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Click here for a printable pdf versionElizabeth Page-Gould, Ph.D.
Contact Information
| Embodied Social Cognition Lab | Phone: (416) 208-2795 | |
| Department of Psychology | Fax: (416) 287-7642 | |
| University of Toronto Scarborough | Email: elizabeth.page-gould@utsc.utoronto.ca | |
| 1265 Military Trail | Web: http://page-gould.com | |
| Toronto, ON, M1C1A4, Canada | Lab: http://embodiedsocialcognition.com |
Degrees
| Ph.D. |
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA Psychology, May 2008 Mentor: Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Committee: Özlem N. Ayduk, Robert W. Levenson, & Yu-Wen Ying |
2002 - 2008 |
| B.S. |
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA Psychology, May 2002 College Honors Thesis Advisor: Vicki S. Helgeson |
1998 - 2002 |
| B.S. |
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA Statistics, May 2002 University Honors Mentors: Joel Greenhouse, Howard Seltman |
1998 - 2002 |
Employment
| Assistant Professor, Psychology Department University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
2009 - present |
| Mind/Brain/Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology Department Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
2008 - 2009 |
Honours
Research
| Chair-Elect, Social Psychology Section Canadian Psychological Association | 2011 |
| Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Honorable Mention Awarded for Page-Gould, Mendoza-Denton, Alegre, & Siy (2010) | 2010 |
| Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow | 2008 - 2009 |
| SPSP Graduate Student Poster Award Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2008 Annual Meeting | 2008 |
| Christina Maslach - Phillip Zimbardo Social Psychology Student Award Western Psychological Association 2006 Annual Meeting | 2006 |
| SPSP Graduate Poster Honorable Mention Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2006 Annual Meeting | 2006 |
| National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow | 2004 - 2007 |
| Greater Good Science Center Graduate Research Fellow | 2004 - 2005 |
| Greater Good Science Center, Commissioned Literature Review Title: "Cross-race relationships: An annotated bibliography" URL: http://elizabethpage-gould.com/interracialrelationships |
2003 |
| National Science Foundation, Fellowship Honorable Mention | 2003 |
Teaching
| Professor of the Year The Underground, University of Toronto Scarborough | 2011 |
| Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award Psychology Department, University of California, Berkeley | 2007 |
| Chancellor's Citation for Everyday Heroism as a Graduate Student Instructor Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau, University of California, Berkeley | 2005 |
Scholarship
| Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Early Inductee | 2001 - present |
| Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Early Inductee, Former Student Vice President | 2000 - present |
| Mortar Board Honor Society | 2001 - present |
| Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society | 2000 - present |
| National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Former Secretary-Treasurer | 1999 - present |
Research Interests
Cross-group friendship, social interaction, stress, intergroup relations, psychophysiology, social cognition, quantitative methods
Research Awards
| Connaught Fund - New Researcher Award Title: "We are all in this together: Measuring physiology from multiple people and across time during social interactions" Role: Principal Investigator Total award: $50,000 |
2011 - 2013 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Small Institutional Grant Award Title: "Category salience and physiological stress during intergroup interactions" Role: Principal Investigator Total award: $500 |
2011 - 2012 |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Title: "Opportunity Hypothesis of Cross-group Friendship: Cause or Confound?" Role: Principal Investigator Total award: $83,900 |
2010 - 2013 |
| Canada Foundation for Innovation - Leaders Opportunity Fund & the Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario Research Fund Title: "Dyadic psychophysiology lab: A multi-method approach to intergroup relations" Role: Principal Investigator Total award: $109,168 |
2010 - 2013 |
| Greater Good Science Center Graduate Research Fellowship Title: "Friendship and Adjustment to College" Total award: $3,000 |
2004 - 2005 |
| Carnegie Mellon Small Undergraduate Research Grants Title: "Views of Self and Others" Total award: $500 |
2001 - 2002 |
| 3 Carnegie Mellon Small Undergraduate Research Grants Title: "The Carnegie Mellon Roommate Study" Total of awards: $1,500 |
2000 - 2001 |
Refereed Publications
Page-Gould, E. (In Press). To whom can I turn? Maintenance of positive intergroup relations in the face of intergroup conflict. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Manuscripts Under Review
Page-Gould, E., *Vanniyasingam, V., & Finch, B. K. (Submitted). Prejudice is a double-edged sword: Racial prejudice predicts chronic stress and poor health. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Page-Gould, E. & *Wong, H. (Submitted). The role of group membership in the revision of trust among strangers. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mendes, W. B. (Submitted). Stress and coping in interracial contexts: The influence of intergroup expectations and cross-group friendship in daily experiences of health Invited manuscript submitted for consideration in a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues.
