GREGORY M. WALTON
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Teaching

Teaching and mentoring are among my favorite parts of being a professor. In both, I strive to help students both explore basic questions about our psychology and to address important social problems.

Teaching

Classes I teach:
  • Psych 11N: Belonging in a Diverse Society (syllabus)
  • Psych 138/238: Wise Interventions (syllabus)
  • Psych 212: Social Psychology (coming)
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Earlier courses include:
  • OSPBER 86: The Integration of Refugees in Europe: German Education Settings (Spring 2022 Syllabus)
  • Psych 1: Introduction to Psychology (Winter 2018 Syllabus)
  • Psych 7N: Learn to Intervene, Wisely (Fall 2019 Syllabus) 
  • Psych 25N: Psychology, Inequality, and the American Dream (2009-2010 Syllabus)
  • Psych 236: The Social Self
  • Psych 244: Designing Psychologically Wise Interventions (with Alia Crum) (Fall 2023 Syllabus)
  • Psych 273: Changing Mindsets and Contexts: How to Create Authentic, Lasting Improvement (with Carol Dweck) (Spring 2021 Syllabus)
  • Psych 274/Educ 287X: Graduate Research Workshop on Psychological Interventions (with Geoff Cohen) (Winter 2020 Syllabus)
  • Psych 285A: How Can We Enforce Good Norms in Inclusive Ways? (Fall 2024 Syllabus)
  • Psych 288: Perspectives on Belonging (Winter 2019 Syllabus)

Mentoring

​I deeply value opportunities to help younger scholars identify the critical psychological processes that contribute to problems they care about; to work with them to demonstrate this role empirically, with the greatest rigor and systematicity possible; and to integrate laboratory, field-experimental, and other methods to advance theory and contribute to the solution of social problems at once. To see my current and former students and collaborators, see People.

If you are wondering whether I am taking new PhD students in the coming year, the general answer is that, at Stanford, we admit students to the social area, not for individual faculty, but I am always interested in working with new students whose interests overlap with my own. 
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