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Kassandra Cortes is an assistant professor in the organizational behaviour/human resource management area at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics. She recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in social psychology, and before that received a master's degree in social psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research broadly examines motivation, close relationships and personality in various contexts.
This research has been published in journals such as, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology and Journal of Personality.
Kassandra currently teaches micro and macro organizational behaviour.
- 2017: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Heritage Dissertation Award
- 2016: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Outstanding Research Award
- 2013-2016: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Doctoral Scholarship
- 2016: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2014: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award
- 2014: Laureate of The Canadian Psychological Association of Academic Excellence
- 2012: International Association for Relationship Research Student Award
- 2011-2012: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Master’s Scholarship
- 2011-2012: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Foreign Study Award
- Cortes, K. & Wood, J. V. (2019). How was your day? Conveying care, but under the radar, for people lower in trust. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83, 11-22.
- Cortes, K., Wood, J. V., & Prince, J. (2019). Repairing one’s mood for the benefit of others: Agreeableness helps motivate low self-esteem people to feel better. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Advance online publication.
- Cortes, K., Scholer, A. A., Kohler, A., & Cavallo, J. (2018). Perceiving relationship success through a motivational lens: A regulatory focus perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 795-808.
- Cortes, K. & Wood, J. V. (2018). Is it really “all in their heads”? How self-esteem predicts partner responsiveness. Journal of Personality, 86, 990-1002.
- Cortes, K., Leith, S., & Wilson, A. E. (2018). Relationship satisfaction and the subjective distance of past relational events. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35, 1092-1117.
- Cortes, K. & Wilson, A. E. (2016). When slights beget slights: Attachment anxiety, subjective time, and intrusion of the relational past in the present. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 1693-1708.
- Cortes, K., Kammrath, L. K., Scholer, A. A., & Peetz, J. (2014). Self-regulating the effortful “social dos”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 380-397.
- Cortes, K. & Wood, J. V. Feelings of security and partner support (in press). In L. E. VanderDrift, C. R. Agnew, & X. B. Arriaga (Eds.), Interdependence, Interactions, and Close Relationships. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Contact Info:
Office location: LH4029
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Languages spoken: English