TEACHING GOALS

Most students find psychology, especially social psychology, to be intrinsically interesting. Thus, my primary goal as a teacher is to encourage that enthusiasm while developing my students' expertise in critiquing scientific findings. Regardless of whether my students continue to use psychological citation formatting or become experimental psychologists, citizens regularly encounter media simplifications of complicated scientific findings; many important decisions, such as those concerning their health, education, and lifestyle, can be guided by these scientific findings. In my teaching, I strive to familiarize my students with interesting findings that are relevant to their own life and introduce them to how scientific reasoning can deepen their understanding of themselves and of other human beings.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Research Methods, Statistics, Social Psychology, Implicit (Social) Cognition, Gender

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Discussion teaching assistant, Introduction to Social Psychology (Spring, 2009)

Primary supervisor for Oth Tran's Distinguished Major Program thesis (2008-2009)

Lab Teaching Assistant, Graduate Quantitative Methods I (Fall, 2008)

Lab Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Research Methods & Data Analysis II (2006; 2008)

Lab Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Research Methods & Data Analysis I (2005)

Review Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Research Methods & Data Analysis I (2004)

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

Detailed descriptions of courses listed under teaching experience, including my responsibilities (Download PDF)

Teaching Evaluations:  A cumulative summary of my teaching evaluations, both qualitative comments and quantitative data with comparisons to departmental averages, available upon request

Planned syllabus:  A planned syllabus for a course on research methods in psychology that I would be prepared to teach is also available upon request