Catherine Amiot

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Catherine Amiot is a professor at the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Trained as a social psychologist, Catherine Amiot completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at McGill University, as well as a master’s degree in social psychology at UQAM and a doctorate at the University of Ottawa, before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland in Australia. In social psychology, her research has focused on intergroup discrimination, social norms, self and identity, human motivation, and psychological well-being. For more than 10 years now, Catherine Amiot has applied theories developed in social psychology and in the field of health to better understand our relations with animals. Her program of research aims to identify the social and individual factors that facilitate the development of mutually beneficial relations with other animals.