Biography

I am an Assistant Professor (CLA) at McMaster University, teaching various courses in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. Previously, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences.

I spend most of my time teaching undergraduates about statistics and research methods, as well as a variety of other courses focused on sensation & perception, attitudes & attitude change, and the history of psychology. I am a firm believer of teaching with both passion and compassion, and am always looking for ways to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of my teaching. If you’re a current student trying to learn more about me and have some tips on how I can improve your learning experience, shoot me an email or visit one of my office hours! I’m always listening.

Although most of my time is spent teaching, I am a trained experimental psychologist with broad interests in the field of vision sciences and learning. I’m specifically interested in uncovering situations where the visual system learns to complete a given task but is then challenged to transfer the learned skill to novel tasks. As it turns out, this is a difficult problem that we don’t yet fully understand!

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Courses taught:

• PNB 2XE3, Descriptive Statistics & Research Methods
• PNB 3XE3, Inferential Statistics & Research Methods
• PNB 3HP3, History of Psychology
• PNB 3EE3, Perception Lab
• Psych 2E03, Sensory Processes

Teaching Grants:

• IDEAS Grant to aide in increasing EDI in the curriculum, 2020-2021
• OER Creation Grant to aide in creating an OER focused on under-represented individuals in the history of psychology, 2021-2022

• alihashemi@mcmaster.ca
• McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
• By appointment