Stephen Want
Associate Professor
Director, Media and Social Development Lab
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
swant@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 557156
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Dr. Want is Director of the Media and Social Development Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and currently serves as the Teaching Chair for the Faculty of Arts. Before joining Toronto Met in 2005 he worked at The University of British Columbia and The University of Sheffield...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Want is Director of the Media and Social Development Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) and currently serves as the Teaching Chair for the Faculty of Arts. Before joining Toronto Met in 2005 he worked at The University of British Columbia and The University of Sheffield and completed his training at The University of Birmingham (undergraduate) and The University of Oxford (graduate).
At the university, Dr. Want has taught Introductory Psychology (Psy102/202) as well as upper-level courses in both Developmental (Psy302, Psy908, Ps8502) and Social Psychology (Psy918, Ps8504). In 2013 he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching First-Year Classes Award from the Faculty of Arts.
Dr. Want’s research interests concern questions about the use and effects of various forms of mass media (e.g. magazines, television, the internet). He is also interested in the psychology of teaching and learning, and the psychology of psychological experiments (e.g. demand characteristics, replication, p-hacking).
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At the university, Dr. Want has taught Introductory Psychology (Psy102/202) as well as upper-level courses in both Developmental (Psy302, Psy908, Ps8502) and Social Psychology (Psy918, Ps8504). In 2013 he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching First-Year Classes Award from the Faculty of Arts.
Dr. Want’s research interests concern questions about the use and effects of various forms of mass media (e.g. magazines, television, the internet). He is also interested in the psychology of teaching and learning, and the psychology of psychological experiments (e.g. demand characteristics, replication, p-hacking).
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