Teaching

My teaching goals are to cultivate students’ interest in – and mastery of – the course material, improve their critical thinking skills, and help them to become intelligent consumers of scientific information. I think that an important goal of undergraduate courses should be to push students to discover the holes in our collective knowledge about human nature. This sparks curiosity and a push to discover: the very essence of (psychological) science. To accomplish these goals in my courses, I assist and challenge students to master content, I develop and vary my pedagogy, and I empathize with my students as individuals.

At Southwestern University, I have taught Principles of Psychology, Survey of Research Methods, Inquiry-Based Research Methods, Learning and Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology, Attraction, Capstone Research in Psychology, and a Paideia Seminar (My Chemical Romance).