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CURRICULUM VITAE
COURTNEY HUMENY
courtney_humeny@carleton.ca
EDUCATION
2010 – 2015 Ph.D., Cognitive Science
(expected) Carleton University
2013 Ph.D Certificate, Preparing to Teach
Educational Development Centre, Carleton University
2011 Visiting Student, Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
2006 – 2010 B.A., Psychology, Philosophy (Minor), Highest Honours
Carleton University
Honours Thesis: Online, self-management tools to improve daily nutrition level.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Emotion, moral cognition, domestic abuse, health promotion, mental health
literacy, feminist theory, and positive psychology.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2010-2012, 2014 New Sun Graduate Award for Aboriginal Students, $40 000
2013(declined), 2014 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, $15 000
2014 Institute of Cognitive Science Graduate Travel Award, $300
2011, 2014 Domestic Graduate Travel Award, $400
2013 International Graduate Travel Award, $600
2013 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
$20 000
2013 Kevin Sampson Scholarship in Cognitive Science, $1 834
2011 Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation Research Grant, $5 000
2011 Cognitive Science Student’s Society Travel Award, $50
2011 International Graduate Travel Award, $500
2010-2014 Departmental Scholarship, $20 000
2010 Entrance Scholarship, Doctoral, 3 $000
2008 Sprott Foundation Bursary, $500
2007-2010 Dean’s Honour List
2006, 2007- 2010 Entrance Scholarship, $7 500
2006 Entrance Bursary, $1 000
2006 Ontario Scholar Award

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PUBLICATIONS
Humeny, C., Bombay, A., McQuiad, R., & McInnis, O. (in preparation). The role of Indian Residential
School history on experiences of verbal and physical aggression
Humeny, C. (in preparation). Do health behaviours mediate moral intuitions? A glance at anger and
disgust in smoking behaviours
Humeny, C. (in press).The aftermath of a romantic relationship with a psychopath: The effect of
psychopathy sub-factors on recovery [Abstract], Canadian Journal for Experimental Psychology
Humeny, C., Kelly, D., & Brook, A. (2012). Further routes to psychological constructionism:
Commentary on Lindquist, K., Wager, T, Kober, E., Bliss-Morea, E., & Barrett, L. (2012) The
brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 35(3), 153- 154,
doi:10.1017/S0140525X11001518
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Humeny, C. (2014). “But I love you”: The use of language in changing the realities of victims during
abusive relationships. Proceedings of the Institute of Cognitive Science Annual Spring
Conference, Ottawa, Canada
Humeny, C. (2014). Back to basics: A critique of the false dichotomy surrounding the Iowa Gambling
Task [Abstract]. In (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 362). Quebec City, Canada: Cognitive Science Society
Humeny, C. (2013). A qualitative investigation of a guilt trip. Proceedings of the Institute of Cognitive
Science Annual Spring Conference. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University
Humeny, C., & West, R. (2011). You can't play the Iowa Gambling Task with Mother Nature and win
[Abstract]. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1894). Boston, USA: Cognitive Science Society
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Humeny, C. (2011, October). Do health behaviours mediate moral intuitions? A glance at the role of
disgust in smoking behaviours. Presentation given at the European Workshop on Experimental
Philosophy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Humeny, C. (2011, August). Underlying the intuition: Emotion as a moral amplifier. Presentation given
at the Normativity Workshop at the Contemporary Psychology and the Moral Point of View
Summer School, Barchem, The Netherlands
Broom, I., Forth, A., Humeny, C., & Orton, L. (2011, June). Psychopathy and risky decision making in
offenders and undergraduates: Performance on the modified Iowa Gambling Task. Presentation
given at the Psychopathy: Current Controversies and Advances Symposium at the 2nd North
American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Toronto, Canada

