BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Convenor/Instructor, Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Psychology
604.986.1911 ext. 3027
Fir Building, room FR439A
daniellelabossi@capilanou.ca
Education
PhD, Psychology, University of Manitoba, 2014.
MA, Psychology, University of Manitoba, 2007.
BA (Honours), University of Manitoba, 2003.
Bio
Danielle Labossière (PhD, University of Manitoba, 2014) joined the Department of Psychology at Capilano University in 2014 after having held several term positions at campuses in central and eastern Canada, including the University of Manitoba, Université de Saint-Boniface, St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan and Grenfell Campus of Memorial University.
In addition to teaching courses on general cognition, memory, and emotion and motivation relating to her graduate training and research in the area of brain and cognitive sciences, Labossière also teaches courses on human development, research methods, and introductory psychology, among others.
Over the years, her research efforts have touched on issues relating to the social and personality domain, consumer behaviour and marketing, religious sciences, and more predominantly, cognitive performance.
Building on her passion for teaching and life-long learning, she organizes the annual Capilano Universe Lecture Series in collaboration with local libraries, connecting volunteer faculty with neighbouring communities over topics of shared interest.
Teaching and learning are invaluable processes that support us all in our need to constantly develop an adaptive and comprehensive understanding of the world around us. Meeting the world with curiosity, sharing knowledge, and the practice of speculating on possibilities all essentially enable us to learn something new, develop awareness of unknowns, and relate to ourselves, to others and with our context. The landscapes of our minds are ever-changing, and learning and sharing knowledge are the creative forms of labor that shape it.
In the classroom, I aim to make psychology interesting, accessible, personal, and useful, through making direct links between course content and realistic events, and encouraging students to draw on their personal experiences to contextualize the material and uncover its applications. My goal is to encourage students to own psychology as a science for the functional narrative it can provide on various facets of life, and the navigational tool it can serve as.
My research interests are centered around cognitive factors that influence human performance. For instance, what happens to ignored information and how and why can it nevertheless influence processing of attended information? How do emotion, attention, and memory interact in determining what visual information is attended and processed, how well it is processed, and how efficiently we respond to it in our visual environment?
A related research interest is the role of metacognition in performance, such as the way in which peoples' subjective experiences of their own cognitive processes can influence judgements they form, and how aware people are of any correspondence between the two.
Public Lectures & Invited Colloquia
Labossiere, D. I. (2017). Love: Select topics. Capilano University Psychology Students Club presentation series. Capilano University.
Labossiere, D. I. (2016). I Know Not Why I Do: Unconscious influences on emotions, decision-making and behavior. Capilano Universe Lecture Series. Lynn Valley Main Library.
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe, J. P. (2008). Le passé au présent: L’influence des expériences récentes sur la perception courante. Midi-Conférence de l’Association Francophone pour le Savoir (Acfas), Université de Saint-Boniface.
Conference Presentations
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe-McGowan, J. P. (2012). Effects of exposure to Emotionally Charged Visual Information on Attention. Presentation at the 22nd Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting, Kingston, Ontario.
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe, J. P. (2008). Evidence for a dual-process approach to priming effects. Presentation at the 10th Annual North West Cognition and Memory Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
Labossiere, D. I., Wong, J.D., & Leboe, J. P. (2007). The contribution of mental effort to the perception of control. Poster session presented at the 48th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Long Beach, California.
3. Wong, J.D., Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe, J. P. (2008). Mental effort and the perception of agency. Presentation at the 10th Annual North West Cognition and Memory Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe, J. P. (2007). The role of prime distractor fluency in negative priming effects. Poster session presented at the 17th Annual Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe, J. P. (2006). The effect of prime distractor fluency on negative priming depends on probe target fluency. Poster session presented at the 16th Annual Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Publications
Labossiere, D. I., & Leboe-McGowan, J. P. (2018). Specific and non-specific match effects in negative priming, Acta Psychologica, 182, 138-153.
Awards & Recognitions
Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence (MA thesis), Canadian Psychological Association, 2008.
Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence (MA thesis), Canadian Psychological Association, 2008.