Masters Thesis List - Psychology

Degree Date	Student	Supervisor	Thesis Title
2025	Tabytha Wells	Dr. Elizabeth Russell	Challenging Ageism and Supporting Age-Based Equity through an Intergenerational University Classroom: Proposing a Revised Model of Age-Consciousness
2025	Jennifer Stevenson	Dr. Liana Brown	Freezing in Parkinson's Disease: A Reaching Study
2025	Leah Steinke	Dr. Liana Brown	Is There a Relationship Between Freezing and Executive Function In People Living with Parkinson’s Disease?
2025	Tiana Vandendort	Dr. Mowei Liu	When Parents Phub: Investigating its Relationship with Children's Digital and Problem Behaviours
2025	Kiera Johnston	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	What’s it Take to Get a Novel Metaphor Around Here? Exploring Potential Contributors to Novel Metaphor Production
2025	Taylor Anthony	Dr. Jennifer Eastabrook	No Risk, No Reward: Does Shame Impact Youth Risk-Taking Behaviours and its Outcomes?
2025	Emma Pownall	Drs. Liana Brown & Fergal O'Hagan	Psychological Adjustment and Psychological Flexibility Following Sport-related Concussion
2025	Daniel McCallum	Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Spaced Learning Parameters for HPC-Independent Context Fear Memory
2024	Thomas Bodrug	Dr. Kateryna Keefer	Rethinking Assessment: Students’ Experiences, Learning Approaches, and Motivations in University Exams
2024	Javishaa Thiyagarajah	Dr. Neil Fournier	Exploring the Impact of Acute Stress on Previously Acquired Contextual Fear Memory
2024	Kirkland Johnston	Dr. Neil Fournier	Naturalistic Predator Odor and Suboptimal CFA Dosing: A Novel Approach to Investigating Stress-Pain Hypersensitivity
2024	Evana Xiao	Dr. Neil Fournier	Nociceptive Pain in the Amygdala Kindling Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2024	Jenna Bolzon	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds	Stand at Attention. Examining Postural Effects on Attention
2024	Alisa French	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Differentiate and Conquer: Associations between Self-other Differentiation and Adaptative Capacity in Adolescents with and without Mental Health Disorder
2024	Jessica Johnson	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Running the Yellow Light: Consent Negotiation Strategies Amongst BDSM versus NON-BDSM Practicing Individuals
2024	Rebecca Robertson	Dr. Mowei Liu	Mind-Mindedness and Child Compliance: Exploring the Mediating Role of Parenting Practices in Canada and China
2024	Natasha Kahler	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Examining the Interplay: Social Anxiety and Body Image in Young Adults
2024	Samantha Sorzano	Dr. Liana Brown	How Spotting With Touch Affects Skill Performance and Self Confidence in Gymnasts
2024	Jordan Till	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Predicting Overt Symptoms in OCD
2024	Kaitlyn Blewett	Dr. Neil Fournier	The Effect of Systemic Temozolomide on Learning and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity: Implications for chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment
2024	Samantha Fillion	Dr. Kateryna Keefer	Posttraumatic Growth During COVID19 in Students: The Roles of Coping, Trait Emotional Intelligence, and Perceived Social Support
2024	Poppy Valentine	Dr. Ben Bauer	Impulsivity, Cannabis Use, Risk-Taking Behaviour and Performance on Vigilance, Attention, and Decision Making Tasks
2024	Janice Shewen	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Oral Language and the Approximate Number System - A Preliminary Study
2024	Mariana Soutter	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds	How Far is a Written Word We Are Trying to Ignore Processed?
