Rate My Professor Bridgette Hard

Hard’s research explores the intersection of psychology and pedagogy, using classroom data to extend psychological theories and applying psychological insights to inform teaching practices. She specializes in curriculum development for introductory psychology and has published extensively in this area. Notable publications include the co-authored textbook Interactive Psychology: People in Perspective (W.W. Norton, second edition, 2023), “Reappraising test anxiety increases academic performance of first-year college students” (Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018), “Developing Collaborative Thinkers: Rethinking how we Define, Teach, and Assess Class Participation” (Teaching of Psychology, 2022), “Metaphors we teach by: Uncovering the structure of metaphorical lay theories of teaching” (Metaphor and the Social World, 2021), and “Connecting Introductory Psychology to Climate Change Can Empower Students” (Teaching of Psychology, 2025). She teaches Introductory Psychology to more than 600 students annually, Psychology Teaching Seminars, and supervises independent research studies. Hard has received the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award and Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Teaching Award from Stanford, the Robert S. Daniel Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the Robert B. Cox Teaching Award from Duke. She co-organizes the Psychology One Conference, National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, and Intro Psych Coast-to-Coast, and directs the Costanzo Teaching Fellow program.