Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

Last spring, we asked for your feedback about your advising experience—thank you to everyone who responded. A key takeaway was that most students prefer having a dedicated, assigned advisor. We want you to know that we heard your feedback and are excited to share a few upcoming changes.

Please continue to watch your Pitt email for a special announcement from the Psychology Advising Office in the coming weeks!

Still available for fall term enrollment.

PITT 0130 Course Description:

College is an exciting and stressful time for everyone. The increased freedom and independence is both exciting and daunting, leading many students to struggle in new ways or with emotions that seem to have increased in intensity. Conversely, research has shown that individuals who develop and use resilience strategies and emotion regulation skills (such as opposite action, relaxation strategies, mindfulness, and practicing gratitude) as well as build positive routines (for example, good eating and sleep habits, daily exercising, scheduling fun activities) are more likely to be effective in their roles, involved in strong relationships, physically and mentally healthy, and satisfied with their lives overall. The purpose of this course is to teach undergraduate students skills for having resilience in the face of commonly experienced stressors and difficulties. Stated simply, resilience is the ability to both survive and thrive. Resilience is not only about your ability to positively adapt in the face of adverse or challenging circumstances (that is, survive), but it is also about learning the positive skills, strategies and routines that enable you to live a happy, fulfilling, and successful life (in other words, thrive). This course will provide you with a personalized set of strategies and skills for self-care and optimize your academic and social experiences while at the University of Pittsburgh and beyond. By the end of this course, you will have knowledge and skills that you can apply to your life now and in the future. This course will use lectures, readings, videos, discussion forums, practice exercises, and coaching to assist and encourage you in meeting the course objectives while developing your more resilient and skillful self.

PUBHLT 0100: Fundamentals of Public Health
Tue Th 2:30-3:45p (27042)
Mon Wed 3:00-4:15pm (29169)

PUBHLT 0120: Intro to Public Health Biology
Tu Th 1-2:15pm (24994)

PUBHLT 0120: Essentials of Health Equity
Tu Th 4-5:15pm (24995)
Mon Wed 3:00-4:15pm (27919)

The Cognition in Context Laboratory researches how interactions between people and their social environments relate to adaptive cognitive behaviors, including reading and language. Currently, we are examining how social network experiences, such as diverse perspective bridging, relate to eye movement patterns while reading socially-nuanced language (e.g., non-literal language, social inferences). To do this, we work with egocentric social network data collected from participants who also completed a natural reading task in the lab with eyetracking. Future work may involve integration of large, population-level datasets such as data collected by the U.S. Census.

View the website for more details and application.

This opportunity is offered through the School of Education.

Learn to make a positive difference in the lives of youth and families.

Through this 15-credit minor, you’ll explore child and youth development—and will apply this knowledge in real-world settings. The program is for undergraduate students passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, youth, and families. After gaining a strong foundation in youth psychology, you will be ready to work in a range of settings.

The Stigma, Health Equity, and Resilience (SHER) Lab at CMU (PI: Michael Trujillo) has an opening for a part-time research assistant position (up to 30 hours per week) to begin the Fall/early Winter of this academic year (2024-2025). The appointment will be for 1 year, with additional years contingent upon performance and availability of funding.

The SHER lab uses experimental paradigms, intensive longitudinal designs, and psychophysiology to examine the underlying mechanisms that link stigma and health as well as big data to identify the factors that promote health equity for stigmatized populations, especially as they relate to sexual, gender, and racial/ethnic identity. The research assistant will work closely with the lab manager to help coordinate participant recruitment, and data collection and work with student research assistants on a number of projects at the intersection of stigma and health.

Questions should be directed to our lab manager, Will Crouch (wcrouch@andrew.cmu.edu).

https://cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/details/Research-Assistant--part-time----SHER-Lab---Dietrich-College-Department-of-Psychology_2023595

Announcements will run bi-weekly throughout the summer.