Dina Gohar
Dina is a Lecturer II in the University of Michigan's Psychology Department who is currently teaching undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Social Psychology, Advanced Laboratory in Social Psychology, and an upper-level seminar on the Science of Happiness. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Harvard University, a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology, and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology (and social psychology) at Duke University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship in lifespan Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan's Mary. A Rackham Institute, where she subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Child Clinical Psychology at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) in 2018.
Dina is passionate about teaching and helping students better understand and apply psychology to their everyday lives, and she has won several competitive teaching awards for distinguishing herself in this regard. She also enjoys conducting research on improving teaching and learning in the classroom and continuing her interdisciplinary doctoral program of research examining the self-processes and behaviors that contribute to human flourishing, such as self-presentation and self-regulation, and how they can be optimized. When not molding young minds in the classroom or therapy office as a lifespan clinical psychologist in a small private practice in Ann Arbor, Dina enjoys traveling as a foodie, walking/playing with her therapy dog, live music, and musical theatre on Broadway as a native New Yorker.