Kari Duerksen

Kari Duerksen
Contact
Office: Cor A148f
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Area of expertise

Clinical Psychology

Supervisor

Dr. Erica Woodin

Research Interests

My research interests center around intimate partner violence, specifically the predictors and outcomes of coercive controlling violence against a partner, as well as the role that technology plays in intimate partner violence. My previous research has centered around choices about motherhood and pregnancy, and attitudes toward abortion. 

Representative publications

Duerksen, K. N., & Lawson, K. L. (accepted). “Not brain-washed but heart-washed”: A qualitative analysis of benevolent sexism in the anti-choice stance. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Duerksen, K. N., Friedrich, T. E., & Elias, L. J. (2015). Did Buddha turn the other cheek too? A comparison of posing biases between Jesus and Buddha. Laterality. 

Representative presentations

Sangster, S. L., Duerksen, K. N., Bayly, M. K., & Lawson, K. L. (2016, September). Women’s attitudinal, control, and normative beliefs about delayed childbearing. Poster presentation at the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology Annual Conference (SRIP), Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Bayly, M. K., Duerksen, K. N., Sangster, S. L., & Lawson, K. L. (2016, September). “Later, baby!”: Age-related attitudinal differences toward delayed childbearing. Poster presentation at the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology Annual Conference (SRIP), Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Smith, A., Duerksen, K., Gutwin, C., & Elias, L. (2016, April). Native reading direction and differences in lateral biases during artwork lighting and spatial location tasks. Poster presentation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), New York, NY, United States. (Graduate Student Award Winner). 

Recent awards

  • 2016 – 2017: SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master’s
  • 2016 – 2017: President’s Research Scholarship, University of Victoria
  • 2016: Gordon A. McMurray Prize, University of Saskatchewan
  • 2016: NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, University of Saskatchewan
  • 2015: Marian Evans Younger Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan