Research
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Latest funding
- $248,323
How and Why People Express Their Social Categories Through Behavioural Residue
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $378,676
Functional Electrical Stimulation for Major Depressive Disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $128,444
How Social, Emotional, and Motivational Forces Affect Facial Appearance Over Time
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
How and Why People Express Their Social Categories Through Behavioural Residue
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Functional Electrical Stimulation for Major Depressive Disorder: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Principal investigators: Bhat, Venkat; Kennedy, Sidney H; Popovic, Milos R
Keywords: Functional Electrical Stimulation; Major Depressive Disorder; Pilot Trial; Randomized Controlled Trial
How Social, Emotional, and Motivational Forces Affect Facial Appearance Over Time
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Keywords: social perception; facial appearance; nonverbal behaviour; emotion; personality
How Individual Differences in Attention and Memory Relate to Who Remembers What
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas
Keywords: memory; attention; individual differences; traits; personality; cognition; perception; behaviour; narcissism
How Social, Emotional, and Motivational Forces Affect Facial Appearance Over Time
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Keywords: social perception; facial appearance; nonverbal behaviour; emotion; personality
Understanding the relationship between facial appearance and leadership
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Keywords: leadership; thin slices; nonverbal behaviour; face perception; arousal; interpersonal accuracy
Social Perception and Cognition
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas
Keywords: social psychology, fmri, social perception, social cognition, social neuroscience, person perception, nonverbal behavior, first impressions, interpersonal accuracy, cross- cultural
Understanding the basis for perceptions of sexual orientation
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Keywords: sexual orientation; learning; perception; cognition; stereotyping
Neuroplasticity in the adult brain following changes in cognitive processing
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas
The accurate perception of sexual orientation: consequences and implications
Principal investigators: Rule, Nicholas O.
Keywords: sexual orientation; nonverbal behaviour; social perception; interpersonal accuracy; stereotyping and prejudice
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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