Faculty

Dr. Kathryn Belicki is a registered psychologist and a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Brock University. Her current interest in forgiveness and forgiveness seeking arose from her prior research on the impact of childhood trauma and abuse on adult physical and psychological well-being. She is also completing a graduate degree in theology, and therefore, has an interest in the theological and pastoral implications of theories of forgiveness and forgiveness seeking.

Dr. Nancy DeCourville is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Brock University and a statistical/methodological consultant whose research expertise is oriented toward understanding the disjunctions between theoretical construals and the lived experiences of phenomena including drunkeness, affirmative action, and, more recently, forgiveness. She has a particular interest in understanding the implications of differences between academic definitions of forgiveness and the way that people describe their experiences of forgiveness.

Dr. Wanda Malcolm is a registered psychologist in private practice and an Adjunct Faculty member at Brock University. She is also a member of the Psychotherapy Research Group at York University in Toronto. In her practice, Dr. Malcolm works with individuals and couples, and has particular expertise in facilitating forgivness and reconciliation. She has led numerous forgiveness workshops for both professional and non-professional audiences, has designed a 12 week Forgiveness Program (see her website for description), and has taught university courses on the topic. www.wandamalcolm.com

Graduate Students

Leanne Gosse is a doctoral student in Social/Personality Psychology and is working with Kathryn Belicki. Leanne recieved her Masters degree from Wilfrid Laurier Univerisity where she studied children's eyewitness memory; currently, she intends to examine the relationship between forgivness and justice.

Michelle Green is a doctoral student in Social/Personality Psychology at Brock University, working under the supervision of Nancy DeCourville. She recently completed her Master's thesis exploring stress, social support, and health risk behaviours as mediators of the forgiveness-health relation.

Susan Patrick-Harris. I have been married to my husband, Jim, for 31 years, and we have three beautiful daughters, two granddaughters, one grandson and a fourth grandchild on the way. I am starting my first year of the Masters degree in Social Psychology, and Nancy DeCourville is my supervisor. I have not narrowed down my focus yet but I have interest in, as well as questions about, some of the less "rosy" aspects of forgiveness.

Jessica Rourke. Besides running around and playing with my son, I am currently in the final year of my Master's Degree in Social/Personality Psychology, under the supervision of Kathryn Belicki. For my Master's thesis, I am working on fine-tuning a forgiveness-seeking questionnaire (reliability and validity), and I am also looking at the relationship between personality and forgiveness-seeking, and how it interacts with level of guilt. I am also currently working on a project that is looking at justice versus impression management motives when it comes to apologizing, together with Leanne Gosse, Kathryn Belicki, and Carolyn Hafer.

Tammy Stewart-Atkinson. I am currently finishing an M.A. under the supervision of Nancy DeCourville.  My thesis examines laypersons' ideas about the definitions of forgiveness, as it is my belief that this is an area of research which is currently lacking in the literature on forgiveness.  My study uses Q-Methodology to examine individuals' subjective experiences of how forgiveness has actually occurred in their own lives, as well as what they believe it would be ideally, and what it ought to be. 

Undergraduate Students

Brandy Doan

Steven Shepherd