During a recent presentation for the FF-TIP Lab, Katie Romzek, a first-year graduate student, presented her current research on depression and social distancing for her master’s thesis. Katie first discussed the concept of social distancing, which differs from the context of COVID-19. She defined it as the amount of physical or emotional distance you want… Read more

Last week, Gina Reyes, a first-semester undergraduate research assistant at the FF-TIP Lab, presented an article on religious and spiritual identities and how they change over time. The article, titled “Religious and spiritual identities: evaluating change over time, identity salience, and the influence of aging” by Neal Krause & Gail Ironson (2024), aimed to identify… Read more

This 2024 Fall semester, the FF-TIP Lab will be welcoming four new members! Marina is a first-year PhD student with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in both Psychology and Biology from the University of Toronto. She became interested in the FF-TIP Lab due to Dr. Taku’s cross-cultural research as well as her work on traumatic… Read more