Below are the graduate courses that I have taught at Ryerson:

 

Ps8504: Graduate Seminar in Social Psychology

This course involves advanced discussion of classic and contemporary theories and findings in social psychology, and their application to research on media effects. Some of the broader themes include: (1) recent debate regarding "false positives" in psychological research, (2) what we can - and cant' - learn from self-report and "implicit" measures of attitudes, and (3) the automaticity of social cognition.

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Ps8502: Graduate Seminar in Developmental Psychology

This course involves advanced discussion of current and controversial issues in developmental psychology. Key themes include the roles of nature and nurture in cognitive development (addressing questions such as “How is knowledge acquired?") as well as their roles in personality development (“Is intelligence genetically determined?” and “Are extroverts born or made?”). In the process, methods of studying child development (“looking-time” measures of infant knowledge and behavioural genetics) are discussed in detail.

 

Ps8519: Social Cognition

This course reviews theory and research relating to ways in which people process social information and make sense of their social world. Topics will include judgment under uncertainty, social attribution, stereotypes and prejudices, interpersonal attraction, social comparison, categories and schemas, the relationship between motivation and cognition, and methods for studying social cognition.