View To The U: Office Of The V.p., Research (utm)

On this episode of VIEW to the U, Nick Rule, UTM’s new Vice-Principal, Academic and Dean, and a professor from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts & Science, talks about his research related to social cognition, and how first impressions can persist in colouring our perceptions of people. He is a leading expert on the concept of “gaydar,” among other related areas, such as racial bias, religious ideology, and social behaviour. On this episode, he also discusses the humility that can help drive progress in academia, as well as the “imposter syndrome,” something that Nick has written about in the past, and is also very candid about discussing – both in reconciling his own occasional feelings of being an ‘outsider looking in,’ along with the value that having the imposter syndrome can actually bring to our respective ways of being.