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Postdoctoral researchers

  • Benjamin Giguère

    Broadly speaking, I am interested in understanding the role of social influence (e.g., norms) in the acquisition and maintenance of problematic behaviors (e.g., alcohol abuse). Much of my research is focused on examining some of the cognitive and affective processes: (1) through which individuals derive notions of behavioral appropriateness from social groups (broadly defined); (2) that lead them to follow or dissent from such notions; as well as (3) approaches used to change processes that encourage problematic behaviors. These interests have led to projects illustrating the powerful influence of social norms on a range of behaviors (e.g., binge drinking; procrastination...

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  • Michaël Dambrum

    At the end of my PhD, which has been particularly pleasant but rather (if not too much) demanding, I decided to make one of my old dreams come true: to live in the Canadian woods. This led me to do a post-doctorate degree under the supervision of one heck of a man: Don Taylor. Those two years have given me the opportunity to work on new topics such as cultural identity, delinquency, genocide as well as intergroup relations in South Africa, and all this in a great atmosphere. It has also allowed me to live the retreat I dreamed of in a far corner of the Laurentides (i.e., Ste-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson) with my partner, Virginie. Taking long walks, watching the otters, beavers...

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  • Roxane de la Sablonnière

    Having completed my PhD with Francine Tougas at the University of Ottawa, I taught for two years in Mongolia and in Kyrgyzstan with the Civic Education Project. As my research interests are related to the adaptation processes to profound, numerous and rapid social changes, this experience as a changing agent helped me to better understand the implications of social changes. In May 2004, I started my postdoctoral studies at McGill to pursue my quest in understanding changes in social identities and how people adapt to multiple and conflictual identities (for e.g., in multiethnic societies).
     
    Update: Roxane is now faculty member at the...

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