Tropp, L. R., & Page-Gould, E. (Submitted). Intergroup contact. Handbook chapter invited for publication in the APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 2 (J. Dovidio & J. Simpson, Eds.).
* Indicates a graduate or undergraduate mentee.
Manuscripts In Preparation
Page-Gould, E. (2011). The Daily: Impact of violence in the news on daily symptomatology and interpersonal conflict. Manuscript in preparation.
Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2011). Powerful and Contagious: Social power drives physiological synchrony during social interactions. Manuscript in preparation.
Koslov, K., Page-Gould, E., & Mendes, W. B. (2011). Pounding hearts and brittle smiles: The effect of resource depletion on outgroup positivity. Manuscript in preparation.
Sweet, E., Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2010). Culturally salient social status and cardiovascular reactivity. Manuscript in preparation.
Other Publications
Page-Gould, E. (2010, October 11). Is racial prejudice bad for your health? The Washington Post: Political Bookworm (Guest Blogger). URL: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/10/is_racial_prejudice_bad_for_yo.html.
Presentations
Invited Colloquia Talks
Page-Gould, E. (2011, November). Cross-group Friendship. University of Waterloo, Social Psychology Brownbag Series.
Page-Gould, E. (2011, November). How Cross-group Friendships Affect Intergroup Relations. Brock University, Psychology Department Colloquium.
Page-Gould, E. (2011, May). Effects of cross-group friendship. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Social-Developmental Brownbag Series.
Page-Gould, E. (2010, September). Effects of cross-group friendship. Colby College, Psychology Department Colloquium.
Page-Gould, E. (2010, April). Why interethnic friendship is good for your health (and the world). Middlebury College, Psychology Department Colloquium.
Page-Gould, E. (2009, October). Effects of cross-group friendship on intergroup interaction. York University, Social Psychology Brownbag Series.
Page-Gould, E. (2009, February). When "Them" Becomes "Us": Unpacking the Benefits of Cross-group Friendship. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Social Psychology Speaker Series.
Page-Gould, E. (2007, November). Causal effects of cross-group friendship: Understanding the intergroup benefits of closeness across group boundaries. University of California Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research.
Invited Conference Presentations
Page-Gould, E. (2012, August). Multilevel Modeling. Invited workshop to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
Page-Gould, E. (2012, August). Multilevel Modeling. Invited workshop to be presented at the annual Quantitative Training for Underrepresented Groups.
Page-Gould, E. (2012, May). Multilevel Modeling. Invited workshop to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Page-Gould, E. (2011, June). Why cross-group friendship improves intergroup relations. Invited talk given at the Social Psychology Preconference of the annual scientific meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Page-Gould, E. (2011, May). Multilevel Modeling. Invited workshop presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
Chaired Conference Symposia
Page-Gould, E. (2012, Chair). A Double-Edged Sword: Prejudice, Stress, and the Health of Both Targets and Perceivers. Symposium to be conducted at the 13th annual scientific meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, CA, US.
Page-Gould, E. (2010, Chair). Embodiment of the social context: Psychophysiological advances in intergroup interaction research. Symposium conducted at the 50th annual scientific meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Portland, OR, US.
Conference Symposia
Page-Gould, E., Vanniyasingam, V., & Finch, B. K. (2012, January). The relationship between prejudice, chronic stress, and poor health. In L. D. Hamilton (Chair), Data Blitz. Symposium conducted at the first annual Social Neuroendocrinology Preconference at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, US.
