PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

Jantz, B., Kuang, J., Hayward, D.A., & Chapman, C.S. (accepted June 10th, 2026). A deliberate delay: Using slower movements as a cooperative signal in a face-to-face game. Special Issue on “Experimenting with Games” to the journal CJEP (CEP-S-25-00175).

Parmar, J., & Hayward, D.A. (2025). Joint attention: The power of looking together. Frontiers for Young Minds, 13:1505880. doi: 10.3389/frym.2025.1505880

Saeed, S., Cook, A., Mackie, V., & Hayward, D.A. (2024). Looks can be deceiving: Investigating change blindness in an online setting. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale, 78(1), 1-8. doi: 10.1037/cep0000323.

Ma, H.L., Redden, R.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2024). The who and the where: Attention to identities and locations in groups. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-02879-6.

Song, Y., Ma, H.L., & Hayward, D.A. (2023). Effects of implied social presence and interaction on attention in a virtual setting. Visual Cognition, 31(10),769-785. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2024.2357851

Ma, H. L., Bertrand, J. K., Chapman, C. S., & Hayward, D. A. (2023). You read my mind: Generating and minimizing intention uncertainty under different social contexts in a two-player online game. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001150

Ha, J., & Hayward, D.A. (2023). Are you paying attention to me? The effect of social presence on spatial attention to gaze and arrows. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02618-9

Ma, H.L., Dawson, M.R.W., Prinsen, R.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2023). Embodying cognitive ethology. Theory & Psychology, 33(1), 42-58. doi: 10.1177/09593543221126165

Nash, K., Leota, J., Kleinert, T., & Hayward, D.A. (2022). Anxiety disrupts performance monitoring: Integrating behavioral, event-related potential, EEG microstates, and sLORETA evidence. Cerebral Cortex, 1-16. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac307

Heath, D.S., Jhinjar, N., & Hayward, D.A. (2021). Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: A multi-method approach. Scientific Reports, 11:14683. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94117-4

Hayward, D.A., Pomares, F., Casey, K.F., Ismaylova, E., Levesque, M., Greenlaw, K., Vitaro, F., Brendgen, M., Dionne, G., Boivin, M., Tremblay, R.E., & Booij, L. (2020). Birth weight is associated with adolescent brain development: A multi-modal imaging study in monozygotic twins. Human Brain Mapping, 41(18), 5228-5239. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25188

Heath, D.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2019). Does everyone pay attention to people in the same way? Frontiers for Young Minds, 7:130. doi: 10.3389/ffym.2019.00130

Hayward, D.A., Fenerci, C., & Ristic, J. (2018). An investigation of global-local processing bias in a large sample of typical individuals varying in autism traits. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 271-279. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.09.002

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2018). Changes in tonic alertness but not voluntary temporal preparation modulate attention elicited by task-relevant gaze and arrow cues. Special Issue on “Reflexive Shifts of Visual Attention”, Vision, 2(2). doi: 10.3390/vision2020018

Hayward, D.A.*, Pereira, E.J.*, Otto, A.R., & Ristic, J. (2018). Smile! Social reward drives attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2). 206-214. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000459 

(* equal contribution to the manuscript; Dana awarded an Early Career Researcher award for this article)

Hayward, D.A., Voorhies, W., Morris, J.A., Capozzi, F., & Ristic, J. (2017). Staring reality in the face: A comparison of social attention across laboratory and real word measures suggests little common ground. Special Issue on “Everyday Attention”, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 71(3), 212-225. doi: 10.1037/cep0000117 (Best Article Award 2017) 

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2017). Feature and motion-based gaze cuing is linked with reduced social competence. Scientific Reports, 7, 44221. doi: 10.1038/srep44221.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2016). Automated symbolic orienting is not modulated by explicit temporal attention. Acta Psychologica, 171, 93-98. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2016. 10.004.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2015). Exposing the cuing task: the case of gaze and arrow cues. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 1088-1104. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0877-6.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013b). The uniqueness of social attention revisited: working memory load interferes with endogenous but not social orienting. Experimental Brain Research, 231(4), 405-414. doi: 10.1007/s00221-013-3705-z.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2013a). Measuring attention using the Posner cuing paradigm: the role of across and within trial target probabilities. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(205), doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205.

Hayward, D.A., Shore, D.I., Ristic, J., Kovshoff, H, Iarocci, G., Mottron, L., & Burack, J.A. (2012). Flexible visual processing in young adults with autism: The effects of implicit learning on a global-local task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(11), 2383-2392. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0.

