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Head’s Up! March 25 th 2020 Psychology graduate student Iloradanon Efimoff was recently featured in a UMToday News article, Lumbering towards a decolonized society. You can read the article here. Dr. Randy Jamieson’s research, The influence of place and time on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis, originally published in the journal Behavior Research Methods, was recently profiled in a Medical News Today article and a Neuro Science News article. Tyler Kempe, Psychology graduate student in was recently featured in UMTodays Student Success Month Spotlight. Read more about Tyler’s risks, challenges and successes here. Dr. Melanie Soderstrom’s Baby Language Lab was recently featured on CTV News. The segment focuses on a current study being run by the lab which attempts to replicate previous results showing infants from 5-10 months old are able to understand right from wrong. You can see the interview here. Dr. Katherine Starzyk, Dr. Katelin Neufeld, Aleah Fontaine, Iloradanon Efimoff (photo above) and colleagues were recently featured in Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Newsletter. The article, Lessons learned for psychological research with Indigenous Peoples from the Canadian Reconciliation Barometer Project, discusses their goal of developing a measure of reconciliation that is acceptable to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples. You can view issues of Psynopsis here. Starzyk, K., Moran, R., Sekwan Fontaine, L., Peachey, D., Neufeld, K., Fontaine, A., & Efimoff, I. (2019, December). Lessons learned for psychological research with Indigenous Peoples from the Canadian Reconciliation Barometer Project. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Newsletter, 41(3), 26-27. Psychology was once again represented at Three Minute Thesis. Alyse Sukovieff, Psychology graduate student, presented her talk titled #ReassuranceSeeking: Does Posting About Self-Compassion on Social Media Increase or Decrease Anxiety? in 3MT Heat 1 on February 24, 2020.
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Head’s Up! March 25th 2020
Psychology graduate student Iloradanon Efimoff was recently featured in a UMToday News article, Lumbering towards a decolonized society. You can read the article here.
Dr. Randy Jamieson’s research, The influence of place and time on lexical behavior: A distributional analysis, originally published in the journal Behavior Research Methods, was recently profiled in a Medical News Today article and a Neuro Science News article.
Tyler Kempe, Psychology graduate student in was recently featured in UMTodays Student Success Month Spotlight. Read more about Tyler’s risks, challenges and successes here.
Dr. Melanie Soderstrom’s Baby Language Lab was recently featured on CTV News. The segment focuses on a current study being run by the lab which attempts to replicate previous results showing infants from 5-10 months old are able to understand right from wrong. You can see the interview here.
Dr. Katherine Starzyk, Dr. Katelin Neufeld, Aleah Fontaine, Iloradanon Efimoff (photo above) and colleagues were recently featured in Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Newsletter. The article, Lessons
learned for psychological research with Indigenous Peoples from the Canadian Reconciliation Barometer Project, discusses their goal of developing a measure of reconciliation that is acceptable to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples. You can view issues of Psynopsis here.
Starzyk, K., Moran, R., Sekwan Fontaine, L., Peachey, D., Neufeld, K., Fontaine, A., & Efimoff, I. (2019, December). Lessons learned for psychological research with Indigenous Peoples from the Canadian Reconciliation Barometer Project. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Newsletter, 41(3), 26-27.
Psychology was once again represented at Three Minute Thesis. Alyse Sukovieff, Psychology graduate student, presented her talk titled #ReassuranceSeeking: Does Posting About Self-Compassion on Social Media Increase or Decrease Anxiety? in 3MT Heat 1 on February 24, 2020.
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
STAFF NEWS
Dr. Ed Johnson recently received a Long service award. Congrats!
Congratulations to all the other staff & faculty members who recently celebrated a Service Anniversary in 2019: Dr. Jessica Cameron, Dr. Loring Chuchmach, Liana Di Noto, Dr. Lorna Jakobson, Dr. Richard Kruk, Dr. Johnson Li, Dr. Jonathan Marotta, Dr. Garry Martin, Ferro Montanino & Dr. Hal Wallbridge.
