Katie Cooper

Teach@Mines Teacher In Residence
CONTACT
CoorsTek 216
kacooper@mines.edu
My name is Katie Cooper and I’m thrilled to be a part of the Teach@Mines team! As a kid, I found people’s behavior to be fascinating and, at times, quite confusing. I was intrigued by the differences in how friends thought about things in life and interacted with each other. These and other curiosities about people led me to a psychology degree at The University of Texas, where I went from participating in some fun social experiments on campus in order to see the power of social modeling to cheering on the Longhorn football team with friends.
While in college, I explored the external, social influences of human behavior as well as the internal, biological influences including a deep dive in evolutionary psychology.