Marc Fournier, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Individual differences and situational dynamics in psychological defensiveness
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$28,729
Personality Coherence, Personality Development, and Directional Personality Change
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$71,506
Personality Coherence, Personality Development, and Directional Personality Change
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$16,833

All 6 grants and awards

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Individual differences and situational dynamics in psychological defensiveness

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fournier, Marc A.

Keywords: defensiveness; narcissism; wisdom; narrative; self/informant-report; ecological momentary assessment

$28,729

Personality Coherence, Personality Development, and Directional Personality Change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fournier, Marc A.

Keywords: personality coherence; integrative processes; ego development; volitional personality change

$71,506

Personality Coherence, Personality Development, and Directional Personality Change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fournier, Marc A.

Keywords: personality coherence; integrative processes; ego development; volitional personality change

$16,833

Bridging Development and Disturbance: A Unified, Transtheoretical Approach to the Study of Identity

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Uliaszek, Amanda

Keywords: (1) Identity; (2) Personality; (3) Trait; (4) Narratives; (5) Experience sampling; (6) Identity disturbance

$59,664

Extraversion, hierarchy formation, and social attention-holding power

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Fournier, Marc A.

Keywords: emotion; personality; hierarchy formation

$94,850

High schools as hierarchies, cliques as coalitions, and the social ecology of adolescent depression

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Fournier, Marc A.

Keywords: vulnerability to depression; dominance hierarchies; clique dynamics; adolescence

$110,299

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Fournier, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Individual differences and situational dynamics in psychological defensiveness" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]