GRANTS
Dr. Jonathan Marotta is part of a Research Team lead by Drs. Ji Hyun Ko (Human Anatomy and Cell Science) and Tony Szturm (Medical Rehabilitation). Their application, "Changes in metabolic activity and gait function by dual-task cognitive game-based treadmill system intervention”, to The Weston Transformational Research: Canada 2019 PD-Related Diseases program has been successfully awarded approximately $1.5 million.
Dr. Toby Martin recently received a Mitacs grant which will support Psychology graduate students, Carly Cressman, Daniel Foidart, and Jessica Summers as Mitacs Accelerate Interns.
Martin, T. (2019-2021). Evaluating community-based behavioural interventions for persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Mitacs Accelerate Program. Total award: $80,000.
PSYCHOLOGY WINTER 2020
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
February 14th, 2020 Dr. Ryan Giuliano, University of Manitoba Teaching Award Colloquium
March 6th, 2020 Ms. Sarah Rigby, University of Manitoba Vineberg Award Colloquium & Researchpalooza
March 20th, 2020 - POSTPONED Dr. Lauren Guillette, University of Alberta Colloquium In Brain And Cognitive Sciences
March 27th, 2020 - POSTPONED Dr. Donald Sharpe, University of Regina Colloquium in Quantitative Psychology
THANK YOU!
The Department of Psychology would like to thank Spenser Martin and Allyson Paton for representing the Department at the Evening of Excellence on October 29, 2019.
A special thank you to Psychology’s Open House mini-lecture speakers and organizers: Dr. Ryan Giuliano and Dr. Leslie Roos
Thank you to Undergraduate Student Advisor, Reba Krahn for representing Psychology at this year’s open house
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
STUDENT AWARDS
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Nicole Buck has been awarded an NIB (National Indian Brotherhood ) Trust
Fund Scholarship Matt Cook’s team placed 3rd in the Data Science Challenge at the recent International Data Science Conference held by the new Data Science NEXUS program here at the University of Manitoba.
Iloradanon Efimoff was recently honoured as a campus leader as recipient of the 4th annual Indigenous Award of Excellence in the Outstanding Achievement category.
Sophie Robitaille has recently been awarded the Donald Vernon Snider Memorial Fellowship Jordana Sommer recently
received CIHR Doctoral Scholarship as well as the Dr. Mark Zamorski CIMVHR Research Award for a postgraduate student conducting research with significant potential to improve the mental health of Veteran or military populations, or their families.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
Congratulations to Psychology’s 2019 President’s Scholars: Carly McFall (BA Psych Hons.), Chantal Delaquis (BA Psych Hons.), Avalon Kunzig (BSc Psych Maj.), Yashmi Wijewardana (BSc. Psych Maj.) Congrats also to Shannon Senanayake (Research Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Marotta) for placing 2nd in the 15th Undergraduate Research Poster Competition in the Social Sciences and Humanities division with her project, Perception and Action : Effects of Priming and Illusions on Visually Guided Grasping.
PURE AWARDS
Ariane Freynet-Gagné (with Dr. Danielle Gaucher) Lily Pankratz (with Dr. Kristin Reynolds) Samantha Pierce (with Dr. Richard Kruk) Matthew Slusky (with Dr. Jonathan Marotta) Victoria Tess (with Dr. Richard Kruk) Nicole Tongol (with Dr. Jessica Cameron)
ARTS STUDENT CONFERENCE TRAVEL AWARDS
Congrats to the students awarded an Arts Student Conference Travel Award in the November 1, 2019 competition:
Van Bui – Society of Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting. Feb. 27-29, 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Sharon Chou – 3rd European Conference for Domestic Violence, Sept. 1-4, 2019. Oslo, Norway. Masha Krylova – Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference, Oct. 24-26, 2019. Moncton, New Brunswick. Corey Petsnik – Society of Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Feb. 27-29, 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana Jordana Sommer – International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting, Nov. 14-16, 2019. Boston, Massachusetts.
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Dr. Katherine Starzyk was an invited panel presenter as part of the University of Manitoba’s “Visionary Conversations” series, What does a decolonized Canada look like? How do we build a Canada based on mutual respect and fairness between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians? on December 11th 2019 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, MB. A summary of the conversation can be found in UMToday and the conversation can be viewed here
A research team, including Dr. Randy Jamieson, has built a search engine for the Psychonomic Society designed to search Psychonomics 2019 Abstracts from the annual Psychonomic Society meeting. The search engine, based on their recent publication, has four ways to search the abstracts by semantic similarity.
