Dr. Victoria Talwar
聽Canada Research Chair Tier II (2017-22)| James 91社区 Professor
- Associate Member,听Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW)
- Associate Member, 91社区 Department of Psychology
- Child Development
- Cognition
- Technology in Education
- Development of lying in children
- Theory of mind
- Child witness testimony
Dr. Talwar joined 91社区鈥檚 Faculty of Education in 2004 and is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, where she has served as Department Chair from 2020 until becoming Interim Dean in 2023. She is also an Associate Member of both the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW) and the Department of Psychology.
Dr. Talwar is a James 91社区 Professor and held the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Forensic Developmental Psychology from 2012-2022. She is an accomplished scholar widely recognized for her work in developmental psychology and law. Dr. Talwar鈥檚 innovative interdisciplinary research on children鈥檚 verbal deception, moral development and child witness competency issues has informed current debates about children鈥檚 social-cognitive development and has contributed to legal reform in Canada. Her teaching and supervision have been recognized through several awards including the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Teaching (Doctoral level) Award and 91社区鈥檚 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. Prof. Talwar holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Queen's University, and a Master鈥檚 degree in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews.
- Ph.D., Queen's University
- M.A., University of St. Andrews
2018 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Graduate Teaching Award (Doctoral-level)
- 2017 Member, College of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2017 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching, 91社区
- 2016 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
- 2015 Fellow, Developmental Psychology (Division 7), American Psychological Association
- Mugno, A., Malloy, L.C., Waschbusch, D.A., Pelham, W.E., & Talwar, V. (2019). An experimental investigation of antisocial lie-telling among children with disruptive behavior disorders and typically-developing children.聽Child Development, 90, 774-789.
- Shouhoudi-Mojdehi, A., Leduc, K., Shouhoudi, A., & Talwar, V. (2019). Examining cross-cultural differences in youth鈥檚 moral perceptions of cyberbullying.聽Cyberpsychology, Behavior, & Social Networking,听22, 243-248.
- Talwar, V., Lavoie, J., Crossman, A. (2019). Carving Pinocchio: Longitudinal examination of children鈥檚 lying for different goals.聽Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,听181, 34-55.
- Leduc, K., Conway, L., Gomez-Garibello, C., & Talwar, V.聽(2018). The influence of participant role, gender, and age in elementary and high-school children鈥檚 moral justifications of cyberbullying behaviors.聽Computers in Human Behavior,听83, 215-220
- Yachison, S., Okoshken, J., & Talwar, V. (2018). Students鈥� reactions to a peer鈥檚 cheating behavior.聽Journal of Educational Psychology,听110, 747-763
- Conway, L., Gomez-Garibello, C., Shariff, S., & Talwar, V. (2016). Face-to-face and online: An investigation of children鈥檚 and adolescents鈥� bullying behavior through the lens of moral emotions and judgments.聽Journal of School Violence,听15, 503-522
- M.A. Human Development
- M.A. School/Applied Psychology
- Ph.D.聽Human Development
- Ph.D. School/Applied Psychology
Accepting Masters and Ph.D. students for 2023-24
