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Dr. Victoria Talwar

Title: 
Professor
Academic title(s): 

Director, Daniel and Monica Gold Centre for Early Childhood Development聽| Canada Research Chair Tier I聽

Dr. Victoria Talwar
Contact Information
Email address: 
victoria.talwar [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-3438
Address: 

Education Building
3700 rue McTavish
Montr茅al, Quebec H3A 1Y2
Canada

Group: 
Centre Director
Division: 
School/Applied Child Psychology Supervisors
Department: 
Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP)
Professional activities: 
Area(s): 
Developmental Psychology and Inclusive Education
Educational Technology and Teaching Innovation
Mental Health, Intervention and Psychopathology
Areas of expertise: 
  • Child Development
  • Cognition
  • Technology in Education
  • Development of lying in children
  • Theory of mind
  • Child witness testimony
Biography: 

A member of 缅北强奸's Faculty of Education since 2004, Dr. Talwar is a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, where she served as Department Chair from 2020 until becoming Interim Dean in 2023 for a one-year appointment. Dr. Talwar is the inaugural Director of the Daniel and Monica Gold Centre for Early Childhood Development as well as an Associate Member of both the Institute for Human Development and Well-Being (IHDW) and the Department of Psychology.

Named as a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (SSHRC) in Forensic Developmental Psychology in November 2024, she held the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Forensic Developmental Psychology from 2012 to 2022.聽A former James 缅北强奸 Professor, she is an accomplished scholar widely recognized for her work in developmental psychology and law. Dr. Talwar鈥檚 innovative interdisciplinary research on children鈥檚 verbal deception, moral development and child witness competency issues has informed current debates about children鈥檚 social-cognitive development and has contributed to legal reform in Canada. Her teaching and supervision have been recognized through several awards including the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Teaching (Doctoral level) Award and 缅北强奸鈥檚 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. Prof. Talwar holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Queen's University, and a Master鈥檚 degree in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews.

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Degree(s): 
  • Ph.D., Queen's University
  • M.A., University of St. Andrews
Prizes and Awards: 
Canada Research Chair (Tiers I and II)
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • 2024 Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (SSHRC) in Forensic Developmental Psychology
  • 2018 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Graduate Teaching Award (Doctoral-level)
  • 2017 Member, College of the Royal Society of Canada
  • 2017 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching, 缅北强奸
  • 2016 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2015 Fellow, Developmental Psychology (Division 7), American Psychological Association
  • 2012-22 Canada Research Chair Tier 2 (SSHRC) in Forensic Developmental Psychology
Selected publications: 
  • Mugno, A., Malloy, L.C., Waschbusch, D.A., Pelham, W.E., & Talwar, V. (2019). An experimental investigation of antisocial lie-telling among children with disruptive behavior disorders and typically-developing children.聽Child Development, 90, 774-789.
  • Shouhoudi-Mojdehi, A., Leduc, K., Shouhoudi, A., & Talwar, V. (2019). Examining cross-cultural differences in youth鈥檚 moral perceptions of cyberbullying.聽Cyberpsychology, Behavior, & Social Networking,听22, 243-248.
  • Talwar, V., Lavoie, J., Crossman, A. (2019). Carving Pinocchio: Longitudinal examination of children鈥檚 lying for different goals.聽Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,听181, 34-55.
  • Leduc, K., Conway, L., Gomez-Garibello, C., & Talwar, V.聽(2018). The influence of participant role, gender, and age in elementary and high-school children鈥檚 moral justifications of cyberbullying behaviors.聽Computers in Human Behavior,听83, 215-220
  • Yachison, S., Okoshken, J., & Talwar, V. (2018). Students鈥� reactions to a peer鈥檚 cheating behavior.聽Journal of Educational Psychology,听110, 747-763
  • Conway, L., Gomez-Garibello, C., Shariff, S., & Talwar, V. (2016). Face-to-face and online: An investigation of children鈥檚 and adolescents鈥� bullying behavior through the lens of moral emotions and judgments.聽Journal of School Violence,听15, 503-522
Program: 
  • M.A. Human Development
  • M.A. School/Applied Psychology
  • Ph.D.聽Human Development
  • Ph.D. School/Applied Psychology
Graduate supervision: 

Accepting Masters and Ph.D. students for 2025-26

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