Lauren Y. Atlas

Teaching

I have served as a teaching assistant each year since I started at Columbia in 2006. In addition, I developed a Science of Psychology course for Columbia's Summer High School Program, which I co-taught in 2008 and 2009. Along with my official teaching duties, I have mentored undergraduate research assistants in independent research, including Honors Theses in the college.

Teaching Activities

Spring 2009, Columbia University

Teaching Assistant, PSYC 1450 “Experimental Psychology: Social Cognition and Emotion”

Taught laboratory section

Summer 2008, 2009: Columbia University Summer Program for High School Students

Instructor, “Science of Psychology”

Topics: Research Methodology, Brain and Nervous System, Sensation and Perception,             Social Development, Social Cognition, Emotion, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Spring 2008, Columbia University

Teaching Assistant, PSYC 1010 “Mind Brain and Behavior”

Invited Lecture: “Neural mechanisms of emotion and social cognition”

Spring 2007, Columbia University

Teaching Assistant, PSYC 1010 “Mind Brain and Behavior”

June 2006, Stanford University

Taught five-day workshop on fMRI processing and analysis using AFNI