Research Team

Lab Director

Jill Jacobson

Jill Jacobson, Ph.D.
Laboratory Director

Jill Jacobson Full CV (PDF, 291 KB)

Current Honours Students:

Dominique Mielnik

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

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

  • Ailish Connors

  • Calum Thompson

  • Devon Widrig

  • Jenna Brown

  • Jessica Lefebvre

  • Julian Willming

  • Katelyn Baik

  • Katrina McGeorge

  • Laura Radford

  • Meera Landau

  • Nea Okada

  • Rachael Padutsch

  • Robbie Wong

  • Sarah Bryenton

  • Serenna Silva

Lab Alumni

* Received CPA award for the best thesis or dissertation
Received the McGhie Prize for top psychology PhD student

  • Harmony Jarvis (MSc Social-Psychology): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Rejection"

  • Kevin Rounding (PhD Social-Personality): “Religion and Self-Control"

  • Maddie D’Agata (MSc Social-Personality): The Effect of Lying on Self-Control Depletion”

  • Carly Parsons* (Honours Thesis):“Investigating the Role of Kinship Cues in the Response to Social Rejection”

  • Allyson Smith (Honours Thesis): The Role of Attributional Biases in the Relationship Between Dysphoria, Theory of Mind, and Social Functioning

  • Julia Gordon (Honours Thesis): “Examining the Effects of Social Influence on Face Recognition Accuracy of Individuals with Dysphoria”

  • Janine Haq (Honours Thesis): The Effects of Causal Uncertainty on Self-Regulation Depletion in Dyadic Interactions”

  • Alessia Milano (Honours Thesis): The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty and Roommate Rejection

  • Kristen Blackler (MSc Social-Personality): “The Effect of Adaptive Perfectionism, Maladaptive Perfectionism, and Feedback on Procrastination Behaviour”

  • Nathalie Côté (Honours Thesis): “Examining the Implication of Feedback on the Relationship between Dysphoria and Theory-of-Mind Abilities”

  • Jacob Deodato (Honours Thesis): “The Role of Gender in the Relationship between Causal Uncertainty and Mimicry”

  • Kevin Rounding* (MSc Social-Personality): “Compounding Effects of Dysphoria and Mood Stability on Eyewitness Identification”

  • Sarah Shallwani (Honours Thesis): “Mimicry and Mental State Decoding Accuracy in Undergraduate Students with Dysphoria”

  • Eliane Boucher* (PhD Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty in Social Interactions: The Impact of Interpersonal Expectations and Uncertainty Reduction on Liking”

  • Meghan McPhie (Honours Thesis): “An Examination of the Relationship Between Accuracy of Mental State Decoding and Dysphoria in University Students”

  • Jennifer Passey (PhD Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty and Self-Regulation Abilities”

  • 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”

  • Carly Ainlay (Honours Thesis): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Information Seeking”

  • Rebecca Brown (Honours Thesis): “Responses to Medical Tests with Uncertain Results”

  • Kimberly Thomson (Honours Thesis): “Nonverbal Mediators of the Relationship between Causal Uncertainty and Liking”

  • Michelle Vitti (Honours Thesis): “Causal Uncertainty and Stop Rules in Dyadic Interviews”

  • Alexandra Wilson (Honours Thesis): “The Influence of Involvement, Source Credibility, and Message Strength on Responses to Pro-Attitudinal Messages”

  • Stacy Crosson (Honours Thesis): “Longitudinal Effects of Life Experiences on Causal Uncertainty”

  • James Doiron (Honours Thesis): “An Analysis of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Parents of Autistic Children”

  • David Duong* (MA Clinical): “Dysphoria and Theory-of-Mind Abilities: The Role of Cognitive Processing”

  • Rebecca Hockin (Honours Thesis): “An Analysis of the Relationship between Maternal Depression and Infants’ Theory-of-Mind Abilities”

  • Jennifer Passey (MA Social-Personality): “Causal Uncertainty and Social Rejection”

  • Graeme Rassenti (Honours Thesis): “Communication Accommodation in CMC: Investigating the Role of Anticipated Future Interaction on the Use of Emoticons”

  • Kyla Bondy (Honours Thesis): “The Effect of Causal Uncertainty on Empathic Accuracy in Computer-Mediated Communications”

  • Eliane Boucher* (MA Social-Personality): “Examining the Effects of Causal Uncertainty in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions”

  • Angela Collins (Honours Thesis): “Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences as a Function of Context”

  • Shannon Currie (Honours Thesis): “The Role of Causal Uncertainty in Empathic Accuracy Judgments”

  • Elizabeth Donnery (Honours Thesis): “The Effect of Unrealistic Optimism and Culture on Health in People Living with HIV/AIDS”

  • Chiara Papile (Honours Thesis): “The Effects of Causal Uncertainty on Ego Depletion in Dyadic Social Interactions”

  • Elena Ballantyne (Honours Thesis): “Life Events and Health Outcomes of Older Adults”

  • Jennifer Laforce*† (PhD Clinical): “Experience of Parenting: Parenting Strategies and their Relationship with Parental Self-Efficacy, Perceptions of Control, and Parental Affect”

  • 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”

  • Veronica Legnini (Honours Thesis): “A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of a Health Threat in Canadians and Asians”

  • Nina Rytwinski (Honours Thesis): “The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty and Roommate Rejection in University Students”

  • Michelle Lafrance (Honours Thesis): “Theory of Mind and Dysphoria: Investigating Memory Perspective and Emotion Projection”

  • Sharon Lin (Honours Thesis): “Temporarily Activated Causal Uncertainty Beliefs and Stop Rule Usage”

  • Nisanne Tadman (Honours Thesis): “Effects of Causal Uncertainty and Judgement Objectives on Stereotyping”

  • Jessica Bloomfield (Honours Thesis): “The Relationship Between Causal Uncertainty, Reassurance Seeking, and Depressive Symptomatology”

  • Sarah Reiss (Honours Thesis): “The Effects of Self-Construal on Motivated Skepticism”