{"id":52354,"date":"2018-12-04T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=52354"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:40","slug":"carleton-experts-available-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-experts-available-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: The Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: The Holiday Season\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

As the holiday season approaches, Carleton experts are available to discuss related topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina Milyavskaya<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Department of Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>:  613-520-2600 ext. 7490
\nEmail<\/strong>:    marina.milyavskaya@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milyavskaya\u2019s research examines why people are successful in the pursuit of certain goals, but not others. Her work looks at the factors that promote successful goal pursuit and attainment, as well as self-regulatory mechanisms. Her other research interests include autonomy support, health behaviours, attachment and well-being across a person\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milyavskaya is available to discuss setting goals and New Year\u2019s resolutions, as well as healthy eating during the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Davies<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 1109
\nEmail<\/strong>:  jim.davies@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, Davies explores computational modelling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual imagination. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds. He is a frequent contributor to Nautilus<\/em> magazine and is author of Riveted: The Science of How Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe<\/em>. He is a co-host of the Minding the Brain<\/a><\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies can discuss the psychology of Santa Claus for the children who believe, and eventually disbelieve, in him. He is also available to talk about goal setting and New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zeba Crook
\n<\/strong>Professor, College of the Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>:  613-520-2600, ext. 2276
\nEmail<\/strong>:    zeba.crook@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crook has expertise in the areas of Christian origins; historical Jesus; social-scientific interpretation of early Christian writings, and representations of Jesus in modern fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Reid
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nCarleton University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8718
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven_Reid3@Carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nNeed an expert?<\/strong> Go to:<\/strong> www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the holiday season approaches, Carleton experts are available to discuss related topics. Marina Milyavskaya Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Phone:  613-520-2600 ext. 7490 Email:    marina.milyavskaya@carleton.ca Milyavskaya\u2019s research examines why people are successful in the pursuit of certain goals, but not others. Her work looks at the factors that promote successful goal pursuit and attainment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":52355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[123,169,99],"class_list":["post-52354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-cognitive-science","tag-humanities","tag-psychology"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52357,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52354\/revisions\/52357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}