One-on-one with psychology professor Peter Herman
How successful are most New Year’s resolutions? The odds are stacked pretty heavily against you. Researchers have looked at success rates of New Year’s resolutions: the first two weeks everything works beautifully, but by the time February rolls around people are backsliding. By the following December, people are pretty much back where they started, sometimes [...]
Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist, and professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. This interview orginally aired on Tuesday, September 30 2008 8:01 PM on TVO’s, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Katreena Scott on issues affecting families faced with violence
Katreena Scott was a kid herself when her interest in child welfare began. Watching her mother, a social worker with Children’s Aid, deal with the heartbreak of child abuse on a daily basis, Scott learned early on that not all kids have the same opportunities and experiences — and decided to devote herself to the [...]
Jennifer Ryan is mapping memory loss
Having trouble remembering what’s on your grocery list? How about putting a name to the face of the person you’re standing next to at a party? We tend to accept that a certain amount of memory loss is normal, especially as we age. But what’s actually happening in your brain when you’re standing blankly in [...]
Dieting? Looking to save more? You might want to look at some new research on “partitioning consumption” from Professor Dilip Soman.
Program builds Canada’s reputation as global leader
U of T gained four new Canada Research Chairs and saw 17 existing chairs renewed in an announcement made at the University of Ottawa by John Baird, minister of the environment, on behalf of Jim Prentice, minster of energy and minister responsible for the Canada Research Chairs program. The new chairs are Peter Newman, social [...]
Selected Honours and Awards in the past five years INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & HONOURS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Foreign Honorary Members Recognizes outstanding intellectual achievement, leadership and creativity in all fields 2005 Richard Borshay Lee, Anthropology Tak Mak, Medical Biophysics Janice Gross Stein, Political Science 2004 Anthony J. Pawson, Molecular Genetics 2003 James G. [...]
