Psychology Publications
The Psychology Department at Western has over 50 faculty members representing four Clusters of Research Excellence. Our faculty work with talented graduate and post-graduate students on cutting-edge questions about human and animal behavior. Undergraduate students in Psychology often participate in these exciting research programs. Clinical Science and Psychopathology (CSP) Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences (CDB) Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O) Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology (SPDP).
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Submissions from 2011
In Vivo Dynamics of the Musculoskeletal System Cannot Be Adequately Described Using a Stiffness-Damping-Inertia Model, Dinant A. Kistemaker and Leonard A. Rozendaal
Situational and Dispositional Influences on Nurses' Workplace Well-being: The Role of Empowering Unit Leadership, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Testing a Multi-level Model of Staff Nurse Organizational Commitment, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Event-Based Plausibility Immediately Influences On-Line Language Comprehension, Kazunaga Matsuki, Mary Hare, Christoph Scheepers, Tracy Chow, Jeffrey L. Elman, and Ken McRae
Becoming Sensitive to Sensitivity: Lessons Learned from the Development of the Maternal Behavior Q‑Sort, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, and George M. Tarabulsy
Developing and Testing a New Measure of Staff Nurse Clinical Leadership: The Clinical Leadership Survey, Allison Patrick, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Carol Wong, and Joan Finegan
The Mechanics of Embodiment: A Dialog on Embodiment and Computational Modeling, Giovanni Pezzulo, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Angelo Cangelosi, Martin H. Fischer, Ken McRae, and Michael J. Spivey
The Relationship Between Personality and Self-Report Abilities, Julie Aitken Schermer, Andrew M. Johnson, Philip A. Vernon, and Kerry L. Jang
Face Inversion Reduces the Persistence of Global Form and Its Neural Correlates, Lars Strother, Pavagada S. Mathuranath, Adrian Aldcroft, Cheryl Lavell, Melvyn A. Goodale, and Tutis Vilis
Adolescent Motherhood, Maternal Sensitivity, and Early Infant Development, George M. Tarabulsy, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, Marc Provost, and Simon Larose
Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts, Lore Thaler, Stephen R. Arnott, and Melvyn A. Goodale
An Electrophysiological Study of Task Demands on Concreteness Evects: Evidence for Dual Coding Theory, Suzanne E. Welcome, Allan Paivio, Ken McRae, and Marc F. Joanisse
Submissions from 2010
Effects of Event Knowledge in Processing Verbal Arguments, Klinton Bicknell, Jeffrey L. Elman, Mary Hare, Ken McRae, and Marta Kutas
Bimanual Reaching across the Hemispace: Which Hand Is Yoked to Which?, Gavin Buckingham, Gordon Binsted, and David P. Carey
Gating of Vibrotactile Detection during Visually Guided Bimanual Reaches, Gavin Buckingham, David P. Carey, Francisco L. Colino, John deGrosbois, and Gordon Binsted
Lifting without Seeing: The Role of Vision in Perceiving and Acting upon the Size Weight Illusion, Gavin Buckingham and Melvyn A. Goodale
The Influence of Competing Perceptual and Motor Priors in the Context of the Size-weight Illusion, Gavin Buckingham and Melvyn A. Goodale
New Graduate Nurses’ Experiences of Bullying and Burnout in Hospital Settings, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Ashley L. Grau, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Cross-modal Plasticity in Specific Auditory Cortices Underlies Visual Compensations in the Deaf, Stephen G. Lomber, M. Alex Meredith, and Andrej Kral
Integrating Conceptual Knowledge Within and Across Representational Modalities, Chris McNorgan, Jackie Reid, and Ken McRae
Improving Risk Assessment with Suicidal Patients: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of The Scale for Impact of Suicidality - Management, Assessment and Planning of Care (SIS-MAP), Charles Nelson, Megan Johnston, and Amresh Srivastava
Prospective evaluation of a cognitive vulnerability-stress model for depression: the interaction of schema self-structures and negative life events., Pamela M Seeds and David J A Dozois
Seasonal hippocampal plasticity in food-storing birds., David F Sherry and Jennifer S Hoshooley
Somatic symptom overlap in Beck Depression Inventory-II scores following myocardial infarction., Brett D Thombs, Roy C Ziegelstein, Louise Pilote, David J A Dozois, Aaron T Beck, Keith S Dobson, Samantha Fuss, Peter de Jonge, Sherry L Grace, Donne E Stewart, Johan Ormel, and Susan E Abbey
Mapping Proprioception across a 2D Horizontal Workspace, Elizabeth T. Wilson, Jeremy Wong, and Paul L. Gribble