News and Media
May, 2026
Recent Conferences
Deewa Anwarzi recently presented her work on the impact of interoceptive attention on the sense of agency at the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CACBT) Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
June, 2025
Conference highlights: CPA 2025
We are so excited to share some conference highlights from the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) 2025 conference! This conference took place in the stunning, historical city of St. John's, Newfoundland. Both Salina and Deewa had the opportunity to present their latest work in poster format!
Congratulations to Salina for winning the graduate student poster award for Most Innovative Poster! Well done!
April, 2025
It's conference season!
This month Deewa and Jaelon presented their research at PNB Grad Research Day at McMaster University and Salina presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) conference in Chicago!
Special congratulations to Deewa for winning FIRST PLACE for best poster presentation! Way to go!
April, 2025
Congrats thesis students!
Congratulations to our 2024-25 undergraduate thesis students for presenting their research at the PNB undergraduate research conference!
(not pictured: Joshika Jaswal, Hemanshi Bhandari)
Can a Uniform Shape Empathy? Uncovering the Psychological Impact of Police Uniforms
Caleigh Kloppenburg
Emotional Contagion During Joint Pain Observation
Teodora Nedic
"I did it!": The Effect of Narcissism and Environmental Controllability on Sense of Agency
Ellen Troyer-O'Connor
Forecasting Trauma: How do immediate psychological responses to trauma shape intrusions over time?
Karina Di Pietro
Effects of Political Orientation on Responses to Microaggression Confrontation
Zach Geddes
January, 2025
The Obhi Lab attends a workshop on measuring and interpreting physiological data at the Mcmaster Digital Transformation Research Centre!
December, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Alejandro Pérez for obtaining a Distinguished Professorship at the Universidad de La Laguna! We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
December, 2024
Jaelon successfully defended his MSc research on intergroup empathy and is well-set to begin his PhD work with the Obhi Lab! Well done and congratulations Jaelon!
April, 2024
Congratulations Salina for being awarded the CGS-M NSERC scholarship to support her Master's research!
June, 2024
Congratulations to our 2023-24 undergrad thesis students for successfully presenting their research at PNB Undergrad Research Day!
