Fear motivation - from PTSD to experiential education
 
Michaela Tralli ‘QC 12 and Jim Stellar
 
We wrote a previous post on fear associated with panic attacks and what they have to tell us about experiential education – the dark side.  That post received such good comment that we decided to come back and talk a bit more [...]

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The power of reflection – a story from Greece
 
Adrienne Dooley NU’12 and Jim Stellar
 
Our last blog (8/21/12) focused on the bonding that occurred in a study abroad trip to Greece in the fall of 2011.  This blog picks up where that other blog post stopped and focuses now on reflection as a critical benefit from [...]

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Blogging …and a positive impact on the other lobe
 
Laura Pinzon QC ’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Laura took my Gen Ed class last spring and that inspired a conversation about this blog I write and how blogging can be a form of reflection that integrates the cognitive “facts and theories” function of a college education with the [...]

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What panic disorders may have to teach us about experiential education
 
Michaela Tralli QC’12 and Jim Stellar
 
We wrote a previous post together about how one can develop a passion for learning right in the classroom, like what can develop from experiences outside the classroom.  Now we are back with another “outside” perspective on experiential education, [...]

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Taking Ex Ed into international relations
 
Lara Porter QC’14 and Jim Stellar
 
LP is an economics and political science major who works in the Queens College Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding (CERRU) as well as participates in a small group JS runs to study the learning power of experiential education and some of its underlying psychology [...]

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Heart/Mind, Art
 
Antonella Mason QC’ 11 and Jim Stellar
 
AM was a student with whom JS interacted after meeting at a student art show.  While AM was in Italy she sent the following statement in an e-mail. 
I was born a painter. All alone, I went through the psychological questions that every true artist feels in her/his heart, [...]

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Neurobargining – Ex Ed brain circuits in action?
 
Alexandra Hilbert QC 13 and Jim Stellar
 
We have been reading this 9/19/10 on-line paper with the title “Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game.” The paper aims to get at what the authors call “The management and manipulation of our own social image in the [...]

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Experience comes with years      
 
Shalini Singh CC’13 and Jim Stellar
 
Shalini took a neuroscience-based large general education course that I co-taught last spring to about 240 students.  She sat in the middle about 3 rows back from the front.  Because she was attentive in class I asked her a brief question from the floor.  Because she [...]

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Social Neuroeconomics – Over bidding         
 
Raphael Spiro QC 12 and Jim Stellar
 
Raph has been reading a bit of the literature on neuroecomomics, something we have written about before in this blog.  We’d like to propose that the same brain areas that are involved in making decisions about purchases made with money are also be involved [...]

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We experience so that we may learn.
Jungyo Kim QC’13 and Jim Stellar
 
From my perspective (JS) the story begins when JK took a class I co-taught last spring (PSY282) and we connected over an idea for a new club she is starting to promote emotional, mental, and physical health, on the Queens College campus.  But [...]

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