PhD students

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award

Research interests:

• Perceptual mechanisms underlying the face recognition process
• Learning process

Details:
Email: lalg06 [@] uqo.ca

Research Assistant 
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (CGS-M)

Research interests:

• Cultural differences in visual representations of facial expression
• Thesis of Honor: Evaluating trustworthiness: differences in mental representations as a function of face ethnicity

Details:
Email: francis.gingras16 [@] gmail.com

PhD candidate in Psychology  – Research and Intervention (RI)
Département de psychologie , UQTR

Research interests:

• Facial expression recognition and underlying mechanisms
• Attentional resources and cognitive limits
• Impact of ethnicity and gender on facial expression processing

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of the FRQSC Research Awards (B1 & B2)

Research interests:

• Cognitive bias and decisional processes in sports
• Impact of social factors on participation in physical activity
• Promotion of physical activity
• Motivation and modification of movement habits
• Thesis: Biases in decision making of referees following criticism of their work: impact of social factors present in the game environment

Details:
Email: joelguerette [@] uqo.ca

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of the Research Scholarship FRQNT (B1) 
Recipient of the SSHRC Scholarship (CGS M)

Research interests:

• PhD thesis: The impact of individual factors (sex, empathy) and culture on the perceptive and neural mechanisms underlying the perception of pain in others. 
• Honour thesis: Perceptive mechanisms underlying the processing of static and dynamic facial expressions.
• The impact of ethnic bias on perceptive mechanisms and behaviors.
• The use of Reverse correlation to reveal body image disturbance.

Details:
Email: mpplouffe [@] gmail.com

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
In co-direction with Annie Bérubé

Research interests:

• The impact of maltreatment on the conceptualization and perception of facial emotions
• The impact of language development on emotion recognition
• Neural representations of facial emotion categories
• The effect of traumatic experiences on physiological response

Details:
Email: stpe06@uqo.ca