Ian Gold, McGill University

Research

Immigrants Vaccine Hesitancy

Latest papers

"I was trying to save the world": delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation.
Frontiers in psychology · 2025
The Neural Correlates of Delusions in Dementia: A Scoping Review.
Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2025 · senior author
Exploring delusional themes and other symptoms in first episode psychosis: A network analysis over two timepoints.
Psychiatry research · 2025

All 35 publications

Latest funding

Theory of Mind and Empathy in ADHD Workers: An Investigation of Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms and Intervention Targets to Improve Quality of Work Life
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Seeing Difference: "Reading the Minds" of Racialized Faces
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$56,519
Autobiographical Filmmaking for the Exploration of Psychological Distress in Young Adults
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$24,713

All 21 grants and awards

35 publications.

01

"I was trying to save the world": delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation.

Solomonova E, Lindahl JR, Gold I, Cooper DJ, Little C, Arteca D, Cao C, Britton WB

Frontiers in psychology2025

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1644684 PMID: 41209790

02

The Neural Correlates of Delusions in Dementia: A Scoping Review.

Gagnon A, Manns BH, Atanasiu K, Lumley D, Chakravarty M, Gauthier S, Gold I

Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/psyg.70060 PMID: 40620111

03

Exploring delusional themes and other symptoms in first episode psychosis: A network analysis over two timepoints.

Berisha F, Paquin V, Gold I, Misic B, Palaniyappan L, Malla A, Iyer S, Joober R, Lepage M, Shah J

Psychiatry research2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116349 PMID: 39787740

04

Consistency of Delusion Themes Across First and Subsequent Episodes of Psychosis.

Grunfeld G, Lemonde AC, Gold I, Paquin V, Iyer SN, Lepage M, Joober R, Malla A, Shah JL

JAMA psychiatry2024

DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.2040 PMID: 39110444

05

Public discourse on mental health: a critical view.

Malla A, Gold I

Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1503/jpn.230161 PMID: 38569722

06

Navigating the uncertainty: A novel taxonomy of vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19.

Krastev S, Krajden O, Vang ZM, Pérez-Gay Juárez F, Solomonova E, Goldenberg M, Weinstock D, Smith MJ, Turk L, Lin X, Gold I

PloS one2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295912 PMID: 38127862

07

Institutional trust is a distinct construct related to vaccine hesitancy and refusal.

Krastev S, Krajden O, Vang ZM, Juárez FP, Solomonova E, Goldenberg MJ, Weinstock D, Smith MJ, Dervis E, Pilat D, Gold I

BMC public health2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17345-5 PMID: 38082287

08

Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Canada.

Corsten C, Vang ZM, Gold I, Goldenberg MJ, Juarez FP, Weinstock D, Smith MJ, Krajden O, Solomonova E

Vaccine2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.10.058 PMID: 39492073

09

Author Correction: Face masks negatively skew theory of mind judgements.

Leos-Mendoza H, Gold I, Pérez-Gay Juárez F

Scientific reports2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43909-x PMID: 37794056

10

Face masks negatively skew theory of mind judgements.

Leos-Mendoza H, Gold I, Pérez-Gay Juárez F

Scientific reports2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31680-y PMID: 36973300

Theory of Mind and Empathy in ADHD Workers: An Investigation of Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms and Intervention Targets to Improve Quality of Work Life

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Voyer, Chloe

Keywords: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Cognitive Functioning; Empathy; Mental Health; Occupational Functioning; Psychosocial Intervention; Quality Of Work Life; Randomized Controlled Trial; Theory Of Mind; Workplace

$120,000

Seeing Difference: "Reading the Minds" of Racialized Faces

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: Theory of Mind; racial categorization facial expressions; dynamic stimuli; empathy; bias

$56,519

Autobiographical Filmmaking for the Exploration of Psychological Distress in Young Adults

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: mental distress; young adults; autobiographical film

$24,713

Including psychiatrized communities in philosophy of psychiatry

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Arnaud, Sarah

Keywords: Philosophy of psychiatry; Participatory research; Mental health; Community involvment; Epistemic justice; Research methodology; Ethics

$72,202

Delusions as social phenomena: An empirical test of the theory

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: delusions; psychosis; social cognition; social threat; behavioural economics

$249,642

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$500,000

Does exposure to mechanistic and animalistic dehumanizing language make us biased?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022SSHRC Doctoral Awards

Principal investigators: Ma de Sousa, Ava Q.

