PANGEA 2025 End-of-Term Outing!
To kick off the holiday season, the PANGEA team got together downtown at the Rec Room for an evening of games, food, and even axe-throwing! Highlights included the basketball game (which Yilin showed her strength in, and which we all got a little obsessed with) and a heated air hockey tournament. Congratulations to Nick for […]
Congratulations to Anabel Büchner on the SPSP Heritage Dissertation Research Award!
We are delighted to announce that Anabel Büchner has received the Heritage Dissertation Research Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) for her outstanding project, the Personality and Contextualized Experiences (PACE) Study. The PACE Study is a cross-national collaboration spanning the United States, Canada, and Germany, much of which was initiated during […]
Fiona Averill Wins Multiple Awards for her Thesis on Tightness across the Caribbean
PANGEA lab manager Fiona is on a roll! Fiona’s 4th year honours thesis – written in the PANGEA Lab – combined a culturally-immersed archival data collection approach with state-of-the art machine learning algorithms to explore variation in Tightness (i.e., how stringent social norms are, and how rigorously they get enforced in a given cultural context) […]
Congratulations to Sakshi Sahakari for Receiving a 2025 Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award!
We are pleased to announce that PANGEA graduate student Sakshi Sahakari has recently been awarded a 2025 Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). This prestigious honour recognizes and supports graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in advancing their research. We look forward to the valuable contributions Sakshi’s work […]
“Hot Paper” Spotlight: Profiling Misinformation Susceptibility
Misinformation is everywhere — but who actually falls for it? In this landmark, cross-national study, Dr. Friedrich M. Götz (PI, PANGEA Lab), Dr. Hyunjin J. Koo (Postdoctoral Researcher, PANGEA Lab), and collaborators from Oxford, Cambridge, and King’s College London administered the Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST) to over 66,000 participants across 24 countries. Using multilevel modelling, […]
End-of-Term Outing to Lynn Canyon Park
On a beautiful (yet slightly chilly) day, our lab met for an end-of-term outing to Lynn Canyon Park. We crossed the suspension bridge, explored the forest trails, cooled off by the river, and rewarded ourselves with a shared meal. It was a refreshing way to welcome the summer and bid farewell to those moving on […]
PANGEA Lab Achieves New Milestones at SPSP 2025 in Denver
Our lab was thrilled to participate in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention from February 19–22, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. The event proved exceptionally fruitful for our members, showcasing a diverse range of research, talks, and collaborations. Lab director Dr. Götz received the SAGE Emerging Scholar Award in recognition of his outstanding […]