Current Projects
We are currently working on several projects to investigate how personal decision-making is related to individual differences in 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 may serve to disrupt the linkage between
materialistic values or economic uncertainty and consumer decision-making with 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.
In work supported by the Manitoba Gambling Research Program, we are examining how self-compassion moderates the influence of problem
gambling tendencies on risk-taking in gambling games.
Along the way, we have pursued additional projects 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 may serve to disrupt the linkage between
materialistic values or economic uncertainty and consumer decision-making with 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.
In work supported by the Manitoba Gambling Research Program, we are examining how self-compassion moderates the influence of problem
gambling tendencies on risk-taking in gambling games.
Along the way, we have pursued additional projects 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.