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Pietri, Eva Smith

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  • PSYC 4011 - Senior Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Fall 2025
    Critically reviews some aspect of psychological literature, scholarly analysis of a major psychological issue, and/or empirical research project. See the psychology honors director for further information.
  • PSYC 4376 - Research Methods in Social Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
    Introduces the study of social psychological processes, emphasizing the social cognition perspective (e.g., stereotyping, person perception, theory of planned behavior) and the methods utilized in studying these processes. Students will complete research projects as part of the course.
  • PSYC 5606 - Proseminar: Social-Personality Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2025
    Provides a thorough introduction to methods and theories in social psychology concerned with topics such as the self, social cognition, judgment and decision making, attitude formation and change, small group processes, inter-group relations, health and social psychology, and others. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
  • PSYC 5656 - Advanced Graduate Research Methods
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2026
    Provides training in the philosophical roots of empirical research, inference of causality, internal and external validity and reliability. These topics will be covered as they relate to a range of research designs including passive observational, experimental, quasi-experimental, meta-analytic and longitudinal. Additional topics include statistical inference and research ethics.
  • PSYC 6606 - Professional Issues in Social Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
    Covers a range of topics important for professional development in social psychology, including preparation and delivery of research presentations, preparation of grant proposals and manuscripts, and peer review of manuscripts. Intended to prepare students for careers as research scientists. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • PSYC 7536 - Personality and Social Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Selected topics in the area of social-personality psychology. Students may register for more than one section of this course within the term and/or within their graduate career. These seminars may be on one of the following topics: stereotyping and prejudice, social neuroscience, person perception, social psychology and the self, health and social psychology, race and ethnic identity, or social cognition. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.

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