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New SSHRC Insight Grant funding awarded to PANGEA Lab

We are delighted to announce that the PANGEA Lab has been awarded a new SSHRC Insight Grant totaling CA$201,398. This prestigious grant will support our ongoing research initiatives and enable us to further our studies in the field. The SSHRC Insight Grant program is highly competitive and is designed to support and foster excellence in […]

Congratulations to All of Our Graduating Undergraduate Research Assistants

On May 24th, we had the pleasure of celebrating the achievements of our incredible undergraduate Research Assistants (RAs), Chassy Leong Ka See, Leo McHegg, and Valentina Balcazar as they graduated. Dr Götz joined the graduation ceremony on stage at UBC’s Chan Centre to honour this special occasion filled with pride and joy. We extend our […]

Photo: The PANGEA Lab at Dorman Point, one of Bowen Island’s most beautiful viewpoints looking out into Howe Sound.

PANGEA Lab End-of-Term Trip to Bowen Island

To celebrate the end of the academic year, the PANGEA lab took a day trip to Bowen Island. It was a fun day of hiking, gelato at the pier, and exploring Bowen Island. It was a great way to wrap up the school year!

“Hot Paper” Spotlight – Effect Sizes and What to Make of Them

We all care about effect sizes. Yet, traditional ways of evaluating them (P < 0.05 and generic benchmarks) are failing us. In this paper, Dr. Friedrich Götz, Dr. Samuel D. Gosling, and Dr. Jason Rentfrow proposed two paths forward: setting better, contextualized benchmarks or — more radically — letting go of benchmarks altogether. Both paths […]

PANGEA Lab 2024 Triple Feature at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Diego

Dr Götz, our graduate students Sakshi Sahakari and Yang Yilin Guo traveled to San Diego, CA, to share our research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention. Dr. Götz and Sakshi Sahakari organized a symposium where Sakshi presented her work on cultural tightness-looseness across India. Yilin presented a poster about regional […]