Courses regularly taught (links are to past syllabi):

PSYC1091: Thinking About Feeling (freshman seminar)
PSYC1032: Science of Emotion
PSYC1111: Self, Mind & Society
PSYC2241: Social Psychology
PSYC4443: Research Practicum in Social and Cognitive Methods

Senior theses supervised 2011-2022 (honors theses marked with *):

Vissicchio, Nicholas (graduated 2013): How doctors can be good listeners: Effects on medical memory of attending to different aspects of patients’ minds*

Davis, Jacqueline (graduated 2014): Gender and empathy in the physician-patient relationship: An exploration of two empathic approaches*

Letizia, Jessica (graduated 2014): Perceptions of physician empathy: Effects of demographic features

Pearson, Emma (graduated 2014): Medical thinking and goals: Effects of time-variant goal focus on memory for patient details*

Entezary, Serena (graduated 2015): Productive but insensitive: Thinking about goals leads to reduced attention to others’ experience

Ruge, Max (graduated 2015): “I can’t care about you right now”: The effect of stress on empathy*

Manning, Elizabeth (graduated 2016):  Manipulating minds to motivate: Does appealing to goals vs. emotions affect follow up behavior?*

Laughlin, Erin (graduated 2017): Minds and motivation: Effects of self mind perception and identity on follow-up behavior

Murray, Kristen (graduated 2017): The impact of empathic relationship on feelings of similarity to the other: Implications for medical professionals treating overweight patients

Brodie, Kirstan (graduated 2018): Implicit dehumanization of competitors: A gender comparison*

Kay, Megan (graduated 2018): WoMAN up: Expectations of male competition influence female mind perception in competition*

Okst, Kayley (graduated 2019): Disagreement and dehumanization: The impact of conflicting opinions on implicit mental state attribution.

Shaffert, Kathryn (graduated 2019): Combatting the effects of burnout: Does reappraising stress impact empathy motivation and prosociality?

Law, Cecilia (graduated 2020): Competition vs. cooperation: Impacts on implicit dehumanization

MacKinnon, Emma (graduated 2020): Can disagreement cause dehumanization? The effect of opposite opinions on mind perception

Anna Tierney (graduated 2021): Does lower heart rate variability predict increased implicit dehumanization after disagreement?

Alida Scecchitano (graduated 2021): Competitive minds: How athletes view the minds of their opponents

Zhanqin Winnie Liu (graduated 2021): Frontline faces: The effect of heroic vs. suffering portrayal of health care workers

Nicholas Stratigakis (graduated 2022): Mind perception and medical language: The impact of patient descriptions on implicit dehumanization

Clare Bumpus (graduated 2022): Empathy in physician-patient interactions

Kyle Cuklanz (graduated 2023): Mind Perception and Moral Machine Preferences in Medicine

Sophia Sumners (graduated 2023): Competition and Competence: Influences on Implicit and Explicit Mental State Attribution

Amy Cami (graduated 2024): Empathy in Helping Professions: An Exploration of the Effects of Clinical Training on Empathy

Jessica Llewellyn (graduated 2024): Intuitions About the Minds of Religious Figures

Emma Smirl (graduated 2024): Power Manipulations and Judgments of Humorous Videos

Master’s thesis supervised

Garinther, Alexander (graduated 2014): Competition and Social Cognition