Read the Faculty of Arts & Science highlight here: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/media-undergraduate-teaching-lab-investigates-psychology-behind-gaslighting-toronto-star

Read the Toronto Star piece here: https://www.thestar.com/life/gaslighting-is-real-and-its-abuse-new-research-reveals/article_09ba6212-8fc0-11ee-8c70-cf8d0f8e7e6d.html

Congrats to Willis and Sherry for turning another undergraduate research project from the WoodLab into a publication (open access, thanks to UofT for funding)!

Here’s a teaser about our qualitative piece on gaslighting – whoo!

Thanks for a great, weird year, everybody! Well done on all of your projects!

Best of luck to our recent grads – sorry to see you go, Dory, Sherry, and Willis, but excited to see what your bright futures have in store.

Hope to see you on campus in person someday soon, Josh, Keevyn, and Simran (and Dory, too, technically, but as a graduate student in Dr. Michael Mack’s lab). Best of luck on finals!

I served as editor on this important systemic review out of Carl Hart’s lab(!), edited by David Nutt(!!) and Guilia D’Aurizio.

It’s open access – find it here:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00816/full

 

Good luck with finals and enjoy your winter break, everyone!

I wrote a blog post for the Graduate Student Teaching Association of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (aka, “Division 2” of the American Psychological Association). I somehow convinced them that a review of David Epstein’s book, Range, which is neither about graduate school nor teaching, would be a great fit.

Are you a graduate student who wonders if your work will ever reach beyond the eyes of the small number of experts in your field? Or have you been told teaching is a waste of your time? Are you an undergraduate who is having a hard time determining a career path because too many things are interesting to you? You don’t have to be a hedgehog (someone who digs deep into one field), you can be a fox (someone with a wide range of skills and interests). Read more here:

http://teachpsych.org/page-1784686/8070436

 

Thanks to all WoodLab research assistants for another great year!

Congratulations to Kira and Priscilla for turning an undergraduate research project into a recent publication. Hooray!

Congratulations to Carmen and Joseph for presenting their first posters at the University of Toronto Undergraduate Research Forum! The preliminary results of their questionnaire data on study drug use on campus dazzled all.