In addition to my longstanding interest in psychology, it has been my interest in education and working with students that guided me into an academic career.  I love to be in the classroom and interact with students and I have been fortunate to have taught a broad range of classes at CSULB including courses at the 100/200, 300, and 400/500 levels.  The courses that I most commonly teach are PSY 110 (Introduction to Statistics), PSY 351 (Social Psychology), and PSY 411/511 (Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments).

I have mentored more than 180 CSULB graduate and undergraduate students in the Aggression and Intergroup Relations Lab.  This includes students in a variety of research programs including McNair Scholars, Career Opportunities in Research (COR), the California Pre-doctoral program, the CSULB Honors Program, the CSULB Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, the Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program, and the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program.