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There’s an entire field in which researchers scientifically test elements of the college experience. Is group studying or solo studying more effective? How does anxiety affect test-taking, and what can you do about it? What motivates certain students to cheat? How common is cheating, anyway? Who listens to whom in group projects, and how does that affect motivation? These questions — and many more — have been experimentally tested. There’s a lot of data to explore.

In this class, we will explore two main topics in this field: (1) how we can become better learners and earn higher scores, and (2) what biases may affect each of us as we progress through college.