Laboratory in Psychological Science

Course materials for PSYC 11: Laboratory in Psychological Science at Dartmouth College.

Course Website

All course materials are available at the course website:

https://contextlab.github.io/experimental-psychology/

The site includes the complete course outline, lecture slides, assignments, syllabus, and resources.

About

This course teaches students how to carry out psychological research by working through each element of a real study: experiment design, implementation, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and writeup/presentation.

• First half: Weekly labs covering each section of a research paper (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion)
• Second half: Group research projects culminating in a poster session and final paper

Current Offering

• Term: Spring 2026
• Schedule: MWF 10:10-11:15 AM, X-hour Th 12:15-1:05 PM
• Location: Moore B03
• Instructor: Dr. Jeremy R. Manning

Contributing

If you notice inaccuracies or have suggestions, please open an issue or submit a pull request. If you are a course instructor, you may use these materials in your own courses (attribution appreciated).

Development

The site is built automatically via GitHub Actions:

• Slide decks: Marp markdown compiled via cdl-slides
• Assignments/Syllabus: Markdown converted to HTML+PDF via scripts/build-pages.py and pandoc
• Deployment: Static site assembled and deployed to GitHub Pages

To build locally:

pip install cdl-slides
python scripts/build-pages.py          # Build assignment/syllabus HTML
./slides/compile_all_slides.sh         # Compile all slide decks