THE TEAM

Dr. Gordon Hodson
​Fellow of APS, SESP, SPSP
Lab Director

Dr. Hodson is a Professor of Psychology at Brock University (Canada). He currently serves editorial journal duties at ERSP (Editor-in-Chief) and GPIR (Associate Editor). He was formerly an Associate Editor at the JESP, and presently serves on the Editorial Boards of SPPS, EJSP, and JTSP. He has been awarded the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence (Brock University) 2015-2018.  ORCID ID  ResearchGate

​Dr. Hodson writes a column called "Without Prejudice" at Psychology Today.  

Megan Earle, MA
PhD Student

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​Megan is interested in individual difference predictors of prejudice, including political ideology and cognitive ability. She is interested in the role of media in fostering prejudice towards disadvantaged groups, including women, Muslims, and immigrants. ORCID ID

Recipient of the 2015-2016 Jack M. Miller Excellence in Research Award (MA). 

Supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
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Elvira Prusaczyk, MA
PhD student

  
Elvira’s primary research focuses on prejudice and discrimination against women. Specifically, she studies how women react to anti-female comments (e.g., sexist jokes) and sexist media content (e.g., sexually objectifying images). She is also interested in individual difference predictors of prejudice against women, including social dominance orientation and hostile sexism. Broadly, she investigates when and why both lower and higher status group members maintain and bolster group-based social hierarchies. ORCID ID

​Recipient: Ontario Women's Health Scholars (OWHS) award.

Honours Thesis Students

2018-2019

Nadia Ganesh

Nadia is passionate about studying factors that influence and reduce racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice and discrimination directed at disadvantaged groups in society. She is specifically interested in studying the interaction between race and gender and its contribution to the dehumanization, stereotyping and discrimination of minorities and sexual assault victims.

Nadia is also a Research Assistant in the lab.

Tierney Race

Tierney is interested in studying the prejudice that disadvantaged groups experience. She is passionate about a variety of topics including dementia and age, homelessness, and mental illness. She would like to further explore the factors surrounding these topics and contribute to reducing the stigma. 


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Graduate Student Lab Affiliates

Valerie Plante-Brisebois (Rothwell) (Advisor: Dr. Shulman)

Caitlyn Gallant (Advisor: Dr. Good)

Research Assistants (2018-2019)

Audrey Smodis McCune

Janessa Meissner

Vanna Ibrahimi

Kaleigh Schenck

Iman Calo

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Tayler Vajda

Oakley Frechette

Melissa Blackburn

Nadia Ganesh

Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
​(Supervised by Dr. Hodson)

Kimberly Costello, PhD

After earning her PhD in the lab  in 2012, Kimberly became a professor at Humber College. She is presently a professor at Mohawk College.

​Her research focuses on dehumanization and speciesism. Her PhD thesis developed the Interspecies Model of Prejudice (see Costello & Hodson, 2014a, 2014b; Hodson & Costello, 2012, in press). 

Cara MacInnis, PhD

After earning her PhD in the lab in 2013, Cara held a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Liz Page-Gould. Cara is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. 

​Cara was awarded the 2016 SPSSI Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations award for MacInnis & Page-Gould (2015, Perspectives).  ​Click here for Cara's webpage. 
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Mark Hoffarth, PhD

Mark earned his PhD in the lab in 2017, and is now pursuing an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at New York University (NYU) with Dr. John Jost.

​Mark won the APA Division 34 best graduate student paper for Hoffarth & Hodson (2016, JEP), and his PhD was published at JPSP (Hoffarth, Hodson, & Molnar, in press).  ​Click here for Mark's ResearchGate page

Nour Kteily, PhD

Nour earned his PhD at Harvard with Dr. Jim Sidanius, then a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Hodson. His main postdoc project (Kteily, Hodson, & Bruneau, 2016, JPSP) introduced meta-dehumanization (feeling dehumanized by others).  ​Nour was recognized as an APS Rising Star in 2016, and a 2018 Sage Young Scholar. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern). ​Click here for Nour's website. 

Beenish Khan, MA

For her MA Beenish explored the role of (low) empathy in explaining prejudice. 
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PJ Sangalang, MA

After graduation, PJ transitioned into a corporate trainer role in the pre-employment industry, and is currently Head of Training and Development. Whilst primarily focused on hands-on training and teaching, he has also assisted in large scale corporate due diligence projects as well as assisting in database transitions used by his clients. He is currently in living in Surrey, England, and has lived in the UK since 2008. ​

Past Honours Thesis Students 
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Past Research Assistants 
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Former Graduate Student Affiliates

Becky Choma, PhD

Becky earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Hafer, after which she pursued a SSHRC-funded postdoc at York (with Dr. Kerry Kawakami) and at Wilfrid Laurier (with Dr. Mindi Foster). Becky is presently an Associate Professor at Ryerson University.​​Becky was awarded the CPA New Researcher award. ​Click here for her website.  ORCID ID

Paul Adachi, PhD

Paul earned his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Teena Willoughby. He is pursing a SSHRC-Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester with Drs. Richard Ryan and Edward Deci. ​ In 2017 he was awarded the APA Division 46 (media psychology) award for Distinguished Scientific contributions. ​Paul's Google page can be found here. ​

Malvina Skorska, PhD

Malvina earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Tony Bogaert. She is presently a postdoctoral fellow at CAMH and Brock. ​​Malvina's ResearchGate page can be found here. 

Mary MacLean, PhD

Mary earned her PhD at Brock under the supervision of Dr. Karen Arnell. She is presently a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara. 

Visiting Scholars

Kristof Dhont, PhD

Kristof is a key collaborator of the lab, and is a frequent visitor. Kristof is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent. His website can be found here.  ORCID ID