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Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (4453)
E-mail: pbrossea@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

I direct the Childhood Thinking Laboratory in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. My main area of research pertains to the study of young children's evaluation of other people's knowledge and selective social learning.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Cognition
• Development
• Research methods
• Statistics

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English and French

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (4419)
E-mail: sylvain.chartier@uottawa.ca
Website

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E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

I am interested in developing models of cognition using artificial neural networks.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Artificial intelligence
• Biomedical engineering
• Chaos theory
• Cognition
• Dynamical systems
• Machine learning
• Research methods
• Statistics
• Statistics

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English and French

Dr.
Part-time professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

Contact information:

Office: 613-883-6248
E-mail: wchowdhu@uottawa.ca

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E-mail

Research information:

Dr. Wahida Chowdhury is a cognitive scientist, who graduated with a Ph.D. in cognitive science from Carleton University in June 2017. She comes from an educational background in engineering, medicine, psychology, and cognitive science. Her master’s thesis demonstrated how ideas from social cognition could be applied to prevent people from downloading malicious software known as Trojan Horses. Her dissertation research investigated personal, social and situational influences on people’s judgments of online privacy and surveillance. Dr. Chowdhury started her research career as a social science research assistant in 2010 when she worked for a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada to improve Government job websites. Since then she has been working on several research projects from inception to completion for private and public organizations, such as the Department of National Defence of Canada, the Treasury Board Secretariat Canada, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Her projects involved developing research proposals, performing literature reviews, designing and conducting surveys and interviews, analyzing results by both quantitative and qualitative statistical methods, conducting archival research, and writing research reports for publication or presentation at national and international conferences.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Science and Society
• Social psychology
• Statistics

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English only

Professor and Canada Research Chair
Full professor
Faculty of Education
School of Psychology

Contact information:

Office: 6135625800 ext 4134
Cell: 6132208879
E-mail: tracy.vaillancourt@uottawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

I study aggression across the lifespan with a particular focus on bullying and peer victimization. I am also an expert on children's mental health.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anxiety disorders
• Behaviour
• Clinical psychology
• Depression
• Development
• Family and health
• Mental health
• Mental health
• Relationships
• Research methods
• School violence
• Social psychology
• Statistics
• Stress
• Violence
• Youth

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English only