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Please click here  to watch the Psychology Honours Thesis Defenses live online.

Psychology Honours Student
Thesis Defenses 2025

Date: Monday, April 28, 2025

Time: 8:30AM to 4:30PM

Location: Surrey Conference Center, Cedar 1205A and 1205B 

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Location:

Surrey Conference Center, Cedar 1205A and 1205B

(Introductory remarks begin at 8:45am - full schedule below)

TimeHonours Student and Thesis TitleSupervisor
8:30 AM - 8:45 AMMorning Refreshments 
8:50 AM - 9:00 AMIntroductory Remarks: Dean of Arts, Shelley Boyd 
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMAlisha Arora
Unraveling Academic Procrastination: Predictors and Intervention Effectiveness in University Students
Jocelyn Lymburner
9:35 AM - 10:05 AMTanisha Bali
The Effect of Chronic Cannabis Use on Latent Inhibition
Ivan Trujillo-Pisanty & Farhad Dastur
10:10 AM - 10:40 AMSurveer Boparai
Scoping the Evidence: The Effect of Expectation Congruency in Workplace Investigations
Carla MacLean
10:45 AM - 11:15 AMCamille Bedard
Behind Closed Minds: Stigma and Attitudes Toward the Disclosure of Pedophilic Obsessions
Cory Pedersen & Amanda Champion
11:20 AM - 11:50 AMRose Kajal
The Influence of Background Music on Academic Performance in the Classroom
Shayna Minosky
11:50 AM - 12:55 PMLUNCH 
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMAmy Rabidoux
You Should Smile More: Investigating Precarious Masculinity, Dominance, and Sociability as Explanations for The Smiling Gap
Cory Pedersen
1:35 PM - 2:05 PMHailey Russell
Feed for thought: How Social Media is Used to Understand Mental Health
Jocelyn Lymburner
2:10 PM - 2:40 PMAidan Sammell
OCD, Metacognition, and Cognitive Deficits Following an Induced "Not Just Right Experience
Daniel Bernstein
2:40 PM - 3:00 PMBreak 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMKatie Schmidt
Enhancing Online Learning: The Role of Instructor Presence and Multimedia Design
Kristie Dukewich
3:35 PM - 4:05 PMKajal Virk
The Impact of Emotional Arousal on the Misinformation Effect and Eyewitness Memory
Shayna Minosky
4:05 PM - 4:20 PMQ&A Session 
4:20 PM - 4:30 PMClosing Remarks: Director, Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship Services, Amit Shukla 
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