UWindsor Psychology Community & Health Lab

Please check out this video featuring two of our ASP students (Kristin Schramer and Carolyn Rauti) highlighting work conducted with colleagues Dr. Catherine Kwantes and Arief Kartolo on employed student burnout! Their article, published in the Journal of Public Mental Health, will be freely available through Emerald Publishing until the end of July as part of their promotion of the UKs Mental Health Awareness Week. The direct link to the video can be found in the comments of this post. https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com///kindness-matters

Dr. Chris Lee (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Dr. Kathryn Lafreniere, and Dr. Ken Cramer have been awarded a grant in the amount of $66,765 by the Ontario ...Ministry of Transportation, under the Road Safety Research Partnership Program for their research project entitled "Mitigating Distracted Driving Based on Understanding of Drivers Personality, Motivational, and Mobile Phone Dependency Characteristics". Their research team is currently analysing data for a related project to study predictors of driving aggression. This partnership will continue to provide exciting opportunities for student researchers in Psychology to collaborate with researchers in Engineering to conduct driving research using a driving simulator. See more

Are you interested in helping to test a new scale of measurement? Risk perception can vary from person-to-person, and from situation-to-situation. We are currently in the process of creating a new scale of measurement that will help researchers investigate risk perception, without losing the element of personal choice. We are asking for your help in testing this scale we need many people to complete this survey so that we can examine the reliability and validity of the new s...cale. Participation in this study should take approximately 20 minutes of your time, and involves responding to question items that ask about your thoughts and behaviours in situations related to recreational sports (e.g., skydiving) and gambling (e.g., lottery tickets). You will then complete question items regarding your personal characteristics, such as gender, age, and ethnicity. If you choose to participate in this study, you will be eligible for a draw, with the possibility of winning one of 5 (five) $20 (twenty-dollar) gift cards. The draw will take place at the end of this study (September 1, 2019). Please click on the link to participate in the study. If you have questions about the study, you can contact the researcher: Joan Craig at [email protected] Link for Study: https://uwindsor.ca1.qualtrics.com//form/SV_0URfbTxbLdjIyAl Study Name: Balance of Choices Involving Chance: Psychometric Evaluation Length of Survey: Approximately 20 minutes Compensation: Participants will be eligible for a draw, with the possibility of winning one-of-five $20 gift cards. Date of Draw (end of study): September 1, 2019 Detailed description: This study is one in a series of studies that are being used in the creation of a new scale of measurement for risk perception. This online study contains questions that will help assess the reliability and validity of the new scale. Participation in this study involves responding to question items that ask about your thoughts and behaviours in situations related to recreational sports (e.g., skydiving) and gambling (e.g., lottery tickets). You will then complete question items regarding your personal characteristics, such as gender, age, and ethnicity. Eligibility criteria: You are only eligible to participate in this study one time. You are ineligible to participate in this study if you previously participated in interviews for the study Perception of risk in various situations or in Balance of Choices Involving Chance: Scale Development.

Awesome work in the Buchanan lab to promote bike helmet use.

This just came out in The Community Psychologist. Nicely done, Kristin!

More talented Honours thesis students show off their research posters for Dr. Lafrenieres class.

Dr. Lafrenieres Honours thesis class is presenting their research posters this afternoon, in Room 265A. Well done!

This years honours thesis poster session is Friday afternoon. Come out and see the great work by the thesis students!

Worth reading and thinking about.