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PEOPLE

Principal Investigator

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GEOFF MACDONALD, PHD

Professor of Psychology

I am a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. I am a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the International Association for Relationship Research. I am a former Lead Editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and a former Department Chair. I am also the recipient of the 2024 International Association for Relationship Research Mentoring Award.

Geoff MacDonad, PhD
Graduate Students
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ELAINE HOAN

PhD, Year 4

My research interests revolve around how people foster social connection. I am fascinated by how individual differences, like personality traits, can interact with interpersonal factors to sustain well-being in relationships and singlehood. My other interests include how individuals maintain meaning in life, magnanimity, and resilience through social connections.

Graduate Students

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LAURA HAWKINS

PhD, Year 1

I am interested in how individual differences shape relationship trajectories among both single and partnered individuals. More specifically, I seek to understand how partner ideals, attraction, and trait preferences influence the initiation and dissolution of romantic partnerships, and how these factors, in turn, predict relationship satisfaction.

EMMA (EMILIANA) LI

Lab Manager

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Research Assistants

Undergraduate Students

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Honours Thesis Student

Charm Lee 

Research Assistants

Bethany Yeung

Estella (Emma) Sanchez

Hayden Azim Wong

Aelish Dindayal

Ilil Guttman-Visoker

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