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Degree Date	Student Name	Supervisor(s)	Thesis Title
2021	Coady Babin	Terry Humphreys	The First Time...A Second Time: Experiences of Second Virginity Loss in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
2021	Kelsey Bowie	Laura Summerfeldt	Thinking High When Feeling Shy: Exploring the Contribution of Psychological Variables to Social Anxiety and Substance Use Relationships
2021	Lianne Brandt	Neil Fournier and Hugo Lehmann	Retrograde Amnesia of Fear Memories Following Pentylenetetrazol Kindling
2021	Roya Ghahremani	Kateryna Keefer	Unbridled Potential: The Use of Equine Assisted Learning as a Resiliency Intervention
2021	Simon Godin	Neil Fournier	Endocannabinoid Treatment for the Behavioural and Histopathological Alterations of Epilepsy
2021	Marisa Leuzzi	Alba Agostino and Nancie Im-Bolter	The Relations Between Identity Developmental Processes, Study Habits, and Academic Performance
2021	Brianna Lisinski	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	Nancie Im-Bolter	Peers, Props & Play: Complexity of Pretend Play and Early Academic Skills
2021	Kassidy Roberts	Hugo Lehmann	The Interaction Between Dual Memory Stores for Long-Term Context Fear Memory in the Rat
2021	Ashley Robertshaw	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	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	Liana Brown	An Exploration of Attachment Influences on Rape Attitudes
2020	Laura de la Roche	Nancie Im-Bolter	Developing social skills: A pilot study of a parent-mediated intervention for children with ASD
2020	Liam Doyle	Geoffrey Navara	Anti-Social Cognition: Exploring the Relationships Between the Dark Triad, Empathy, and Theory of Mind
2020	Jocelyn Enright	Elaine Scharfe	Mindful or Mind Full? Exploring the Associations between Attachment Representations, Mindfulness, and Stress
2020	Patrick Fox	Nancie Im-Bolter	Exploring Characteristics of those Utilizing Different Modalities of Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
2020	Frederick Alexander Hooke-Wood	Elizabeth Nisbet	A Comparison of Nature Activities: Citizen Science, Environmental Education, and Mere Nature Exposure
2020	Danielle Lachance	Elizabeth Nisbet	What Nature is Best? Testing the Effects of Green and Blue Space on Mood and Environmental Concern
2020	Krystal Lebreton	Fergal O'Hagan	Women's Lived Experience of Risk in Pregnancy
2020	Leisha Ann Lustic	Liana Brown	The Effect of Aging and Movement Variability on Motor Adaptation
2020	Jillian Mead	Nancie Im-Bolter	Problem-Solving and Cognitive Flexibility in Older Adolescents and Young Adults
2020	Adriana Paoletti	Liana Brown	The Influence of Action Potentiation on the Perception of Objects Presented Near Hand
2020	Daisy Pyman	Brenda Smith-Chant	Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation, Anxiety and Personality (ASAP): 'Some' Day is not a Day of the Week
2020	Brady Reive	Neil Fournier	Use Of Rapid Amygdala Kindling With Corticosterone Supplementation As A Model Of Epilepsy-Depression Comorbidity
2020	Jackie Robinson	Fergal O'Hagan and 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	Nancie Im-Bolter	Executive Function, Emotion Regulation, and Social
2019	Katherine Boyle	Michael Chan-Reynolds and Laura Summerfeldt	Balance is Key: Perceptual Fluency as a Link Between Trait Incompleteness and Symmetry Preferences
