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Department of Psychology
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
1147 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Canada
Email: psychology.okanagan@ubc.ca
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Linda Allan | Associate Professor Emerita | Psychology | linda.allan@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Ageist attitudes and beliefs in different populations; the mitigation of ageist attitudes and behaviour; ageist treatment of the elderly; cognitive ageing; a cross sectional comparison of adults’ and university undergraduates’ attitudes and knowledge about elderly persons.
Courses & Teaching: Human development from a lifespan perspective including child, adolescence, adulthood and aging.
Jan Cioe | Associate Professor | Psychology | jan.cioe@ubc.ca | Office: 250.807.8732; Home: 250-763-1225 | ASC 285
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022. Human sexuality; forensics; student-driven research program based on Directed Studies and Honours work
Courses & Teaching: Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality I & II [PSYO 353 & 354]; Intro to Data Analysis [PSYO 271]
Colin Comfort | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | dr.colin.comfort@interiorhealth.ca
Courses & Teaching: Assessment and treatment of psychological disorders.
Erwin Concepcion | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | erwin.concepcion@ubc.ca
Paul G Davies | Professor | Psychology | paul.g.davies@ubc.ca | FIP326
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Intergroup relations; stereotypes; prejudice; discrimination; diverse forms of social identity threat; perceived stereotypicality; levels of prejudice and discrimination that target stigmatized individuals.
Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; social psychology; intergroup relations.
Jessica Driscoll | Lecturer | Psychology | jessica.driscoll@ubc.ca
Katherine Elliott | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | katherine.elliott@ubc.ca
Lindsay Farrell | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | lindsay.farrell@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Dr. Farrell’s research interests focus on Indigenous wellness, cannabis & harm reduction, and collaborative culturally attuned psychedelic-assisted therapy models supporting health and wellness of Indigenous Peoples.
Taryn Fay-McClymont | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | taryn.faymcclymont@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Neuropsychological outcomes of neurological disorders in children and adolescents.
Paul Gabias | Associate Professor | Psychology | paul.gabias@ubc.ca | 250.807.9383 | ART 228
Research Interests: Interface between visual and haptic perception; comprehension and production of haptic pictures by the blind; health and adjustment; perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects of blindness.
Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; visual perception; non-visual perception; psychology of touch; evolutionary psychology of aggression and the blind movement.
Liane Gabora | Professor | Psychology | liane.gabora@ubc.ca | 250.807.9849 | FIP 235
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Creativity; concepts, especially how they combine and adapt to new contexts; origins of modern cognition; cultural evolution; computer models of the above.
Courses & Teaching: Psychology of creativity and humour; evolution of human cognition.
Linda Hatt | Associate Professor Emerita | Psychology | linda.hatt@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Health psychology; pain management; experimental analysis of behavior.
Courses & Teaching: Health psychology; personality.
Susan Holtzman | Associate Professor | Psychology | susan.holtzman@ubc.ca | 250.807.8730 | ASC 283
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Health psychology; adjustment to chronic illness; stress and coping; close relationships; caregiving; depression; chronic pain; organ transplantation; daily process methodologies; pathways through which the social environment can influence physical and emotional well-being in healthy and chronically ill populations.
Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; health psychology.
Lauren Human | Associate Professor | Psychology | lauren.human@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Interpersonal impressions; accuracy and bias; well-being; social relationships.
Courses & Teaching: Self and social perception
Shirley Hutchinson | Lecturer | Psychology | shirley.hutchinson@ubc.ca | 250.807.8413 | ART 319
Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; child development; special topics: psychology of motivation; special topics: anxiety, fear, and uncertainty in intergroup relations; leads the PSYO 490 Honours Seminar class.
Kimberley Kaseweter | Postdoctoral Fellow | Psychology | kkaseweter@alumni.ubc.ca
Research Interests: Pain; prosocial behaviour; affect perception; e-health; bias; gender; race; empathy; psychopathy; statistical analysis
Sarah Kraeutner | Assistant Professor | Psychology | sarah.kraeutner@ubc.ca | ASC 204
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (Psych Science stream) for 2022-23.
