Postdoctoral Fellows

Anvita Gopal completed her Ph.D. at the IIT in Gandihinagar, India examining the effect of John Henryism on mental health within the Indian caste system. Her work will focus on the neural (EEG) and psychophysical dynamics of boredom, as well as examining the role of technology and social connectedness for those high in boredom proneness.

Graduate Students

Allison Drody completed her undergraduate degree at UBC and is interested in mind-wandering, attention, and boredom. Her work explores media multi-tasking — are we really capable of doing more than one thing at a time?

Chantal Trudel is completing an MA in Cognitive Neuroscience where she will examine the relation between boredom proneness and the capacity to make meaning from pseudo-random stimuli.

Vanessa Baaba Dadzie is completing her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience. She completed her Master’s degree at the United Arab Emirates University and joined the lab in 2021. Her work focuses on understanding the relationship between boredom and agency.

Jessica Lee is completing her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience exploring the psychopathy, sadism, and boredom proneness.

Jamie Nettinga completed her undergraduate degree at UW in 2020. Her current project explores boredom proneness, social connectedness and external determinants of boredom proneness.  

 

Honours Thesis Students

Dylan Tan is exploring how the highly boredom prone represent the valence and arousal of various emotions.

Julia Rowland is testing out the idea that not all self-control is equivalent and that the highly boredom may struggle most with initiation.

Simon Jarvis is exploring how the boredom prone make meaning (as opposed to just perceived it).

Ena Choi is replicating a study from 2016 by Andra Geana showing that boredom is highest when information gain is low.

Larhya Miller is testing whether increased waiting times will lead to higher risk taking among the boredom prone.

 

Undergraduate Research Projects

No current projects, but we’re always looking to add some!

 

Lab Alumni

  • Ava-Ann Allman (Clinical Psychologist, Montreal)

  • Sidney Ann-Saint

  • Bianca Boboc (Grad student at Lakehead)

  • Carol Broderick

  • James Boylan

  • Joshua Budge

  • Lindsay Bunn

  • Linda Carson (Faculty, University of Waterloo)

  • Celine Cavezian (Psychologist, France)

  • Alexandre Filipowicz (PDF, University of Pennsylvania)

  • Lana Goldberg (Speech Pathologist)

  • Yael Goldberg (Clinical Psychologist, Ontario)

  • Carolyn Guay (Graduate Student, University of Toronto, Ontario)

  • Tina Hammerschmidt

  • Kate Hano (Accessibility Consultant)

  • Austin Hurst (PhD Candidate, Dalhousie University)

  • Marc Hurwitz (Faculty, University of Waterloo)

  • Julia Isacescu (Freelance Medical Writer)

  • Yana Kuzma (Teacher, ESL)

  • Olivia Li (PhD Candidate, University of Toronto)

  • Jason Locklin

  • Eva Malkovsky

  • Colleen Merrifield (Clinical Psychologist, Hamilton, Ontario)

  • Jhotisha Mugon (Lecturer, University of Victoria, BC)

  • Caidence Paleske (Graduate Student, Carleton, Ontario)

  • Daniela Pasqualini

  • Maja Ramljak (Graduate Student, Carleton, Ontario)

  • Isabella Sewell

  • Albulena Shaqiri (École Polytechnique, Switzerland)

  • Elizabeth Stöttinger (Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria)

  • Christopher Striemer (Faculty, McEwan University, Alberta)

  • Andriy Struk (BC Ministry of Health)

  • Vrushti Trivedia

  • Riley Van Der Hogen

  • Brandon Vasquez (Faculty, University of Toronto, Ontario)

  • Ros Watling (Senior Lecturer, Regents University, UK)

  • Derick Valadao (Clinical Psychologist, Ontario)

  • Ofir Yakobi (Industry Research, Israel)