University of Quebec at Montreal
The ELABORER studies the role of emotion and personal and social mental representations, such as significant episodic memories in people's lives. We study these processes through various human behaviors like motivation, sexuality, and resilience, and through different social structures, such as couple relationships, interpersonal relationships, work, family, and social groups. The ELABORER is part of the University of Quebec at Montreal, department of psychology.
One of the objectives of the ELABORER is to improve mental health and well-being of all individuals. Because humans never stop developping and growing psychologically throughout life. It is this development, this reflexivity about oneself, these mental representations about the self to ELABORATE that we seek to study. The ELABORER collaborates with many other researchers across the world.
Frederick L. Philippe, Director of ELABORER
My research interests revolve around the psychological processes operated by mental representations, like episodic and autobiographical memories, their cognitive organization, and their link with emotional structures. I seek to understand how certain mental organizations can orient or influence behaviors, future actions, and mental health.
Nabil Bouizegarene, PhD Candidate
I am interested in the reactions to basic needs frustration, that is, avoidance and neediness of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. I am also interested in the role of memories and future projections in identity-related adaptive processes, for instance identity exploration and integration and the pursuit of important personal goals.
Maxime Lopes, PhD Candidate
Research interests : Identity, personality, well-being, optimal functioning of endurance athletes, motivation, narrative and episodic approach.
Christine Therriault, PhD Candidate
Research interests : sexuality, attachment, couple relationships, need satisfaction, traumatic events memories, organization and mentalization, resilience and integration of memories with identity/self, behavioral patterns, well-being.
Marie-Jeanne Léonard, PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Radical attitudes, violent radicalism, mental health, omniculturalism.
Valérie Lapointe, PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Memories of aversive events, mental health, entropy, reconsolidation, electrophysiology, virtual reality, experimental research.
Aurélie Thuot-Jolicoeur, PhD Candidate and Research coordinator
Research Interests: World view, turning point memories, mental health, emotional regulation, well-being.
Paul McNicoll, PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Negative emotions, emotional regulation, dehumanization, attribution bias, neural measures such as evoked components and time-frequency analysis.
Rose-Anne Girard, Social media coordinator
From the world of theater to psychology, I am fascinated by human nature. As an undergraduate psychology student, I am actively involved with ELABORER. Through my diverse roles, including managing social media, supporting coordination, and working as a research assistant, I am exploring the many facets of research in psychology.
Geneviève B.-Pelletier
Marie-Pier Gingras
Serge Lecours
Marie-Claude Geoffroy
Sook Ning Chua
Nessa Ghassemi-Bakhtiari
Robert J. Vallerand
Noémie Carbonneau
Claude Fernet
Nathalie Houlfort
Martine Hébert
Isabelle Ouellet-Morin
Stéphane Dandeneau
Massimiliano Orri
Geneviève Mageau
Frédéric Guay
Mireille Joussemet
Richard Koestner
Joëlle Carpentier
Julie Laurin
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Geneviève B.-Pelletier, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, and psychologist.
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Marie-Pier Gingras, PhD Candidate, UQAM
Marie-Pier is the coordinator of the project on civic engagement in youths.
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Serge Lecours, PhD
Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Je tente essentiellement de mieux comprendre les liens entre régulation des émotions et psychopathologie, principalement par le biais de l’étude du fonctionnement mental (mentalisation, alexithymie). Une partie de mes travaux porte sur une analyse théorique de ces thèmes, avec une approche principalement psychanalytique, qui intègre des éléments des théories des émotions. J'effectue également de la recherche empirique utilisant plusieurs stratégies méthodologiques : analyse du discours (quantitative et qualitative), création et utilisation de questionnaires, tâches expérimentales, etc. -
Marie-Claude Geoffroy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada.
I am a psychiatric epidemiologist interested in suicide and related mental health problems in the general population and their prevention. My work uses large cohorts of individual born in Canada and Britain and followed over several years. My research program has three components. 1) Epidemiology: to describe the prevalence of suicide and suicidal behaviour in Canada; 2) Etiology: to identify risk factors occurring at different life-course stages, from child-to adulthood, for suicide and related mental illness and to understand the bio-psycho-social mechanisms by which those risk factors may predispose a person for sucide and mental illness; 3) Prevention: to identify protective factors for suicide and mental illness in the general population. -
Sook Ning Chua, PhD
Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Dr. Chua Sook Ning is a lecturer and clinical psychologist at National Institute of Education. Her research focuses on motivation, need satisfaction, and well-being in the context of social relationships. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural issues of support and self-motivation strategies. She is also interested in using social media to destigmatize mental illness and in population wide mental health interventions. -
Nessa Ghassemi-Bakhtiari, PhD Candidate, UQAM
Nessa devotes most of her current life to her PhD in psychology at UQAM. A graduate of McGill's School of the Environment in Ecological Determinants of Health, she is interested in the importance of civic engagement activities in adolescence and the impact of climate issues on young people's well-being. She is also passionate about publishing and is working on the creation of a new journal in psychology at UQAM. In her non-academic life, she cultivates a practice in photography/videography, dance, and gardening.
Doctoral student in psychology (Ph.D / Psy. D.), under the co-direction of François Poulin and Anne-Sophie Denault
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Robert J. Vallerand, PhD
Robert J. Vallerand is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Motivational Processes and Optimal Functioning. He is also the Director of the Social Behavior Research Laboratory.
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Noémie Carbonneau
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
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Claude Fernet
Professor, Human Resources Management Department, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Associate Professor at UQAM and Université Laval
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Nathalie Houlfort
Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at UQAM. Her research examines the role of motivational processes in the daily lives of workers. Her current research projects focus on work-life balance, passion for work, and organizational knowledge transfer strategies.
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Martine Hébert
Martine Hébert (Ph.D., psychology) is a Full Professor in the Department of Sexology at the Université du Québec à Montréal and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in interpersonal trauma and resilience. She is also a co-holder of the Marie-Vincent Interuniversity Chair on Child Sexual Abuse and heads the FRQ-SC Sexual Violence and Health Team (ÉVISSA).
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Isabelle Ouellet-Morin
Isabelle Ouellet-Morin, an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology, holds a doctorate in psychology. Her research focuses on exploring the psychological and physiological mechanisms of stress in adolescents and young adults. She is also the esteemed holder of the Canada Research Chair in the Developmental Origins of Vulnerability and Resilience.
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Stéphane Dandeneau
Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Social Section of the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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Massimiliano Orri
Massimiliano Orri is a post-doctoral researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University.
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Geneviève Mageau
Geneviève Mageau is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal.
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Frédéric Guay
Frédéric Guay is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Education - Department of Foundations and Practices in Education at Université de Laval.
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Mireille Joussemet
Mireille Joussemet is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal.
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Richard Koestner
Richard Koestner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University.
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Joëlle Carpentier
Joëlle Carpentier is a Professor in the Department of Organization and Human Resources at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She conducts research in social psychology, sports psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology.
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Julie Laurin
Julie Laurin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science - Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal. She is director of the Laboratoire de recherche sur la motivation et les trajectoires de bien-être familiales and a member of the Groupe de recherche sur l'inadaptation psychosociale chez l'enfant.
Valérie Guilbault
Léa Bernard-Desrosiers
Iliane Houle
Christine Richard
Olga Fliaguine
Fannie Locat
Annabelle Fortin
Jessica Beaudoin
Ophélie Dassylva
Ariane Paquin
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