Geovanna is a research assistant in the SPP lab. She is an immigrant coming from Brazil and completed her BA studies in Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University in June 2024. She completed her undergraduate thesis in the SPP lab on the impact of self-objectification and conformity to femininity on bisexual women’s sexual well-being. This thesis received a Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence.
In the summer of 2024, she received the Undergraduate Research Opportunity from TMU’s faculty of Arts and extended her project to a bigger sample of bisexual, heterosexual and lesbian women. Her new study explored the impact of heteronormativity and heterosexism on women’s psychological health.
Geovanna has explored a breadth of topics in the Psychology department, including human sexuality and feminist studies, psychology and law, criminal psychology, and early childhood cognition. But her focus and passion are body image and other social phenomena pertaining to gender and sexuality.
Publications:
da Silva Kasprowicz, G., & Choma, B. L. (2026). Self-objectification and sexual wellbeing among women: Exploring the roles of femininity, heteronormativity, and internalized heterosexism. Body Image, 57, 102078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2026.102078