New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Adrian B. Safati (PhD student) and Dr. Daniel Smilek shows that simply expecting to think about our own thinking can actively influence how we regulate attention. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

University of Waterloo Psychology’s boredom expert, James Danckert, shares his origin story (of sorts): “In many ways, I have my brother and an overblown myth of Phineas Gage to thank for my appreciation of boredom.” Read it here: www.boredomsociety.com/jbs/index.ph...

What do clinicians think about using social robots in psychological practice? Timely study from an @uwaterloo.ca collaboration between researchers in Engineering and Psychology (Charlotte Aitken & Elizabeth Nilsen). Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology’s Neil Hester (with Eric Hehman from McGill) shows why looking beyond means matters when using continuous predictors for binary outcomes. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers (Elizabeth Nilsen, Charlotte Aitken, Kate Van Kessel) offers new insights into how adolescents and their parents' mentalizing and reflective functioning shape peer relationships. Check it out: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129544/

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology’s David Moscovitch and colleagues offers important insights into the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to the efficacy of imagery rescripting as a therapeutic intervention. Read more here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Important new research by University of Waterloo’s @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social Sara Hart and colleagues demonstrates that genetic or environmental influences on reading skills change with age. see: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Huge congratulations to Dr. Dillon Browne from Waterloo’s Department of Psychology on being named to the Royal Society of Canada College! See here for more details: uwaterloo.ca/news/rsc-rec...