APSA Committee Members
Amy Ko (Westmoreland)
Co-Chair<br>Diversity Committee Representative
Kathrin Hanek
Co-Chair
Jackie Kim
Treasurer
Patty Kuo
Mentoring Coordinator
Ziyong Lin
Social Chair
Ram Mahalingam
Faculty Advisor
Area: Personality & Social Contexts, Culture and Cognition, Women's Studies
Research Interests: My research focuses on cultural psychology of caste, immigration and gender. I examine the relationship between power, representation of social groups and psychological well-being. In one line of research, I study how gender discrimination and extreme son preference affect the psychological well-being of men and women in India. In another line of research, I study the relationship between privileged social status (e.g., race and caste) and representations of social categories. My research on immigration investigates the relationship between Model Minority Myth, gender beliefs, perceived discrimination and psychological well-being of Asian immigrants.
APSA Faculty Members
Edward C. Chang
Area: Clinical
Research Interests: My current research interests involve the study of several different predictors of adjustment, including optimism and pessimism, perfectionism, and social problem solving. I am also interested in understanding how cultural and racial factors influence the function of these variables on outcome, and in examining stress and coping and diathesis-stress models of adjustment.
Shinobu Kitayama
Area: Social
Research Interests: Cultural variations in self, cognition, emotion, and motivation.
Fiona Lee
Professor of Psychology Department Associate Chair
Area: Personality & Social Contexts
Research Interests: Identity integration and social identities
Ram Mahalingam
Faculty Advisor
Area: Personality & Social Contexts, Culture and Cognition, Women's Studies
Research Interests: My research focuses on cultural psychology of caste, immigration and gender. I examine the relationship between power, representation of social groups and psychological well-being. In one line of research, I study how gender discrimination and extreme son preference affect the psychological well-being of men and women in India. In another line of research, I study the relationship between privileged social status (e.g., race and caste) and representations of social categories. My research on immigration investigates the relationship between Model Minority Myth, gender beliefs, perceived discrimination and psychological well-being of Asian immigrants.
Donna Nagata
Area: Clinical
Research Interests: Psychosocial and intergenerational relationships, multicultural mental health.
APSA Student Members
Biopsychology
Shih-Jen Weng
Biopsychology
Research Interests: The neurological aspect of autism.
Clinical
Shanta (Nishi) Kanukollu
Clinical
Research Interests: Clinical Psychology & Women's Studies
Teresa Nguyen
Clinical
Research Interests: Culture’s role on perceiving and conceptualizing mental illness and its effects on manifestations of symptoms, help seeking and coping behaviors
Hyein Chang
Clinical
Research Interests: Development of externalizing behaviors in children
Rita Chang
Clinical
Garyn Tsuru
Clinical
Cognition & Perception
Lillian Chen
Cognition & Perception
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics.
Yanni Liu
Cognition & Perception/Developmental
Research Interests: Human electrophysiology, executive control, language processing & language development.
Derek Evan Nee
Cognition & Perception
Research Interests: Investigating the mechanisms underlying inhibition in working memory.
Developmental
Daniel Choe
Former Co-Chair<br>Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Development and maintenance of delinquent and anti-social behavior in youths
Cheri Chan
Developmental
Personality & Social Contexts
Sundari Balan
Personality & Social Contexts
Cathryn Fabian
Personality & Social Contexts<br>Social Work
Social
Hyunjin Song
Social
Research Interests: Person perception, social cognition & culture.
Combined Program in Education & Psychology
Xuezhao Lan
Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Alumni
Hannah Faye Chua
Cognition & Perception
Research Interests: Cross-national differences in cognition; risk perception.
Jennifer Yim
Personality & Social Contexts<br>Women's Studies
Research Interests: Asian-American masculinity & health behaviors.
Wei Zhao
Biopsychology
Research Interests: Neural mechanism of emotion and motivation, as well as sexual differentiation of the brain and behavior.
Jerel Calzo
Former Co-Chair<br>Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Adolescent health and social development
Yuri Miyamoto
Social/Culture & Cognition
Research Interests: Effect of communication practices and the perceptual environment on cognition.
Joyce Pang
Personality & Social Contexts
Research Interests: Implicit motives, social comparison.
Mark Villacorta
Personality & Social Contexts
Research Interests: Influence of contingencies of self-worth on the need for autonomy & intrinsic motivication.
Maya Khanna
Cognition and Perception
Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, reading and language development.
Oona Cha
Social/Culture and Cognition
Research Interests: Cognitive consequences of independence vs. interdependence.
Joyce Chu
Clinical
Eddie Tong
Social
Nina Rhee
Developmental
Janna Kim
Developmental
Research Interests: Media and cultural influences on adolescent gender and sexual socialization; sexual socialization processes among Asian Americans.
Arza Jaferi
Biopsychology
Research Interests: Neuroendocrine, Adaptations to chronic stress
Christina LaPan
Clinical
Research Interests: Perfectionism and eating disturbances, body image issues, health behavior.
