Academic Profile : Faculty
Dr Yang Yang
Education Research Scientist, OER Centre for Research in Child Development
Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office of Education Research
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Dr. Yang Yang is a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Child Development at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science in psychology from Peking University in China, her Master of Education from Harvard University, and her PhD in developmental psychology from Cornell University. Prior to joining NIE, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University. Her research has been focused on 1) the development of emotion recognition, emotion knowledge, and emotion regulation from infancy to middle childhood in different cultural contexts, 2) the factors that affect children’s socioemotional development, such as cultural backgrounds, parenting behaviors, parent-child interactions, and child temperament, 3) how children’s emotional development relates to their later psychological wellbeing and academic achievement.
Dr. Yang has published research on children’s emotion recognition from different cues (e.g., vocal tones), the contribution of parenting behavior (e.g., maternal reactions to children’s emotions) and parent-child interaction on children’s emotional development, and the relations between children’s emotion understanding and other aspects of development (e.g., coping). In her research she has utilized both experimental and correlational designs and different types of data (e.g., from survey, interview, computer games, parent-child conversations).
- The Instrument Pilot Study for Research on Early Education and Development in Singapore (REEDS-Pilot)
- Singaporean children's emotion understanding and its relations to anxiety and academic achieveme nt
- Literate lives: Youth's emotive-embodied experiences of literacy
- How do Singaporean children understand 'I can choose'' Phase 2: Examining early development of free will, mindset, achievement g oals, and persistence
- Beginning Early: SingaPore's Ongoing Study starting in Infancy of Twenty-first-century-skills, Individual differences, and Variance in the Environment (BE POSITIVE study)
- Emo tion Socialization in Singaporean Children
- Understanding the role of caregiver-child pedagogical questioning in Singaporean children's school readiness and achievement
- Early Support for Foundation al Skills of Preschool Children at Socio-Economic Risk in Singapore
- How Do Singaporean Children Understand ''I Can Choose''' Phase 1: Literature Review and Measurement Development
- The Importance o f CARE: Covid-19, Attachment, Resilience, and Early Life
Fellowships & Other Recognition
• 2015-2016 C.V. Starr Fellowship East Asia Programe, Cornell University, U.S.
• 2012-2014 ISSBD-Jacobs Foundation Mentored Fellowship for Early Career Scholars, Jacobs Foundation
• 2012-2014 ISSBD-Jacobs Foundation Mentored Fellowship for Early Career Scholars, Jacobs Foundation
Courses Taught
MED 900 Educational Inquiry
AED 16E Diversity in Early Childhood Education
MEC 901 Child Development
AED 16E Diversity in Early Childhood Education
MEC 901 Child Development