HONOR’S STUDENTS

Marie-Laurence Cyr (2013-2014)

Keen athlete with more than a decade of experience as a goalkeeper, this hockey enthusiast will begin next September the last year of her bachelor's degree in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Even though this is her first experience as a research assistant, Marie-Laurence is interested by many research subjects. She is currently participating in the research project of doctoral student Catherine Bergeron, which focuses on the implicit activation of the mindfulness. She also works on the Lançons 2 project, which studies the modulation of the attentional bias. She recently joined a third research project, which is the second part of a pilot study lead in collaboration with the dance department of UQÀM, that focuses on the perception of stress in those athletes. Her more recent interests are oriented towards the positive impacts of sports training and cognitive training on the quality of life of elderly people, as well as the benefits of physical activity on the intrinsic motivation for everyday tasks.

Gabrielle Lavoie (2012-2013)

I am currently finishing my bachelor's degree in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. I have integrated to my psychology curriculum a short master's program in Science of Religion in Indian Studies, which ended with a workshop in India where I was introduced to research in the field. My research conducted during these studies focused on the influence of the occidental consumer society on Indians from Delhi. During the last year of my bachelor's degree, I did an honor's thesis under Professor Stéphane Dandeneau that focused on the development of social resilience strategies by university dancers and their effects on self-esteem, stress and performance anxiety during a performance. During my first two years of my bachelor's degree, I have been a volunteer and paid research assistant for a doctoral student whose thesis focused on eating disorders associated with Diabetes. I have accomplished a lot of tasks during my assistantship, such as data entry, literature review, references and page layout of a treatment manual, in-person and forum based recruitment, as well as the presentation of a scientific communication on poster at the SQRP conference.

Christine Goyette (2011-2012)

Now a doctoral student with the professional profile in the humanist section of the Université du Québec à Montréal since the fall of 2012, I have completed my bachelor's degree following a career reorientation at age 38. I am now headed toward a clinical practice in palliative care to support those who are at the end of their lives and their families. I completed an honors thesis under the supervision of Professor Stéphane Dandeneau which focused on the correlation between attentional bias and self-esteem. We wanted to ascertain if it was possible to condition participants to concentrate on signs of acceptance or social menace. While I was a research assistant under Professor Ghayda Hassan, I prepared an important literary review on the efficiency of preventive or corrective intervention methods related to the ill-treatment of children belonging to a minority or ethnical background. I currently continue my collaboration with Professor Hassan by working as a coordinator for thematic issues for the Revue québécoise de psychologie and the Alterstice journal. My doctorate project focuses on the experience of presence by palliative care nurses after a group intervention program including Mindfulness and designed to increase their emotional and existential well-being.

Goyette, C., Dandeneau, S. (2012). Conditionnés à détecter la menace d'une exclusion sociale. Communication par affiche, Association francophone pour le savoir, Montréal, Qc, Canada.