Honours Programs

• Social Psychology 
• Political Psychology
• Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Youth Engagement 

• Resilience research
• Mental health in marginalized, equity-seeking populations
• Violence and trauma
• Participatory qualitative and mixed methods research approaches and methodologies
• Program development and evaluation

Jocelyn Brown

• Experiences of diverse workers (specific focus on disclosure, discrimination, and accommodations)
• Psychosocial risks at work
  
• Workplace Interventions (Policy, organizational, individual, etc.)
• Perceptions that employees, managers, and other stakeholders have about work and relationships
• Other I/O Psychology topics

• Social identity and intergroup relations 
• Social psychology of collective action 
• Stereotyping and discrimination 
• Psychology of globalization 

• Attention, mind wandering, emotion, and other topics in cognitive neuroscience 
• Psychopathic personality traits 
• Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event-related Potentials (ERP) 

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• Psychophysics
• Cognitive Psychology 
• Computer models of psychological processes 

• Workplace Mistreatment
• (Un)Ethical Behaviour at Work
• Leader Character and Development

Developmental Psychology topics relevant to adolescence and emerging adulthood, including:

• Social competence 
• Peer relationships 
• Risk and resilience 
• Psychosocial adjustment 

• how memory encodes, stores, and uses information about words when reading and spelling
• reciprocal relations between reading and spelling
• statistical learning and orthographic processing
• literacy learning and mental health outcomes

• Psychometrics and testing
• Space psychology + other Isolated and Confined Environments (ICEs)
• “Legal” forms of bias in hiring (e.g., tattoos, height, working in stigmatized industries)
• Workplace psychopathy
• Social media use in hiring

I/O Psychology & Occupational Health Psychology topics: 

• Psychologically healthy workplaces 
• Work-life balance 
• Job stress 
• Worker health and well-being 
• Emotional intelligence 
• Leadership & health 

• Cognitive neuroscience
• Brain-based investigations of psychosis
• Neuropsychopharmacology

• Industrial/Organizational Psychology 

• Organizational conflict, mediation, and negotiation 
• Individual differences in the workplace 
• Organizational culture and intervention 
• Workplace stress and burnout 

• Workplace mistreatment broadly defined (including incivility, aggression, bullying) 
• Fairness issues in organizations 
• Workplace stress 
• Organizational citizenship behaviours 
• Leader well-being 

• Topics: attention, executive control, inhibition, working memory, emotion, and mental fatigue. 
• Tools: resting-state electroencephalography (rEEG), event-related potentials (ERPs), mental chronometry, and psychophysics. 

Diverse topics in I/O psychology including: 

• The role of personality (Big 5 and Dark Tetrad) in predicting organizational behaviour 
• Occupational health and safety 
• Leadership processes and development in the workplace 
• Dignity in the workplace 
• Workplace violence 
• Occupational stress 
• Mental health at work 
• Union-member relationships 

• Workplace inclusion: feeling and being safe, respected, valued, supported to succeed, and influential
• Defining, measuring, and tracking change in organizations, especially EDIA
• Centring First Voice constituents (e.g., workers, students) in research and practice
• Understanding the social determinants of health: from employment system to individual worker
• Knowledge mobilization
• Research-driven advocacy

• Psychology of civil litigation: Decision making, applying the civil standard of proof in cases in which there is statistical evidence. 
• Technology in the classroom: Use of technology that enhances flipping the classroom and invites student participation. 

• Selection (e.g., interviews, video interviews, interview anxiety)
• Recruitment (e.g., job search, organizational reputation)
• Impression management
• Deception and faking
• Personality

• Incivility
• Women in leadership / Leader gender / EDI in leadership
• Dominance and the dominance penalty
• Organizational stability
• Job insecurity
• Social media as a selection tool

• Peak performance
• Work passion and optimal functioning
• Motivation, goal-setting, and self-efficacy
• Transformational leadership
• Organizational culture, diversity, and inclusion 
• Dynamic workplaces (e.g., remote, online, performing artists, athletes, etc.)

• Psychology and law 
• Police interrogations and confessions 
• Eyewitness memory 
• Correctional psychology 
• Law and public policy 

• Personnel recruitment and selection
• New technologies in selection (e.g., social media, video interviews, AI)
• Impression management, faking, and deception
• Employment discrimination and biases
• Workplace psychopathy

• Personnel recruitment and selection
• Asynchronous video interviews
• Leadership assessment 
  
   

Social, Health, and Forensic Psychology. Specific projects include:

• Factors affecting student success
• The effectiveness of health promotion campaigns
• Race and personnel selection
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Eyewitness identification
• False confession

• Role of crime victims in courts
• Victim impact statements
• Public views on courts
• Clare’s Law

• Paraphilias
• Sexual offending
• Sexual violence prevention programs and barriers to the development of these programs
• Mandatory reporting and clinician decision making
• *Please Note: Although I am a clinical psychologist, my research is focused on clinical forensic psychology. I am unable to provide honours thesis supervision to students interested in non-forensic clinical psychology topics (e.g., depression, anxiety, adolescent mental health).

  I will be accepting 1-2 honours students for 2025-2026 please reach out by December 15th 2024

• Lie detection 
• Eyewitness memory 
• Correctional psychology 
• Violent offenders 
• Substance Abuse and Addiction
• Investigative interviewing
• Role of victims