Dr. Lougheed has received the Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award! This 5-year award will protect 75% of her research time and will help her accelerate her work on family dynamics and mental health. You can read about UBCO’s five new Health Research BC Scholars here.
Congratulations to lab PhD Candidate, Gizem Keskin, and lab director, Dr. Lougheed, on receiving recognition from the Department of Psychology! This Spring, Gizem was voted by the departmental faculty to be the outstanding graduate student of the year in the Psychological Science program for her incredible research productivity and her important contributions in this lab… Read more: Dr. Lougheed and Gizem Keskin receive recognition from the Department
PhD Student Marcus Gottlieb will be presenting at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention in Toronto this week. His poster presentation describes the results of his focus group study on fathers’ perspectives on parenting research, including their opinions on barriers to participation. You can view and download his presentation below.
Dr. Lougheed presented a webinar via the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention describing some recent research on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted individuals and families. You can watch the recording of this talk here.
Congratulations to PhD Student Marcus Gottlieb, who has been awarded the prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada! This award will provide Marcus with three years of funding that will support his time researching fathers’ experiences of parenting adolescents. Congratulations, Marcus! This award is well-deserved recognition of your… Read more: PhD Student Marcus Gottlieb receives Canada Graduate Scholarship & Equity Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Gizem Keskin, who has been awarded the prestigious Friedman Award for Scholars in Health! As a Friedman Scholar, Gizem will spend 6 months next academic year at Cornell University working with Dr. Anthony Ong on research related to the role of positive emotions in mental and physical health. We are so… Read more: PhD Candidate Gizem Keskin receives Friedman Award
We have three presentations on the program for the Society for Affective Science Annual Conference (2023) in Long Beach, California, featuring work by PhD candidate Gizem Keskin, Dr. Lougheed, and colleagues. You can check them out below. Moment-to-moment emotion dynamics during triadic family conflicts and their associations with internalizing problems and marital satisfaction By Gizem… Read more: Upcoming Presentations at the Society for Affective Science Annual Conference
Honours student Minju will be presenting on her Honours Thesis work at the UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Student Health Conference. Her presentation is on the associations between emotional differentiation– the ability to identify and distinguish between emotion states–and well-being. You can view her poster below.
Fourth-year undergraduate student Hoky Hsu is facilitating UBC Okanagan’s first-ever student-directed seminar on his chosen topic, Queering Psychology through an Intersectional Lens. Dr. Lougheed is the faculty sponsor of this seminar. Read all about it here!
The Department of Psychology at UBC Okanagan will be hosting the first Western Canadian Conference on Undergraduate Research and Psychology this month and several lab members will be presenting. Alyssa Truong will be presenting a poster on her work building on her Honours thesis. Her presentation, Associations Between Loneliness and Positive Remote Interactions: An Analysis… Read more: Upcoming Presentation at the Western Canadian Conference on Undergraduate Research & Psychology (CURP)
In Fall 2021, Dr. Lougheed, together with co-investigator Dr. Nancy Sin, was awarded an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. These funds will allow us to conduct a study called Daily Conflicts in Parent-Adolescent Dyads: Associations with Parent and Adolescent Development.
Members of the Emotion Dynamics Lab will be presenting at two conferences this Spring: Gizem Keskin will be presenting a talk entitled The up-regulation of maternal and adolescent positive affect during conflicts at the Society for Research on Adolescence biennial meeting (March, 2022). Sean Morgan will be presenting a poster entitled Linking interpersonal emotion dynamics… Read more: Upcoming presentations at conferences (Spring, 2022)
We are pleased to share that Dr. Lougheed was among those awarded funding for research infrastructure from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund. These funds will be used to set up our behavioural observation lab!
Dr. Lougheed presented at the Society for Affective Science annual meeting in April 2021. You can find her presentation, called “Emotion dynamics in parent-adolescent dyads”, here.
Dr. Lougheed presented a webinar entitled “Parent-adolescent emotion dynamics: Associations with mental health” via the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention as part of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week. You can view this webinar here.
Dr. Lougheed recently had two discussions about navigating family dynamics around the holidays, including how to manage any conflicts that may arise. Check out this article in Prevention.com, and Episode 25 of the But Really, How Are You? podcast. References Kleinhaus, C. (November 28, 2020). Family dynamics with Dr. Jessica Lougheed. Episode 25 of the But… Read more: Navigating family dynamics around the holidays