Teaching
Teaching interests:
Moral Psychology
Social Psychology
Emotions
Social Cognition
Introduction to Psychology
Research Methods
Statistics
Teaching experience:
Visiting Assistant Professor (Hamilton College, 2019 to present)
Introduction to Psychology
Research Design
Science of Morality, Seminar and Lab
Senior Projects
Social Psychology
Visiting Assistant Professor (Colgate University, 2016 to 2019)
Advanced Social Psychology
Moral Psychology
Research Methods in Psychology
Senior Research
Social Psychology
Adjunct Professor (Quinnipiac University, Spring 2013)
Social Psychology
Teaching Fellow (Yale University, 2010 to 2012)
Research Methods (Professor: Woo-kyoung Ahn)*
Moralities of Everyday Life (Professor: Paul Bloom)*
The Modern Unconscious (Professor: John Bargh)
Introduction to Psychology (Professor: Paul Bloom)
* Included being in charge of at least one section outside the main class
Other teaching-related service/experience:
- Supervisor/mentor for senior psychology majors’ thesis projects (Hamilton College and Colgate University)
- Supervisor/mentor for undergraduate research assistants (Hamilton College, Cornell University, and Yale University)
- Science in the Classroom Author and Fellow: participant in the course, “Students Reading Real Science: Bringing Primary Literature into the Undergraduate Classroom,” which focused on making primary literature more accessible to an undergraduate audience (Cornell University and the American Association for the Advancement of Science).
- Published an annotated Science article (Wojcik et al., 2015), aimed towards undergraduate students
Select student comments from teaching evaluations:
“I think the reason I got so much out of this course and learned so much was because of Professor Dyer’s teaching style and passion.”
“Professor Dyer is incredibly invested in the success of me and my classmates. She worked tirelessly throughout the entire semester to help each and every student individually, and I have therefore become a better research paper writer and learned so much about the course in general.”
“I found this class to be a breath of fresh air that promoted student learning and initiative.”
“I have been in seminar classes before, but this class’s discussion exceeds all of my previous expectations for what a strong in-class discussion should look like.”
"Professor Dyer was a joy to work with on my senior research. She was always readily available to help out when needed, but also provided us with enough space to come to conclusions and decisions on our own."
“This course was very, very thought-provoking. Lecture was almost always entirely discussion-based which made it very easy to personally engage with course material and learn from Professor Dyer and my peers. Creative thought was very encouraged, [and I] definitely grew in my critical thinking and writing skills. The course was organized very well, such that all material was constantly growing on the foundation we had built in previous classes.”
“Professor Dyer was very interactive and communicative. She was always adding to our conversations in a thoughtful and productive way, and facilitated the class and discussions very well.”
“Professor Dyer is very responsive to questions, probes students to think deeper, and clearly loves psychology and helping her students.”
“This course has contributed to my intellectual growth and education more than any other class I took at Colgate. Professor Dyer did an excellent job at facilitating discussion and allowing for the topics to mold into discussions that were more prevalent and relevant."
“I thought that this course was really good at encouraging learning. The course was really well designed, with all the different research methods coming in a logical order that made it easier to comprehend and understand. I think that Professor Dyer promoted a really positive learning environment, and I think I learned a lot from this course.”