News
2023
Dr. Amy Muise is acknowledged as an SPSP Fellow for making significant contributions to Social and Personality Psychology!
Graduate student, Katarina Kovacevic, is awarded the doctoral Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Graduate student, Akshita Uppot, is awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship!
SHaRe lab manager, Akshita Uppot, has accepted a graduate student position in the Social and Personality Psychology program at York University (working with Dr. Amy Muise)!
2022
Graduate student, Katarina Kovacevic, receives Canadian Sex Research Forum Award for best student data blitz presentation!
SHaRe lab manager and specialized honours thesis student, Akshita Uppot, received the WB Templeton Honours Thesis Award for the best honours thesis in psychology and the CPA award for academic excellence and an outstanding honours thesis!
Graduate student, Eric Tu, was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Doctoral Scholarship!
Graduate student, Alexandra Liepmann, was awarded a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship!
Graduate student, Stephanie Raposo, receives the Sandra Pyke award for graduate student excellence!
Dr. Amy Muise received the President's Emerging Research Leadership Award from York University.
SHaRe lab manager and specialized honours thesis student, Veronica Benyamin, has accepted a graduate student position in the Master of Science in Psychotherapy program at McMaster University.
SHaRe lab specialized honours thesis student, Hanieh Naeimi, has accepted a graduate student position in the Social and Personality Psychology program at the University of Toronto (working with Dr. Emily Impett).
2021
Dr. Amy Muise received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research.
SHaRe lab honours thesis student, Sophie Goss, received the WB Templeton Honours Thesis Award for the best honours thesis in psychology and a CPA award of excellence for her honours thesis project.
SHaRe lab honours thesis student, Hanieh Naeimi, received the Originality Prize in Memory of Paul Jeffrey Kusyszyn for her honours thesis.
Dr. Amy Muise was awarded tenure and promotion at York University. She is now an Associate Professor.
Graduate student, Stephanie Raposo, wins 2nd place in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
2020
Stephanie Raposo was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal!
Former postdoctoral fellow, Rhonda Balzarini, has started a Tenured-Track faculty position at Texas State University.
Stephanie Raposo was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Doctoral Scholarship!
Alexandria West has successfully defended her dissertation!
Stephanie Raposo was awarded the Council of Canadian Departments of Psychology (CCDP) Certificate of Teaching Excellence!
Dr. Amy Muise was awarded the Gerald R. Miller Early Career Achievement Award from the International Association of Relationship Research (IARR).
Amanda Bockaj has accepted a graduate student position in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of New Brunswick (working with Dr. Lucia O'Sullivan).
Alexandria West was awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship to work Dr. Sarah Gaither at Duke University!
Stephanie Raposo was awarded the Canadian Psychology Association’s Certificate of Academic Excellence!
2019
Stephanie Raposo was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Stephanie Raposo was nominated for the Outstanding Thesis prize at York University!
Dr. Amy Muise received the Sage Young Scholar award from the Society of Personality and Social and Psychology: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/announcements/2020-spsp-sage-young-scholars-award-winners
Stephanie Raposo has successfully defended her dissertation!
Dr. Amy Muise was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology!
Ying Hui Hsieh received the CPA Certificate of Academic Excellence for her undergraduate honours thesis completed with Dr. Muise!
Allen Vorobeichik gets accepted into medical school at the University of Calgary.
Alexandria West receives the Sandra Pyke award for graduate student excellence!
Dr. Amy Muise is appointed as York Research Chair in Relationships and Sexuality.
Dr. Amy Muise is identified as a Research Leader at York University. Read more at: http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/04/21/york-universitys-research-leaders-celebrated-on-april-15-at-special-event/?utm_source=YFile_Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Top-Stories&utm_campaign=yfile
2018
Dr. Amy Muise is the 2019 recipient of the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award from the Relationship Research Interest Group (RRIG) with the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
Sarah Ciantar has accepted her offer to attend the Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences graduate program at York University.
Amanda Bockaj received a CPA Award of Excellence for her undergraduate thesis.
Amanda Bockaj received the W. J. Templeton Thesis Award for the best undergraduate thesis.
Julieta Strugo received the most innovative research award at the Women's Xchange conference in Toronto for her undergraduate thesis.
Deborah Alexe has accepted an offer of admission for the Educational Psychology program at OISE.
Amanda Bockaj was the runner up for the best thesis poster at the York University Undergraduate Thesis Day!
Stephanie Raposo received an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her final year of the MA program.
Alexandria West is awarded the doctoral Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her final year in the PhD program!
Dr. Amy Muise won the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science!
Arik Shoikhedbrod receives a SSHRC CGS MA fellowship.
Arik Shoikhedbrod has accepted his offer to attend the clinical psychology graduate program at York University.
Dr. Amy Muise co-edited a Special Issue on sexuality and relationships for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships: http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/spra/35/4
Dr. Amy Muise has been awarded funding from the Ontario Research Fund to support the Sexual Health and Relationships Lab.
2017
Justin Michel successfully defended his Masters Thesis entitled: "Attitudes Towards Children of Divorce Among European Canadian and South Asian Canadian Young Adults: The Role of Divorce Norms and Cultural Identification".
Alexandria West is awarded the Endler Prize for best thesis, dissertation, or article published last year!
Dr. Amy Muise is awarded a Canadian Innovation Foundation Grant!
Stephanie Raposo received a SSHRC MA fellowship!
Stephanie Raposo joins the SHaRe lab! Stephanie will begin her MA in September 2017.
Dr. Amy Muise is awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant. Broadening Your Horizons: Self-Expansion and the Maintenance of Desire and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships
2016
Andrew Laughton receives an honourable mention for the best poster presentation at the Canadian Sex Research Forum (CSRF) annual meeting!
Andrew Laughton receives a Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Certificate of Academic Excellence for his Honours Thesis!
Dr. Amy Muise receives the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) President’s New Research Award!
Dr. Amy Muise is awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant