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Cory Pedersen


Dr. Cory Pedersen

Email: cory.pedersen@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3368 Voice Mail:# 9676
Office Location: C2881-17 Surrey

List of courses taught:

  • Psyc 1100 Introduction to Psychology: Basic Processes
  • Psyc 1200 Introduction to Psychology: Areas and Applications
  • Psyc 2300 Applied Statistics
  • Psyc 2321 Adolescent Development
  • Psyc 2320 Child Development
  • Psyc 2400 Experimental Psychology: Research Methodology
  • Psyc 3010 Human Sexuality
  • Psyc 3316 Infancy
  • Psyc 4350 Developmental Psychopathology

Areas of Interest & Investigation: HUMAN SEXUALITY; CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SOCIAL-COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

I welcome the supervision of Honour’s students who share my research interests. Current/previous students include:

Hayley Leveque (Dean’s Medal of Honour 2010) – Emerging Adulthood: An Age of Sexual Experimentation or Sexual Self-Focus?

Cindy Parry(President’s Outstanding Graduate 2009) – The Prevalence of Externalizing Disorders: Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in British Columbia’s Foster Children (2008-2009)

Gabriella Hillis – Potential Explanations for ADHD Behavior and Parent Preferences for Treatment (2007-2008)

Martine Diamond – Investigating Risk and Resiliency Factors in the Anxiety of Firefighter’s Spouses (2006-2007)

Veronica Shim – The Relationship between Opportunity and Emotional and Sexual Infidelity (2006-2007)

Katherine Wisener (SSHRC winner) – Children’s Perceptions of their Peers with Autism (2006-2007)

Kimberly Hurd (SSHRC winner) – Stress in Mothering a Child with Autism: Fear of Social and Public Judgment (2005-2006)

Mira Williams (SSHRC winner) – Relations of Emotional Understanding to Dimensions of Aggression and Prosocial Behavior in Pre and Early Adolescents (2004-2005)

Educational background: B.A. (Calgary), M.A. (Brit.Col.), Ph.D. (Brit.Col.)

Selected References:

Leveque, H. R., & Pedersen, C. L. (2010). Emerging adulthood: An age of sexual experimentation or sexual self-focus? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychology Science, Boston, MA.

Pedersen, C. L., & Schonert-Reichl, K. A. (2008). Developmental psychology. In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. (2nd ed., Vol. 2., pp. 349-352). Detroit: Macmillan.

Hurd, K., Pedersen, C. L., Yager, J., Rombough, A., & Iarocci, G. (2008, May). A new predictor of stress in mothers of children with autism. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, London, UK.

Pedersen, C. L., & Shim, V. Y. (2008, June). A teen sexual revolution? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Quebec City, QC.

Rombough, A., Hurd, K., Pedersen, C. L., Elfers, T., Iarocci, G., & Yager, J. (2008, May). Fear of negative close versus public social judgment in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorders. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, London, UK.

Pedersen, C.L., et al. (2007). What is REALLY going on? Changes in and correlates of the teen sexual timetable. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association conference, Vancouver, BC.

Williams, M. K. & Pedersen C. L. (2006). The individualism and collectivism dichotomy: Theoretical, methodological, and ontological implications for cultural research. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Multicultural Conference and Summit, Seattle, WA.