Podcasts and Profiles

PODCASTS

The field of psychology is wide ranging and touches on innumerable subjects in the public discourse. To add the perspectives of psychologists to topical issues, CPA has launched the podcast Mind Full. Listen below for subjects that are important to Canadians, delivered through a psychological lens.

No one said a thing: A campus rape and the bystander effect with Dr. Catherine Sanderson

Dr. Catherine SandersonThe 1964 rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, and the sensational reporting around it that claimed 37 New Yorkers had witnessed the attack but done nothing to help, elevated the idea of the “bystander effect” into the mainstream. The parallels between the Genovese case and the Cornell gang rape case are obvious, but what IS the “bystander effect”, and how can we encourage people to become “moral rebels”? Dr. Catherine Sanderson is a professor at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the author of ‘Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels’. She shares her thoughts about the crime at Cornell, the bystander effect, and why many people don’t (or do) act to do the right thing.


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PROFILES

Psychologists, students, and others with psychology backgrounds, are doing incredible things across Canada. Here, we highlight just a few of those people who are helping others and living interesting professional, and personal, lives of their own.

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Student Spotlight

2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award – Maureen Plante

Maureen Plante, 2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award

Maureen Plante was the recipient of a 2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award for her work at the University of Calgary studying disrupted orders of eating from an Indigenous perspective.


2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award – Trinity Stephens

Trinity Stephens, 2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award

Trinity Stephens was the recipient of a 2024 CPA Indigenous Psychology Student Award for her unconventional work as an undergrad at UBC.


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