Marie-Pier Plouffe-Demers
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
Amélie Roberge
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
Francis Gingras
Research Assistant and Lab Coordinator
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
Amanda Estephan
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Research interests:
. The impact of culture on attentional and perceptive processes. Specifically the differences between Westerners and Easterners pertaining to visual information extraction and integration mechanisms.
. The time course of the formation of perceptive representation in both cultures.
. The contributions of the genetic and the environment to the visual and cognitive strategies underlying the recognition of natural objects
Details:
Email: esta01 [@] uqo.ca
Guillaume Lalonde-Beaudoin
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
Joël Guérette
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