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Early Life and Educational Background

Pamela Sadler was born on November 19, 1965, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and grew up in Oakville, Ontario. After earning an honors B. Math in Computer Science (Co-op) at the University of Waterloo in 1991, she worked full time for 2 years in network planning at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa. In her role as the liaison between various employees, their difficulties in mutual understanding and working together drew her attention, and she found her interests shifting from the technology for connecting people to the psychology of how people connect and fail to connect. Hence, she decided to return to the University of Waterloo and pursue a career in psychology, completing an honors B. Arts in Psychology in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2002, including a year-long clinical internship at the Calgary Health Region.

Her education in psychology provided several important intellectual influences, both direct and indirect. Kenneth Bowers, a...

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Sadler, P. (2017). Sadler, Pamela. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_307-1

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