Psychology is in pretty much everything we do.
So as humans, I think we need to understand psychology
because it’s the study of human behavior;
it’s the study of humans in every aspect.
Psychology helps us think about others’ perspectives
and think about how other people make decisions
and what their background is.
Psychology is founded in the scientific method,
and so our students learn the scientific method well,
and are able to apply that methodology to other issues
that they might face in the world.
When I tell people that I work in psychology,
they naturally think that psychology is
all about abnormal psychology and clinical psychology,
and that we want to understand abnormal minds,
but really the starting point is to understand
how the healthy human mind or brain functions.
No big problem has a single dimension.
It’s multi-dimensional.
Humans are diverse.
Our society is diverse.
Our problems are diverse,
and so our solutions ought also to be diverse.
I think we all need to know a little bit
about how humans interact,
how humans function because it’s in everything we do.
What could be more interesting
than the study of human behavior?
So I’d love students to get into those classes
and think deeply about the material,
think carefully about the material,
have fun with the material.