2019	Erik Bridle	Terry Humphreys	Sexting and Satisfaction: Was it Good for You?
2019	Ghinwa El-Ariss	Elaine Scharfe	Perceive Me, Perceive You: The Mediating Role of Attributional Biases Between Attachment and Relational Aggression
2019	Tasha Falconer	Terry Humphreys	To Sext or Not to Sext: The Risks and Benefits of Sexting in Intimate Relationships
2019	Natalie Ford	Michael Chan-Reynolds	Is semantics activated automatically? Evidence from the PRP paradigm
2019	Travis Francis	Neil Fournier	Impaired Contextual Fear Discrimination Learning after Long-Term Amygdala Kindling
2019	Michelle Hisson	Terry Humphreys	Sextual Consent: Examining the Relationships Between Sexting, Perceptions of Sexual Consent, and Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences
2019	Alena Kalinina	Neil Fournier	Altered Hippocampal Regulation of Immediate Early Genes After Pentylenetetrazol-Induced Seizures
2019	Dayton Kelly	Liana Brown	A Comparison of Dehydration Techniques for Acute Weight Management in Rowing
2019	Swarsattie Kishun	Hugo Lehmann	Context Fear Memory: Escaping the Hippocampus
2019	Alaina Kunder	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	Liana Brown and Hugo Lehmann	Assessing the Clinical Usefulness of Three Tablet-Based Visuomotor Tasks to Evaluate
2019	Anastasia Nepotiuk	Liana Brown	Using a Real-World Chopping Task to Study Motor Learning and Memory
2019	Nicole Oattes	James Parker	Assessing Emotion Processing Deficits in Youth: Validation of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale Adolescent Version
2019	Tina Slaunwhite	Jennifer Eastabrook	Cognitive Inefficiencies in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: An Evaluation of Cognitive Remediation Therapy
2019	Catherine Walmsley	Laura Summerfeldt	Social Anxiety and Emotional Competence: A 15 Year Follow up Study
2019	Alicja Zaniewska	Laura Summerfeldt	Emotional competencies in mothers and children and their relationship with health care utilization, somatization and health anxiety
2018	Aminah Chambers	Elaine Scharfe	Who Cares? Examining Associations between Caregiving Sensitivity and Parent-Peer Attachment
2018	Bradley Daniels	Rory Coughlan	Money for Nothing: Perceptions of a Basic Income and Health Outcomes in Canada
2018	Erin Laverty	Terry Humphreys	Scripted Sexual Beliefs and Behaviours: From First to Recent Sexual Encounters
2018	Pake Newell	Geoffrey Navara	Role of Media in Shaping Perceptions of HIV and Affecting Engagement in HIV Care
2018	Lisa Tejpar	Elizabeth Nisbet	Gratitude is in our Nature: How mindful appreciation of nature affects well-being
2017	Laura Bouchard	Terry Humphreys	Asserting Sexual (Dis)Interest: How do Women's Capabilities Differ?
2017	Alexandra Ha	James Parker	Emotional Intelligence and Bullying Victimization: An Exploration of Gender, Age, and Sub-Types of Bullying Activities
2017	Sarah Healy	Nancie Im-Bolter	Executive Function as a Predictor of Emotional, Behavioural, and Social Competence Problems in Children with Epilepsy
2017	Michael Jorgensen	Fergal O'Hagan and 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	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	Elizabeth Nisbet	Sweat it Out: Attitudes and Decision Making Surrounding Ethical Garments
2017	Jessica Reid	Elaine Scharfe	Jail Time: Effects of Attachment, Gender, and Contact on the Associations Between Parental Incarceration, Offspring Symptoms and Deliquency
2017	Ripdaman Savinder Singh	Fergal O'Hagan and 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	Beth Visser and Ben Bauer	Are we all on the spectrum? Assessing autistic traits in the Hexaco personality framework
2016	Christopher Bedore	Liana Brown and Hugo Lehmann	Comparing Two Tablet-Based Visuomotor Tasks to Standard Laboratory Versions
2016	Susan Coltman	Liana Brown	Practicing and Rewarding Task-Relevant Motor Variability to Optimize Motor Performance
2016	Jessica Curran	Geoffrey Navara	Respresentations of Aboriginal Health in the Media