Aujla, H., Crump, M. J. C., Cook, M. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The Semantic Librarian: A search engine built from vector-space models of semantics. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2405-2418.
RESEARCHPALOOZA
Once again, Researchpalooza was a resounding success with more than 30 entries and a fantastic turnout. Thank you to all those
involved in making Researchpalooza 2020 such a success! This year’s #1 ranked poster, as chosen by the PSYC 4520 honours classes, was “Late-Life Loneliness and its Detrimental Health Outcomes: A Mediating Role for Perceived Control” by Krylova, M. V., Chipperfield, J. G., Clifton, R. A., Perry, R. P., Hamm, J. M., Chuchmach, L. P., & Parker, P. C.
ALUMNI NEWS Two graduates of the University of Manitoba’s Psychology program, Cindy Foster and Leora Strand, were recently featured on the front
page of the Winnipeg Free Press as well as CBC News. Cindy and Leora make up 2/3 of a team of addictions counsellors working to register as a charity and set up a long-term residential recovery centre in Winnipeg exclusively for women and LGBTTQ+ people with a goal of opening for Fall 2020. The team hopes to ensure women feel like they have a community of support after treatment.
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
Defenses & Proposals
Jessica Summers, PhD Thesis Oral Proposal Tuesday, March 31st 2020, 2:15PM (CT), Skype Meeting Title: A Prospective and Retrospective Program Evaluation of a Community-Based Behaviour Stabilization Service Shaelyn Stienwandt, Master Thesis Oral Proposal Tuesday, February 18th 2020, 1:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Video-Coded Parent-Child Interactions and Cortisol Reactivity in Preschoolers Following an Acute Stressor Task Mercedes Casar, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Thursday, February 13th 2020, 12:00PM, P519 Duff Roblin Title: Impact of Smartphones on Infant Language Development Tracie Parkinson, Ph.D. Dissertation Oral Proposal Tuesday, February 11th 2020, 11:00AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: A Comprehensive Investigation of a Hatha Yoga Program on Brain Functioning, Attention, and Self-Perception Jackie Spear, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Thursday, February 6th 2020, 2:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Defining distinctiveness: A computational and experimental analysis Cristina Weiner, Master Thesis Oral Proposal Wednesday, February 5th 2020, 9:00AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Predictive Eye Movements When Grasping Moving Targets with Directional Bias Kody Sauder, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Thursday, January 23rd, 9:00AM, P519 Duff Roblin Title: Reinforcement Duration on Continuous Reinforcement for Lake Sturgeon Matthew Bernstein, Final Doctoral Oral Examination Thursday, January 9th 2020, 9:00AM, P519 Duff Roblin Title: Evaluating anxiety information needs and currently available anxiety information to meet the needs of the public Francesca Silla, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Friday, December 13th 2020, 10:15AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Magnocellular-Dorsal Stream Functioning and Exogenous Visual Attention in Good and Poor Elementary School Readers: A Longitudinal Study
Keaden Shebaylo, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Friday, December 13th 2019, 8:15AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Visual Attention and Spelling Development: A Longitudinal Study Sarah Petty, Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal Tuesday, December 10th 2019, 9:00AM, P519 Duff Roblin Title: Women’s Anxiety Symptoms and Help-Seeking Experiences During the Perinatal Period Carly Cressman, Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal Thursday, December 5th 2019, 1:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Shared Decision-Making in EIBI: Consultant Adherence and Parent Involvement Matthew Cook, Doctoral Dissertation Oral Proposal Wednesday, November 27th 2019, 11:00AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Computational History: Using Semantic Models to Measure and Predict Changes in Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs from Language Robert Dryden, Master’s Thesis Final Oral Defense Thursday, November 21st 2019, 2:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Attributional Retraining: Boosting the Academic Persistence and Performance of First Generation College Students with Low Academic Control Kayla Kilborn, Master’s Thesis Proposal Defense Monday, November 18th 2019, 2:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: The Heart and Mind Project: Social and Emotional Learning in Canadian Schools Amber Yaholkoski, PhD Dissertation Oral Proposal Wednesday, November 13th 2019, 2:10PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Caregiver Experiences during the ASD Diagnostic Process Alanna Johnson, Master's Thesis Oral Proposal Tuesday, November 12th 2019, 9:00AM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Perspectives of Women in Domestic Violence Shelters on Intimate Partner Relationships Masha Krylova, Master’s Thesis Oral Proposal Friday, November 8th 2019, 2:00PM, P412 Duff Roblin Title: Understanding Late-life Loneliness and Its Detrimental Effects on Health: The Mediating Role of Perceived Control
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
RECENT PUBLICATIONS!
