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Jill Jacobson, Ph.D.
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Jill Jacobson Full CV (PDF, 291 KB)
Current Honours Students:
Dominique Mielnik
Current Year: 4th year B.A.
I am a fourth-year undergraduate psychology student (BaH) and I am interested in various aspects of social psychology. I am now working on my Honors Thesis in the Motivation and Social Cognition Lab. I am investigating the relationship between causal uncertainty and empathic accuracy.
Kelsey Rozema
Current Year: 4th year B.A.
I am a fourth-year psychology student (BaH) with a minor in global development. My research interests include causal uncertainty and how it influences conflictual situations. After graduation, I hope to attend graduate school for either clinical or counselling psychology.
Current Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Fall 2017
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Ailish Connors
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Calum Thompson
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Devon Widrig
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Jenna Brown
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Jessica Lefebvre
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Julian Willming
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Katelyn Baik
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Katrina McGeorge
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Laura Radford
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Meera Landau
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Nea Okada
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Rachael Padutsch
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Robbie Wong
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Sarah Bryenton
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Serenna Silva
Lab Alumni
* Received CPA award for the best thesis or dissertation
† Received the McGhie Prize for top psychology PhD student
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Harmony Jarvis (MSc Social-Psychology): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Rejection"
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Kevin Rounding (PhD Social-Personality): “Religion and Self-Control"
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Maddie D’Agata (MSc Social-Personality):“ The Effect of Lying on Self-Control Depletion”
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Carly Parsons* (Honours Thesis):“Investigating the Role of Kinship Cues in the Response to Social Rejection”
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Allyson Smith (Honours Thesis): “ The Role of Attributional Biases in the Relationship Between Dysphoria, Theory of Mind, and Social Functioning ”
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Julia Gordon (Honours Thesis): “Examining the Effects of Social Influence on Face Recognition Accuracy of Individuals with Dysphoria”
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Janine Haq (Honours Thesis):“ The Effects of Causal Uncertainty on Self-Regulation Depletion in Dyadic Interactions”
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Alessia Milano (Honours Thesis):“ The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty and Roommate Rejection ”
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Kristen Blackler (MSc Social-Personality): “The Effect of Adaptive Perfectionism, Maladaptive Perfectionism, and Feedback on Procrastination Behaviour”
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Nathalie Côté (Honours Thesis): “Examining the Implication of Feedback on the Relationship between Dysphoria and Theory-of-Mind Abilities”
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Jacob Deodato (Honours Thesis): “The Role of Gender in the Relationship between Causal Uncertainty and Mimicry”
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Kevin Rounding* (MSc Social-Personality): “Compounding Effects of Dysphoria and Mood Stability on Eyewitness Identification”
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Sarah Shallwani (Honours Thesis): “Mimicry and Mental State Decoding Accuracy in Undergraduate Students with Dysphoria”
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Eliane Boucher* (PhD Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty in Social Interactions: The Impact of Interpersonal Expectations and Uncertainty Reduction on Liking”
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Meghan McPhie (Honours Thesis): “An Examination of the Relationship Between Accuracy of Mental State Decoding and Dysphoria in University Students”
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Jennifer Passey (PhD Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty and Self-Regulation Abilities”
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Rachel Ruttan (Honours Thesis): “The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty and Nonconscious Mimicry”
- Emilie Chan (MSc Clinical): “The Roles of Theory of Mind and Empathy in the Relationship between Dysphoria and Poor Social Functioning”
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Carly Ainlay (Honours Thesis): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Information Seeking”
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Rebecca Brown (Honours Thesis): “Responses to Medical Tests with Uncertain Results”
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Kimberly Thomson (Honours Thesis): “Nonverbal Mediators of the Relationship between Causal Uncertainty and Liking”
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Michelle Vitti (Honours Thesis): “Causal Uncertainty and Stop Rules in Dyadic Interviews”
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Alexandra Wilson (Honours Thesis): “The Influence of Involvement, Source Credibility, and Message Strength on Responses to Pro-Attitudinal Messages”
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Stacy Crosson (Honours Thesis): “Longitudinal Effects of Life Experiences on Causal Uncertainty”
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James Doiron (Honours Thesis): “An Analysis of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Parents of Autistic Children”
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David Duong* (MA Clinical): “Dysphoria and Theory-of-Mind Abilities: The Role of Cognitive Processing”
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Rebecca Hockin (Honours Thesis): “An Analysis of the Relationship between Maternal Depression and Infants’ Theory-of-Mind Abilities”
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Jennifer Passey (MA Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Rejection”
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Graeme Rassenti (Honours Thesis): “Communication Accommodation in CMC: Investigating the Role of Anticipated Future Interaction on the Use of Emoticons”
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Kyla Bondy (Honours Thesis): “The Effect of Causal Uncertainty on Empathic Accuracy in Computer-Mediated Communications”
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Eliane Boucher* (MA Social-Personality): “Examining the Effects of Causal Uncertainty in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions”
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Angela Collins (Honours Thesis): “Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences as a Function of Context”
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Shannon Currie (Honours Thesis): “The Role of Causal Uncertainty in Empathic Accuracy Judgments”
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Elizabeth Donnery (Honours Thesis): “The Effect of Unrealistic Optimism and Culture on Health in People Living with HIV/AIDS”
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Chiara Papile (Honours Thesis): “The Effects of Causal Uncertainty on Ego Depletion in Dyadic Social Interactions”
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Elena Ballantyne (Honours Thesis): “Life Events and Health Outcomes of Older Adults”
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Jennifer Laforce*† (PhD Clinical): “Experience of Parenting: Parenting Strategies and their Relationship with Parental Self-Efficacy, Perceptions of Control, and Parental Affect”
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Anna Ebel-Lam* (MA Social-Personality): “Optimism, Self-Mastery, and the Perceived Controllability of a Health Threat as Moderators of Reactions to Negative Feedback About One’s Health”
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Veronica Legnini (Honours Thesis): “A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of a Health Threat in Canadians and Asians”
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Nina Rytwinski (Honours Thesis): “The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty and Roommate Rejection in University Students”
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Michelle Lafrance (Honours Thesis): “Theory of Mind and Dysphoria: Investigating Memory Perspective and Emotion Projection”
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Sharon Lin (Honours Thesis): “Temporarily Activated Causal Uncertainty Beliefs and Stop Rule Usage”
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Nisanne Tadman (Honours Thesis): “Effects of Causal Uncertainty and Judgement Objectives on Stereotyping”
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Jessica Bloomfield (Honours Thesis): “The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty, Reassurance Seeking, and Depressive Symptomatology”
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Sarah Reiss (Honours Thesis): “The Effects of Self-Construal on Motivated Skepticism”