Courses & Teaching: PSYO 311, Memory
Marvin Krank | Professor | Psychology | marvin.krank@ubc.ca | 250.807.8773 | ART 334
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Development of substance abuse in adolescence; vulnerabilities related to social learning; cognitive models that differentiate implicit (unconscious) from explicit memories; relative role of automatic associations versus executive control; social experiences, dispositions, memories, and thoughts that predict transitions to substance use and to substance abuse.
Courses & Teaching: Learning; psychometrics and test evaluation; addiction; questionnaire development.
Amanda Krehel | Receptionist/assistant, Interprofessional Clinic | Psychology | a.krehel@ubc.ca
Kimberly Kreklewetz | Lecturer | Psychology | kimberly.kreklewetz@ubc.ca
Courses & Teaching: Personality Theory and Individual Differences; Program Evaluation. Dr. Kreklewetz is the lead psychologist for the UBC-Okanagan's free Walk-in Well-Being Clinic and supervises clinical psychology graduate students in this practicum experience. She also supervises the Adult Forensic Assessment practicum.
Maya Libben | Associate Professor | Psychology | maya.libben@ubc.ca | 250.807.9026 | ASC 284
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (Clinical stream) for 2022-23. Clinical cognitive neuroscience; stroke; hemispatial neglect; traumatic brain injury; neuropsychological assessment; cognitive bias; eating disorders; body image; bilingualism; eye-tracking.
Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; psychopathology; clinical intervention; multiculturalism and clinical supervision.
Jessica Lougheed | Assistant Professor | Psychology | jessica.lougheed@ubc.ca | 250.807.8045 | ART 332
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Adolescent emotional development; parent-adolescent relationships; interpersonal emotion dynamics; internalizing symptoms; externalizing symptoms.
Courses & Teaching: Adolescent development; development in family contexts.
Lesley Lutes | Professor | Psychology | llutes@mail.ubc.ca | 250.807.8128 | ASC 203
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (Clinical stream) for 2022-23. Clinical Health Psychology; innovative cognitive and behavioural change programs aimed at improving physical and emotional well-being and happiness; Integrated primary care; Weight management
Courses & Teaching: Residency/Internship Preparation
Marla MacDonald | Senior Assistant | Psychology | psychology.okanagan@ubc.ca | 250.807.9528 | ART 321
Cynthia Mathieson | Professor Emeritus | Psychology | cynthia.mathieson@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Narrative and thematic analysis; barriers to health care; identity theory.
Courses & Teaching: Community psychology; history of psychology.
Harry Miller | Psychology | harry.miller@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Graduate Student Co-Supervisor: Considering co-supervising graduate students (Clinical stream) for 2022-23. Assessment of memory with traumatic brain injury; peripheral vascular disease and cognition; emotional function post stroke; effects of alcohol use on recovery from brain injury.
Courses & Teaching: Neuroscience of cognition; southern medical program.
Elena Nicoladis | Department Head, Professor | Psychology | elena.nicoladis@ubc.ca | 250.807.8461 | ART 322
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Bilingual first language learning; second language learning; gestures
Brian O'Connor | Professor | Psychology | brian.oconnor@ubc.ca | 250.807.9636 | ART 330
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (in the Psych Science stream) for 2022-23. Statistics; normal and abnormal personality; especially psychometrics, factor analysis, item response theory, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, software for statistical procedures.
Courses & Teaching: Advanced statistics; research methods; interpersonal behaviour and psychopathology.
Jamie Piercy | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Psychology | jamie.piercy@ubc.ca | 250.807.8514 | ART 320
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (Clinical stream) for 2022-23. Developmental neuropsychology; prematurity and neuropsychological outcomes; genetics; psychosocial functioning in adolescents with chronic diseases.
