Faculty

Jeff Loucks
Head; Associate Professor
Office: AH 345.1
E-mail: jeff.loucks@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4033
Website: http://uregina.ca/~loucks5j
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 415AF, 900AA
Research interests
- development of social cognition
- infant, child, and adult action perception
- infant social cognition
- relation between motor experience and action understanding.

Gordon Asmundson
SOM, Professor; FRSC, FCAHS, Registered Doctoral Psychologist; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Clinical Psychology Review
Office: AH 352
E-mail: gordon.asmundson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2415
Website: http://www.aibl.ca
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 388AK
Research interests
- Anxiety Disorders
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Health anxiety and illness behaviour
- Chronic pain (e.g., fear of pain, assessment)
- Psychopathology
- Alzhiemer's Disease

Shadi Beshai
Associate Professor
Office: AH 335
E-mail: Shadi.Beshai@uregina.ca
Phone: (306) 585-4026
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 333
Research interests
- major depression (both episodic and recurrent adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- moderators (e.g., culture and diversity factors)
- mediators (e.g., cognition) of outcome in evidence-based psychotherapy for adults.
- areas of adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- evidence-based transdiagnostic treatment for anxiety and depression
- adult clinical assessment.

Kaila Bruer
Assistant Professor (Luther College) (on leave)
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: LC 223
E-mail: Kaila.Bruer@uregina.ca
Website: https://uregina.ca/~bruer20k/
Research interests
- children as witnesses
- children’s honesty
- recognition and recall memory
- eyewitness identification
- reliability of witness testimony

Nicholas Carleton
Professor
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: AH 351
E-mail: Nick.Carleton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2287
Website: https://www.cipsrt-icrtsp.ca/
Research interests
- Anxiety Disorders
- First Responders and Other Public Safety Personnel
- Potentially Psychologically Traumatic Events
- Traumatic Stress
- Fundamental Cognitions
- Psychometrics and Statistics
- Transdiagnostics

Kim Dorsch
Associate Member; Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Sport Psychology
Office: Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport Room 164.12
E-mail: Kim.Dorsch@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4742
Research interests
- sport psychology
- health psychology
- athletic performance; officiating performance
- perceptual-cognitive training
- group dynamics in sport

Natasha Gallant
Assistant Professor
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: AH 335
E-mail: Natasha.Gallant@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4219
Website: https://www.arcresearch.ca/
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 102
Research interests
- the influence of psychosocial factors in the experience of chronic diseases
- the role of adversity & resilience in the aging process
- the development of policy recommendations aimed at improving the lived experiences of aging populations
- psychological assessments and interventions for adults living with chronic diseases or acute illnesses

Jennifer Gordon
Associate Professor; Director, Women's Mental Health Research Unit; CIHR Canada Research Chair in Women's Mental Health; SHRF Patient-Oriented Research Leader (on leave)
Ph.D (McGill University)
Office: AH 334
E-mail: Jennifer.Gordon@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4389
Website: https://www.wmhresearch.ca/
Research interests
- women's mental health
- premenstrual syndrome
- postpartum depression
- infertility
- perimenopausal depression
- effects of female reproductive hormones on mood

Heather Hadjistavropoulos
Professor
Ph.D (University of British Columbia)
Office: AH 332
E-mail: heather.hadjistavropoulos@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5133
Website: https://www.wellbeinginnovationlab.ca/
Research interests
- cognitive behaviour therapy
- digital mental health
- anxiety
- depression
- trauma
- health anxiety
- chronic pain
- chronic health conditions
- alcohol misuse
- clinical supervision and training

Thomas Hadjistavropoulos
Professor; Research Chair in Aging and Health; Registered Doctoral Psychologist
Office: AH 345.3
E-mail: hadjistt@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4457
Website: https://www2.uregina.ca/hpl
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 860
Research interests
- Health Psychology
- Pain
- Aging
- Fear and Anxiety in Older Persons
- Professional Ethics and Standards
- Clinical Psychology

Bridget Klest
Associate Professor
Office: AH 343
E-mail: bridget.klest@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4214
Website: http://uregina.ca/~schtlab
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 333
Research interests
- interrelations among trauma/negative event exposure
- social context (including interpersonal relationships and institutional affiliations of perpetrators)
- well-being
- institutional responses to trauma exposure
- negative healthcare experiences
- overt discrimination
- microaggressions

Lynn Loutzenhiser
Professor; Director of Clinical Training
Office: AH 327
E-mail: lynn.loutzenhiser@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4078
Website: http://uregina.ca/~loutzlyn/
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 850
Research interests
- transition to parenthood
- infant sleep
- fatigue
- autism spectrum disorders
- father involvement in families

Richard MacLennan
Professor
Office: AH 328
E-mail: richard.maclennan@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4157
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 400, & 823
Research interests
- Psychometrics and statistics.
- Traditional trait approaches to psychology including: personality, intelligence, and creativity.
- Applied psychology including: industrial-organizational psychology, aviation psychology, military psychology, police psychology, and computer applications in psychology.
- Editor: Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services.

