Teaching

Although I teach several different courses from time to time, the two I am most likely to each include:

Introductory Psychology. This large undergraduate lecture course usually has between 350 and 500 students. I love this course because it mixes classroom experiments, interesting topics, and enthusiastic students.

Language and Personality. This is a graduate course that I teach every year or so to students in Psychology, Educational Psychology, Business, Communication, Linguistics, and other areas. This is more a hands-on approach to teaching where students learn to use computerized text analysis programs and to think about the analysis and interpretation of large text data sets.

Psychosomatic Processes. This graduate course provides a broad overview of research dealing with the links between mind and body. The course begins with a discussion of the biology of stress, including the nature of immune, autonomic, and brain activity. Later topics focus on emotion, coping, expressive writing, and psychotherapy as they relate to the cause, treatment, and prevention of disease. This is a high-pressure course that requires students to integrate the reading material.

Other courses I occasionally teach include:

Psychology and Language (Odyssey course; adult education)

Health Psychology (undergraduate level)

Social Psychology of Religion (undergraduate)

Social Psychology Area Seminar (graduate)