Benjamin Giguère

Benjamin is completing a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) at the Department of Psychology at McGill University collaborating with professor Donald Taylor. He will join the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Canada) as an assistant professor in July 2012. He completed his PhD at York University (Toronto, Canada), which was funded by Canada Graduate Scholarship from the SSHRC. For the most part, his research examines some of the cognitive and emotional processes underlying the influence of socio-cultural groups on motivation and well-being.