I completed my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Toronto in 2015, supported by an Alexander Graham Bell doctoral scholarship from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2014, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna, and from 2015 to 2016, I held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Leiden University. In 2016, I was awarded a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), though I declined it to accept an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Psychology at the University of Macau, where I taught Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and History of Psychology from 2016 to 2021. In 2021, I resigned from my tenure-track position and returned to Canada. Since then, I have worked across research, finance, marketing, and education. My roles have included market analysis, executive-level intelligence, product- and UX-focused editorial work, and teaching.
As of January 2026, I serve as Book Review Editor at Theory & Psychology. If you’re interested in reviewing books for the journal, feel free to get in touch.
My book, Experimental Psychology and Human Agency, was published by Springer in 2019. I co-edited a follow-up book with Jaan Valsiner titled Experimental Psychology: Ambitions & Possibilities, which further explores themes from my first book. For a full list of my publications, see here. For my video presentations and interviews, click here.
Great Ideas in Psychology
The following series of videos offers a sample of my teaching in psychology. I recorded these lectures while teaching a course during the winter term of 2022 at the University of Macau. The episodes are designed as self-contained introductions to foundational topics and classic debates across the field.
- Great Ideas: What & Why
- The Psychology Lab: The Uses and Misuses of Experimentation
- The Placebo Effect
- The Freudian Unconscious
- Memory & the Brain
- Learning
- IQ Tests & Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Stage Models of Development
- Lev Vygotsky & the Zone of Proximal Development
- Attachment
- Displaced Aggression
- Personality Traits
- The Self
- Conformity to Group Norms
- Obedience to Authority
- Feminist Psychology
- Multicultural Psychology
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Social Constructionism
Guest Appearances
Check out some of my guest appearances below:
- Gregory Sadler’s Ideas That Matter Conversation Series: A discussion of reading, dialogue, and intellectual life.
- Gregory Sadler’s Ideas That Matter Reversed: A discussion about Dr. Sadler’s philosophical-educational projects, social media, workspaces, and related topics.
- Cadell Last’s Philosophy Portal: A discussion of my book Experimental Psychology and Human Agency and related topics.
- O.G. Rose Conversations with Daniel Garner: A conversation about the concept of interest.
- Rahul Sam’s Podcast: A conversation about reading Byung-Chul Han and related topics
- Andrew Taggart’s Second Axial Age: Talking about awakening, wisdom, love, and other strange topics.
- Javier Rivera’s Drunk Interviews Series: A casual conversation about engagement with social media and philosophy.
- Adam Ahmed’s Epistik Podcast: Discussing books, decision making, emotions, and more.
- Lisa Pfau’s Breathe In, Write Out Podcast: Discussing writing and play.
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