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 2011-2025:
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
Clare DiBiase (graduated 2025): Interacting effects of valence and activation on perspective-taking
Brighid McNeil (graduated 2025): Modeling the effects of medical empathy and compassion on task performance
Master’s thesis supervised
Alexander Garinther (graduated 2014): Competition and social cognition
Wiebke Willebrandt (graduated 2025): Prosocial and antisocial behavior In sport: Athletes’ goal focus, rank/status security, and gender matter