TALKS

Hayward, D.A. (2025, September). Seen not heard? Varying social presence to determine its role in social cognition. Presented at the Cognition and Neuroscience Seminar Series, Saskatoon, SK. (Invited Talk)

Hayward, D.A., Jantz, B., Kuang, Z., & Chapman, C.S. (2025, July). What’s your game? Investigating whether social context affects intention prediction when interacting online or in-person. Presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Dundee, UK. (Talk)

Hayward, D.A. (2025, July). Investigating how environmental context, goals, other people and individual traits shape attention. Vincent Di Lollo Early Career Award talk, presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Dundee, UK. (Keynote Invited Talk)

Hayward, D.A., & Dawson, M.R.W. (2023, Dec). Embodying cognitive ethology. Presented at the BioPhilosophy Research Colloquium Series, Kassel, Germany. (Invited Talk)

Hayward, D.A. (2023, March). How do gaze and movement inform social cognition? Presented at the NeurAlberta Tech speaker series on Social Neuroscience. (Invited Talk)

Hayward, D.A. (2021, April). Where and who: Investigating the role of the greater environment and the individual on social attention. Royce Harder Conference, Univesity of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Internal Keynote Speaker).

Hayward, D.A. (2021, February). What, where and who: Investigating attention across content, context, and individuals. Research Talks Series, Acadia University Dept. Psychology, NS (Invited Talk).

Hayward, D.A. (2019, December). Does autistic symptomology predict perception and attention in neurotypicals? Autism Research Rounds, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, AB (Invited Talk).

Hayward, D.A. (2019, December). Load, dilution, or something else? “Cluttering up” the face to explore social attention. Psychology department CogSem, Edmonton, AB.

Hayward, D.A. (2019, August). Social reward and attention. Annual conference of the American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, IL (Invited Talk based on receiving an Early Career award).

Hayward, D.A. (2018, January). The impact of early environment on the brain. Fifth annual conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Concordia University (Invited Talk). 

Hayward, D.A. (2017, March). From behaviour to brains: How attention functions in social contexts. Department of Psychology, University of Alberta (Invited talk).

Hayward, D.A., Voorhies, W., Wong, S., & Ristic, J. (2015, June). Searching for social attention in real life social interactions. Symposium on Interactive Social Cognition, presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS), Ottawa, ON. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 69(4), 327-376.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/POSTERS (2019 onwards)

Hayward, D.A., Skofenko, N., & Kraus, H. (June 2026). Doomscrolling your attention away: Investigating the effect of continuous versus interrupted TikTok content on inhibition and task switching performance. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Toronto, ON.

Brown, H.M., Thompson, J., Pabia, M.R., Wang, A., Ma, H., Brandsen, S., Stolee, H., Coombs, E., Santilli, H., Weigel-Mohamed, I., Dwyer, P., Skillen, S., Weng, P., Bendevis, C., Devlin, C., Pogue, N., Radisic, A.M., Connolly, T., Di Rezze, B., Hayward, D.A., Lee, V., Nicholas, D.B., Thompson-Hodgetts, S., Searle, M.J., Scheerer, N.E. (April, 2026). From awareness to belonging: Examining the impact of the empowering neurodivergence speaker series on neuroinclusive culture. INSAR annual meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.

Wang, A., Brandsen, S., Pabia, M.R., Weigel-Mohamed, I., Nakonechny, A., Vanden Berg, E., Coombs, E., Santilli, H., Bendevis, C., Devlin, C., Stolee, H., Dwyer, P., Ma, H., Di Rezze, B., Nicholas, D.B., Connolly, T., Hayward, D.A., Scheerer, N.E., Thompson-Hodgetts, S., & Brown, H.M. (April, 2026). When the world feels too much: Internal and External moderators of sensory influences on university belonging in Autistic students. INSAR annual meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.

Quito, A., Nash, K., & Hayward, D.A. (October, 2025). Can eye trust you? Investigating the impact of trustworthiness on attention. UVic Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium, Victoria, BC.

Nakonechny, A., Dul, O., Oslund, M., & Hayward, D.A. (October, 2025). Watching to recalling: Attention and memory in women and non-binary individuals with varying ADHD traits. WCHRI Research Day, Edmonton, AB.

Hayward, D.A. & Cook, A. (May, 2024). Seeing eye to “egg”: Can attention and memory be impacted by “social” objects? Poster presentation at the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete’s Beach, FL. Journal of Vision, 24, 359. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.10.359

Jantz, B.J., Fankhanel, M.L., Hayward, D.A., & Chapman, C.S. (May, 2024). Does social context influence intention, prediction and motor behavior during a simple in-person card game? Poster presentation at the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete’s Beach, FL. Journal of Vision, 24, 983. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.24.10.983

