![Keven Joyal-Desmarais Keven Joyal-Desmarais](https://i0.wp.com/metascience2021.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/joyaldesmarais-keven.png?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1)
I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) and at Concordia University. I received my PhD in social psychology at the University of Minnesota, where my research focused on how communication-based interventions can be enhanced by tailoring their content to people’s values and motivations. I conduct applied work in areas such as health psychology and behavioural medicine (e.g., promoting exercise/vaccination), as well as prosocial behaviour (e.g., promoting volunteerism). I also have interests in using theory and methodological principles to improve the scientific process itself (e.g., improving research designs, developing new methodological tools, thinking carefully about the reproducibility/generalizability of findings).