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Shige Oishi: Bio
My name is Shige Oishi (pronounce like “she-gay oh-e-she”), the Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology at UChicago. I was born and raised in Japan. My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, indeed all my ancestors as far as I know, lived in one small town. My parents still live there. I left my hometown exactly 20 days after I turned 18 and went to college in Tokyo.
After college, I went to Columbia University’s Teachers College to study counseling psychology. There, I realized that I was more interested in personality and social psychology than the clinical end of psychology, in particular, culture and well-being. So, I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for my Ph.D. UIUC was an ideal place to study culture and well-being at that time (1995-2000). My advisor Ed Diener pioneered the scientific study of happiness. He was a wonderful scientist and human being! In addition, UIUC had Harry Triandis, the founder of cross-cultural psychology, and young Dov Cohen, a rising star of cultural psychology. I was able to work with the renowned experimental social psychologist, Bob Wyer, as well. The Diener lab at that time had star graduate students, Mark Suh (now a professor at Yonsei) and Rich Lucas (now the MSU foundation professor at Michigan State), as well as international visiting students (e.g., Uli Schimmak, now a professor at UToronto) and professors (e.g., Michael Eid, professor at Free University Berlin).
My first faculty position was at the University of Minnesota (2000-2004). I then moved to the University of Virginia (2004-2022). In July 2022, I moved to the University of Chicago. My main research interests center on culture, social ecology, and well-being.
I love baseball, basketball, and novels.
Teaching
Intro to Personality
Intro to Social Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Subjective Well-Being Seminar
Social Psychology Proseminar
Socio-ecological Psychology Seminar
Research Methods in Social Psychology
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Youngjae Cha
Youngjae is interested in psychological richness, curiosity, and evolution.
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Kyle Barrentine
Kyle is interested in diversity, social networks, and well-being. His primary advisor is Adrienne Wood.
![Nava Caluori](https://voices.uchicago.edu/oishilab/files/2022/09/Nava-Caluori.jpg)
Nava Caluori
Nava is interested in globalization, religiosity, culture, and intergroup relations. Her primary advisor is Jazi Brown-Iannuzzi.
![Shelly Tsang](https://voices.uchicago.edu/oishilab/files/2022/09/Shelly.jpg)
Shelly Tsang
Shelly is interested in social interactions, social connections, and well-being. Primary Advisor: Adrienne Wood
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Elizabeth Janey
Elizabeth is interested in social ecology, migration and mobility, and psychological richness.
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Yingxue Liu
Yingxue is a lab manager, and interested in self system, social ecology, psychological richness and new methods to gather and analyze data for social science research.
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Former Lab Members
Oishi Lab Almuni include…
Michael Steger: Professor of Psychology, Colorado State University (Psychology at Colorado State University – Faculty and Staff Listing (colostate.edu)). Primary advisor: Pat Frazier.
Helen Sullivan: Food and Drug Administration. Primary advisor: Alex Rothman.
Jaime Kurtz: Professor of Psychology, James Madison University (Jaime Kurtz – JMU Psychology Faculty). Primary advisor: Tim Wilson.
Erin Whitchurch: CIA. Primary advisor: Tim Wilson.
Gary Sherman: Associate Professor, College of Bussiness, SUNY Stony Brook (Profile | College of Business (stonybrook.edu). Primary advisors: Jon Hadit, Jerry Clore.
Felicity Miao: President, Bay Area Language Emersion Schools.
Thomas Talhelm: Associate Professor, Booth School of Business (Thomas Talhelm | The University of Chicago Booth School of Business).
Asuka Komiya: Associate Professor, Hiroshima Unviersity.
Hyewon Choi: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dong-A University.
Selin Kesebir: Associate Professor, London Business School (Selin Kesebir | London Business School). Primary advisor: Jon Haidt.
Janetta Lun: NIH. Primary advisor: Stacey Sinclair.
Jesse Graham: Associate Professor, Eccles School of Business (Jesse Graham | David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah). Primary advisor: Jon Haidt
Minkyung Koo: Assistant Professor, Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico (Anderson Faculty Member Profile :: Anderson School of Management | The University of New Mexico (unm.edu). Co-advised with Tim Wilson
Kate Ratliff: Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Florida (Dr. Kate Ratliff | Department of Psychology (ufl.edu). Primary advisor: Brian Nosek.
Casey Eggleston: U.S. Census. Primary advisor: Tim Wilson.
Patrick Seder: Instructor, University of Virginia. Primary advisor: Jon Haidt.
Jordan Axt: Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGill University (Jordan Axt | Department of Psychology – McGill University). Primary advisors: Brian Nosek, Sophie Trawalter.
Erin Westgate: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Florida (FLORIDA SOCIAL COGNITION AND EMOTION LAB – Home (erinwestgate.com). Primary advisor: Tim Wilson
Nick Buttrick: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin (Nick Buttrick). Primary advisor: Tim Wilson
Samantha Heintzelman: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University (Samantha Heintzelman). Post-doc fellow co-advised with Ed Diener.
Kosta Kushlev: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University (Kostadin Kushlev Ph.D., Georgetown University). Post-doc fellow co-advised with Ed Diener.
Matt Motyl: Meta. Primary advisors: Jon Haidt, Brian Nosek.
Jane Tucker: Nike. Primary advisors: Ben Converse, Tim Wilson.
Liz Gilbert: PsychologyCompass.com. Primary advisors: Bobbie Spellman, Ben Converse.
Charlie Ebersole: Education Systems at the American Institutes for Research. Primary advisor: Brian Nosek.
Kelly Hoffman: vice president, Coqual (Kelly M. Hoffman, PhD (kellymhoffman.com). Primary advisor: Sophie Trawalter.
Brandon Ng: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Richmond (Brandon Ng – Psychology – University of Richmond). Primary advisor: Jamie Morris.
Jin Bak: Post-doc Fellow, Yale University. Primary advisor: Sophie Trawalter.