C. S. Kay | Teaching
Personality Psychology
Offered: Summer, 2021
Level: Undergraduate
My role: Co-instructor with Vinita Vader
This course was organized around three questions. First, how do people differ? Second, what are the processes and mechanisms that underlie these differences? Third, what are the implications of these differences in people’s lives? In answering these questions, we considered both classic and contemporary approaches to personality.
The Dark Side of Personality
Offered: Spring, 2020; Fall, 2020
Level: Undergraduate
My role: Instructor
This course aimed to complement existing courses on personality by taking an in-depth look at a number of aversive personality traits. The first half of the course was spent exploring Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism. These traits were described in terms of their history, structure, measurement, and potential etiology. The second half of the course was dedicated to examining aversive personality traits with respect to personality disorders, criminality, the workplace, morality, and internet behaviours.
Data Analysis III: Multivariate Statistics
Offered: Spring, 2022; Spring, 2021; Spring, 2019
Level: Graduate
My role: Lab instructor (course instructor: Dr. Elliot Berkman)
The purpose of this course was to survey a number of multivariate statistical methods—those most popular among and useful to psychologists (e.g., linear mixed-effects modelling; factor analysis)—while emphasizing a conceptual understanding of their underlying structures. For this course, I led labs on how to conduct these analyses using R (see below for an example of a lab).
Data Analysis II: Statistical Methods
Offered: Winter 2022; Winter 2019
Level: Graduate
My role: Lab instructor (course instructor: Dr. Sara Weston; course instructor: Dr. Robert Mauro)
This course was the second in a 3-term sequence of classes designed to provide a thorough grounding in statistical concepts, methods, and applications of relevance to psychological science and related sciences. Among other statistical concepts, students were taught univariate regression, multiple regression, DAG models, factorial ANOVA, bootstrapping, and papaja. For this course, I developed and taught labs.
Data Analysis I: Statistical Methods
Offered: Fall, 2019
Level: Graduate
My role: Developed and taught labs (course instructor: Dr. Sara Weston)
This course was the first in a 3-term sequence of graduate-level classes designed to provide a thorough grounding in statistical concepts, methods, and applications of relevance to psychological science and related sciences. Students were also taught the basics of the R language, including how to wrangle, visualize, summarize, and analyze data. For this course, I developed and taught labs (see below for an example).
Research Methods in Psychology
Offered: Fall, 2018
Level: Undergraduate
My role: Instructor
This course was focused on building students’ skills as producers of research. The course emphasized hands-on practice for developing the skills to conduct their own research and critically evaluate the research of others. Using existing datasets collected by researchers at the University of Oregon, each student developed hypotheses based on a review of the relevant literature; analyzed data to test those hypotheses; and wrote up the results in the form of two papers.
Last updated: December 13th, 2022.
Social Psychology
Offered: Summer, 2020
Level: Undergraduate
My role: Co-instructor with Sarah Dimakis
Social psychology is the scientific study of the way in which individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real or imagined presence of others. This course covered topics such as social judgment, relationships, discrimination, persuasion, conformity, aggression, and cooperation.