

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.

Hannah Kim
Hannah is interested in how children think and reason about the social world. In particular, she likes to think about groups and how groups coordinate decision-making using procedures and rules. She previously received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Developmental Psychology and currently a post-doc at Harvard University.

Mengdi Huang

Yena Kim
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
Faculty Collaborators:
Lin Bian, Xinyi Chen, Youjung Choi, Andrei Cimpian, Yarrow Dunham, Douglas Frye, Susan Gelman, Paul Harris, Tamar Kusnir, Susan Levine, Antonia Misch, Howard Nusbaum, Shige Oishi, Kristina Olson, Michael Prinzing, Steven Roberts, Alex Shaw, Laura Soter, Li Wang, Xijing Wang, Zhen Wu, Hongbo Yu
Lab Alumni
Gabriella Silva, Artemisia O’bi, Jacky Beck, Jenny Chang, Jessica Lee, Margaret Wolfson, Mollie Davies, Sarah Jense, Yanwen Yu, Kevin Wei.
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