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Pathways to Research Excellence Program (PREP)

This site contains all you need to know about the Pathways to Research Excellence Program (PREP), formerly known as the Canada SROP. PREP is hosted in the tri-campus University of Toronto Psychology Department, Graduate School of Management, and the Rotman Research Institute (Baycrest Hospital).

  • About
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • Overview and Vision
    • 2026 Faculty Research Projects
    • Info for Students
    • Info for Faculty
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Info for Potential Partners
    • Alumni Page
    • Contact

Category Archives: Project-2026

Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Belonging – What Does it all Mean?

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Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Belonging – What Does it all Mean?

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Diversity, Identity, Inclusion, Organizational Behaviour, Social Psychology

Evaluating eye-movement and brain imaging indicators that predict dementia in healthy older adults

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Evaluating eye-movement and brain imaging indicators that predict dementia in healthy older adults

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging

Task Switching in Neural Networks

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Task Switching in Neural Networks

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Cognitive Control, Computational Modelling, Computational Neuroscience, Neural Networks, Task Switching

Work-based Violence – Understanding experiences and interventions

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Work-based Violence – Understanding experiences and interventions

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026February 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Culture, gender, Inclusion, Leadership, wellbeing

Evacuating Afghanistan: Emergent Volunteer Organizing during Crisis

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Evacuating Afghanistan: Emergent Volunteer Organizing during Crisis

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Crisis, Organizational Behaviour, Qualitative Interviews, Volunteering

Adversity and the development of prosocial outcomes in children

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Adversity and the development of prosocial outcomes in children

Posted bypagegouldFebruary 8, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:adversity, Child Development, mental health, prosocial development, Social-Emotional Development

Prior knowledge, new learning and cortical plasticity

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Prior knowledge, new learning and cortical plasticity

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 26, 2026January 26, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:cortical plasticity, memory systems

How the brain controls decision-making in rats

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How the brain controls decision-making in rats

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 26, 2026January 26, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:extinction, habits, learning, rat

The Psychology of Digital Communication

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The Psychology of Digital Communication

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:communication, qualitative analysis, social

Racial Inequity in Workplaces, Religious Organizations, Product Markets, & Society at Large

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Racial Inequity in Workplaces, Religious Organizations, Product Markets, & Society at Large

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:(In)authenticity, Inequality, Intergroup Relations, Organizational Behavior

A study of negative reinforcement

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A study of negative reinforcement

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:behaviour, Conditioning, Memory, Neuroscience, Psychology, Rats

Do children explore more or less with age?

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Do children explore more or less with age?

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:brains, childhood, development, learning, Memory, Perception

Engram basis of fear generalization

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Engram basis of fear generalization

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:behaviour, Memory, mice, Neuroscience

Do we think about our friendships in intergroup terms?

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Do we think about our friendships in intergroup terms?

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Intergroup Relations, quantitative methods, Relationships, social interactions, Social Psychology

Why is Memory so Fickle?

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Why is Memory so Fickle?

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Cognition, Memory, Neuroscience

Gender and Persistence

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Gender and Persistence

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 12, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:gender; persistence; failure; challenge; resilience

What’s going on in distracted driving?

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What’s going on in distracted driving?

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 5, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:attention, Cognition, Driving, Perception, vision

Aging and memory in immigrant women from the Horn of Africa

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Aging and memory in immigrant women from the Horn of Africa

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 5, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Aging, Culture, Memory, Neuroscience, stigma

Examining text-to-song as a method of improving reading comprehension

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Examinoing text-to-song as a method of improving reading comprehension

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 5, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Auditory Cognition, Comprehension, Perception, Reading, Song

Do you see what I see? Understanding individual differences in visual perception

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Do you see what I see? Understanding individual differences in visual perception

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 5, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Cognitive Psychology, Individual Differences, Perception, vision

Personal morality

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Personal morality

Posted bypagegouldJanuary 5, 2026January 19, 2026Posted inProject-2026Tags:Morality
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