Aujla, H., Crump, M. J. C., Cook, M. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The Semantic Librarian: A search engine built from vector-space models of semantics. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2405-2418.
Bernstein, M., Mackenzie, C., Sareen, J., Dufault, B., Hitchon, C., & El-Gabalawy, R (2019). Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of anxiety sensitivity on indicators of disease severity among patients with inflammatory arthritis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 67. doi: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2019.102117
Bilevicius, E., Sommer, J. L., Asmundson, G. J. G., & El-Gabalawy, R. (in press) Association of PTSD, chronic pain, and their comorbidity on cannabis use disorder: Results from an American nationally representative study. Depression and Anxiety.
Braun, J., El-Gabalawy, R., Sommer, J. L., Pietrzak, R. H., Mitchell, K., & Mota, N (in press). Trauma exposure, DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder, and binge eating symptoms: Results from a nationally representative sample. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., Bernstein Ratner, N., & Soderstrom, M. (2019). Segmentability differences between child-directed and adult-directed speech: A systematic test with an ecologically valid corpus. Open Mind, 3, 13-22.
Dowd, D.A., Keough, M.T., Jakobson, L.S., Bolton, J.M. & Edgerton, J.D. (in press). A Longitudinal Examination of Gambling Subtypes in Young Adulthood. International Gambling Studies.
El-Gabalawy, R. M., Mackenzie, C. S., Starzyk, K. B., & Sommer, J. L. (in press). Understanding the relationship between traumatic suffering, posttraumatic growth, and prosocial correlates. The Journal of American College Health.
El-Gabalawy, R., Sommer, J. L., Pietrzak, R., Edmondson, D., Sareen, J., Avidan, M. & Jacobsohn, E (in press). Post-traumatic stress in the post-operative period: Current status and future directions. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
Feuchte, F., Neufeld, K. H. S., Bilali, R., & Mazziotta, A. (Accepted). Forum Theatre can improve intergroup attitudes, sense of community, and collective action intentions: Evidence from Liberia. Accepted for publication at Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
Field JT, Martens MD, Mughal W, Hai Y, Chapman D, Hatch GM, Ivanco TL, Diehl-Jones W, Gordon JW. (2019). Misoprostol regulates Bnip3 repression and alternative splicing to control cellular calcium homeostasis during hypoxic stress. Cell Death and Discovery, 5:116.
Henrikson, B., Seidl, A., & Soderstrom, M. (in press). Perception of sibilant-liquid phonotactic frequency in full term and preterm infants. Journal of Child Language.
Hu, L., Wirth, K. M., Harris, R., & Pear, J. J. (in press). The evaluation of declarative and procedural training components to teach the assessment of basic learning abilities to senior tutors. The Psychological Record. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40732-019-00359-0
Jakobson, L.S. & Pearson, P.M. (in press). Alexithymic traits predict the speed of classifying non-literal statements using nonverbal cues. Cognition and Emotion.
