He’s Baaack
30 08 2008After quitting my teaching job to seek a PhD in social psychology, and moving 2,600 miles to Fayetteville, Arkansas, I am now starting to post here again.
I am not sure what the blog will be since I am not producing it for my students (I am not teaching this year), but it will likely include a bit more about research in my subject area, and less general postings. But we’ll see. Stay tuned.
Ohhh i guess your future student should miss you. I listen to your lectures through podcast and think you seem to be a very good teacher, both pedagogical and knowlegable. Good luck with your Phd. What is your focus there?
Thanks you, Ed, for your kind words. I will be focusing on social dilemmas — social conflict situations where there is often no way for both parties to win. I am going to be initially looking at what might influence people to choose compensatory justice (getting recompense for actual damages), restorative justice (getting recompense for actual and punitive damages), and retributive justice (getting “even” and hurting another, perhaps out of proportion to the initial offense). It will be very interesting I think.
Congrats and good luck with the phd. Just incase you were wondering, I am a random student that is taking abnormal psychology and I searched and found your podcast lectures. Thanks for posting them and allowing them to be available to the public, I find them very useful. Keep up the good work!