About the Blogger

My name is Jess Hartnett. I am an associate professor in Gannon University's Department of Psychology and Counseling. I have a Ph.D. and MA in Social/Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Illinois University. My BS in Psychology is from Penn State.

I teach many statistics: Two on-campus (regular and honors) sections and one online section every Fall and Spring semester, and one online class during the summer. As such, the teaching of statistics is my chronically accessible goal, and I am always on the lookout for resources that help illustrate concepts and engage my students. This blog was started as an attempt to organize these resources, and I have enjoyed getting to know other statistics instructors and sharing ideas. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the blog, feel free to contact me at hartnett004@gannon.edu.

If you want to read more about my bigger ideas about the teaching of statistics to psychology majors, take a look at my invited talks at the Association for Psychological Science Teaching Pre-conference SPSP 2021 and Teaching Statistics 2021, this guest blog post for STP's Graduate Student group, and this book chapter. ALSO: Join the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division 3 of the APA and, in many ways, my most important professional affiliation. 

In addition to teaching many, many sections of statistics, I also teach Social Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Motivation and Emotion. I am a proud member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

I publish all sorts of things, mostly affective forecasting, the fading affect bias, positive psychology, research methodology, and the teaching of statistics (check out my Academia or Research Gate profiles for more on that). I am a consulting editor for the Journal of Social Psychology and Psychological Reports.

I co-authored a book about positive psychology and cognition with Rich Walker and Cory Scherer. The book is called Pollyanna's Revenge.

When I am not psychogizing, I spend time with my philosopher husband and our two sons. I love to cook. I love finding new green spaces in and around our home in Erie, PA, so we can all enjoy nature together (especially during this pandemic! We've tried out every hiking path in Erie County!). I enjoy reading sci-fi/fantasy. I drink an obscene amount of coffee.


Comments

  1. It would be nice to do a post on contingent valuation and how it can be applied in SPSS.

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    1. Thank you for the suggestion. What that isn't my area of expertise, I will keep my eyes peeled for examples.

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  2. Hi Jessica,

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  3. Hi Jessica, I simply wanted to commend you on your great work! This is the most useful blog I came across that is helping me in my Phd studies (Business Administration, Leadership and Management at Florida International University). Please keep this blog active!

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  4. You're basically the greatest human.

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