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I am an award-winning professor of psychology who passionately works towards shaping the future by mentoring college undergraduates in a liberal arts environment. With expertise in applied cognition, cognitive development and the learning sciences, I apply empirically based high impact learning techniques in my classes. I am a firm believer in "giving psychology away" in as many ways as I can. If the knowledge we generate in higher ed / academic research in psychology isn't helpful, what's the point? Social Science research needs to get out of the ivory tower and into the hands of folks who can really use it, and I work hard to help make this happen.

Erica Kleinknecht

Professor of Psychology

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As students in an undergraduate cognitive psychology course learned about memory processes, they applied course content to the social issues of racism, sexism, and ableism. In a series of essays students explain the cognitive processes that underly bias and offer readers sound, empirically based suggestions for how to address and...→

Cultivating Your Practice of Justice & Inclusion: Explanation and Advice from Cognitive Science

Erica Kleinknecht

As students in an undergraduate psychology course learned about cognitive development, they applied the course material to the context of social justice. When children are raised to appreciate diversity and understand difference, we get one step closer to living in a truly just society.→

Raising Just Kids: Explanation & Advice from Developmental Science

Erica Kleinknecht

Students enrolled in an undergraduate seminar in Educational Psychology each wrote three essays on how course content may apply to a learning context of their choice. Course content included Cognition, Self and Identity, Motivation, and Metacognitive Self Regulation. Learning contexts to which this material is applied span Early Childhood Education,...→

Setting the Stage: A Guidebook for Optimizing Learning Contexts

Erica Kleinknecht

Students in an undergraduate seminar in Cognitive Science share what they've learned, regarding the state of the field in AI research. While AI work is remarkable, even the most astonishing projects are a far cry from replicating human intelligence. Why is that? Well, for one, humans have yet to pin...→

The Singularity Isn’t Nigh and Here’s Why

Erica Kleinknecht

In the spring semester of 2020, undergraduate students in a basic level Cognitive Psychology course not only learned about the basics of cognition, but they additionally learned how to wisely apply those basics. Learning what matters, matters, after all. In this edited volume, each chapter reflects the culmination of their...→

What is Cognitive Psychology Good For? Wise Interventions for Personal Growth

Erica Kleinknecht

The aims of developmental research are to help improve the lives of children and families, but at any given point in time, the science can be difficult to wade through. In the essays that follow students “take sides” in current debates parents and educators often encounter and make their cases...→

You Don't Say? Developmental Science Offers Answers to Questions About How Nurture Matters

Erica Kleinknecht

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