Julia Nakamura and Marisa Nelson’s paper honoured with a Dorothy Nyswander Award for 2025
Congratulations to our lab members Julia Nakamura and Marisa Nelson, and to their collaborators Renae Wilkinson, Etsuji Suzuki, and Tyler VanderWeele! Their recent paper, “Volunteering in Young Adulthood: Complex Associations with Later Health and Well-Being Outcomes,” was recently honoured by the American Journal of Health Promotion. As announced in the journal’s “Best of 2025” List of Health […]
Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Project (TLEF) Presentation
Dr. Frances Chen, Ava Morris, and Zaina Alkurdi recently led a presentation and discussion with PSYC 217 and 218 instructors on “Facilitating Student Success in the Psychology Major: Focus on the PSYC 217-218 Transition.” They provided an overview of the project goals and progress so far, shared initial ideas and resources for aligning supports across […]
Congratulations Dr. Julia Nakamura!
Julia Nakamura successfully defended her PhD dissertation! In her dissertation, Julia examined tradeoffs and diversity in the time that people spend doing different daily activities (such as volunteering, informal helping, eating and drinking, sleeping, and leisure), and associations with well-being and self-reported health. She also examined associations between the diversity of recipients to whom people […]
Dr. Yeeun Archer Lee was interviewed by UBC News about her research on acts of kindness
Dr. Yeeun Archer Lee was interviewed by UBC News, CTV Your Morning Vancouver, and The Last Show with David Cooper about her research on the benefits of prosociality. Her findings, which were recently published in the Journal of Personality, suggest that performing simple acts of kindness on a daily basis can meaningfully reduce loneliness and increase social […]
Zerevan Bindal received the 2025 Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The award assists with the cost of conducting research in personality and/or social psychology. Zerevan will be studying the mechanisms that lead masculine gender norms to affect men’s help-seeking behavior, supervised by Dr. Frances Chen and Dr. Toni Schmader. Congratulations, Zerevan!
Charlotte Roddick presented her research at EHPS 2025
Charlotte Roddick presented her research at EHPS 2025 (39th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society) in Groningen, The Netherlands. Her presentation was entitled “Chronic and Situational Loneliness: Effects on Cardiac Vagal Flexibility During Executive Function Demands.”
Charlotte Roddick’s scoping review on heart rate variability (HRV) recovery from psychological stress has been published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Together with former research assistants, Christine Seo, Shan-Li Barkovich, and Luke Forrester, Charlotte conducted a systematic scoping review of nearly 300 studies on vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) recovery. The article highlights how individual differences (such as resilience and emotion regulation) and situational factors (such as exposure to nature) contribute to more effective recovery, […]
Congratulations to our Winter 2024-2025 graduates!
Congratulations to all the Winter 2024–2025 graduates in the SHL, including Shani Avrahami Saraf, Erika Delorme, Gabrielle Foo, Anushka Gulani, Marcus Hager, Jiayi Li, Megan Macfarlane, Tessa McDermid, Samir Midha, Taarini Mittal, Maxine Paredes, Pururev Rana, Piper Slonecker, Lydia Xu, and Nicolas Zhu. We’re so grateful for all the ways you’ve contributed to the lab […]
SHL at PURC 2025
Eight of our lab members presented their research from the Social Health Lab at PURC 2025: Anushka Gulani presented “To Help or Not to Help: Understanding the Relationship Between Loneliness and Perceived Effort of Acts of Kindness.” Anushka was awarded a PURC Top Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations Anushka! Ariya Kosavisutte presented “Exploring Moderators in the […]