2023	Yuke Fu	Dr. Mowei Liu	Does Mind-Mindedness Matter? Understanding the Connection Between Parenting Styles and Preschoolers' Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviour Problems from a Cultural Lens
2023	Eric Samtleben	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	Why Can't I Stick to My Workout Routine? An Integrated Approach to Self-Regulation and Physical Activity
2023	Eva Fernandes	Dr. Terry Humphreys	The Impact of Sexual Health Education on Sexual Communication and Consent Negotiation
2023	Kalyca Hebert	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Sexual Agency and Sexual Well-Being: The Interrelationships Between Sexual Agency, Sexual Consent Communication, Sexual Motivations, and Positive Sexual Evaluations
2023	Heather Patton	Dr. Kevin Peters	Development of the Attitudes Toward Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement Scale
2023	Nicole D'Angelo	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Children Adopted from China: Cultural Socialization Practices, Parent-Child Relationship, and Social-Emotional Behaviour
2023	Nathaniel Johnson	Dr. Geoff Navara	The Ethereal Path to Well-Being: An Exploration of the Connections Between Meditation, Spirituality and Psychological Health
2023	Jordan MacDonald	Dr. Geoff Navara	Thou God Seest Me: an Investigation into the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Deviant Behaviours in Youth.
2023	Scottie Jean Curran	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Nurturing Deviance: Exploring the Association Between Attachment and Criminal Thinking Patterns
2022	Hannah Cahill	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Determinants of Deviance: Exploring Associations Between Attachment, Adversity, and Criminal Behaviour
2022	Emmilie Lindon	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	What Happens in Childhood, Does Not Stay in Childhood: Exploring the Relationship Between Attachment, Childhood Adversity, and Posttraumatic Stress
2022	Kristen Lott	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds	Does boredom lead to ego-depletion? Examining the association between boredom and ego-depletion
2022	Kaylea MacDonald	Dr. Neil Fournier	Affective Pain Hypersensitivity in the Amygdala Kindling Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
2022	Renée McCutcheon	Dr. Lisa Nisbet	Green Leadership in the Classroom: Investigating Teachers' Environmental Leadership, Well-Being, Impressions of Nature, and Motivation to take Students Outdoors
2022	Bre O'Handley	Dr. Karen Blair	Vulnerability and resilience: A longitudinal examination of minority stress and coping processes in a sample of LGBTQ+ individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Merissa Prine	Dr. Terry Humphreys	The Desire to Be Authentic: The Development of the Sexual Authenticity Scale
2022	Kara Rutherford	Dr. Fergal O'Hagan	Help-Seeking Behaviours Of Individuals With Workplace Mental Health Injuries
2022	Jocelyn Sommerfeld	Dr. Lisa Nisbet	Family Experiences in Nature: How Parents May Influence Their Children’s Exposure to the Natural Environment
2022	Jonathan Whitsitt	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Social Anxiety, Theory of Mind, and Executive Function in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood
2021	Coady Babin	Dr. Terry Humphreys	The First Time...A Second Time: Experiences of Second Virginity Loss in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
2021	Kelsey Bowie	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Thinking High When Feeling Shy: Exploring the Contribution of Psychological Variables to Social Anxiety and Substance Use Relationships
2021	Lianne Brandt	Dr. Neil Fournier and Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Retrograde Amnesia of Fear Memories Following Pentylenetetrazol Kindling
2021	Roya Ghahremani	Dr. Kateryna Keefer	Unbridled Potential: The Use of Equine Assisted Learning as a Resiliency Intervention
2021	Simon Godin	Dr. Neil Fournier	Endocannabinoid Treatment for the Behavioural and Histopathological Alterations of Epilepsy
2021	Marisa Leuzzi	Dr.Alba Agostino and Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	The Relations Between Identity Developmental Processes, Study Habits, and Academic Performance
2021	Brianne Lisinski	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	Calming Chaos in the Classroom: The Effect of Self-Regulation Professional Training on Teachers' Perceptions of the Classroom Environment and Student Behavior
2021	Paige Pascoe	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Peers, Props & Play: Complexity of Pretend Play and Early Academic Skills
2021	Kassidy Roberts	Dr. Hugo Lehmann	The Interaction Between Dual Memory Stores for Long-Term Context Fear Memory in the Rat
2021	Ashley Robertshaw	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Drink my beer, smoke my weed, my good friends are all I need: Attachment representations and substance use in a university sample