Keywords: dehumanization; prejudice; discrimination; intergroup processes; intergroup interactions; social interaction; language; reinforcement learning; computational modelling

$64,808

Autiobiographical Filmmaking and Psychological Distress in Youth

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: film; mental well-being

$7,389

Making Sense of Others

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gold, Ian

Keywords: theory of mind; experimental philosophy; neurophilosophy; dual process theory

$159,525

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$1,000,000

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

Frequent collaborators

Ridha Joober and Ridha Joober: 246 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Martin Lepage: 154 shared papers
Lena Palaniyappan and Lena Palaniyappan: 132 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Ashok Malla: 122 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Ridha Joober: 101 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Martin Lepage: 96 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Ridha Joober: 77 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Martin Lepage: 76 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Martin Lepage: 76 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Martin Lepage: 66 shared papers
Jai Shah and Jai Shah: 66 shared papers
Gustavo Turecki and Corina Nagy: 45 shared papers
Srividya Iyer and Srividya Iyer: 43 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Jai Shah: 32 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Srividya Iyer: 27 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Jai Shah: 27 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Patricia Boksa: 26 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Jai Shah: 26 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Srividya Iyer: 26 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Jai Shah: 26 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Srividya Iyer: 22 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Srividya Iyer: 21 shared papers
Patricia Boksa and Ridha Joober: 19 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Patricia Boksa: 18 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Ian Gold: 17 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Vincent Paquin: 7 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Lena Palaniyappan: 6 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Vincent Paquin: 6 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Lena Palaniyappan: 5 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Lena Palaniyappan: 5 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Vincent Paquin: 5 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Lena Palaniyappan: 5 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Ian Gold: 4 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Ian Gold: 4 shared papers
Daniel Weinstock and Ian Gold: 4 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Bratislav Misic: 3 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Ian Gold: 3 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Gustavo Turecki: 3 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Bratislav Misic: 3 shared papers
Lawrence Joseph and Ian Gold: 3 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Rob Whitley: 2 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Lawrence Joseph: 2 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Corina Nagy: 2 shared papers
Rob Whitley and Ian Gold: 2 shared papers
Ashok Malla and Bratislav Misic: 2 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Gustavo Turecki: 2 shared papers
Gustavo Turecki and Ian Gold: 2 shared papers
Martin Lepage and Ian Gold: 2 shared papers
Ian Gold and Corina Nagy: 2 shared papers
Ian Gold and Vincent Paquin: 2 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Haim Abenhaim: 1 shared paper
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Anna MacKinnon: 1 shared paper
Srividya Iyer and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Alan Evans and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Alan Evans and Suparna Choudhury: 1 shared paper
Haim Abenhaim and Lawrence Joseph: 1 shared paper
Haim Abenhaim and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Patricia Boksa and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Jai Shah and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Srividya Iyer and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Ridha Joober and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Jai Shah and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Bratislav Misic and Ian Gold: 1 shared paper
Ian Gold and Suparna Choudhury: 1 shared paper
Ian Gold and Lena Palaniyappan: 1 shared paper
Ian Gold and Anna MacKinnon: 1 shared paper
Ian Gold and Lena Palaniyappan: 1 shared paper

Psychiatry
Family Medicine
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute
Clinical Epidemiology & Community Studies
Travail social
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Zeev Rosberger

Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2015

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Immigrants Dear Professor Gold, 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]. I read your paper ""I was trying to save the world": delusion-like ideation and associated impacts reported by Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation." (2025), and it 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 "Seeing Difference: "Reading the Minds" of Racialized Faces" (2024), 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]