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Assistant Professor of Psychology

Dr. Elvira Prusaczyk

PHD | Director of the Prejudice Awareness and Reduction (PAR) Lab.

  • 548Google Scholar citations
  • $259K+Competitive funding since 2024
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  • 24Students Supervised
  • 30Conference Presentations
Dr. Elvira Prusaczyk

Conference presentations

Talks and posters, newest first.

  • Prusaczyk, E., Hodson, G., & MacInnis, C. (2025, June 25). Unpacking the ideological divide in abortion attitudes: The American context [Conference presentation]. Small Group Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Perugia, Italy · 2025
  • Prusaczyk, E., Batinic, B., Durant, L., Wattam, V., & Fuller, K. (2025, June 13). How migrants leverage online spaces to express, evolve, and advance their cultural identities and social statuses [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL · 2025
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Baker, R. (2025, June 12). Self-concept development and gender dynamics in hookup culture at StFX [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL · 2025
  • Durant, L., Prusaczyk, E., & Steele, J. (2025, June 14). Assessing the reliability and validity of child-friendly scales for right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in a Canadian sample [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL · 2025
  • Walker, M., Prusaczyk, E., Stewart, E., Landry, O., Blackburn, H., AWRCSASA, & Lambe, L. (2025, June 14). The roles of ideological traits and Waves of Change bystander intervention training on bystander intervention behaviors for sexual violence prevention at StFX [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL · 2025
  • Stewart, E., Walker, M., Prusaczyk, E., Landry, O., Blackburn, H., AWRCSASA, & Lambe, L. (2025, June 14). Are we actually making waves? A preliminary evaluation of the Waves of Change bystander intervention training at StFX [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, St. John’s, NL · 2025
  • Stewart, E., Walker, M., Prusaczyk, E., & Lambe, L. (2025, October 1–2). Are we actually making waves? A preliminary evaluation of the Waves of Change bystander intervention program [Poster presentation]. KH Presents: Innovations in Addressing Gender-Based Violence, Toronto, ON · 2025
  • Landry, J., & Prusaczyk, E. (2024, June 21). When Pornography Exposure Triggers Implicit and Explicit Anti-women Bias: An Individual Differences-based Approach [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON · 2024
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Redden, R. (2024, June 23). The associations between spontaneous objectifying gazing behaviour and objectifying attitudes toward women: A replication and extension of Bareket et al. (2019) [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON · 2024
  • Prusaczyk, E., Earle, M., & Hodson, G. (2024, June 23). A brief nudge or education intervention delivered online can increase willingness to order a beef-mushroom burger [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON · 2024
  • Prusaczyk, E., Earle, M., Ganesh, N., & Hodson, G. (2023, June 25). Objectifying video games and men’s likelihood of sexually harassing women [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2023
  • Prusaczyk, E., Earle, M., & Hodson, G. (2023, June 23). Gender stereotypical advertising on women’s career opportunities [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2023
  • Prusaczyk, E., Batinic, M., White, A., Roters, J., Ganesh, N., Earle, M., & Hodson, G. (2023, June 23). Feminists’ experiences navigating the potential ethical conflicts of pornography use [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2023
  • Puffer, H., Hodson, G., & Prusaczyk, E. (2023, June 24). Attitudes toward women’s participation in sex work: Opportunity for agency or harmful exchange? [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2023
  • Rasna, A., Hodson, G., & Prusaczyk, E. (2023, May 12). My media isn’t your political playground for culture wars: Individual differences predicting aversion to diversity in media [Conference presentation]. Ontario Psychology Undergraduate Thesis Conference, University of Windsor · 2023
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Hodson, G. (2022, June 17). When and why pornography facilitates men’s likelihood (and women’s acceptance) of sexual harassment [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, AB · 2022
  • Prusaczyk, E., Earle, M., Choma, B. L., & Calogero, R. (2021, February). Compliance with COVID-19 Safety Precautions: A test of an objectification theory model [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology · 2021
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Hodson, G. (2020, February 29). The link between conservatism and anti-abortion attitudes: A program of research examining potential mediators [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA · 2020
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Hodson, G. (2018, July 26). Women’s maintenance of sexism vis-à-vis their reactions to sexist humour. In C. Drolet (Chair), New research on system-justifying beliefs among members of disadvantaged groups [Symposium]. International Society for Justice Research, Atlanta, GA · 2018
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Choma, B. L. (2017, June 8). Skin tone surveillance and negative self-esteem: The influence of colour-blind racial ideology [Poster presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2017
  • Malivoire, B. L., Koerner, N., Prusaczyk, E., & Jagtap, S. (2017, June). Word choice in written exposure for generalized anxiety disorder reflects emotional and cognitive processes [Conference presentation]. Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, ON · 2017
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Hodson, G. (2017, April 11). “Relax sister, it’s just a joke:” Women’s internalization (versus rejection) of sexist humour [Conference presentation]. Mapping the New Knowledges Graduate Student Research Conference, Brock University · 2017
  • Koerner, N., & Prusaczyk, E. (2016, August 29). Development and initial testing of a cognitively-enhanced written exposure procedure for Generalized Anxiety Disorder [Symposium]. European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Stockholm, Sweden · 2016
  • Choma, B. L., & Prusaczyk, E. (2016, July 23). Self-objectification, skin colour dissatisfaction and skin bleaching: The moderating role of belief in a just world [Conference presentation]. International Society for Justice Research, Canterbury, UK · 2016
  • Prusaczyk, E., Kusek, A., Pawluk, E., Linett, A., Taillefer, S., & Koerner, N. (2016, May 25). Emotional intensity and valence of autobiographical memory in individuals with probable generalized anxiety disorder [Poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL · 2016
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Choma, B. L. (2015, July 28). Self-objectification, skin colour dissatisfaction, and skin bleaching: The palliative and legitimating effects of system justifying beliefs [Conference presentation]. International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, London, ON · 2015
  • Prusaczyk, E., & Choma, B. L. (2015, May 8). “Fair and Lovely:” Self-objectification, Skin Tone Surveillance, and Skin Bleaching [Talk]. Undergraduate Thesis Conference, Western University, London, ON · 2015
  • Marquis, A., Elshiekh, A., Lyons, K., Prusaczyk, E., & Moulson, M. (2014, November). The other race effect within biracial and monoracial infants [Conference presentation]. Psychology Graduate Students’ Association Research Symposium, Toronto, ON · 2014