Faculty of Education

Dr. Gabriel Zieff is a Killam and Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his Master’s in Exercise Physiology and PhD in Human Movement Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gabriel’s broad research interests encompass the effects of lifestyle factors on cardiometabolic and mental health with an emphasis on the role of psychological stress as a contributing factor to disease states.

My general research interests are in the areas of children’s socio-emotional functioning and developmental psychopathology. In particular, I am interested in childhood social withdrawal, parenting, and peoples’ attitude about shyness, especially their implicit attitudes toward shy behaviour. I am also interested in exploring the online risks associated with cyberbullying, as well as privacy-related concerns due to the over-disclosure of personal information online.