Alumni
Undergraduate Thesis Students
Lucas Blumenfeld (2024-2025)
Ireland Moore (2024-2025)
Ramtin Vakil Azad (2024-2025)
Jeanne Bellerose (2023-2024)
Genna Gaudio (2023-2024)
Ilkem Sesen (2023-2024)
Nimmi Luckheenarain (2021-2022)
Samantha Morris Vallieres (2021-2022)
Adina Gazith (2020-2021)
Agata Kasprzyk (2020-2021)
Sarah Williams (2020-2021)
Caitlin Miller (2019-2020)
Alexandra Uhrig (2019-2020)
Joanna Kowalczyk (2018-2019)
Katherine Séguin (2018-2019)
Christina Balabougiki (2017-2018)
Mehreen Diwan (2017-2018)
Mahtab Malekian Naeini (2018-2019)
Daniella Sucapane (2016-2017)
Amanda Simundic
Amanda Da Costa (2016-2017)
Graduate Students
Sarah Hines, Ph.D. Psychology, Research and Clinical Training Option, 2023
Dissertation: Perceived approval of risky drinking: Development and validation of an injunctive drinking norms questionnaire
Ghislaine Badawi, Ph.D. Psychology, Research and Clinical Training Option, 2020
Dissertation: The role of social context and anticipatory anxiety in social anxiety risk for pre-drinking
Current Position: Private Practice (Paris, France)
Avital Ogniewicz, Ph.D Psychology, Research and Clinical Training Option, 2017
Dissertation: Examining the link between social anxiety and alcohol use: The role of post-event processing
Current Position: Private Practice (Forest Hill Centre for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Ontario)
Danit Nitka, Ph.D Psychology, Research and Clinical Training Option, 2017
Dissertation: The role of cognitive processes in social anxiety risk for problematic drinking
Current Position: Private Practice (Connecte, Montreal, QC); Montreal Children’s Hospital (Montreal, QC)
Matthew Keough, Ph.D Psychology, Research and Clinical Training Option, 2016
Dissertation: Clarifying the revised Behavioural Inhibition System as a risk factor for anxiety-related alcohol misuse in young adulthood: New insights from experimental and prospective studies
Current Position: Associate Professor of Psychology, York University (Toronto, ON)

The Young Adult and Alcohol Research Laboratory was founded in 2009. Our research examines alcohol risk and resilience.