Kirk Stokes, PhD student in Social Studies, Department of Psychology, will present his thesis defence on Wednesday, May 4 at 10 a.m. in Plaza 600f.

The title of his thesis is “Attention capture: Stimulus, group, individual, and moment-to-moment factors contributing to distraction.”

Examining committee members are: Joe Engemann, chair; Daniel Smilek, University of Waterloo, external examiner; Karen Arnell, supervisor; Jae Patterson, internal examiner; Sid Segalowitz and Kimberly Cote, committee members.