Investigating Psychology, the Brain, and Behavior: Designing & Conducting Human Research Experiments

Harvard FAS

Does doomscrolling really worsen our attention? Can exercise make us more productive? Does junk food make us sleepy? We each have personal experiences that inform our hypotheses about human behavior, but to determine whether these hypotheses are correct, we must conduct a well-designed research experiment. In this seminar, we will take a hands-on approach to designing, testing, and interpreting results of research with humans. Students will have opportunities to scrutinize published studies,…