Ph.D. Candidate
Mariah has been a member of the Cognitive Aging Lab since September 2019. Mariah is currently a Ph.D student in the Psychological Science stream at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research interests include how associative memory changes during aging, and COVID-19 risk perception.
Mariah is also an affiliate member of the PASER lab. Her research interests within the lab center around attitudes towards statistics, and statistics anxiety.
Selected Awards
Awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2023-2024 school year
Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II – GSST Scholarship for the 2022-2023 school year
Selected Publications
Dong, L., Katsiris, A., Lecompte, M., Skrotzki, C., & Yang, L. (2023). A Qualitative Analysis of Older Adults’ Cognitive Appraisal in Coping during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Social Capital. COVID, 3(10), 1622-1638. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid3100111
Terry, J., Ross, R. M., Nagy, T., Salgado, M., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Sarfo, J. O., Cooper, S., Buttner, A. C., Lima, T. J. S., Öztürk, İ., Akay, N., Santos, F. H., Artemenko, C., Copping, L. T., Elsherif, M. M., Milovanović, I., Cribbie, R. A., Drushlyak, M. G., Swainston, K., . . . Field, A. P. (2023). Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset). Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.80
Lecompte, M., Counsell, A., & Yang, L. (2022). Demographic and COVID Experience Predictors of COVID-19 Risk Perception among Chinese Residents in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(21), 14448. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114448
Yu, L., Lecompte, M., Zhang, W., Wang, P., & Yang, L. (2022). Sociodemographic and COVID-Related Predictors for Mental Health Condition of Mainland Chinese in Canada Amidst the Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010171
Wong, B. I., Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2021). The age-related associative deficit simulated by relational divided attention: encoding strategy and recollection. Memory, 29(3), 406-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1898645
Selected Presentations
- Xiang, A., Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2023, March 9-11). The Effect of Video Presence on Name-Occupation Associative Memory in a Virtual Meeting Among Young and Older Adults [Poster presentation]. The International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Brussels, Belgium.
- Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2022, April 7-10). Do self-perceived social importance and recognition confidence ratings relate to face-related associative memory in young and older adults? [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Aging Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
- Lecompte, M., & Yang, L. (2021, May 26-27). The role of schematic support and emotional valence in the aging-related deficit in associative memory [Poster presentation]. 2021 APS Virtual Convention, Virtual.
- Dong, L., Yang, L., Lecompte, M., Katsiris, A., & Skrotzki, C. (2021, May 6). Examining the effect of social media use on psychological well-being of older adults in the COVID-19 pandemic[Poster presentation]. 2021 Canadian Stress Research Summit, Virtual.
- Lecompte, M., Counsell, A., Wang, P., Zhang, W., & Yang, L. (2021, April 21-22). Demographic predictors of COVID-19 risk perception among Chinese residents in Canada[Poster presentation]. COVID-19 & Public Health Forum, Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), virtual. https://portalapp.cpha.eventsair.com/VirtualAttendeePortal/cvph/presentationgallery/
- Lecompte, M., Vaillancourt, D., Hendel, E., Roy-Charland, A. & Dickinson, J. (2019, January 7). Can priming counter the mismatch effect in reading? [Poster presentation]. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Waterloo, On, Canada.
Contact Information
Email: mlecompte@torontomu.ca