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About Me — Amanda O’Bryan
Hey Friends, welcome to my about me page.
What I’m doing on Medium
Forever fascinated by people and the things they do, I’ve been studying Psychology in one way or another for over twenty years. I want my writing to be a form of psychoeducation. This is a new term that I’m kicking around these days, it means helping people learn about themselves, by introducing cognitive science to them in a fun and interesting way.
The way I came to writing was through teaching. I’ve worked as a psychology professor for years, and have a deep love of getting my students excited about this topic. There are so many interesting ways that psychology intersects with other topics right now, politics, technology, literature, health. For example, here’s a story I wrote about the ways that culture might affect how self-driving cars make decisions.
And here’s one about how the fonts a political campaign uses can make you feel a certain way.
