About me

​I am currently a graduate student at York University in the Social and Personality Psychology Department, working with Richard Lalonde in the Cultural Collective Lab.

I completed my M.Sc at Western University in 2017 in the Personality and Measurement program under the supervision of Paul Tremblay.

​I completed my BA at The University of Waterloo in 2012, where I did a double major in Psychology and History.

Research

My master's research focused primarily on masculinity and the science of scale development.
My PhD work focuses on a range of issues related to cultural psychology.
  • Masculinity The expected gender roles and norms for boys and men can have a tremendous influence on their emotional, physical, and relational lives. My research has focused on non-traditional forms of masculinity, how it varies among groups and individuals, and the effects this variation can have on behaviours such as aggression and on attitudes towards diversity and women.
  • Scale Development The operationalization of unobserved variables is one of the most deceptively difficult tasks in psychological research. My work has focused on the developmental and psychometric processes that go into creating strong, reliable, and valid measures. Specifically, I'm excited by the application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) for creating highly discriminant scales within multidimensional measures. 
  • Culture​ My work within cultural psychology has so far focused on two avenues. The first looks at the effects of the Model Minority Myth, which stereotypes Asian Canadians as being intelligent, hard-working, and ambitious, often to a fault and to the detriment of other more sociable skills. The second focuses on the relationship between Canadian national identity, our understanding of history, and our current-day sociopolitical values.

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