Keven Joyal-Desmarais
Keven
Joyal-Desmarais
Postdoctoral fellow
Concordia University

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).