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CONFERENCE POSTERS
Humeny, C. (2014, July). Why do you care? Empathy, sympathy, and compassion in the concept of
caring. Poster presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the Canadian Conference on Positive
Psychology, Ottawa, Canada
Humeny, C., & West, R. (2013, November). Personality influences on the manipulation of emotion in the
Iowa Gambling Task. Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Judgement
and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada
Humeny, C., & Boushey, C. (2013, June). The role of anger and disgust in intuitions about health
behaviours. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Rhode Island, USA
Humeny, C., Broom, I., Logan, J., & West, R. (2013, June). The role of disgusting and scary somatic
markers on decisions of psychopathic undergraduate students. Poster presented at the 5th biennial
meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, Washington, USA
Humeny, C. (2013, May). Insight from resilient survivors of psychopaths to counsellors. Poster
presented at the 5th annual meeting of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy
Association, Halifax, Canada
Orton, L., Broom, I., Forth, A., & Humeny, C. (2011, June). Differential correlates of psychopathy in
male offenders: Antisocial personality disorder and substance abuse. Poster presented at the 2nd
North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference, Toronto, Canada
Humeny, C., & Broom, I., Forth, A. (2011, May). Facial affect discrimination: A meta-analysis of
psychopathy studies. Poster presented at the 4th biennial meeting of The Society for the Scientific
Study of Psychopathy, Montreal, Canada
Humeny, C. (2011, April). Emotionality in the Iowa Gambling Task: Psychophysiological proposals.
Poster presented at the Carleton University Institute of Cognitive Science Annual Spring
Conference, Ottawa, Canada
SUMMER SCHOOLS ATTENDED
2013 Psychiatry and Philosophy: Mind, value, and mental health, University of Oxford,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
2011 Contemporary Psychology and the Moral Point of View, The Netherlands School for
Research in Practical Philosophy
Barchem, The Netherlands

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ACADEMIC DUTIES
Conference reviewer- Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Conference, Quebec City,
Canada (2014, February)
Panel participant- The contribution of social sciences and humanities research to the development of
healthy and prosperous communities at the Imagining Canada's Future Regional Colloquium,
Ottawa, Canada (2012, September)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
November 2013- Present
Research Assistant
Aboriginal Health Lab, Dalhousie University
Amy Bombay, Ph.D.
· Gaining experience on the research and theories relating to the transmission of trauma across
generations, resilience, and mental health in Aboriginal populations. Literature review,
manuscript preparation, and analysis of data from the 2013 First Nations Regional Health Survey
May 2011- December 2011
Research Assistant
Clinical Neuroelectrophysiological and Cognitive Research Laboratory, The University of Ottawa
Institute of Mental Health Research
Verner Knott, Ph.D., C. Psych
· Data processing of event related potentials (ERPs; i.e., peak picking, baseline correction) with
Brain Analyzer program and analysis with SPSS for studies on emotion processing in a pedophile
population and the effects of substance use on information processing during a P300 task in
schizophrenia
November 2009- June 2011
Research Assistant
Psychopathy and Psychophysiology Laboratory, Carleton University
Ian Broom, Ph.D., Adelle Forth, Ph.D.
· Meta-analysis on facial affect processing in psychopaths; created an inclusion criteria and coding
scheme used to perform literature searches, code extracted data into an Excel database, complied
summary tables, and converted effect sizes
· Assisted in 105 hours of paid data collection at medium-security prisons for a study looking at
cognitive deficits in psychopaths; conducted file review, administered questionnaires, assisted in
conducting PCL-R interviews, laid out instructions for the study and informed consent, and
debriefed incarcerated offenders upon completion. Attached electrodes to record physiological
responses while incarcerated offenders completed computer tasks, data entry; set up, clean, and
monitor equipment that recorded physiological data

