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Ecological applications, n.e.c.; Psychological methodology design and analysis, and psychometrics; measurement; Measurement error; Statistics; urban ecology; Seabirds; Gulls; Quantitative ecology

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Laurin, Kristin

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social psychology; Psychology of social class; Political psychology; Rationalization and system justification; Morality

LeMoult, Joelle

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan

Lukes, Laura

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Earth and related environmental sciences; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Education; Geoscience Education Research (Discipline-Based Education Research); Self-regulated Learning; field-based experiential learning; learning in informal settings (e.g., museums, parks, science centers); crowdsourced and citizen science; teacher beliefs; motivation, emotion, and beliefs in learning; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM; learning engineering

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McEwan, Desmond

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sport and exercise psychology; Teamwork; Sport Psychology; Group Dynamics; High-Performance Teams; Human Thriving

Mercer, Sterett

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Special education and disability; Educational psychology; curriculum-based measurement; academic intervention; written expression

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Odic, Darko

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cognitive development

Ongchoco, Joan

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sensory processes, perception and performance; Memory (including episodic and semantic memory, and working memory); Judgement and decision making; Cognitive Science; Perception, attention, and memory

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Palombo, Daniela

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Autobiographical memories; Cognitive Science; Imagination; Future Thinking

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Robillard, Julie

Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Medical and biomedical engineering; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; social media; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics

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Sam, Johanna

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Education; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Human Development; Adolescence; technology; Indigenous Education; Digital Pedagogy

Schaller, Mark

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Motivations and Emotions; Psychology - Biological Aspects; Evolutionary Psychology; Social Cognition; Social influence; social psychology

Silverberg, Noah

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Cognitive rehabilitation; Concussion; Functional neurological disorder; Implementation Science; Metacognition; Neuropsychological assessment methods; Psychosocial determinants of health in neurological disorders; Traumatic Brain Injury

Sin, Nancy

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; stress; Well-being; Adult development and aging; Social Aspects of Aging; Positive Emotions; Sleep; Health Promotion; social determinants of health; Health behaviours; Lifestyle Determinants and Health

Soma, Kiran

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Zoology; Behavior; Biological Behavior; Endocrinology; Neuroendocrine Diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Systems; neuroscience; stress

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Todd, Rebecca

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning ; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards; Human Cognition and Emotion, Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking, Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition, Cognition, Emotional learning , Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above, Learning and Memory, Motivation, Emotions and Rewards

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van der Tempel, Jan

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

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Werker, Janet

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Critical Periods; Language Acquisition; Language Acquisition and Development; Language and Cognitive Processes; Multisensory Processing; Plasticity; Psycholinguistics; Psychology - Biological Aspects; speech perception; Speech and Language Development Disorders

Winstanley, Catharine

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Addiction; Behavioural neuroscience; decision making; Gambling disorder; Impulsivity; Mental Health and Society; Neuronal Systems; Neuropharmacology; Computational neuroscience; Traumatic Brain Injury

Woody, Sheila

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychology and cognitive sciences; Mental Health and Society; Anxiety; cognition; Community Health / Public Health; Specific Social Services (Clientele); Hoarding

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Xiao, Bowen

Faculty of Education

Postdoctoral Fellow

Developmental psychology

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Zhao, Jiaying

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Natural environment sciences; Psychology and cognitive sciences

Zieff, Gabriel

Faculty of Education

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stress physiology; Exercise Physiology; Cardiometabolic Health; mental health; Lifestyle factors;

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