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Press Coverage of My Research
Press Coverage of My Research
Video Interviews or Invitations:
05/2022 Face masks impair emotion recognition
Zoom interview invitation for Arirang TV, an international English-language television network based in Seoul
02/2022 Our ability to read facial expressions is impacted by face masks
French Video interview for an ICI RDI segment (recorded but has not aired yet)
02/2022 Behind the mask: How masks impact our social interactions
French Video interview for an ICI RDI segment (pre-interview completed)
Radio Interviews or Invitations:
10/2022 How masks (public health) affect emotion and empathy
English Radio interview with Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) segment “Let’s Go”
05/2022 The impact of face masks on social interactions
Invitation to speak on the Brian Crombie Radio Show
03/2022 Face masks and emotion recognition
English Radio interview with CKCU-FM for the Midweek Radio show. Timestamp: 17:10
02/2022 How wearing a mask has altered the communication of emotions (Comment le port du masque a altéré la communication des émotions)
French Radio interview with Radio Canada for the segment “In the Mosaic” (Dans la Mosaique)
02/2022 What emotions are hidden by the mask? (Quelle émotions sont cachées par le masque?)
French Radio interview with Radio Canada for the segment “It’s Never the Same” (C’est Jamais Pareil)
02/2022 Does wearing a mask interfere with nonverbal communication? (Est-ce que le port du masque nuit à la communication non-verbale?)
French Radio interview with Radio Canada for the segment “Junction-11-17” (Jonction-11-17)
Written Interviews and Other Coverage
10/2022 What’s going on behind that face mask?
Written coverage of our research featured on Research2Reality, a science knowledge translation site
10/2022 Transparent face masks restore emotional understanding, but not empathy
Written interview featured on both the McGill Newsroom and the McGill Science Homepage
- Picked up and distributed by 4 other online media sources including: Mirage News, Medical Press (also shared 11 times on this site), Academic Gates and My Science
10/2022 Masks impede people’s ability to understand and share emotions
Written coverage of our research featured in a Think Fast segment on Politico.com
05/2022 As masks start to come off in school, anxieties over facial features appear to rise
Written interview for Townsend Harris High School’s (population of 1108 students) newspaper, The Classic
03/2022 Masks impede communication says study
Written coverage of our research featured on The Suburban, the largest weekly English newspaper in Quebec
02/2022 Face masks impair nonverbal communication between individuals
Written interview with the McGill Newsroom, featured on the McGill University homepage
- Picked up and distributed by 7 online media sources including: TrueViralNews (liked 2.2K times), Phys Org, Alpha Galileo, MirageNews, Psychreg, ScienceBlog and EurekAlert!
Knowledge Sharing Through Social Media
11/2022 Purposeful Empathy Podcast
Podcast featuring Dr. Jelena Ristic discussing our research on Anita Nowak’s show Purposeful Empathy
-Posted on Facebook (1.4K followers), Instagram (612 followers), Youtube (400 subscribers), Spotify and Apple Podcasts
02/2022 New research shows masks make it more difficult to read emotions from faces
Blogpost interview for the popular psychology blog site PsyPost.org
-Viewed 12,000 times on PsyPost.org, 6,000 times at MSN, and generated 272 interactions (likes, comments, shares) on Facebook)
02/2022 Masks impair the recognition of six basic facial expressions, according to new research
Reddit thread discussing our research with over 7000 upvotes and 664 comments
Interviews about My Teaching
Interviews about My Teaching
The University of Waterloo Arts Department recently interviewed me about my teaching strategies. I discuss some of my strategies for fostering student engagement and the importance of maintaining an open dialogue with students.
I also discuss some of my work with the Centre for Teaching Excellence and science outreach initiatives like Let's Talk Science.
You can check out the full interview here.
I was interviewed by the University of Waterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence after I won the Certificate of University Teaching Award.
In the interview, I discuss how I developed a workshop to help fellow educators use empirically supported strategies to encourage critical thinking in their students.
I also talk about the importance of self-reflection in teaching, and offer some advice for graduate students looking to develop their teaching expertise.
You can read the full interview here.
Science Outreach Publications
Science Outreach Publications
Let's Talk Science is an award-winning science outreach initiative. I teamed up with them to write an article about face perception for a teenage audience.
The article talks about how the brain recognizes faces and objects, and how face perception differs from object perception. It also discusses how our expertise with faces can lead to phenomena like paredollia - seeing faces where we shouldn't, like in this car front.
The full article can be accessed here.
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