2021	Emily Storey-Hurtubise	Dr. James Parker	Developing Social-Emotional Competencies in Youth: Validation of the Short Form for the Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth Version (EQ-i:YV-S)
2020	Grishma Dahal	Dr. Liana Brown	An Exploration of Attachment Influences on Rape Attitudes
2020	Laura de la Roche	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Developing social skills: A pilot study of a parent-mediated intervention for children with ASD
2020	Liam Doyle	Dr. Geoffrey Navara	Anti-Social Cognition: Exploring the Relationships Between the Dark Triad, Empathy, and Theory of Mind
2020	Jocelyn Enright	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Mindful or Mind Full? Exploring the Associations between Attachment Representations, Mindfulness, and Stress
2020	Patrick Fox	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Exploring Characteristics of those Utilizing Different Modalities of Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
2020	Frederick Alexander Hooke-Wood	Dr. Elizabeth Nisbet	A Comparison of Nature Activities: Citizen Science, Environmental Education, and Mere Nature Exposure
2020	Danielle Lachance	Dr. Elizabeth Nisbet	What Nature is Best? Testing the Effects of Green and Blue Space on Mood and Environmental Concern
2020	Krystal Lebreton	Dr. Fergal O'Hagan	Women's Lived Experience of Risk in Pregnancy
2020	Leisha Ann Lustic	Dr. Liana Brown	The Effect of Aging and Movement Variability on Motor Adaptation
2020	Jillian Mead	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Problem-Solving and Cognitive Flexibility in Older Adolescents and Young Adults
2020	Adriana Paoletti	Dr. Liana Brown	The Influence of Action Potentiation on the Perception of Objects Presented Near Hand
2020	Daisy Pyman	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation, Anxiety and Personality (ASAP): 'Some' Day is not a Day of the Week
2020	Brady Reive	Dr. Neil Fournier	Use Of Rapid Amygdala Kindling With Corticosterone Supplementation As A Model Of Epilepsy-Depression Comorbidity
2020	Jackie Robinson	Dr. Fergal O'Hagan and Dr. Hugo Lehmann	An Emergent Model of the Return to Learn Process for Adolescents with Prolonged Concussion
2020	Rachel Thompson	Nancie Im-Bolter	Facilitating Self-Regulation through Physical Activity
2020	Linnea Veloce	Teresa Decicco	It's All in Your Head: Comparing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and The Storytelling Method (TSM) of Dream
2019	Cassandra Aked	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Executive Function, Emotion Regulation, and Social
2019	Katherine Boyle	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds and Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Balance is Key: Perceptual Fluency as a Link Between Trait Incompleteness and Symmetry Preferences
2019	Erik Bridle	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Sexting and Satisfaction: Was it Good for You?
2019	Ghinwa El-Ariss	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Perceive Me, Perceive You: The Mediating Role of Attributional Biases Between Attachment and Relational Aggression
2019	Tasha Falconer	Dr. Terry Humphreys	To Sext or Not to Sext: The Risks and Benefits of Sexting in Intimate Relationships
2019	Natalie Ford	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds	Is semantics activated automatically? Evidence from the PRP paradigm
2019	Travis Francis	Dr. Neil Fournier	Impaired Contextual Fear Discrimination Learning after Long-Term Amygdala Kindling
2019	Michelle Hisson	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Sextual Consent: Examining the Relationships Between Sexting, Perceptions of Sexual Consent, and Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences
2019	Alena Kalinina	Dr. Neil Fournier	Altered Hippocampal Regulation of Immediate Early Genes After Pentylenetetrazol-Induced Seizures
2019	Dayton Kelly	Dr. Liana Brown	A Comparison of Dehydration Techniques for Acute Weight Management in Rowing
2019	Swarsattie Kishun	Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Context Fear Memory: Escaping the Hippocampus
2019	Alaina Kunder	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	What's the trouble with women? Fostering female engagement in substance abuse programming: Lessons from the Community Activator Model
2019	Jasmine Livermore	Dr. Liana Brown and Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Assessing the Clinical Usefulness of Three Tablet-Based Visuomotor Tasks to Evaluate
2019	Anastasia Nepotiuk	Dr. Liana Brown	Using a Real-World Chopping Task to Study Motor Learning and Memory
2019	Nicole Oattes	Dr. James Parker	Assessing Emotion Processing Deficits in Youth: Validation of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale Adolescent Version
