Principal Investigator
Jennifer Stellar
Jennifer is a social/personality psychologist at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in emotions, morality, prosociality, health, and well-being.
Graduate Students
**HEAL is looking for new graduate students to start in the fall of 2027. Click here for information on applying**
Jaweria Qaiser
Jaweria is a Ph.D student in Social/Personality Psychology. Her primary research interests center on empathy. She has examined physiological synchrony during empathy, how empathy and compassion change in response to repeated exposure to suffering, and empathy for groups. Click here to learn more about Jaweria’s work!
Shernell Hines
Shernell is a Ph.D student in Social/Personality Psychology. Her research interests focus on the health and well-being, especially women’s health. She is particularly interested in self-conscious and self-transcendent emotions, and their impact on self concept, well-being, and physiological processes.
Jean Rehani
Jean is a Ph.D student in Social/Personality Psychology. His main interests center around the psychology of the good life—in particular, the interconnected roles of existential reflection, values, emotion regulation, and habits in sustaining people’s unique ways of living well.
Affiliated Graduate Students
Éloïse Côté
Éloïse Côté is a PhD student in Social/Personality Psychology. Her primary research focuses on understanding the content and consequences of politicians’ moral rhetoric. Her work in the lab focuses on how observers evaluate ideologically motivated transgressive behaviour.
Alumni
- Jesse Whiteman, Lecturer at the University of Toronto
- Yachen Li, Research Associate, Blueprint
- Fred Duong, Senior Research Manager, More in Common
- Nathan Leonhardt, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
- Rachel Forbes, Senior Data Scientist, Shopify
Undergraduates
**HEAL is currently full, but we will be taking on new undergraduate research assistants to start in the fall of 2027. If you are interested in applying, please submit an application through the university’s ROP (usually in February) or you can apply as a volunteer by emailing healUofT@gmail.com for an application.
Lab Manager
Begum Seri
Research Assistants
- Shorya Bansal
- Joy Fahdi
- Sumayya Farooqui
- Yaqi Huang
- Noor Khattab
- Ustat Kaur
- Aleena Mahveesh
- Paula Majewski
- Drishya Mitra
- Ebosetale Oyamienlen
- Kristina Anica Ryan
- Zainab Hassan Rizvi
- Massa Hussein Younes
Lab Activities
HEAL holiday party!
Making gingerbread houses
Yachen presents about awe and emapthy at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Leigh-Ann wins Poster award racial discrimination in health care!
Harsuk presents about power and moral perception
Priyanka presents about art, health, and well-being
Collecting field data!