Teaching

Workshops

IE Executive Education and Master Classes

Behavioral Decision Making
2011 Accenture: Consultant Development Program, Madrid and Barcelona (4.5 hours).
2011 Ukrainian Marketing Directors Forum, Kiev (1.5 hours).

IE Business School

Behavioral Decision Making
2011 Emzingo Workshop: Behavioral Decision Making & Leadership (3 hours).
2010 iMBA Launch Workshop: Decision Making Skills (4 hours).
2010 Emzingo Workshop: Behavioral Decision Making & Leadership (4.5 hours).

IE University

Behavioral Decision Making
2011 MGEC Workshop on Behavioral Decision Making (3 hours).
2010 MGEC Workshop on Behavioral Decision Making (3 hours).
Leadership
2011 MGEC Essentials of Leadership (1.5 hours).

Teaching

IE BUSINESS SCHOOL AND IE UNIVERSITY (Madrid and Segovia, Spain)

Teaching evaluations, student comments, and references available by request.

Behavioral Judgment and Decision Making

2010, 2011

Elective course for international MBA program focused on pervasive biases in managerial judgment and decision making. The course integrates findings and concepts from behavioral science (cognitive and social psychology) with closely allied work in behavioral economics.

Introduction to Statistics

2010, 2011

Introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics for undergraduates in the Bachelor program in Psychology.

Statistics II

2011

Second-year course for undergraduates in the Bachelor program in Psychology, covering advanced inferential statistics and the use of software (SPSS) for the analysis of experimental data.

Decision Making Processes

2010

Undergraduate course covering Fundamentals of the psychology of judgment and decision making from both behavioral and normative perspectives.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mi, USA)

Served as a Graduate Student Instructor for ten terms and approximately 600 undergraduate students. Responsibilities included planning and teaching weekly sections, one-on-one meeting with students in office hours, informal mentoring, and running exam reviews sessions, and assigning grades.

Teaching evaluations, student comments, and references available by request.

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (Psych 240)

2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. With Thad Polk, Bill Gehring, Cindy Lustig.
Mean Instructor Rating: 4.91 out of 5.00
Responsibilities: 3 sections, 75 students

Survey course covering the psychology of human perception, attention, memory, thinking, and the relationship between cognition and brain function.

Introduction to Psychopathology (Psych 270)

2009, 2006, with Joe Gone
Mean Instructor Rating: 4.88 out of 5.00
Responsibilities: 2 sections, 60 students

Survey course covering key issues in the scientific investigation of psychopathology (or mental illness). Topics: efforts to systematically describe and understand psychological distress; the challenge of developing a useful system for classifying kinds of psychopathology; the process of empirical validation of purported disorders; and the problem of conceptualizing psychological distress across cultures.

Introduction to to Human Neuropsychology (Psych 345)

2005, with Jeffrey Hutsler
Mean Instructor Rating: 4.93 out of 5.00
Responsibilities: 2 sections, 70 students

Survey course covering human cognition and brain organization in brain-damaged patient groups as well as normal subjects. Topics: visual function, language, memory, and executive functions.

Introduction to to Artificial Intelligence (EECS 492)

2004 with Satinder Baveja; 2003 with Michael Wellman
Mean Instructor Rating: 4.48 out of 5.00
Responsibilities: 2 sections, 60 students

Survey course covering the major ideas and techniques of Artificial Intelligence and the engineering issues underlying the design of intelligent computational agents. Topics: modeling and analytical skills (e.g., search, logic, probability), knowledge representation, reasoning, machine learning, and a general understanding of AI principles and practice.

Guest Lecturing

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan

Invited lectures of 1.5 hours for the course Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. Class size: ~200 students.
Podcasts of lectures available by request

2008 Judgment & Decision Making.
2008 Deductive Reasoning.
2007 Visual Imagery I: Visual Memory, Spatial Memory, Heuristics.
2007 Top-Down Perception: Expectations, Context Effects, & Interactive Activation.
2007 Language I: Structure and Meaning.
2007 Long Term Memory: Semantic Networks.
2007 Language: Structure, Meaning, Localization in the Brain.
2006 Language: Structure, Meaning, Localization in the Brain.
2006 Judgment and Decision Making.

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor University of Michigan

Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan 2006/07
Competitive teaching award given to twenty students across the university by the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. link

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Dept. Psychology

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan 2005/06 and 2006/07
One of three students recognized by the Department of Psychology for outstanding teaching.

Undergraduate Mentoring

Katherine Tan, IE University (visiting from Harvard University) 2010
Project: Developed managerial decision simulator “Engineers & Lawyers” based on seminal experiment by Kahneman & Tversky.

Tracy Ederer, UM Psychology Program    2008/09
Honors Thesis: “Revealing individual differences in decision-making behavior”.

Kristin Pearson (w/ Thad Polk), UM Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Science Program    2006/07
Honors Thesis: “Individual differences in verbal working memory”.

Zachary Guren (w/ Thad Polk), UM Psychology Program    2006/07
Honors Thesis: “Testing the validity of a fixed history method for the Iowa Gambling Task”.

Sally Hollister (w/ Thad Polk), UM Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Science Program    2005/06
Honors Thesis: “Articulatory versus acoustic coding in verbal working memory”.

Service & Training in Teaching

IE University
Participant, Faculty Workshop: Leadership in the Classroom (w/ Mark Fritz) Feb, 2011
Participant, Faculty Workshop: Technology in the Classroom (w/ Enrique Dans) Feb, 2011
Facilitator, Student-Faculty Tertulia: “History, Psychology & the Politics of Money” 2010

Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
Facilitator, Training for New Graduate Student Instructors    2009
Participant, New Graduate Student Instructor Training, Department of Psychology    2004
Participant, New Graduate Student Instructor Training, College of Engineering    2003