Biographical Info
My research takes a mixed methods approach to examine the factors that lead to negative health behaviours and negative health outcomes. I am interested in how negative healthcare interactions produce a stress response focusing on the steroid hormone cortisol. Additionally, I am interested in how theses negative healthcare interactions lead to medical skepticism, medical mistrust and the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Canadian women; specifically, those that experience racial discrimination. In my free time, I love to watch movies. My other favourite hobbies include painting, photography, cooking, and ballet.
Biographical Info
I am interested in social networks, well-being, and consciousness. My current projects involve identifying social cliques within individuals’ ego-networks, understanding how social support and social networks contribute to one’s intention-behavior gap, and analyzing normative scientific communication behaviors. In my free time, I am an avid volleyball player!
Biographical Info
Abdullah received their BSc Honours in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are mainly interested in how people’s intersecting social identities influence their experience and how they are perceived. They are specifically interested in social invisibility and how people with multiple marginalized identities experience invisibility. Abdullah is also interested in leveraging negative experiences of marginalized groups through intergroup contact, intra-minority interactions and stigma-based solidarity.
Biographical Info
I am interested broadly in intergroup relations. My work involves topics in intergroup contact, ideological groups, and outgroup perceptions. For my Master’s thesis, I am interested in how to increase intergroup contact between political groups. Do we perceive political contact as stressful and what can affect this appraisal? In another line of work, I hope to explore how perceptions of other peoples’ morality influences intergroup attitudes and emotions.