LINDA ALLAN
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

linda.allan@ubc.ca
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250.807.8729

BA McMaster University
MA University of Guelph

RESEARCH: ageist attitudes and beliefs in different populations; the mitigation of ageist attitudes and behaviour; ageist treatment of the elderly; cognitive ageing; a cross sectional comparison of adults’ and university undergraduates’ attitudes and knowledge about elderly persons

TEACHING: human development from a lifespan perspective including child, adolescence, adulthood and aging

JAN CIOE
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY
Head, PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

WEBSITE

jan.cioe@ubc.ca
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250.807.8732

MA & PhD University of Western Ontario
MPhil University of Cambridge

RESEARCH: human sexuality; forensic psychology; recovery of function from cortical lesions

TEACHING: research methods and statistics; forensic psychology; human sexuality

PAUL DAVIES
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

paul.g.davies@ubc.ca
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250-807-8727

PhD University of Waterloo
Postdoctoral Research Stanford University

RESEARCH: intergroup conflict; diversity policies; stereotype threat; social identity; stigma and discrimination; research has shown corporations how to attract and retain underrepresented employees, taught school administrators and teachers how to enable their minority students to perform to their full potential, and trained police officers how to make fewer errors when using deadly force 

TEACHING: introductory psychology; social psychology; intergroup relations

PAUL GABIAS
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

paul.gabias@ubc.ca
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250.807.9383

BA & PhD New York University
Latín Legum Doctor University of Victoria

RESEARCH: interface between visual and haptic perception; the comprehension and production of haptic pictures by the blind; health and adjustment; increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects blindness

TEACHING: introductory psychology; non-visual perception; psychology of touch; psychological aspects of advocacy

LIANE GABORA
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

liane.gabora@ubc.ca
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250-807-9849

BSc University of Western Ontario
PhD Free University of Brussels

RESEARCH: creativity; concepts, especially how they combine and adapt to new contexts; origins of modern cognition; cultural evolution; computer models of the above

TEACHING: psychology of creativity and humour; evolution of human cognition

LINDA HATT
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

linda.hatt@ubc
ARTS
250.807.9323

BSc University of Oklahoma
PhD University of Alberta

RESEARCH: health psychology; pain management; experimental analysis of behavior

TEACHING: health psychology; personality

MARK HOLDER
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

mark.holder@ubc.ca
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250.807.8728

BA Simon Fraser University
PhD University of California, Berkeley

RESEARCH: positive psychology and the science of happiness; research has four main thrusts: 1) the predictors (e.g., temperament, spirituality, and social) of happiness in children; 2) strategies and programs to promote well-being; 3) the biological basis of happiness; and 4) developing new measures of happiness

TEACHING: introductory psychology; behavioral neuroscience

SUSAN HOLTZMAN
Assistant Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

 WEBSITE

susan.holtzman@ubc.ca
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250.807.8730

MA University of British Columbia
PhD University of British Columbia

RESEARCH: health psychology; adjustment to chronic illness; stress and coping; close relationships; caregiving; depression; chronic pain; organ transplantation; daily process methodologies; pathways through which the social environment can influence physical and emotional well-being in healthy and chronically ill populations

TEACHING: introduction to psychology; health psychology

MARVIN KRANK
Professor, PSYCHOLOGY


WEBSITE

marvin.krank@ubc.ca
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250.807.8773

BA Indiana University
PhD McMaster University

RESEARCH: development of substance abuse in adolescence; vulnerabilities related to social learning; cognitive models that differentiate implicit (unconscious) from explicit memories; the relative role of automatic associations versus executive control;social experiences, dispositions, memories, and thoughts that predict transitions to substance use and to substance abuse

CYNTHIA MATHIESON
Professor, PSYCHOLOGY
Dean, IRVING K. BARBER SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

cynthia.mathieson@ubc.ca
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250.807.9527

MA Northern Arizona University
MSc & PhD University of Calgary

RESEARCH: identity theory; narrative and thematic analyses; health psychology; women's health; psychosocial oncology; provide an understanding of identity and its narrative as well as the barriers to health care

