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Working Towards Desistance: Canadian Public's Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Treatment, and Policy
(2016-07-18)
Understanding public attitudes towards sex offenders and public endorsement of sex offender policy is essential to the development of successful and workable policies that reduce sexual recidivism. The current research ...
Examining an Animal Model of Depression with Recurrent Depression-like Episodes
(2017-01-12)
Depression is a complex psychiatric disorder. It is recognized as a cyclical disease with multiple episode relapses. Many preclinical animal models have been utilized to study the behavioral and neurobiological characteristics ...
STORIES, SYMBOLS, AND SELVES: FEMALE CONVERSION EXPERIENCES IN CONTEMPORARY TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONASTICISM
(2016-12-16)
This research traces the experiences of sixteen persons as they go from modern lay women to Buddhist converts to Buddhist nuns, ending with their adjustments to the institutional world of Tibetan Buddhism. Situated in the ...
Somatosensory Involvement in the Conceptual Representation of Objects
(2016-07-20)
The involvement of the sensorimotor system in visual object processing is at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience research. Since the discovery of the mirror neuron system, a plethora of research has been dedicated to ...
A meta-analytic review of the association between disgust and homonegativity
(2017-11-16)
Researchers suggest that a disgust increases homonegative attitudes toward gay men. While a sizable number of studies have observed this association, to date, no one has attempted to meta-analytically review this corpus ...
The effect of simple and complex dual-tasks on ambulation in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and healthy older adults: the role of divided attention and other higher brain functions in gait dual-task performance
(2012-09-12)
Research using gait-dual task methodology suggests that the ability to divide attention during walking appears to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), even in the earliest stages of the ...
In Transition: Analyzing Shifting and Competing Anglophone Discourses Impacting Canadian Trans People
(2018-08-08)
Medical, community, and academic discourses offer competing interpretations of sex, gender, and the complexities of trans experiences, with variable attention to trans contributions to social and political thought and ...
“I can hear it in the way they look at me...”: Gay and Lesbian University Students’ Lived Experiences with Blatant and Subtle Interpersonal Discrimination
(2011-11-04)
In certain contexts (e.g., university campuses), it seems that subtle, rather than blatant anti-gay/lesbian behaviours are more likely to be perpetrated by heterosexuals (Jewell & Morrison, 2010). However, the nature of ...
Testing the Career Adjustment Model for Immigrant Women to Canada
(2012-02-10)
According to the statistical data, immigrant women are less integrated into the Canadian labour market than immigrant men or Canadian-born women, even when accounted for years of education and work experience. Studies of ...
Attitudes toward adoption by same-sex couples: Do gender roles matter?
(2011-10-18)
Within Canada, the right for same-sex couples to adopt children is a highly contentious issue. Despite all provinces and territories in Canada permitting adoption by gay and lesbian couples through their public agencies, ...