Manuel, S.A. & Hayward, D.A. (October, 2025). The social gaze: Mobile eye tracking in naturalistic tasks. Celebration of Research, College of Social Sciences and Humanities: Research in Uncertain Times, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Kraus, H., Skofenko, N., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Endless scrolling: Examining the effect of a continuous short-form video stream on attention. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Lesage, M., Vanden Berg, E., Bayne, J., Cotton, B., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Wait for it: the impact of spatial arrangement on social interaction and collaborative problem-solving. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Loepelmann, M., Suen, I., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Spotting a liar: Interpreting motion and gaze that conceals or reveals a choice. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Nakonechny, A., Dul, O., Oslund, M., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Event parsing your favourite TV show! Do ADHD traits relate to event segmentation and memory? Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Sinongco, M., Almeida, R., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Betting beyond the odds: how gambling-related advertisements and perception of control influence sport betting decisions. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Cordova, B., Yiptong, C., Elhassan, Z., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2025). Can you tell I’m not paying attention? Predicting mind-wandering and the influence of empathy and perspective-taking. 39th Joseph R. Royce Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Almeida, R.S., & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Eyes on the prize: The role of context for wins and losses. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Campbell, M., Atkin, A.E., Landry, M., & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Are two people better than one? Investigating social attention during a joint task using EEG. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Fankhanel, M.L., Jantz, B.J., Chapman, C.S, & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Examining the influence of social context on decision-making and intention prediction in an in-person card game. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Glyson, E., & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Breaking boundaries: Using event segmentation to understand social cognition in eating disorders. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Hasan, M., Quito, A.M., Nash, K., & Hayward, D.A. (April/June, 2024). Can eye trust you? Investigating the effects of trust on attention. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, and Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Jantz, B.J., Fankhanel, M.L., Hayward, D.A., & Chapman, C.S. (June, 2024). Does social context influence motor behavior during a simple in-person card game? Examining hand movements during gameplay. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Mah, M., & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Masked interactions: Exploring face coverings’ impact on social attention. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Manuel, S.A., & Hayward, D.A. (June, 2024). Eye see it all: Examining how social anxious traits guide visual attention. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Edmonton, AB.

Gill, M., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2024). Attraction or aversion: Role of valence, interaction, and the presence of people on attention. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Lafond, J., Ybanez, A., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2024). Shared decision-making: Behaviours across strangers and friends. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Mah, M., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2024). Unmasking attention: Investigating the impact of face masks on visual attention. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Nosko, J.A.M., St. Jacques, P.L., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2024). Am I distracting? The role of self in distraction, attention, and memory. Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Yiptong, C., & Hayward, D.A. (April, 2024). Can we detect mind wandering in others? Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Atkin, A.E., Campbell, M., Landry, M., & Hayward, D.A. (March, 2024). Dyadic performance of a gaze cueing task. Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute Neuroscience Research Day, Edmonton, AB.

Fankhanel, M., Almeida, R., & Hayward, D.A. (March/April, 2024). Connected or connection: Investigating attentional variances between in-person and virtual interactions. Festival of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities (FURCA)/ Harder Research Day, Edmonton, AB.

Almeida, R., Fankhanel, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2023, July). From virtual to reality: Investigating how context and personality traits may influence social attention. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Guelph, ON.

Pacificar, M., Prinsen, R., Pham, J., & Hayward, D.A. (2023, July). There’s no place like...? Investigating whether looking behaviour and preferences for spaces vary across activities and online vs in-person exposure. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Guelph, ON.

Prinsen, R.S., Pacificar, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2022, July). Getting back to nature: Preference for spaces featuring natural elements. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Halifax, NS.

Hayward, D.A., Ma, H., & Janssen, S. (2022, July). Lie to me (if you can): Deception with motion and gaze in a preference task. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS) Annual meeting, Halifax, NS.

Ma, H., Bertrand, J.K., Chapman, C.S., & Hayward, D.A. (2022, April). You read my mind: Projecting and detecting intention under differing social communication goals during a 2-player game. Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) annual meeting, online.

Prinsen, R., Singhal, A., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, August). Comparing visual and auditory modalities in an online intentional binding task. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), online.

Song, R., Ouelette, M., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, August). Do eye have your attention? Gaze cueing using emotional faces. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), online.

Teodorescu, D., Fyshe, A., & Hayward, D.A. (2021, May). Quantifying distraction in a visual search task. Virtual poster presentation at the Vision Science Society (VSS), online. Journal of Vision, 21, 2747. doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2747

Hayward, D.A., Dhaliwal, R., & Ha, J. (2020, June). Are you attending to me? The effect of social presence on social attention. Virtual poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), online. Upcoming issue of the Journal of Vision.

Ha, J., Dhaliwal, R., & Hayward, D.A. (2020, April). Am I distracting you? How person presence affects attention to social and nonsocial cues. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Hayward, D.A., Tremblay, S., & Booij, L. (2019, June). The interplay between attention, mood, and vulnerability for depression. Poster presentation at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences (CSBBCS), Ottawa, ON. Upcoming issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale.

Hayward, D.A., & Ristic, J. (2019, May). What and where: The influence of attention on visual short-term memory for item and spatial location information, and the relationship to autism traits. Poster presentation at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St Pete’s Beach, FL. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 73d, doi: 10.1167/19.10.73d.

Braulio, K., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). Can eye trust you? Perceived trustworthiness modulates attention capture and shifting. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Jhinjar, N., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). Chew on this! The relationship between disordered eating, social attention, and social networks. Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.

Sylvestre, S., & Hayward, D.A. (2019, April). At face value: Do attentional mechanisms prioritize rewards or social content? Royce-Harder Research Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.