2019	Tina Slaunwhite	Dr. Jennifer Eastabrook	Cognitive Inefficiencies in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: An Evaluation of Cognitive Remediation Therapy
2019	Catherine Walmsley	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Social Anxiety and Emotional Competence: A 15 Year Follow up Study
2019	Alicja Zaniewska	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Emotional competencies in mothers and children and their relationship with health care utilization, somatization and health anxiety
2018	Aminah Chambers	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Who Cares? Examining Associations between Caregiving Sensitivity and Parent-Peer Attachment
2018	Bradley Daniels	Dr. Rory Coughlan	Money for Nothing: Perceptions of a Basic Income and Health Outcomes in Canada
2018	Erin Laverty	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Scripted Sexual Beliefs and Behaviours: From First to Recent Sexual Encounters
2018	Pake Newell	Dr. Geoffrey Navara	Role of Media in Shaping Perceptions of HIV and Affecting Engagement in HIV Care
2018	Lisa Tejpar	Dr. Elizabeth Nisbet	Gratitude is in our Nature: How mindful appreciation of nature affects well-being
2017	Laura Bouchard	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Asserting Sexual (Dis)Interest: How do Women's Capabilities Differ?
2017	Alexandra Ha	Dr. James Parker	Emotional Intelligence and Bullying Victimization: An Exploration of Gender, Age, and Sub-Types of Bullying Activities
2017	Sarah Healy	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Executive Function as a Predictor of Emotional, Behavioural, and Social Competence Problems in Children with Epilepsy
2017	Michael Jorgensen	Dr. Fergal O'Hagan and Dr. Hugo Lehmann	How Do We Let the Players Play and Keep Them Safe? The Issue of Problematic Beliefs in the Prevention of Concussion Injury
2017	Neha Khullar	Dr. Rory Coughlan	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Critical Analysis of the Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Mental Health and Illness in Kuwait
2017	Jessica Pasinetti	Dr. Elizabeth Nisbet	Sweat it Out: Attitudes and Decision Making Surrounding Ethical Garments
2017	Jessica Reid	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Jail Time: Effects of Attachment, Gender, and Contact on the Associations Between Parental Incarceration, Offspring Symptoms and Delinquency
2017	Ripdaman Savinder Singh	Dr. Fergal O'Hagan and Dr. Deborah Kennett	Thinking Ahead: Stakeholder Perspectives on Transitioning Media Change for Communication between Health Care Providers and Employers During Return to Work
2017	Emily Stiner	Dr. Beth Visser and Dr. Ben Bauer	Are we all on the spectrum? Assessing autistic traits in the Hexaco personality framework
2016	Christopher Bedore	Dr. Liana Brown and Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Comparing Two Tablet-Based Visuomotor Tasks to Standard Laboratory Versions
2016	Susan Coltman	Dr. Liana Brown	Practicing and Rewarding Task-Relevant Motor Variability to Optimize Motor Performance
2016	Jessica Curran	Dr. Geoffrey Navara	Representations of Aboriginal Health in the Media
2016	Laura Kennedy	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Childhood Precursors of Adult Train Incompleteness
2016	Janet Lobban-Shymko	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Social Communicative Factors as Predictors of Symptom Severity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
2016	Dougal Nolan	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	The Fathering Experience of the Transition into Parenthood
2016	Amy Peverley	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	"I Like Big Books": Students' Preferences for Text and Academic Characteristics at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario
2016	Patricia Smith	Dr. Deborah Kennett	Why not give up? A study on the role of resourcefulness in goal pursuit
2016	Gregory Tracey	Dr. Liana Brown	Tool-Use and Near-Tool Effects: Exploring the Influence of Training Demands
2015	Karolina Beben	Dr. Liana Brown	Testing the Role of Bimodal Cells in Near-Hand Effects: An rTMS Study
2015	Carly Bumbacco	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Help Wanted: Attachment, Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Help-Seeking Behaviour Among University Students
2015	Sean Carlin	Dr. Liana Brown	Near-Hand Effects and Recruitment of Visual-Tactile Bimodal Cells
2015	Chelsea Kilimnik	Dr. Terry Humphreys	Sexual Consent: The Role of Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences, Identification, and Affective Sexuality
2015	Veronica Lai	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Kiss and tell: Exploring the associations between attachment representations and the sexual encounter
2015	Rebecca Martin	Dr. Deborah Kennett	To Be Kind Or Not To Be Kind: The Role Of Self-Compassion in the Academic Self-Control Model
