FOOD PSYCHOLOGY

Daniel Roberts, Ph.D. & Brenda MacDonald, M.Ed. 

Dr. Daniel Roberts earned a BA, MA and Ph.D., all of which specialized in Psychology. He was a member of the Ontario College of Psychologists and Quebec Order of Psychologists. Areas of practice are clinical psychology, and school psychology. Currently, he is doing research in food psychology.

Brenda E. MacDonald received her M.Ed. from McGill University. Throughout her career, she has worked as a vocational counsellor, an ESL teacher, and an Education Administrator. Naturopathy has also been an interest of Brenda's for many years.

Selected Publications

Terrisse, B., Roberts, D. S. L., Palacio-Quintin, E., & MacDonald, B. E.  (1998).  Effects of parenting practices and socioeconomic status on child development.  Swiss Journal of Psychology, 57(2), 114-123.

Roberts, D. S. L., & MacDonald, B. E.  (2000).  Influence of protagonists’ race and salience and participants’ imagery skill on recognition, inferences and perception.  Journal of Mental Imagery, 24(1 & 2), 149-168.

Roberts, D. S. L., & MacDonald, B. E.  (2001).  Relations of imagery, creativity, and socioeconomic status with performance on a stock-market e-trading game.  Psychological Reports, 88, 734-740. 

Roberts, D. S. L., & MacDonald, B. E.  (2000).  Effects of protagonist’s race and salience and participant’s SES on film/TV inferences and perception.  International Review of Social Psychology / Revue internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 13(1), 7-28.

Roberts, D. S. L., Cowen, P. S., & MacDonald, B. E.  (1996).  Effects of narrative structure and emotional content on cognitive and evaluative responses to film and text.  Empirical Studies of the Arts, 14(1), 33-47.