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Ang, Shaun
Shaun was a concurrent degree program student and in the lab from 2016-2018. He is now working as a Management Associate at DBS Bank. At heart, Shaun loves getting to know people and understanding what makes them tick. This love has not only led him to social psychology research, but also brought him to different countries all over the world. Shaun enjoys travelling, experiencing different cultures, and listening to people's stories from different walks of life.
Hou, Mike Minzheng
Mike was a PhD student in our lab from 2018-2021. Mike's research focused on social and political psychology, specifically in the domains of intergroup relations, immigration, and national identity. Before pursuing his PhD, Mike was a Naval Combat Officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), where he was busy defending the country through strategic policy planning at RSN HQ, as well as leading frontline operations on a state-of-the-art frigate. In his free time, Mike enjoys judo practice and also teaches Japanese to anyone who is interested. His favorite pastime is to get high on some bi-ru at izakayas. Mike is now Associate Director (Strategic Planning) at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Institute of Policy Studies Social Lab.
Ismail, Ismaharif
Ismaharif is interested in how goal pursuit relates to society. For instance, how important goals shape political attitudes and behaviour. His research interests also includes group processes and intergroup relations. He hopes to pursue a multidisciplinary research that combines Communication Sciences and Psychology.
Jiang, Yi Fan (Christy)
Christy is interested in studying the role of self-regulation and motivation in predicting well-being. Christy's research investigates the potential benefits of mindsets and emotion-regulation interventions to promote well-being in education and work. She likes to work with teenagers and families, and has worked as a family-child specialist and mental health counselor, providing individual counseling and facilitating group counseling for clients with mental health issues, especially education-related depression and anxiety.
Koh, Alethea Hui Qin
Alethea is currently pursuing her PhD in cognitive and behavioral science at Kyoto University. She was a graduate from NUS and had a great time working with Dr Jia Lile as his research assistant. Her mind is constantly barraged by questions about why people feel or act the way they do, and how to better understand and help people too. Pursuing psychology became a means for her to find answers to these internal questions and her research interests lies in emotions and positive psychology with a focus on improving people's well-being.
Koh, Lisa Hui En
Lisa was our Research Apprentice in 2020-2021. Lisa is interested in understanding how emotions and mental states affect attitudes and behavior, and the role of motivational processes underlying goal pursuit. Outside of work, Lisa likes to experiment with baking and cooking, and attempts to keep fit through playing the occasional netball game with friends. Lisa is now a Research Assistant at the Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Multimodal Neuroimaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Laboratory (MNNDL).
Lee, Pei Wei
Peiwei was a Concurrent Degree Program student from 2012-2017, supervised by Dr Jia. Her research topic focused on how Singaporeans’ basic psychological needs and their attitude towards immigrants are related. She is currently working as a psychologist and her biggest client is her husband, who suffers from the delusion that infinity stones exist and that red M&Ms are reality Stones.
Lim, Chun Hui
I am interested in the study of goal pursuit in education, with emphasis on the interplay between sociocultural (e.g., parental attitudes), socioecological (e.g., educational inequality), and intrapersonal factors (e.g., mindsets) on motivation, passion, and academic achievement. My additional interests include topics relating to social identity, having worked on several projects in my infancy as a researcher.
Ouyang, Hui Xiang
As a member of the lab from 2015 to 2018, Huixiang worked with Dr Jia on the topic of inspiration. More specifically, she investigated whether locals would be inspired by immigrants, and the subsequent effects on the locals’ goal pursuit. Her research interests span from moral psychology to IO psychology. In her free time, Hui Xiang enjoys reading and dragging her friends along on food hunts with her. She is currently working on behavioural science research in DSO.
Tan, Daniel Shao An
Daniel is a curious inquisitive who questions the mundane to fuel his fire for investigation. When not doing research, Daniel enjoys working out at the gym, playing tabletop roleplaying or single player games, writing, music, drawing, learning new things and tweaking workflows to increase productivity.