Research Awards

University of Toronto at Scarborough, 2016-2017
UTSC Vice-Principal (Research) Research Competitiveness Fund
Title: Imagination and neural activity
Amount awarded: – $15,000

MITACS Accelerate Grant
Title: Heritage –  disclosure within the family tree
Amount Awarded: – $15,000

University of Toronto at Scarborough, 2011-2012
UTSC Vice-Principal (Research) Research Competitiveness Fund
Title: Sharing information in the digital age
Amount awarded: – $10,000

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, Psychology, 2001-2006
Title: Cognition and emotion in aesthetic response
Amount awarded: – $63,230.00

University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1999-2000
Information Technology Courseware Development Fund
(Psychology of Emotion, Critical Analysis in Social Psychology)
Amount awarded: – $2000.00

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, Psychology, 1998-2001
Title:  Emotional responses to art, literary works,  and advertisements
Amount awarded: – $60,000.00

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, Interdisciplinary Committee, 1994-1997 (with Garry Leonard)
Title:  Contemporary and modernist cultural artifacts: Influence and reception
Amount awarded: – $50,000.00

University of Toronto, 1993-1994
Title:  Studies in Aesthetic Judgment
Amount awarded: – $3333.33

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, University of Toronto, 1992-1993
Title: Conference travel grant
Amount awarded: – $1289.00

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, University of Toronto, 1992-1993
Title:    Studies in Aesthetic Judgment
Amount awarded: – $3,438.00

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, University of Toronto, 1991-1992
Title:  Studies in Emotional Style
Amount awarded: – $3,495.00

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, 1989-1991
Title:  Psychological Aesthetics
Amount awarded: – $33,624

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Grant, 1988-1991
Title:  Visual search for non-object targets
Amount awarded: – $30,000

University of Toronto, Research Grant, 1987-1988
Title:  Emotion and Aesthetic communication
Amount awarded: – $2,780

University of Toronto, Research Grant, 1987-88
Title:  Interpreting Emotions
Amount awarded – $l,800

University of Toronto Travel Grant, 1986
Title:  Social Communication
Amount awarded – $700

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, 1985-1986
Title:  Aesthetics and Psychology
Amount awarded – $l8,200

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, 1983-85
Title:  Painting Perception
Amount awarded – $36,056

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, 1983-84
Title:  Emotional Communication
Amount awarded – $10,050

University of Toronto, Travel Grant, 1983
Title:  The scientific study of artistic creativity
Amount awarded – $741

University of Toronto, Grant-in-Aid, 1982-83
Title:  Emotional behaviour
Amount awarded – $500

Social Sciences and Humanities Leave Fellowship, 1980-1981

University of Toronto, Research Leave Grant, 1980-1981
Amount awarded – $4,000

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant, 1979-1981
Title:  Emotional expression
Amount awarded – $4,000

University of Toronto, Research Grant, 1978-1979
Title:  Information integration and physical attractiveness
Amount awarded – $2,000

University of Toronto, Travel Grant, 1976-1977
Title:  Love and Attraction
Amount awarded – $400

University of Toronto, Travel Grant, 1976-1977
Title:  Aesthetic perception and Impressionist painting, Paris
Amount awarded – $400

Canada Council Research Grant, 1975-1976
Title:  Nonverbal affect judgment
Amount awarded – $7,060

 

Academic Awards

  • Rudolf Arnheim Award, Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, 2010
  • Fellow, International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, 1998
  • Fellow, Division 10 (Psychology and the Arts) of the American Psychological Association, 1995
  • Named Honorary Professor, Perm (Russia) Institute for Arts and Culture, 1997
  • Sigma Xi Honorary Society, 1972
  • Canada Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1972-1974
  • Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1969-1972
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1968-1969