McGill Laboratory of Affiliation and Prosociality
LAB DIRECTOR | DR. JENNIFER BARTZ
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students
Lab Coordinator
| MOLLY FEFFER |
Molly graduated from McGill University with a B.Sc. in 2023 and is currently working as the lab coordinator for the Bartz lab. She is interested in how chronic stress influences empathy and other social cognitive outcomes, as well as the psychology behind the (mis)functioning of interpersonal relationships more generally.
EMAIL: molly.feffer@mail.mcgill.ca | ResearchGate
Current Undergraduate Research Students
Cendrine Blais (PSYC 380)
Kayla Ditkofsky (PSYC 380)
Margaret Eisenberg (PSYC 380)
Marcy Qu (PSYC 484)
Collaborators
Dr. Niall Bolger
Dr. Sue Carter
Dr. Melanie Dirks
Dr. Ian Gold
Dr. Eric Hollander
Dr. Christopher Hopwood
Dr. Lauren Human
Dr. Heejung Kim
Dr. Harold Koenigsberg
Dr. Alexander Kolevzon
Dr. Matthew Lieberman
Dr. John Lydon
Dr. Meghan Meyer
Dr. Jeffrey Mogil
Dr. Debbie Moskowitz
Dr. Kevin Ochsner
Dr. Jens Pruessner
Dr. Signy Sheldon
Dr. A. Ting Wang
Dr. Jamil Zaki
Dr. Phyllis Zelkowitz
Dr. David Zuroff
| AUDREY-ANNE FORGET |
Audrey-Anne is a Ph.D. Student in Clinical Psychology at McGill University. Having experience in forensic psychology, her academic interests lie in the psychological mechanisms behind antisocial behaviors and their broader impact on society. More specifically, her research focuses on understanding the interpersonal behavior, societal functioning and empathy deficits in individuals exhibiting traits of the Dark Triad—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
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| MELISSA SHEMIRANI |
Melissa is a Master’s student in Experimental Psychology at McGill University. Her research focuses on the effects of intranasal administration of oxytocin on memory recollection and the moderating effects of attachment style. Melissa holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from McGill University.
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| AMY GREGORY |
Amy is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at McGill University. Her research focuses on identifying situational factors and individual differences that impair demonstrated empathic accuracy. She is also interested in the relational consequences of fluctuations in empathic accuracy and cognitive empathy, which a specific interest in support provision.
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EMAIL: amy.gregory@mail.mcgill.ca
| WILLIS KLEIN |
Willis is a PhD candidate in Experimental Psychology at McGill University. He is interested in the epistemic function of close relationships. His research focuses on better understanding the psychological consequences of gaslighting and how to recover from epistemic abuse. He is also interested in how close relationships alter the self-concept. Willis holds a BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto.
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| JENNIFER BARTZ |
Dr. Bartz completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 2004 with Dr. John Lydon at McGill University. She then went on to a Post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Eric Hollander at the Seaver Autism Center in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY. In 2007 she became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai, and in 2011 she retuned to McGill University. She is now a Professor in the Department of Psychology and serves as the Undergraduate Program Director.
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