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Evan F. Risko

@efriskouw.bsky.social

Professor & Chair, Psychology at the University of Waterloo

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Screen time’s impact is moderated by individual differences in environmental sensitivity. New research from University of Waterloo Psychology’s Jasmine Zhang and Dillon Browne and their colleagues. More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Children’s screen time and psychological well-being: The moderating role of environmental sensitivity

As digital media becomes an increasingly integral component of daily life, concerns about the links between screen use and children’s psychological we…

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Songs are particularly powerful memory cues and get more effective as we age. New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Khalil Husein and Myra Fernandes. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Popular songs evoke autobiographical memories in younger and older adults: specifying the source

Music holds a unique capacity to involuntarily and rapidly evoke autobiographical memories (AMs), yet the source of its cueing ability is unspecified. It is also unclear how well music continues to...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exhibiting a little self-compassion may help others do the same! New research from University of Waterloo Psychology’s Monica Grove and Allison Kelly. see here for more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do peer displays of self-compassion affect personal self-compassion 2–4 days later?: An experimental study of college women

Self-compassion is a robust predictor of well-being, but its facilitators in everyday life remain surprisingly understudied. Drawing on social cogniti…

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are you boring? New research from Thekla Müller-Boysen and University of Waterloo Psychology researchers V. Baaba Dadzie and @jamesdanckert.bsky.social James Danckert explores how people form judgments about boringness and why these perceptions matter. See here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why are you so boring? The role of agency in perceived boringness

People perceived as boring are often socially excluded, yet the psychological basis of this stereotyping remains understudied. This study examined how…

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fascinating new research from UWaterloo Psychology’s @ccolomb.bsky.social Clara Colombatto and colleague (@smfleming.bsky.social Steve Fleming) examines attributions of metacognitive states in human-AI interactions. More here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Beliefs about accuracy shape confidence attributions to humans and artificial agents - Communications Psychology

This work shows how humans infer others’ confidence from their observed behaviour and prior beliefs about the agents’ accuracy. As a result, they overestimate the confidence of AI agents compared to o...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Kate Van Kessel (now at U of O), Serena McDiarmid, Dillon Browne, and Heather Henderson collaborate with the Waterloo Region Children and Youth Planning Table to develop the Where I Belong Survey. More details here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Validation of a Community Belonging Measure for Youth and Adults

Measuring community belonging is of interest to community organizations and practitioners, yet few tools exist. Here we validate a novel measure of community belonging: the Where I Belong Survey – Youth/Adult Version (WIBS). In Study 1, the ...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Adrian B. Safati (PhD student) and Dr. Daniel Smilek shows that simply expecting to think about our own thinking can actively influence how we regulate attention. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The Effects of Anticipating Metacognitive Judgments about Mind-Wandering - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Across two experiments (N = 121, 121) we examined whether the anticipation of metacognitive judgments in the form of experience sampling probes of mind-wandering influenced attentional engagement. Par...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What do clinicians think about using social robots in psychological practice? Timely study from an @uwaterloo.ca collaboration between researchers in Engineering and Psychology (Charlotte Aitken & Elizabeth Nilsen). Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Clinicians’ Opinions, Suggestions, and Concerns Using Social Robots in Psychological Practice - International Journal of Social Robotics

In the past decade, technology-assisted interventions for mental health have been growing. To appropriately design technologies to support mental health, such as social robots, a crucial step involves...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology’s Neil Hester (with Eric Hehman from McGill) shows why looking beyond means matters when using continuous predictors for binary outcomes. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Differences in Variance, Skewness, and Kurtosis Can Account for Differences in Binary Outcomes - Neil Hester, Eric Hehman, 2025

When researchers consider the relation between continuous predictors (e.g., perceived threat) and binary outcomes (e.g., being stopped by police), they typicall...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers (Elizabeth Nilsen, Charlotte Aitken, Kate Van Kessel) offers new insights into how adolescents and their parents' mentalizing and reflective functioning shape peer relationships. Check it out: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41129544/

The Role of Adolescent Mentalizing and Parental Reflective Functioning for Adolescents' Peer Relationships - PubMed

From a theoretical standpoint, findings suggest the important role of parental reflective functioning and youth mentalizing for models of social development. In terms of methodological implications, task and self-report of youth mentalizing were related but differentially predicted peer problems. Pr …

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · last yr.

Important new research by University of Waterloo’s @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social Sara Hart and colleagues demonstrates that genetic or environmental influences on reading skills change with age. see: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Charting the Shift: Age as a Moderator of the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Reading

Reading is influenced by genes and environments throughout life. Using a U.S. twin sample (N = 1086; 564 Male: 522 Female; Age M = 7.46 years, SD = 1.57, with 90% self-reported as White, 8% Black, ...

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Evan F. Risko@efriskouw.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge congratulations to Dr. Dillon Browne from Waterloo’s Department of Psychology on being named to the Royal Society of Canada College! See here for more details: uwaterloo.ca/news/rsc-rec...

RSC recognizes research excellence at Waterloo | Waterloo News

Six University of Waterloo researchers are being recognized as Royal Society of Canada (RSC) fellows and a member of the RSC College. “I am thrilled to congratulate Waterloo's new RSC Fellows and new ...

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