2016	Laura Kennedy	Laura Summerfeldt	Childhood Precursors of Adult Train Incompleteness
2016	Janet Lobban-Shymko	Nancie Im-Bolter	Social Communicative Factors as Predictors of Symptom Severity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
2016	Dougal Nolan	Brenda Smith-Chant	The Fathering Experience of the Transition into Parenthood
2016	Amy Peverley	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	Deborah Kennett	Why not give up? A study on the role of resourcefulness in goal pursuit
2016	Gregory Tracey	Liana Brown	Tool-Use and Near-Tool Effects: Exploring the Influence of Training Demands
2015	Karolina Beben	Liana Brown	Testing the Role of Bimodal Cells in Near-Hand Effects: An rTMS Study
2015	Carly Bumbacco	Elaine Scharfe	Help Wanted: Attachment, Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Help-Seeking Behaviour Among University Students
2015	Sean Carlin	Liana Brown	Near-Hand Effects and Recruitment of Visual-Tactile Bimodal Cells
2015	Chelsea Kilimnik	Terry Humphreys	Sexual Consent: The Role of Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences, Identification, and Affective Sexuality
2015	Veronica Lai	Elaine Scharfe	Kiss and tell: Exploring the associations between attachment representations and the sexual encounter
2015	Rebecca Martin	Deborah Kennett	To Be Kind Or Not To Be Kind: The Role Of Self-Compassion in the Academic Self-Control Model
2015	Korri McCourt	Rory Coughlan	Youth Justice in Canada: Just Ice?
2015	Raymond McKie	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	Elaine Scharfe	CTRL + ALT + DEL: A Dark & Interpersonal Perspective of Cyber-Bullying
2015	Danielle Sage	Geoffrey Navara	Marital Satisfaction throughout the Journey of Weight-Loss Surgery
2015	Elizabeth Shepherd	Hugo Lehmann	Non-Hippocampal Memory Systems Contributing to Reinstated Context Memory
2015	Ashley Toohey	Nancie Im-Bolter	Cognitive and affective theory of mind in children and young adolescents
2015	Clarissa Williams	Terry Humphreys	The Relationship Between Virginity Scripts and Precoital Sexual Behaviour
2014	Joshua Black	Teresa Decicco	Examining Dreams, Dream Content, and Meaning of Dreams in Bereavement
2014	Caitlin Higginson	Kevin Peters	The Role of Multiple Nights of Sleep in the Consolidation of an Engaging and Complex Motor Learning Task
2014	Kyle Kenniphaas	Leslie Kerr	Neonatal Environment Influences Behavioural and Physiological Reactivity to Stressors, and Mammary Gland Development in BALB/c Mice: Implications for Breast Cancer Risk
2014	Nicolle Miller	Teresa Decicco	Assessing the Effects of Brief Interventions on Mood and Dream Imagery in Recovering Alcohol and Drug Addicts
2014	Christopher Quinn-Nilas	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	Elaine Scharfe	War and Peace: Attachment, Conflict, and Collaboration in Adult Sibling Relationships
2013	Muniq Anam	Nancie Im-Bolter	Parent-Child Synchrony and Child Psychopathology
2013	Katharine Bailey	Nancie Im-Bolter	Talking it out: Social Problem Solving and Language in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
2013	Karen Gillis	Laura Summerfeldt	Emotional Competency and Trait Motivations for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
2013	Kyle Morrissey	Mowei Liu	Finger-Counting Habits and Number Processing in Canadian and Chinese University Students
2013	Jesiqua Rapley	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	Elaine Scharfe	Insecure, hostile, angry, and unhealthy: The mediating role of Type A in the association between attachment insecurity and health
2012	Hilary Fast	Deborah Kennett	Learned Resourcefulness and Exercise Behaviour: The Development and Validation of the Exercise Resourcefulness Inventory
2012	Kristen Withers	Michael Chan-Reynolds	Pre-Attentive Guidance Contributes to the Search for Changes: Evidence from Eye Movements

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