Page-Gould, E. (2011, July). Cross-group friendship and resilience to everyday intergroup conflict. In S. Paolini (Chair), A dynamic and multilevel outlook on daily contact: Compensatory mechanisms and process disassociation. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2011, May). Physiological and behavioral coordination across the status divide. In Kraus, M. W. (Chair), Hierarchy, judgmental accuracy, and the person-in-context. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington D. C., US.
Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2011, January). Powerful and contagious: Social status drives physiological synchrony during social interactions. In A. Pearson & T. West (Chairs), Connecting social minds: Perceptual, physiological, and behavioral coordination within and between groups. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX, US.
Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2010, October). Powerful and contagious: Social power drives physiological synchrony during social interactions. In E. Page-Gould (Chair), Embodiment of the social context: Psychophysiological advances in intergroup interaction research. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, OR, US.
Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mendes, W. B. (2010, June). The importance of contact quality for health in diverse societies. Paper presented at the biennial scientific meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, New Orleans, LA.
Page-Gould, E., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B. (2010, January). Socio-Economic Status and Social Interaction. In N. C. Maisel & P. K. Piff (Chairs), Social psychology for an economic recession: Examining the effects of socioeconomic status on psychological processes. Symposium conducted at the annual scientific meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Mendoza-Denton, R., & Page-Gould, E. (2009, May). Hormonal correlates of stress in cross-group dyads. In S. S. M. Townsend & B. Major (Chairs), Getting Under the Skin: How Psychophysiology is Advancing Understanding of Intergroup Threat. Symposium conducted at the annual scientific meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008, February). Implications of the interpersonal environment for academic outcomes. In R. Mallett (Chair), Overcoming the Obstacles of Racial Prejudice. Symposium conducted at the annual scientific meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Mendoza-Denton, R., & Page-Gould, E. (2007, August). Interpersonal and intergroup impacts of intergroup friendship. In H. Smith & R. Mendoza-Denton (Chairs), Intergroup contact, relational justice, and historically under-represented students' educational engagement. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Mendoza-Denton, R., Page-Gould, E., & Tropp, L. R. (2007, January). Stress-reducing effects of cross-race friendship. In T. Saguay & L. R. Tropp (Chairs), Intergroup Relations in the Eye of the Beholder. Symposium conducted
at the annual scientific meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Tropp, L. R. (2006, June). Repeated cross-race
contact attentuates anxiety in cross-race interaction. In L. R. Tropp (Chair), Anxiety and Trust in Intergroup Relationships. Symposium conducted
at the biennial scientific meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Long Beach, CA.
Page-Gould, E. (2006). Repeated cross-race contact attenuates anxiety in cross-race interaction.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference.
Conference Posters
Khoury, J., & Page-Gould, E. (2011). Reducing stereotype threat with cross-group friendshp. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., Alegre, J. M., & Siy, J. O. (2009). When "They" Becomes "Us": Adopting the Ethnic Identities of Close Cross-ethnic Friends. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
Siy, J. O., Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008). When outgroup becomes ingroup: Self-stereotyping as a function of cross-race friendship. Psi Chi Regional Award Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psi Chi Midwestern Region, Chicago, IL.
Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Alegre, J. M. (2008). Why does cross-group friendship improve interactions with novel outgroup members? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Recipient of the SPSP Graduate Poster Award.
Siy, J. O., Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2008). When outgroup becomes ingroup: Self-stereotyping as a function of cross-race friendship. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2006). Stress-reducing effects of developing cross-race
friendships. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs CA. Recipient of the Christina
Maslach - Phillip Zimbardo Award for Outstanding Student Research in Social Psychology.
Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2006). Within-group variability in Latino/as' approaches
to cross-race interaction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Palm Springs CA.
SPSP Graduate Poster Award Honorable Mention.
Page-Gould, E., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2005). Academic benefits of cross-race friendship. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans LA.
