PhD. Assistant Professor @MountAllison Department of Psychology We all tell lies. I research the development of and psychology behind our deceptive behaviours.
Sackville, New Brunswick
Joined April 2021
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We are hiring a TT professor in Interdisciplinary Health Studies @MountAllison. This is a unique position with a lot of potential research areas! Info here:
mta.ca/about-mta/work-at-mta…
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I will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2025, in the Lifespan Development Psychology program at NC State!
Join our webinar this Thursday, September 12th to meet our faculty & learn more about our program!
ncsu.zoom.us/j/95761313852
My new paper with @AngelaD_Evans. Lying about health concerns is viewed quite negatively, but sometimes it can be challenging to have honest conversations about health. Hoping to explore more ways to encourage open conversations.
Health Lies Among Older Adults Are Widely Condemned, Study Finds psychreg.org/health-lies-amo…
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Do we inherently see children as honest? A new #JARMAC study revealed that only women have an implicit bias associating children with honesty. Yet, both men and women explicitly believe children are honest @APA_Journal @Alison__oconnor @karampbell buff.ly/3x2AfbP
The Mount Allison psych department is hiring an instructor to teach intro psych (online or in person). See below for job details!
mta.ca/about-mta/work-at-mta…
Here is a highlight of our recent paper in JARMAC:
link.growkudos.com/1f8591cl2…
Only women were implicitly biased to associate honesty with children, yet both men and women showed this bias in explicit (self-reports).
@karampbell @willmhall
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Psychology's Dr. Alison O’Connor, Director of the Lifespan Lab at Mount Allison, explores how lying evolves across our lifespans — through new research funding by SSHRC's Insight Development Grant, the CFI's John R. Evans Leaders Fund, and ResearchNB: mta.ca/about/news/mount-alli…
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Congratulations to two Mount Allison faculty members, recipients of funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant program.
Full story: brnw.ch/21wHU8J
New study alert! Along with my thesis student, Jessica, we explored age differences in health-related lies.
To lie or not to lie about health? Well...your age matters! #JGSSAdvAccess study finds younger adults tend to tell more health-related lies, often driven by shame or worry about judgment. As we age, honesty about health increases.
doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae0…
Looking for participants for a new ONLINE study in the lifespan lab. Email ([email protected]) if you are Canadian and at least 18 years of age! 🇨🇦
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Excited to announce that I will be joining @ontariotech_u Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in January 2024.
My lab will focus on understanding cognitive and affective factors related to vulnerability and mental health during adolescence!
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Mark your calendar! Decepticon Conference 2023 (Online), December 7-8, 2023, 2-5 PM, UK Time.
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My first publication! This project started off as my honours thesis and gradually became a lot more than just that. Very grateful for the support and guidance from @ZanettePhD and @LMalloy
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
my first summer as faculty...I can finally do the little (big) things that I couldn't find time for... lab website is up & running! #TheLifespanLab @MountAllison
lifespanlab.ca
Sharing my new paper with @willmhall and @karampbell exploring how adults' implicit & explicit honesty perceptions differ across child race. We explored how these biases predicted simulated legal decisions when a (Black or White) child alleges abuse. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
3) adults showed the opposite explicit bias: in self-reports, adults rated Black children as more honest than White children. Yet, this bias did not predict verdicts.