Dr. Grace Truong

Biography

Grace Truong is a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Psychology, where her research primarily focuses on the attentional, perceptual, and memorial changes affected by self-relevance and mere ownership. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Todd Handy. Grace collaborates with several academics, including Dr. Sheila Woody at the UBC Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding and Dr. Wil Cunningham from the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests encompass attention, self-relevance, ownership, and cognitive psychology, along with scholarship in teaching and learning. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she actively engages in research that explores how physical actions influence psychological senses of ownership and how appetitively appealing stimuli can affect perceptual acuity in individuals. With a commitment to understanding cognitive processes, Grace aims to contribute valuable insights into the complexities of human perception and memory.

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