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The department of psychology @WesternU is hiring two tenure-track faculty positions! The search will be limited to applicants from under-represented and historically excluded groups. For more information: psychology.uwo.ca/about_us/fullt… #AcademicTwitter #hiring #academicjobs #psychology

Great work @jweststar ! This interesting study was produced in collaboration with 25 academics and involved 3000 respondents across 14 universities. Check it out! 📒

🎮Are the developers who make your games satisfied?🎮Find out in the latest @IGDA Developer Satisfaction Report! Authors include: @jweststar, Shruti Kumar, @TrevorTCoppins, @ItIsEVA, and Ezgi Inceefe. See the report here: bit.ly/3Gdpqnd #employeesatisfaction @WesternU

Excited to see @Alexand78975461 's flash talk #apsvirtual21 w/@noelle_baird and @LyndenJensen on how individuals higher in antagonistic narcissism engage in dominance strategies due to perceiving more status conflict with teammates #apsvirtual21 @IOWestern

Excited for the 2nd day of #apsvirtual21. If you are interested in how and why narcissists pursue status in social groups, check out my talk with @noelle_baird @AlexJBenson1 & @LyndenJensen! It's available on-demand throughout the conference. @IOWestern

New paper led by @JenniferCMLynch with @Alexand78975461 showing how antagonistic narcissism (but not agentic narcissism) altered team conflict processes (more competitive, less cooperative) as teams approached their project deadline @IOWestern doi.org/10.1177/136843…

How do we increase gender diversity in the manufacturing sector? Read Eva Kwan's recent report: "Gender Diversity and Ontario Manufacturing: Lessons from Five Leading Companies" to find out! trilliummfg.ca/wp-content/upl… #psychtwitter #psychology #iopsyc #manufacturing @ItIsEVA

This talk will surely be... out of this world! 🚀😎

The link to the Media Relations article can be found below (mediarelations.uwo.ca/2020/11/18/off…), and this research was recently published in Astrobiology. See McMenamin, Allen, and Battler's paper titled 'Team Processes and Outcomes During the AMADEE-18 Mars Analog Mission' to learn more.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it: research from our very own Julia McMenamin (@mccinamin) and Dr. Natalie Allen has been featured in UWO's Media Relations. McMenamin et al. found that conscientiousness is an important predictor of team success during space missions.

Be sure to check out @noelle_baird, @LucMartin11, and @AlexJBenson1's new paper 'A dynamic view of coach transformational leadership: How leadership perceptions relate to task cohesion and team potency'. Thanks @MitacsCanada for supporting this project. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In other exciting news, we are very happy to announce that Shruti Kumar successfully defended her master's thesis titled "The Motherhood Penalty: Not so Black and White". This may not be the Goblet of Knowledge, but it's great to see Shruti celebrating safely at home!

Dr. Evans is currently recruiting graduate students for the '21/'22 academic year. If you are interested in exploring how ‘teammates’ in workplace groups and in other settings come to influence peoples’ health behaviors and wellbeing, click on the link above for more information!

We are so excited to welcome the newest member of our department, Dr. @MBlairEvans! Dr. Evans studies how experiences within small groups shape health behaviour and wellbeing, and leads the Interdependence and Influence in Groups Lab at Western: iopsychwestern.com/evans-lab

@IOWestern Great job by MSc student Shruti Kumar as she helps to moderate a panel with the Canadian Minister of Labour @FilomenaTassi at the #ILERA2020 conference @ilo Join us for more! ryerson.ca/tedrogersschoo…

Western stands with the Black community and with all those calling out anti-Black racism. Violence against Black, Indigenous and racialized peoples are pervasive – Canada is not immune. Resistance against racism is critical to move society – and our campus community – forward.

Do the HEXACO personality traits combine into replicable profiles? @jae_noza, @kdaljeet and Dr. Meyer investigated this utilizing a sample of 360,000 participants! Published in @NatureHumBehav click here for their article rdcu.be/b3qqx @CSIOP_SCPIO @SIOPtweets @WesternU

@noelle_baird @TrevorTCoppins @kdaljeet @mcgregor_sc @SarahJCarv @mccinamin A big thank you to the family members who participated! We hope that everyone has had a safe and relaxing Family Day weekend.

@noelle_baird @TrevorTCoppins @kdaljeet @mcgregor_sc @SarahJCarv While we loved all of the responses, no response was quite as spot on as baby Marten’s description of what his mom, Julia McMenamin (@mccinamin), studies. Watch the adorable video below:

Happy Family Day! To celebrate the holiday, we asked our family members to describe what they think it is that we study. Here our some of the highlights: