Current Projects
We are currently working on several projects to investigate how personal decision-making is related to trait and state self-compassion. All of these projects build upon our current understanding of how self-compassion relates to mental processing of past failures and mistakes. We are trying to pivot toward a new understanding of how self-compassion relates to mental processing of the future – i.e., the prospects of gains and losses that have not happened yet.
In work supported by the SSHRC Insight Grant program, we are examining how self-compassion relates to self-control, and how it may counteract decision-making that leads to overconsumption with health and environmental consequences. In work supported by the University Research Grants Program of the University of Manitoba, we are examining whether self-compassion predicts sensitivity or insensitivity to future losses in abstract decision-making scenarios.
Along the way, we have pursued many additional projects, for example, examining self-compassion’s relationship to the ease or difficulty of giving things up, deciding to return to sport training and competition after an injury, having inter-racial interactions, and coping with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In work supported by the SSHRC Insight Grant program, we are examining how self-compassion relates to self-control, and how it may counteract decision-making that leads to overconsumption with health and environmental consequences. In work supported by the University Research Grants Program of the University of Manitoba, we are examining whether self-compassion predicts sensitivity or insensitivity to future losses in abstract decision-making scenarios.
Along the way, we have pursued many additional projects, for example, examining self-compassion’s relationship to the ease or difficulty of giving things up, deciding to return to sport training and competition after an injury, having inter-racial interactions, and coping with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
