Education
July 2017 - Now
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Yarrow Dunham
August 2013 - July 2017
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China​
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Department of Psychology
Bachelor of Economics, School of Economics and Management
HONORS & AWARDS
2016
Tsinghua Top Open Program Award for Undergraduate Overseas Research (Approximately $3000)
Tsinghua Student Research Training Fellowship (Approximately $500)Â Â
2015
National Scholarship for Excellent Undergraduate Exchange Students ($6000 plus travel grant)
PUBLICATIONS/MANUSCRIPTS
Yang, F., Choi, Y., Misch, A., Yang, X., & Dunham, Y. (2018). In defense of the commons: Young children negatively evaluate and sanction free-riders. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618779061
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Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., … Chartier, C. R. (revise and resubmit). Social perception of faces around the world: How well does the valence-dominance model generalize across world regions? (Registered Report Stage 1). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n26dy
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Yang, X. & Dunham, Y. (under review). Minimal but meaningful: Probing the limits of randomly assigned social identities.
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Yang, X., Wu, Z., & Dunham, Y. (in prep). Group bias in young children’s punishment and restoration behavior.
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Yang, X., Langfus, J., Halberta, J., & Dunham, Y. (in prep). Automatic encoding of gender and race: Evidence from a change detection paradigm.
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Yang, X. & Dunham, Y. (in prep). Hard to disrupt: Automatic categorization and enumeration of gendered and racial faces.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Yang, X. & Wu, Z. (October, 2017). Group bias in young children’s vicarious punishment. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Yang, X. & Wu, Z. (April, 2017). Punish or not: Group bias in young children’s punishment. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2017 Biennial Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA.
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Yang, X. & Wu, Z. (October, 2016). Punish or not: Group bias in young children’s punishment. Poster presented at the 19th National Academic Congress of Psychology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China.