Rate My Professor Emily Stark

Emily Stark is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Minnesota State University, Mankato, within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2007. Stark's research interests focus on decision making, the framing effect, lie detection, emotions, and intuition. Her teaching emphasizes critical thinking and teaching and learning practices. She offers courses including PSYC 101: Introduction to Psychological Science, PSYC 201: Careers in Psychology, PSYC 211: Research Methods and Design, PSYC 289: Psychology and the Law, PSYC 340: Social Psychology, PSYC 409/509: History and Systems of Psychology, and PSYC 433/533: Child Psychology.

Emily Stark maintains an active scholarly record with publications centered on psychological pedagogy and social psychological processes. Key works include “Real life solutions to real life problems: Collaborating with a non-profit foundation to engage honors students in applied research” (Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, in press), “A brief examination of predictors of e-learning success for novice and expert learners” with Lassiter and Kuemper (Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal, in press), “Enhancing and assessing critical thinking in a research methods in psychology course” (Teaching of Psychology, 39(2), 107-112, 2012), “Producing a radio show about psychological science: The story of Psychological Frontiers” with Sachau and Albertson (Teaching of Psychology, 39(1), 42-44, 2012), and “Using message framing to promote healthy behavior: A guide to best practices” with Rothman and Salovey (Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Diseases, Volume 3, pp. 31-48, 2006). Other significant publications available through the university repository encompass “Lake Wobegon's Guns: Overestimating Our Gun-Related Competences” (2016), “The Role of Rational and Experiential Processing in Influencing the Framing Effect” (2017), “Understanding the Framing Effect: Do Affective Responses to Decision Options Mediate the Relation Between Framing and Choice?” (2017), and “Protective Vests in Law Enforcement: A Pilot Survey of Public Perceptions” (2017). Stark contributes to public understanding of psychology as co-host of the “Brains vs. Beliefs” podcast with Karla Lassonde and through the Communicating Psychological Science website.