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Sean Mackinnon is a Senior Instructor (part-time) in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University, Canada. He holds academic roles in teaching statistical methods, personality psychology, and research design. His research focuses on applied statistical analysis, perfectionism as a predictor of psychopathology, and alcohol misuse. He earned his BA (Cape Breton U.), MA (Wilfrid Laurier U.), and PhD (Dalhousie U.) in Psychology.
Key research areas include perfectionism’s role in mental health, statistics education innovations, and cross-cultural drinking motives. He has published extensively on personality traits, diary studies of drinking behaviors, and methodological topics like response-order effects in self-reports. His datasets (e.g., on speed-dating studies, pain in youth arthritis) are publicly archived for secondary research.
Teaching responsibilities include courses like PSYO 2501 (Statistical Methods I) and PSYO 6003 (Multivariate Methods). He emphasizes open science practices, publishing tools like tutorials for longitudinal analyses using R’s lavaan package. His work often bridges statistical methodology and psychological theory, with a focus on improving reproducibility and reducing bias in research design.
