B.Sc. (Calgary), M.Sc. (Calgary), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)

Dr. Stout has been a member of the department since 1987. Presently he is teaching courses in Statistics, History of Psychology and Learning & Memory. Given his background in the history and philosophy of science, his research interests focus on the history of psychology (19th Century British Psychology, Ancient Greek Philosophy/Psychology) and knowledge generating practices (history of statistics and research design). These interests compliment and enrich the perspective from which he teaches his courses. Dr. Stout has been a recipient of the Chancellor's Teaching Award (2003).

B.A. (Concordia), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Montreal), Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Glasgow)

Dr. Bacon has been a member of the Department of Psychology since 2004. He is also a member of the FRSQ-funded Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition (CERNEC). He presently teaches courses in Neuroscience and Perception. His primary research interests are within the fields of visual neuroscience. By combining psychophysics and a variety of brain recording techniques, Dr. Bacon investigates the links between brain physiology and visual perception. Specific themes include 3D vision, visual illusions, visual awareness, audio-visual interactions, brain plasticity/reorganization and visual biases in anxious individuals.

B.A. (Bishop's), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)

Claude Charpentier obtained her doctorate in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, with a dissertation on the shared social attitudes and thought patterns associated with radical-utilitarians and fellow reformers John Stuart Mill and Alexander Bain. While her research interest is centred in philosophical psychology, her main psychological interests are focused on clinical psychology, ethical thought in psychology, and the psychology of nutrition. As a former social worker, she draws on an extensive experience in counseling children and adults within the child welfare system. She specializes in nineteenth century British philosophical psychology, and her current project is a book length study of philosopher-psychologist Alexander Bain and his Associationist Psychology. In addition to teaching in the department of Psychology, she teaches Philosophy of mind and American pragmatism within the department of Philosophy.

B.A. (Rutgers), Ph.D. (Syracuse). Post-doctoral research (Neurology, University of Montreal).

Dr. Drumheller came to Bishop's in 1991 where she has taught a variety of courses in neuroscience, including psychopharmacology, neuropsychology, and the neuropsychology of aging. Her research interests focus on the effects of various psychoactive substances on the behavior and neurotransmitter function. She also investigates the neural mechanisms implicated in the Central Nervous System processing of spatial information in humans.

M.A. (Glasgow), M.Sc. (Stirling), Ph.D. (McGill)

Dr. McKelvie has been a professor in the Psychology Department at Bishop's University since 1972. He earned his Master of Arts at the University of Glasgow, his Master of Science at University of Stirling, followed by his Ph.D. from McGill University. He enjoys teaching a variety of courses that cover introductory psychology, research methods, memory and cognition, psychometrics and psychological testing, and sport/exercise psychology. In addition to supervising and assisting students with their research projects, he also has his own research program which deals with mental imagery, memory and cognition, and individual differences and their measurement.

B.A. (Hons) (Strathclyde), M.Sc. (Strathclyde), Ph.D. (Glasgow Caledonian)

Dr. Mitchell joined the Department of Psychology in 2011 from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Her main research interests are in the areas of pain perception and management, and music, health and wellbeing; for which she has been awarded funding from the British Pain Society, Wingate Foundation and Carnegie Trust among others. Her first co-edited text ‘Music, Health and Well-being’ (Oxford) will be published in 2012. At present she is teaching classes in Personality and Introductory Psychology, and is starting the first class at Bishop’s in Psychology of Music during winter 2012.

B.Sc. (Ottawa), B.A. (Ottawa), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Carleton)

A member of the department since 2010, Dr. Sirois holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Health and Well-being and is the co-ordinator of the multi-disciplinary Psychological Health and Well-being Research cluster at Bishop’s. Her research, which is supported by the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), focuses on the role of self-regulation in how people improve, maintain, and manage their health and well-being. Her current research is investigating the mental strategies that help people focus on the goal “journey”, and the personal characteristics (procrastination, perfectionism, self-compassion) that help or hinder using these strategies. Currently she teaches Health Psychology and is the co-author of the 2nd Canadian edition of the popular Shelley Taylor textbook “Health Psychology”.  She will be teaching a new course on Personality, Health and Well-being in the Winter 2013 term.

B.Sc. (Manchester), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Queen's)
FAPS (Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science)

Dr. Standing's interests are in using controlled experiments to study cognitive and social processes, especially in such areas as short-term memory for pictures and words, perceptual judgement, and psychology of belief. He also enjoys using computers in various ways, especially to access the range of available databases, and teaching about computers as a useful tool. At present he teaches research methods, computers, social psychology, cognition and perception. His research interests are in the areas of cognition, memory, and social psychology.

Dr. Eastwood joined the department in 2011 after completing his doctorate in applied social psychology at Memorial University. His research interests are centered in the area of forensic psychology, and in particular on trying to improve policing procedures through empirical research. His current research projects involve (a) examining the ability of innocent people to create accurate alibis in the context of a police interview, and (b) assessing the comprehensibility of youth waiver forms – which are passages of text that police interviewer use to inform youths of their legal rights.

B.Sc. (UNB), Ph.D. (UQAM), Post-Doctoral Fellowship (McGill)

Dr. Marcantoni has been a member of the Department of Psychology since 2006. He is presently teaching courses in several areas including Neuropsychology and Methodology. His research interests revolve around the neural structures underlying the temporal limitations of visual attention. When attention must be allocated to two successive (time) relevant stimuli there is often a cost in processing measured as an increase in response time or in error rate. A series of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiments performed by Dr. Marcantoni with young adults identified a group of cortical regions that may be responsible for the control of visual attention across time. Current avenues of research examine how these networks are modified through factors such as stress, aging, and by neurological damage (i.e. Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease).

B.Sc. (McGill), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (McMaster)

A member of the Department of Psychology since 1973, Dr. Black retired as of June 15, 2005. He welcomes discussion and e-mail correspondence with students and colleagues on topics of psychological research.

Cand. Psych., Drs. Psych., D.S.Sc. (Leyden)

Dr. de Man was a member of the Department of Psychology from 1979 to 2009. His research interests are in the areas of suicidal behaviour, parent-child relationships and personality development, and the effects of natural and human-induced disasters.