Hi there! My name's Harrison, and I'm a fifth year social psychology PhD student and educator in the Maner Lab at Florida State University. When I'm not teaching, I enjoy watching psychological thrillers, playing chess, and running (although not as much during Tallahassee summers). Welcome to my website; have a look around!
Here's my CV and a link to my google scholar page.
Whether I'm teaching the principles of leadership, personality traits, or the psychology of selfhood, everyone who walks into the room already has a lifetime of lived data. My job is to give students the conceptual tools to examine that material. When a student realizes that a theory they just learned describes something they have been experiencing for years—that's the moment I'm after. Good teaching is good leadership, and for me that means a focus on students' personal growth and an emphasis on human connection.
Those two principles might seem to be jeopardized by fast moving technologies like AI. But I embrace new modes of learning and engaging, because in the end, technology can't mimic the flow state created by a quirky class discussion or the feeling of helping a student in office hours.
So, I don’t try to make my classes AI-proof. I try to make them AI-independent: valuable in ways that AI cannot replicate. The heuristic I use when designing courses is whether it would be worth walking across campus for on a Friday morning in January.
I developed an undergraduate honors course, the Psychology of the Self. Here's the syllabus.
Class idea: Probabilistic and Exponential Relationships in Modern Social Life
Class idea: The Art and Science of Electronic Dance Music
Quesadilla Fan Club (my blog), King Cobalt (my music), and Whimsical Poker (my custom poker app, very much a work-in-progress).