2015	Korri McCourt	Dr. Rory Coughlan	Youth Justice in Canada: Just Ice?
2015	Raymond McKie	Dr. Terry Humphreys	"Just say Yes": Sexual Consent and Boundary Setting on-and Offline: An International Perspective of Men of Varying Sexual Orientations
2015	Kristen Morrison	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	CTRL + ALT + DEL: A Dark & Interpersonal Perspective of Cyber-Bullying
2015	Danielle Sage	Dr. Geoffrey Navara	Marital Satisfaction throughout the Journey of Weight-Loss Surgery
2015	Elizabeth Shepherd	Dr. Hugo Lehmann	Non-Hippocampal Memory Systems Contributing to Reinstated Context Memory
2015	Ashley Toohey	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Cognitive and affective theory of mind in children and young adolescents
2015	Clarissa Williams	Dr. Terry Humphreys	The Relationship Between Virginity Scripts and Precoital Sexual Behaviour
2014	Joshua Black	Dr. Teresa Decicco	Examining Dreams, Dream Content, and Meaning of Dreams in Bereavement
2014	Caitlin Higginson	Dr. Kevin Peters	The Role of Multiple Nights of Sleep in the Consolidation of an Engaging and Complex Motor Learning Task
2014	Kyle Kenniphaas	Dr. Leslie Kerr	Neonatal Environment Influences Behavioral and Physiological Reactivity to Stressors, and Mammary Gland Development in BALB/c Mice: Implications for Breast Cancer Risk
2014	Nicolle Miller	Dr. Teresa Decicco	Assessing the Effects of Brief Interventions on Mood and Dream Imagery in Recovering Alcohol and Drug Addicts
2014	Christopher Quinn-Nilas	Dr. Deborah Kennett	Application of the Sexual Self-Control Model and the Two-Dimensional Sexual Double Standard Scale to Heterosexual Undergraduate Men and Women
2014	Gillian Tibbetts	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	War and Peace: Attachment, Conflict, and Collaboration in Adult Sibling Relationships
2013	Muniq Anam	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Parent-Child Synchrony and Child Psychopathology
2013	Katharine Bailey	Dr. Nancie Im-Bolter	Talking it out: Social Problem Solving and Language in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
2013	Karen Gillis	Dr. Laura Summerfeldt	Emotional Competency and Trait Motivations for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
2013	Kyle Morrissey	Dr. Mowei Liu	Finger-Counting Habits and Number Processing in Canadian and Chinese University Students
2013	Jesiqua Rapley	Dr. Brenda Smith-Chant	First Nation Community Perceptions of Positive Behaviour Changes Identified in Youth Associated with Participation in a Community Recreation Program: A Grounded Theory Approach
2012	Willow Burns	Dr. Elaine Scharfe	Insecure, hostile, angry, and unhealthy: The mediating role of Type A in the association between attachment insecurity and health
2012	Hilary Fast	Dr. Deborah Kennett	Learned Resourcefulness and Exercise Behaviour: The Development and Validation of the Exercise Resourcefulness Inventory
2012	Kristen Withers	Dr. Michael Chan-Reynolds	Pre-Attentive Guidance Contributes to the Search for Changes: Evidence from Eye Movements