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)
| Time | Honours Student and Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Morning Refreshments | |
| 8:50 AM - 9:00 AM | Introductory Remarks: Dean of Arts, Shelley Boyd | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Alisha Arora Unraveling Academic Procrastination: Predictors and Intervention Effectiveness in University Students | Jocelyn Lymburner |
| 9:35 AM - 10:05 AM | Tanisha Bali The Effect of Chronic Cannabis Use on Latent Inhibition | Ivan Trujillo-Pisanty & Farhad Dastur |
| 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM | Surveer Bopari Scoping the Evidence: The Effect of Expectation Congruency in Workplace Investigations | Carla MacLean |
| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Camille Bedard Behind Closed Minds: Stigma and Attitudes Toward the Disclosure of Pedophilic Obsessions | Cory Pedersen & Amanda Champion |
| 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM | Rose Kajal The Influence of Background Music on Academic Performance in the Classroom | Shayna Minosky |
| 11:50 AM - 12:55 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Amy Rabidoux You Should Smile More: Investigating Precarious Masculinity, Dominance, and Sociability as Explanations for The Smiling Gap | Cory Pedersen |
| 1:35 PM - 2:05 PM | Hailey Russell Feed for thought: How Social Media is Used to Understand Mental Health | Jocelyn Lymburner |
| 2:10 PM - 2:40 PM | Aidan Sammell OCD, Metacognition, and Cognitive Deficits Following an Induced "Not Just Right Experience | Daniel Bernstein |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Katie Schmidt Enhancing Online Learning: The Role of Instructor Presence and Multimedia Design | Kristie Dukewich |
| 3:35 PM - 4:05 PM | Kajal Virk The Impact of Emotional Arousal on the Misinformation Effect and Eyewitness Memory | Shayna Minosky |
| 4:05 PM - 4:20 PM | Q&A Session | |
| 4:20 PM - 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks: Director, Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship Services, Amit Shukla |