PEOPLE
Principal Investigator
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.
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
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.
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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