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Summer 2010
Research Assistant
Mind, Brain Imaging, and Neuroethics Unit, The University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health
Research
Georg Northoff, M.D., Ph.D.
· Scored questionnaires, organized log files for stimuli onset, and gained knowledge of conducting
data analysis on physiological and fMri brain imaging data for studies that intersected areas of
psychiatry, philosophy, and neuroscience to examine consciousness and the self
January 2009- September 2010
Research Assistant
Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, Children’s Hospital of Eastern
Ontario
Darcy Santor, Ph.D., C. Psych.
· Presentation and literature review on the utilization of school based mental health services by
depressed university students, scale construction and created 200 motivational health statements
for an online component (www.yoomagazine.net) of a high school mental health literacy
program, and designed an online physical activity and nutrition lifestyle change program
(www.startmakingachange.net) that was piloted for my B.A., Honours thesis
September 2008- January 2009
Research Assistant
Community Outreach Unit, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.
Ann Marie O’Brien M.S.W., R.S.W., Susan Farrell Ph.D., CPsych
· For a study examining the ethical use of community treatment orders (CTOs) to treat mental
illness; collected and entered data from patient's CTOs; presentation and literature review on the
role stigma of mental illness has on adherence to CTOs
UNDERGRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED
Adriana Almendrades, Health behaviours and judgements: The effects of smoking. Department of
Psychology, Carleton University (2011- 2012)
Sara McLaughlan, Iowa Gambling Task and decision making. Department of Psychology, Carleton
University (2011- 2012)
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
January 2015- May 2015 Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Research Methods in
Psychological Research
September 2013- January 2015 Teaching Assistant- Criminal Behaviour
January 2014- May 2014 Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Statistics in Psychology
September 2013- January 2014 Teaching Assistant- Cognitive Psychology
January 2012- May 2012 Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Statistics in Psychology

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September 2012- January 2012 Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Research Methods in
Psychological Research
September 2011- January 2012 Teaching Assistant for Cognitive Psychology
September 2010- May 2011 Teaching Assistant for Philosophy of mind, World, and
Knowledge
July 2010- September 2010 Teaching Assistant- Introduction to Research Methods in
Psychological Research
May 2010- July 2010 Teaching Assistant- Psychology of Women
May 2008- May 2010 Tutor- Carleton University Learning Support Services
WORKSHOPS & CERTIFICATES
2013 Frontline Train-the-Trainer Workshop on Human Trafficking
Ottawa Coalition to End Human Trafficking
2012 Mental Health First Aid
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
2012 safeTALK
Ottawa Public Health
2012 Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons Basic Training
Government of British Columbia
2011 Clinical and Forensic Applications of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised
Adelle Forth, Carleton University
2011 Culture as treatment series: Health from an Aboriginal perspective
Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
February 2013- August 2014 Support Worker/ Collective member- The Coalition for a Carleton
Sexual Assault Centre
· Participated in anti-oppression and support work training, provide peer-support, performed
administrative tasks, facilitated training of support workers, assisted in planning and carrying out
events with the purpose of advocating for victim rights and education about violence
September 2012- May2014 Secretary- Carleton University First People's Council
· Responsible for taking notes during the Executive meetings and administering to Executive
committee. Assist with planning and organizing campus events to increase Aboriginal awareness
on campus

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March 2013- November 2013 HT Response Team- Ottawa Coalition to End Human Trafficking
· A working group focused advancing work in victim services, including response team training for
the first 72 hours of victim assistance
May 2012- May 2013 Graduate Mentor/ Academic Coach- Carleton University
Intercultural Programs International Student Services
· Participated in Intercultural Competency training and gained communication and leadership skills
in helping international undergraduate and graduate students transition to life at Carleton
University, broadening my cultural viewpoint, and providing students with academic resources
April 2012- April 2013 Member- Persons Against the Crimes of Trafficking in Humans
(PACT- Ottawa)
· Attending meetings and exploring initiatives for public education and advocacy for victims of
trafficking
March 2012- June 2012 Volunteer- Minwaashin Lodge Aboriginal Women's Support Centre
· Providing assistance to set up for and participate in the Employment Readiness Program that
utilizes Aboriginal culture to guide skill building for the employment process
September 2010 – May 2011 Secretary- Carleton University Cognitive Science Students’
Association
· Responsible for taking notes in General and Executive meetings and uploading notes onto the
association's website
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science Society
Canadian Positive Psychology Association
Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation
Society for Psychology and Philosophy