A5031652929- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Engineering Education and Pedagogy
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Career Development and Diversity
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Military History and Strategy
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Department of National Defence
2013-2025
Autism CRC
2020
University of Waterloo
2009-2012
In a randomized-controlled trial, we tested 2 brief interventions designed to mitigate the effects of “chilly climate” women may experience in engineering, especially male-dominated fields. Participants were students entering selective university engineering program. The social-belonging intervention aimed protect students’ sense belonging by providing nonthreatening narrative with which interpret instances adversity. affirmation-training help manage stress that can arise from social...
How powerful is the status quo in determining people's social ideals? The authors propose (a) that people engage injunctification, is, a motivated tendency to construe current as most desirable and reasonable state of affairs (i.e., representative how things should be); (b) this driven, at least part, by desire justify their sociopolitical systems; (c) injunctification has profound implications for maintenance inequality societal change. Four studies, across variety domains, provided...
System justification theory (SJT) posits that people are motivated to believe the social system they live in is fair, desirable, and how it should be, especially contexts heighten motive. Past researchers have suggested opposition feminists may be by threat feminism presents legitimacy of status quo, but this hypothesis has not been tested empirically. In article, we present three studies directly test idea antifeminist backlash can justification. Studies 1 2 experimentally manipulated SJ...
Ethical leadership encompasses the personal conduct of leaders and leaders’ expectations that followers behave ethically. The two studies presented here draw on moral identity social theories to investigate whether organizational identification had an indirect effect relation between ethical outcomes. Study 1 examined how interact influence self‐reported behavior using a sample 3,363 defense personnel. 2 mediating role in outcomes, such as morale, job satisfaction, career intentions 3,390...
Scaling up scientifically validated interventions involves attending to characteristics of the distinct contexts which scale-up occurs. Here, we describe Read It Again!, a 30-week curriculum supplement designed enhance early educators’ explicit teaching literacy skills. Designed for scalability, open-source has been scaled into variety settings, including Australia and Denmark. We how Again! was modified suitability in these contexts, detail research findings concerning its use Danish...
LAY SUMMARY Research shows that designated group members (DGMs; women, Indigenous individuals, persons with disabilities (PwDs), and racialized people) in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) experience unique challenges related to their identities within workplace (e.g., discrimination, microaggressions, feeling less included compared non-DGMs), which can negatively impact well-being outcomes. This article focuses on experiences perceptions of CAF DGMs terms key outcomes (morale burnout)...
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are subject to the Employment Equity Act, which requires federally regulated employers identify and eliminate barriers employment of designated groups (women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities (PwD), racialized members), establish short-term, numerical goals address underrepresentation. Addressing experienced by these equity seeking is one CAF’s key priorities. objective this study examine group differences in feelings inclusion (i.e., relatedness,...
Social-psychological research conducted over the past 15 years provides compelling evidence that pervasive psychological threats are present in common academic environments—especially originate negative intellectual stereotypes—and these undermine real-world performance of non-Asian ethnic minority students and women math science. As a consequence, measures performance, including both grades test scores, systematically underestimate ability quantitative fields (Walton & Spencer, 2009 Walton,...
Due to the unprecedented impact of COVID-19, there is a need for research assessing pandemic-related challenges and stressors. The current study aimed assess key concerns general well-being among members Canada's Defence Team, including Canadian Armed Forces personnel Department National (DND) Public Service.The COVID-19 Team Survey was administered electronically staff in April May 2020 completed by 13 688 Regular Force, 5985 Reserve Force 7487 civilian DND Service personnel. Along with...
Military ethics training has tended to focus on imparting ethical attitudes and improving deliberative moral decision-making through classroom instruction. However, military personnel can be exposed extreme conditions operations, which lead heat-of-the-moment thinking. Under stress, individuals are more likely engage in automatic processing than processing, visceral states such as anger disgust increase a person’s risk of behaving unethically. We propose that could improved by reinforcing...
This research program investigates whether representational level of information underlying initial beliefs (individual vs. category) and disconfirming influence the magnitude belief attitude change regarding categories objects. In 3 experiments, 2 key effects emerged. A main effect type indicated that category-level produced more than did individual-level information. Also, a significant interaction between at formation disconfirmation relative matching effect, with producing substantially...
Introduction: This study examines socio-demographic differences in financial strain and satisfaction. The life-cycle model of consumption savings suggests that individuals make less money when they have the most responsibilities. It was expected factors would predict Methods: Results from a stratified random sample ( N = 1, 887) Regular Force members Canadian Armed Forces who completed Military Member/Family Finance Survey (2017) were examined to test whether age, marital status, dependents,...
<sec> <title>Introduction</title> En raison des répercussions sans précédent de la COVID-19, il est nécessaire réaliser études visant à évaluer les défis et facteurs stress liés pandémie. Cette étude avait pour but d’évaluer principales préoccupations le bien-être général membres l’Équipe Défense du Canada, que ce soit personnel militaire Forces armées canadiennes ou employés fonction publique ministère nationale (MDN). </sec> <title>Méthodologie</title> Le sondage sur COVID-19 a été soumis...