Teaching and Mentorship
Graduate Courses
| Design of Experiments II: Advanced Statistics | Winter 2012 |
Graduate Workshops
| Multilevel Modelling Workshop | Spring 2010, Summer 2011 |
Graduate Theses Supervised
| Masters Thesis | |
| Chad Danyluck | 2011 - 2012 |
| Christopher Zou (Subsidiary Advisor) | 2009 - 2010 |
| Outside Project | |
| Samantha Joel, Bonnie Le | 2011 - 2012 |
| Kaja Jasinska | 2010 - 2011 |
Undergraduate Courses
| Psychophysiology Laboratory, PSYC06 | Winter 2011 |
| Introduction to Social Psychology, PSYB10 | Fall 2009 - present |
Undergraduate Theses Supervised
| Senior Thesis Students | |
| Rameez Mahmood, Warda Qazi, Julian Scheffer, Matthew Wilmot (Co-supervised by Dr. Michael Inzlicht) | 2011 - 2012 |
| Vinoja Vanniyasingam, Clara Ko (Co-supervised by Dr. Yona Lunsky, CAMH) | 2010 - 2011 |
| Jennifer Khoury, Nadine Brazier | 2009 - 2010 |
| Supervised Study Students | |
| Chenthila Nagamuthu, Jothi Sharma | 2011 - 2012 |
| Hatty Wong, Vivian Wai Han Lee (Co-supervised by Dr. Judith Wiener, OISE) | 2010 - 2011 |
| Saham Saeed, Sarah Grynpas | 2009 - 2010 |
Editorial Review Board
| Social Psychological and Personality Science (appointed) | January 2012 - onward |
| Psychological Science | January 2011 - present |
Ad-hoc Reviewer
| Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010, 2011 |
| Psychological Science | 2009, 2010 |
| Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2010 |
| Social Psychology and Personality Science | 2010, 2011 |
| Journal of Psychophysiology | 2011 |
| Journal of Intercultural Studies | 2010 |
| British Journal of Social Psychology | 2010, 2011 |
| Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology | 2010 |
| National Science Foundation | 2009, 2011 |
| U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation | 2010 |
| International Journal of Psychophysiology | 2009 |
| European Journal of Social Psychology | 2009 |
| Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada | 2009 |
| Group Processes and Intergroup Relations | 2008, 2009 |
| Basic and Applied Social Psychology | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 |
| South African National Research Foundation | 2007 |
| Journal of Social and Personal Relationships | 2007 |
Professional Service
University of Toronto
| University of Toronto Research Ethics Board (IRB) | Fall 2010 - present |
| University of Toronto Scarborough Web/Digital Technology Steering Committee | 2011 - present |
| University of Toronto Scarborough Instructional and Informational Technology Services Advisory Committee | 2011 - present |
| University of Toronto St. George Lecturer Search Committee | 2011 - 2012 |
| University of Toronto Scarborough Educational Technology and Classroom-Structure Advisory Group | 2011 - present |
| University of Toronto Scarborough Psychology Department Colloquium Committee | 2011 - present |
| University of Toronto Mississauga Faculty Search Committee | 2009 - 2010 |
External Service
| Society for Research on Adolescence, 2012 Meeting Submissions | 2011 |
| Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2010 Meeting Submissions | 2010 |
| Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Dissertation Award Committee | 2010, 2011 |
| Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Web Oversight Committee | 2008 - present |
| Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2006 Meeting Submissions | 2010 |
Executive Board
| Chair-Elect, Social Psychology Section, Canadian Psychological Association | 2011 - 2012 |
Professional Affiliations
| Society for Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 - present |
| Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues | 2004 - present |
| Society for Psychophysiological Research | 2010 - present |
| Association for Psychological Science | 2009 - present |
| Canadian Psychological Association | 2009 - present |
| International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection | 2009 - present |
| American Psychological Association | 2005 - present |
| International Social Cognition Network | 2003 - present |
Computing Languages
Interpreted: Perl
Compiled: Java, C++
Statistical: R/Splus, SAS, SPSS
Empirical: Inquisit, DirectRT, MediaLab
Web servers: Apache, Tomcat
Database: MySQL
Administration/Environments: Unix, Ubuntu/Debian Linux, Mac OSX, Windows NT - XP, Bash
Web: HTML, css
Wiki Administration: Mediawiki, MoinMoin