John Eastwood

Dr. Eastwood is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at York University. The overarching objective of his research is to understand how emotion and attention processes interact. More specifically, he studies how attention is allocated to affective and socially relevant information, the influence of mood and motivation on attentional processes, as well as affective consequences of attention failures. Currently, Dr. Eastwood is actively pursuing two research projects. The first examines how a person’s emotional state impacts attention processes – with a focus on boredom in particular. The second project seeks understand and model how a client’s emotional state changes, moment by moment, over the course of successful and unsuccessful sessions of psychotherapy. Dr. Eastwood’s involvement in the Mobilizing Minds project expresses his desire to help empower young adults to make well-informed choices about their mental health.