Courses & Teaching: Lifespan development; child development; developmental psychopathology
Meredith Reynolds | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | meredith.reynolds@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Non-neurological factors that contribute to post-concussive syndrome; novel neuropsychological test development; threats to the validity of neuropsychological tests
Barbara Rutherford | Professor Emeritus | Psychology | barbara.rutherford@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not accepting graduate students for 2021-22. Communication between the hemispheres of the brain during reading in people with and without a reading disability such as dyslexia; developmental trends in hemispheric specialization for reading.
Courses & Teaching: Memory; cognitive processes.
Matthew Shay | Postdoctoral Fellow | Psychology | matthew.shay@ubc.ca
Claire Sira | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | claire.sira@ubc.ca | 250.590.8697 | n/a
Research Interests: Executive Functioning Assessment and Rehabilitation
Courses & Teaching: Practicum Supervisor
Kim Snyder | Administrative Assistant | Psychology | kim.snyder@ubc.ca | 250.807.8353 | ART 321
Alison Spadafora | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | alison.spadafora@interiorhealth.ca
Courses & Teaching: Adolescent mental health; psychological assessment.
Carolyn Szostak | Associate Professor | Psychology | carolyn.szostak@ubc.ca | 250.807.8736 | ART 324
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Rural mental health; barriers to accessing mental health services by adults 50 years and older in rural communities; media and mental health-related stigma; role of media in combating stigmatizing attitudes about mental health disorders and suicide.
Courses & Teaching: Mental health disorders; pop culture and mental health; use of psychological tests and assessments.
Leanne ten Brinke | Assistant Professor | Psychology | leanne.tenbrinke@ubc.ca | 250.807.8174 | ART 318
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Deception; lie detection; nonverbal behaviour; psychopathy; power and influence; leadership
Zach Walsh | Professor | Psychology | zachary.walsh@ubc.ca | 250.807.9373 | ASC 206
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Cannabis use - medical and non-medical; substance use; hallucinogens; harm reduction; personality disorder; partner violence; aggression; third-stream/mindfulness behavior therapies; drug policy.
Courses & Teaching: Drugs and behavior; psychotherapy.
Marlis Wecels | Administrative Manager, Interprofessional Clinic | Psychology | psych.gradstudies.ok@ubc.ca | 250.807.9237 | ASC 167A
Susan J. Wells | Professor Emerita | Psychology, Social Work | susan.wells@ubc.ca | 250.807.8163 | ASC 453
Research Interests: Investigates the possible causes of overrepresentation of African American children in the United States’ out-of-home care; re-entry into out-of-home care after reunification with family; stability of out-of-home care placements; explores child welfare case types to identify characteristics that more closely represent the complexity of cases seen in the field.
Courses & Teaching: Child welfare services and policy; program evaluation; research methods.
Jocelyn Wentland | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | jocelyn.wentland@ubc.ca
Courses & Teaching: Interpersonal relationships; adolescence; human sexual behaviour; introductory psychology; social psychology.
Christopher Wilson | Adjunct Professor | Psychology | christopher.wilson@ubc.ca
Courses & Teaching: Psychological assessment.
Derrick Wirtz | Associate Professor of Teaching | Psychology | derrick.wirtz@ubc.ca | 250.807.8276 | ART 328
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Not considering graduate students for 2022-23. Associate Professor of TeachingSubjective well-being; happiness; the “good life”; cross-cultural differences in emotion; flourishing & thriving; positive emotions; interventions to increase well-being.
Courses & Teaching: Introduction to psychology; introduction to research methods and design; positive psychology; social bases of behavior.
Michael Woodworth | Professor | Psychology | michael.woodworth@ubc.ca | 250.807.8731 | ASC 205
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Considering graduate students (both streams) for 2022-23. Psychopathy; violent offending; deception detection; computer-mediated communication; assessment and treatment of forensic populations; memory and psychiatric issues primarily within a legal context.
Courses & Teaching: Psychopathy; criminal behaviour; deception detection.