Chris Oriet
Professor; Associate Dean, Planning and Programs, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research
Ph.D (Waterloo)
Office: AH 331
E-mail: chris.oriet@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4193
Website: https://www.cs.uregina.ca/Research/rice.html
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 807
Research interests
- Attentional limitations in human information processing
- Effects of attention and experience on perception

Gordon Pennycook
Associate Member; Assistant Professor, Hill/Levene Schools of Business, Behavioural Science
Office: ED 540.1
E-mail: gordon.pennycook@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4717
Website: https://gordonpennycook.net
Research interests
- reasoning
- decision-making
- distinction between intuition (“gut feelings”) and analytic thinking
- conflict detection
- base-rate neglect
- religious belief
- morality
- creativity
- smartphone use
- science beliefs
- political ideology
- misinformation.

Tom Phenix
Associate Professor; Dean (Campion College)
Ph.D; MA (University of Saskatchewan); BA Hons (University of Regina)
Office: CM 408
E-mail: tom.phenix@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1257
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-tom-phenix/
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 102
Research interests
- mathematical cognition
- arithmetic knowledge representation
- memory retrieval processes

Heather Price
Adjunct Professor (Thompson Rivers University)
Ph.D (Simon Fraser University)
E-mail: heather.price@uregina.ca
Website: http://child-law-research.sites.tru.ca/
Research interests
- Children as witnesses
- Autobiographical and event memory
- Effects of stress/emotional arousal on memory
- Forensic interviewing

Katherine Robinson
Professor (Campion College); Experimental and Applied Psychology Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: CM 511
E-mail: katherine.robinson@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-359-1248
Website: https://campioncollege.ca/resources/dr-katherine-robinson/
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 490CJ
Research interests
- Cognitive development with special emphases on the development of conceptual and strategic understanding in arithmetic in both children and adults.

Sarah Sangster
Assistant Professor
Ph.D (University of Saskatchewan)
Office: AH 340
E-mail: sarahlsangster@gmail.com
Phone: 306-337-2911
Current classes
Winter 2023 PSYC 101, 204,
Research interests
- experiences in the reproductive health care system
- informed reproductive decision making in the contexts of fertility control and infertility
- prenatal screening and diagnostic testing
- pregnancy and birth
- pregnancy termination
- transition to parenting

Donald Sharpe
Professor
Office: AH 341
E-mail: sharped@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4312
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 305, PSYC 820
Research interests
- applications of quantitative approaches (e.g. meta-analysis; structural equation modeling)
- research methodology.

Austen Smith
Assistant Professor
Office: AH 339
E-mail: austen.smith@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4297
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 255, PSYC 455AB
Research interests
- visuospatial attention
- cerebral lateralization
- aesthetics and art
- driving and navigation
- perceptual asymmetries
- multisensory integration
- eye tracking

William Smythe
Adjunt Professor (University of Regina)
E-mail: william.smythe@uregina.ca
Research interests
- Theoretical psychology.
- Narrative and Discursive Psychology
- Research Ethics

Laurie Sykes Tottenham
Associate Professor
Office: AH 338
E-mail: laurie.sykestottenham@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4194
Website: http://www2.uregina.ca/bnr-spit-labs/
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 255
Research interests
- neuropsychological basis of individual differences in cognitive and emotion processing, with particular emphasis on stress and sex hormone effects
- functional lateralization
- behavioural testing and salivary and urinary enzyme immunoassays (conducted on-site, to assess circulating hormone concentrations)

Kristi Wright
Professor (On Sabbatical Leave)
Office: AH 325
E-mail: kristi.wright@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4180
Research interests
- Childhood psychopathology
- Health anxiety
- Preoperative anxiety

Susan Yamamoto
Assistant Professor (Campion College)
Ph.D; MA (Carleton University); BA Hons (University of Manitoba)
Office: CM 402
E-mail: susan.yamamoto@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-586-4242
Website: https://www.nellab.info
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 220, PSYC 890BM
Research interests
- jury decision-making
- the insanity defence
- diversity in the courtroom
- utilitarian and retributive punishment orientation
- scale development
- mixed methodology
Sarah Zanette
Assistant Professor (Luther College)
Office: LC 227
E-mail: Sarah.Zanette@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-206-2100
Website: http://www.casprlab.ca
Current classes
Winter 2023 - PSYC 101, PSYC 210
Research interests
- Childhood deception (i.e., lying and cheating)
- Lie-detection
- Parenting by lying
- Childhood behaviour problems
- Moral development
Staff

Brenda Yung
Administrative Assistant
Office: AH 345
E-mail: brenda.yung@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4157

Catherine Hologroski
Administrative Assistant
Office: AH 345
E-mail: catherine.hologroski@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4221