Author Profile: Sean Gabaree

Sean Gabaree is a social studies teacher at Montgomery Blair HS in Silver Spring, MD and a doctoral student at Georgetown University. As a teacher, Sean has been piloting a high school elective called Political Behavior & Psychology, which will be available to all district high schools beginning Fall 2022. The course examines recent events through social psychology and cognitive science to figure out why we hate, why we are angry, why we are afraid, and why we can’t agree. The role of online misinformation is becoming a lynchpin of the pilot class in the 3 semesters it’s been taught.