The Shunned: The Need to Belong, Loneliness, Unforgiveness and Justice Among Excommunicants

A study of the experiences of a sample of individuals excommunicated from a religious sect, with a particular focus on unforgiveness and psychological wellbeing

Prevalence of Revenge on Social Media

We designed this study to explore the nature and prevalence of interpersonal revenge as it occurs on social media. We collected data from undergraduate psychology students as well as from the local community

If You Wrong Us Shall We Not Revenge: Interpersonal Relationships and Everyday Thoughts of Revenge

Modeled after a pair of studies conducted by Kenrick and Sheets (1993) on homicidal fantasies, the present research sought to answer important questions about the prevalence and characteristics of revenge by examining participants' everyday thoughts or "fantasies" about getting eve

perception of COVID-19 and psychological wellbeing

We will investigate the association between distress tolerance and psychological wellbeing during the first quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (April 27, 2020 to July 30, 2020). We will also investigate whether perceptions of the COVID-19 illness mediate the association between distress tolerance and psychological wellbeing. We will further investigate whether perceived social support moderates the indirect effect of distress tolerance on psychological wellbeing through perceptions of COVID-19 (specifically, whether social support moderates the path from perceptions of COVID-19 to outcome variables). Finally, we will examine whether the interaction between social support and perceptions of COVID-19 predicts psychological wellbeing