Our Laboratories
Queen's is one of Canada's leading research-intensive universities - a place many of Canada's most outstanding researchers call home. From the humanities and social sciences to the physical, natural, and applied sciences, researchers across all disciplines have been recognized with the nation's highest research honours.
The Psychology Department at Queen's University provides internationally renowned research programs known for: the excellence and integrity of its faculty, students and training; the innovation and value of its research, scholarship, and skill development; and the fostering of leadership in the delivery of service to the community, to the field of psychology, and to society.
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Lab Name |
Researcher |
Lab Category |
Key Topics |
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Clinical, Developmental |
bullying, victimization, healthy relationships, developmental psychopathology, interpersonal violence, teen dating violence |
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Clinical |
cognitive functioning, mechanisms of cognitive impairment, mental disorders, interventions, quality of life |
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Clinical |
biopsychosocial mechanisms, emotion dysregulation, emotion awareness, embodied emotion and interoception, stress, suicidal thoughts |
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Clinical |
stress, early trauma, etiology, pathology, depression, adolescence, biomarker-environment interactions |
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Clinical |
mechanisms of emotional, cognitive modulation of pain, pain vulnerability, pain, mental health disorders |
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Clinical |
chronic abdominal-pelvic pain diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chronic Prostatitis, Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome, Interstitial Cystitis / Bladder Pain Syndrome, pain experience, disease outcomes, related disability, relationship impact, sexuality, mood, suicidality |
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Clinical |
self-destructive behaviours, suicide, aggression, youth |
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Relationships, Emotions, and Depression in Youth (READY) Lab |
Clinical |
close relationships, interpersonal functioning, emotion, depression |
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Clinical |
Sexual arousal, desire, response functioning in women, orientation, identity, concordance |
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Clinical |
sexual health |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
attention, attentional control processes, perceptions, memories, actions |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
planning and controlling actions, perception, learning |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
cognitive processes, learning, attention, memory, perception |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
cognitive and neural, decision-making, perception, memory and learning, control of action. |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
motivation, cognition, rewarding stimuli, learning, goal-directed behaviours, drug addiction |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
perception, cognition, emotional processes, music appreciation, understanding, nonmusical cognitive skills, musical dyslexia, aging and music, musical memories in Alzheimer's Disease |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
fear, anxiety, brain function, regulation |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
memory organization, neural mechanisms, dysfunctional memory |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
human decision-making, dietary behaviour, altruism, consumer choices |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
real-world scene perception, perceptual and cognitive systems, memory, attention |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
sleep, declarative and non-declarative memory consolidation, quiet waking, meditation, homeostasis, rest, and recovery |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
communication, neural basis of language, face-to-face communication, audiovisual integration, eye movements during audiovisual speech perception, motor control of oral movement |
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Cognitive Neuroscience, Social and Personality |
gender/sex, sexual diversity, sex research, social neuroendocrinology, feminist and queer science |
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Developmental |
socioemotional development, emotion regulation in adolescents |
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Developmental |
Autism Spectrum Disorders, developmental, communication and language, social interactions |
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Developmental |
emotional communication, development, social cognition, expression, perception, non-verbal cues |
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Developmental |
social, cognitive, neurobiological, children, understandings of the world, preschool years, theory of mind |
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Developmental |
language processing and learning, theory of mind development, memory, linguistics, philosophy, sociology. |
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Developmental |
development of social cognition, origins of cognition, infants, children, dogs, through collaboration, non-human primates. Specifically, our research focuses on the development of social cognition, intention reading, theory of mind, prosocial behaviour |
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Social and Personality |
cultural differences, perception, memory, categorization, prediction, judgment and decision making |
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Social and Personality |
attitudes, persuasion, evaluations, social behaviour, judgement |
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Social and Personality |
judgment, social cognition, communication, inferences, preferences, reasoning |
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Social and Personality |
health decision-making, romantic relationships, attitudes |
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Social and Personality |
motivated social cognition, dysphoria, subclinical depression, causal uncertainty, health psychology |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
human cognition, neural, thoughts and feelings, brain analysis, patterns of ongoing thought, task driven behaviour, patterns of ongoing experience |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
temporal dynamics, social attention, internal attention, computational analysis, ecological contexts |