Fan Yang
Principal Investigator
Dr. Fan Yang is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Fan is broadly interested in the psychological tendencies that enable us to grow and transcend ourselves. She completed her PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Fan was a post-doctoral associate at Yale University and received a master’s degree from Harvard University.
fan.yang@uchicago.edu
Declan Gunn
Lab Manager
Doctoral Student Collaborators
Yilin Liu
Ishita Singhal
Ishita graduated from the MAPSS program, and is working with Dr Fan Yang to study how the performance of obligatory and supererogatory moral behaviors relates with subjective life experiences such as meaning and happiness. She is interested in the factors that influence and motivate individuals to engage in prosocial and inequality reducing behaviours, and hopes to explore these further in graduate school. Outside the lab, she enjoys cooking, and listening to audiobooks or music while walking around the city.
Qiongwen (Jovie) Cao
Jovie is a PhD student in Dr. Jean Decety’s lab at the University of Chicago. She is collaborating with Dr. Fan Yang to investigate how children value and make decisions about human lives of different ages and genders. Another line of her work combines behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience to examine the effects of moral convictions and metacognition on moral decisions. When not doing research, Jovie enjoys playing badminton, listening to music, and playing with her cat.
Jinrui Liu
I am interested in children’s sense group and its implication on moral judgment within different cultural contexts. Another line of my research interest is the developmental trajectory of gender stereotypes.
Mengdi Huang
Yena Kim
Laura Soter
Joseph Heffner
Stella Gerdemann
Ph.D. Student at Leipzig University
Masters Students
Yuzhen Fu
Yixin Cao
Janice Im
Brian Ge
Dylan Morrow
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Mackenzie Leblanc
Jacob Zhang
Isabella Sun
Sophia Emy
Sarah Glenn
Lab Alumni
Gabriella Silva
Former Lab Manager
Artemisia Deluna
Former Ph.D. Student in Development Psychology at UChicago
Jacky Beck
Former Lab Manager, now PhD student at UC Irvine Cognitive Science
Jenny Chang
MAPSS graduate
Jessica Lee
Lab member, now PhD student in Developmental Psychology at the University of British Columbia
Margaret Wolfson
Former undergraduate thesis student
Mollie Davies
Former undergraduate thesis student
Sarah Jensen
Lab member, Now PhD student at University of Utah Eccles School of Business
Yanwen Yu
MAPSS graduate
Dr. Kevin Wei
Dr. Hannah Hok
Previous Undergrad RAs
Angelysse Madsen
Audrey Sze
Alice Tay
Cameron Najafi
Efe Dogruoz
Grace Wang
Lucy Li
Matthew Tineo
Nick Madgett
Laura Sandino
Tina Chen
Courtney Leung
Caroline Wang
Meriel Doyle