The Canadian Psychological Association's podcast Mind Full speaks with experts across Canada and the world on a variety of subjects. We frame current issues through the lens of the science of human behaviour, and focus on important topics related to the mental health of Canadians.
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Every time we get to celebrate something, we’re a little happier as a result. A promotion, a birthday, an unusually warm and sunny day in January. The fact is, there are hundreds of reasons for a celebration, but for some reason we don’t lean into them all. Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman has a radical idea – let’s celebrate EVERYTHING!
Dr. Abdulrehman's website Lead With Diversity: https://leadwithdiversity.com/
The Celebrate Everything initiative: https://leadwithdiversity.com/ce/
A virtual reality tour of a residential school with Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff and Dr. Katherine Starzyk
Thursday, May 29, 2025 • Duration 37:45
Dr. Katherine Starzyk and Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff created a virtual reality tour of a residential school. They collaborated with Survivors and computer scientists to see if a tour in this manner could change attitudes toward residential schools and reconciliation. Did it work? Well...kind of. But that doesn't mean the study wasn't worth doing! On today's episode we discuss what they learned and how even disappointing results move science and understanding forward.
Can a virtual reality residential school, developed with Survivors, improve empathy toward Indigenous people? Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/can-a-virtual-reality-residential-school-developed-with-survivors-improve-empathy-toward-indigenous-people-249996
Open-access paper 'The influence of Survivor stories and a virtual reality representation of a residential school on reconciliation in Canada': https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2024.1346101/full
Open-access paper '“I definitely felt like I was there”: enacting empathy and negotiating a virtual reality Indian Residential School': https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/11771801221117561
Missing Matoaka: https://www.missingmatoaka.ca/
Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff's lab website: https://psychlabs.torontomu.ca/iel/
The psychology of anti-trans legislation with Dr. Alison Phillips and Julia Standefer
Thursday, May 15, 2025 • Duration 36:44
We’ve spoken on Mind Full before about anti-trans legislation, and the push to sideline the scientists doing work in the sex and gender space. But we’ve always done so from a Canadian perspective. We were curious to know how American psychologists are feeling at the moment. Dr. Alison Phillips and Julia Standefer, researchers at Iowa State University, tell us about their current situation and their recent article.
Conversation article ‘The psychology behind anti-trans legislation: How cognitive biases shape thoughts and policy’: https://theconversation.com/the-psychology-behind-anti-trans-legislation-how-cognitive-biases-shape-thoughts-and-policy-251691
The 2025 federal election: a look back and a look ahead with Glenn Brimacombe
Thursday, May 1, 2025 • Duration 36:47
The federal election is over, and it looks like a Liberal minority. We speak with the CPA's Director of Policy and Public Affairs Glenn Brimacombe for the third time in our election series about the results, the reshaping of the federal government, and the path forward for advocacy. What is the current outlook for the health system in general? What are the possible scenarios for achieving parity between mental health coverage and physical health coverage? And what's next for Pierre Polievre and the NDP?
Mental health, healthcare, and the federal election with Glenn Brimacombe
Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 28:39
With just under two weeks until the federal election, we spoke with our director of policy and public affairs Glenn Brimacombe (again!) about public health, mental health, and what we can all do to keep those topics top of mind as we approach April 28th.
Policy Primers: https://cpa.ca/docs/File/Advocacy/CPA%20Policy%20Primer%20Final%20December%202024.pdf
Ten questions for candidates:
https://cpa.ca/docs/File/Advocacy/2025%20Federal%20Elections%20Questions%20Final%20April%208%202025.pdf
Psychology, mental health, and the federal election with Glenn Brimacombe
Saturday, March 29, 2025 • Duration 29:48
Glenn Brimacombe is the CPA's Director of Policy and Public Affairs, and a registered lobbyist. Glenn advocates for mental health funding and parity (to get mental health coverage on par with physical health coverage), and has some ideas about how to keep mental health at the forefront of the issues as an election looms.
CPA's Policy Primer 'The Federal Government & Mental Health Policy…Preparing for the Next Federal Election': https://cpa.ca/docs/File/Advocacy/CPA%20Policy%20Primer%20Final%20December%202024.pdf
Improving representation in science and in research: womenmind with Dr. Liisa Galea
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • Duration 53:14
Dr. Liisa Galea is a scientific lead for the CAMH (the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) program womenmind™. It’s a community of philanthropists, thought leaders and scientists dedicated to tackling gender disparities in science, and to put the unique needs and experiences of women at the forefront of mental health research.
womenmind: https://www.camh.ca/en/get-involved/join-the-cause/womenmind
Women's Health Research Cluster: https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/
Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/frontiers-in-neuroendocrinology
Organization for the Study of Sex Differences: https://www.ossdweb.org/
Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research: https://www.cogsresearch.ca/
The Friendship Guide with Dr. Jillian Roberts
Friday, March 7, 2025 • Duration 34:52
Dr. Jillian Roberts is a Professor at the University of Victoria, a registered psychologist in B.C., and an author who has written a string of successful children's books in the Just Enough and The World Around Us series. Her latest book, The Friendship Guide, is a book that helps kids learn how to make friends and how to be a good friend.
Pre-order The Friendship Guide: https://www.orcabook.com/The-Friendship-Guide
The Just Enough series, World Around Us series, and other books: https://www.drjillianroberts.com/books/
Dr. Roberts' website: https://www.drjillianroberts.com/
Mindkey Health: MindKeyHealth.com
Psychology Month: Anxiety, gender, and leadership with Dr. Winny Shen
Friday, January 24, 2025 • Duration 36:33
There has always been a stereotype that women are "more emotional" than men, and even that they are "too emotional" for leadership roles. Dr. Winny Shen joins Mind Full to discuss the results of her study which suggest that not only is that stereotype untrue, the exact opposite might actually be the case.
Harvard Business Review article:
https://hbr.org/2024/09/research-how-anxiety-shapes-mens-and-womens-leadership-differently
Open access article 'Leading through the uncertainty of COVID-19: The joint influence of leader emotions and gender on abusive and family-supportive supervisory behaviours':
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12439
Le Mois de la psychologie : la santé sexuelle avec Sophie Bergeron, Ph. D.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 • Duration 34:37
Cette semaine, dans le cadre du Mois de la psychologie dont le thème, cette année, est « Les femmes et la science », nous présentons Sophie Bergeron, Ph. D., qui détient une Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les relations intimes et le bien-être sexuel au Département de psychologie de l’Université de Montréal, où elle dirige également le Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles (CRIPCAS), l’Équipe SCOUP Sexualité et Couple, et le Laboratoire d’étude de la santé sexuelle. Ses travaux portent sur les déterminants psychosociaux de la santé sexuelle des individus et des couples ainsi que sur le traitement des dysfonctions sexuelles.
Laboratoire d’étude de la santé sexuelle : www.sophiebergeron.ca
Centre de recherche : www.cripcas.ca
Deux études portant sur le faible désir sexuel chez les couples sont présentement en cours au Laboratoire d’étude de la santé sexuelle : l’étude ROSE et l’étude ENTRAIDE. Plus d’informations sur ces études sont disponibles sur le site web.
En français : sophiebergeron.ca/recherches/
En anglais : sophiebergeron.ca/en/research/
Pour toutes questions concernant les études en cours ou pour y participer, les personnes intéressées peuvent écrire à l’adresse info@sophiebergeron.ca.
Facebook : @LaboSanteSexuelle
Instagram : @labo_santesexuelle
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