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(CONTINUED FROM PREV PAGE) Johns, B. T., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019). The influence of time and place on lexical behavior: A
distributional analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2483-2453. Kaster, T., Sommer, J. L., Mota, N., Sareen, J., & El-Gabalawy, R (2019). Post-traumatic stress and
cancer: Findings from a cross-sectional nationally representative sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 65, 11-18.doi: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2019.04.004
Neufeld, K. H. S., Funk, L. M., Starzyk, K. B., Gorea, M. I., & Dansereau, L. (2019). Barriers to and
strategies for engaging non-Indigenous Canadians in fulfilling First Nations water rights: A qualitative inquiry. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 10(3). doi:10.18584/iipj.2019.10.3.8291
Neufeld, K. H. S., Starzyk, K. B., & Boese, G. D. (Accepted). The effects of potential benefit on support for reparations for intergroup harm. Accepted for publication at Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
Neufeld, K. H. S., Starzyk, K. B., & Gaucher, D. (2019). Political solidarity: A theory and a measure. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 726-765. doi:10.5964/jspp.v7i2.1058
Patel, R., Silla, F., Pierce, S., Theule, J., Girard, T. A. (2020). Cognitive functioning before and after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): A quantitative meta-analysis in healthy adults. Neuropsychologia. 141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107395
Singer, M. (2019). Challenges in processes of validation--and comprehension. Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award invited article. Discourse Processes, 56, 465-483, DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2019.1598167
Singer, M., & Spear, J. (2019). Validation of strongly presupposed concepts in reading comprehension. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73.
Sommer, J. L., Blaney, C. & El-Gabalawy, R (2019). A population-based examination of suicidality in comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and chronic pain. Journal of Affective Disorders, 257(1), 562-567. doi: https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.07.016
Sommer, J. L., El-Gabalawy, R, & Mota, N (in press). Understanding the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health conditions: A population-based study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
Sommer, J. L., El-Gabalawy, R., Taillieu, T., Afifi, T. O., & Carleton, R. N. (2020). Associations between trauma exposure and physical health conditions among public safety personnel. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. [in press].
Starzyk, K. B., Neufeld, K. H. S., El-Gabalawy, R. M., & Boese, G. D. B. (2019). The case for and causes of intraminority solidarity in support for reparations: Evidence from community and student samples in Canada. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7, 620-650. doi:10.5964/jspp.v7i1.673
Stojak BL, van Ginkel RA, Ivanco TL, Tomy GT, Fry WM. (2019) Acute β-tetrabromoethylcyclohexane (β-TBECH) treatment inhibits the electrical activity of rat Purkinje neurons. Chemosphere, 231: 301-307.
The ManyBabies Consortium. (in press). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
Head’s Up! Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, March 25th 2020
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Crump, M. J. C., Jamieson, R. K., & Aujla, H. (2019, November). Semantic librarian for SCiP abstracts: An R Shiny app and package for searching and visualizing semantic spaces. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Kalinowski, K., Martin, T., & Cressman, C. (October 31, 2019). Jordan’s Principle: Lessons Learned by Researchers and Behaviour Analysts. Conference talk delivered at the Canadian Conference for Developmental Disabilities and Autism.
Smith, B., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019, June). What colour is under? Modelling the ebb and flow of associative learning. Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Starzyk, K. B. (2019, July 15). The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer Project: Tracking reconciliation between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples. In K. Starzyk (Chair), Reconciliation in long-standing conflicts. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Siemens Neufeld, K. H., Starzyk, K. B., & Gaucher, D. (2019, July 13). Political solidarity: A theory and a measure. In K. H. Siemens Neufeld (Chair), “In solidarity”: Antecedents and measurement of intergroup political solidarity. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
CONFERENCE POSTERS:
Spear, J., & Jamieson, R. K. (2019, June). Defining distinctiveness: A computational and experimental analysis. Poster delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Erin J. Dowling, Sandra Hunter, J.P. Leboe-McGowan, L.C. Leboe-McGowan (2019, November). Heuristic Influences on Memory for Event Duration. Poster presented at the Psychonomics conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Kalinowski, K., Martin, T., & Cressman, C. (October 3, 2019). Jordan’s Principle: An Analytical Overview of St.Amant’s Pilot-Year of Behavioural Services. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Manitoba Association for Behaviour Analysis Conference, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Strand, L. K., Fontaine, A. S. M., Starzyk, K. B., & Neufeld, K. H. S. (2019). Attitudes toward reconciliation in Canada: Relationships with connectedness to nature, human-animal continuity, and moral concern. Poster presented at the 80th Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, NS, Canada.
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