TEACHING: community psychology; history of psychology; health psychology

BRIAN O'CONNOR
Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

brian.oconnor@ubc.ca
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250-807-9636

BSc St. Francis Xavier University
PhD University of Victoria

RESEARCH: statistics; methods; normal and abnormal personality; interpersonal behaviour; psychopathology; writes software for statistical procedures

TEACHING: advanced statistics; research methods; psychopathology

STEPHEN PORTER
Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

stephen.porter@ubc.ca
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250.807.9129

BSc Acadia University
PhD University of British Columbia

RESEARCH: psychology and law; legal decision-making; forensic aspects of memory/PTSD; deception detection; criminal behaviour; psychopathic personality; examines the criminal activity of psychopathic offenders, the accuracy of memory for traumatic events and behavioural cues to deception

TEACHING: forensic psychology; psychopathy; violence; personality theory

BARBARA RUTHERFORD
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY
Associate Dean, Faculty and Academic Planning,
IRVING K. BARBER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

WEBSITE

barbara.rutherford@ubc.ca
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250-807-8734

MSc University of Alberta
PhD University of Auckland

RESEARCH: communication between the hemispheres of the brain during reading in people with and without a reading disability such as dyslexia; developmental trends in hemispheric specialization for reading

TEACHING: memory; cognitive processes

JANICE SNYDER
Assistant Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

janice.snyder@ubc.ca
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250.807.8733

PhD University of Alberta
Postdoctoral Research University of Pennsylvania

RESEARCH: role of attentional orienting in navigation, visual search, and reading readiness with an emphasis on determining the neural correlates underlying these abilities; explores the mechanisms and neural substrates of "selective attention" that allow for coherent behaviour in a visually complex world

TEACHING: introductory psychology; cognition; perception; research design

CAROLYN SZOSTAK 
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

carolyn.szostak@ubc.ca
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250.807.8736

MA Carleton University
PhD University of British Columbia

RESEARCH: television and mental health stigma; adjustment to university; test development; psychometric evaluation; how mental health and mental health disorders are represented in different kinds of television shows (dramas, comedies, talk shows, etc.);  the role of television in combatting stigmatizing attitudes about mental health disorders

TEACHING: mental health disorders; pop culture and mental health; use of psychological tests & assessments

ZACH WALSH
Assistant Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

zachary.walsh@ubc.ca
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250.807.9373
 

PhD Chicago Medical School/R.F.U.M.S
Postdoctoral Fellowship Brown University

RESEARCH: psychopathy; substance abuse; addictions; borderline personality disorder; criminal violence; intimate partner violence; socioeconomic status; neighbourhood factors; normal personality; affective dysregulation; attentional biases; the interrelated roles of personality, substance use and sociodemographic factors in predicting different classes of violent behavior; the affective and cognitive factors that subserve antisocial behavior in general

TEACHING: introduction to psychology; research methods; and statistics

SUSAN J. WELLS
Professor, PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL WORK
WEBSITE

Susan.Wells@ubc.ca
ASC 453
250.807.8163

PhD University of Southern California
Postdoctoral Research The Johns Hopkins University

RESEARCH: investigates the possible causes of overrepresentation of African American children in the United States’ out-of-home care; re-entry into out-of-home care after reunification with family; stability of out-of-home care placements; explores child welfare case types to identify characteristics that more closely represent the complexity of cases seen in the field

TEACHING: child welfare services and policy; program evaluation; research methods

MICHAEL WOODWORTH
Associate Professor, PSYCHOLOGY

WEBSITE

michael.woodworth@ubc.ca
ASC 205
250.807.8731

BA University of Victoria
PhD Dalhousie University

RESEARCH: psychopathy; violent offending; deception detection; computer-mediated communication; assessment and treatment of forensic populations; memory and psychiatric issues primarily within a legal context

TEACHING: psychopathy; criminal behaviour; deception detection