CV
Publications
2024–in press
Yang, X., Schulz, J., Schmidt, K., Kenny, A. R., Pfuhl, G., Gjoneska, B., Dalgar, I., Exner, A., ..., Wang, Y. A., ..., Psychological Science Accelerator Collaborators, & Dunham, Y. (accepted Stage 1 registered report). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases. Nature Human Behavior. [preprint]
Ledgerwood, A., da Silva Frost, A., Kadirvel, S., Maitner, A. T., Wang, Y. A., & Maddox, K. B. (2024). Methods for advancing an open, replicable, and inclusive science of social cognition. In D. E. Carlston, K. Hugenberg, & K. L. Johnson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition (2nd ed., pp. 114–140). Oxford University Press: New York, NY. [pdf][preprint]
Wang, Y. A.,* da Silva Frost, A.,* Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2024). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 913–938. [pdf]
* Equal contribution to the paper
Selected media coverage: CTV Your Morning, CP24 Live, SiriusXM Canada Now with Jeff Sammut, 580 CFRA Radio Ottawa at Work, 630 CHED Radio Edmonton / CHQR Radio Calgary Shaye Ganam, Men’s Health España, Psychology Today
Luijken, K., Lohmann, A., Alter, U., Claramunt Gonzalez, J., Clouth, F., Fossum, J. L., Hesen, L., Huizing, A. H. J., Ketelaar, J., Montoya, A. K., Nab, L., Nijman, R. C. C., de Vries, B. B. L., Tibbe, T. D., Wang, Y. A., & Groenwold, R. H. H. (2024). Replicability of simulation studies for the investigation of statistical methods: The RepliSims Project. Royal Society Open Science, 11, 231003.
2021–2023
Wang, Y. A., Liwag, M., Weltzien, K., Crowell, T., & Ledgerwood, A. (2023). Sticky frames and what’s in a name: Frames stick to particular objects. Social Cognition, 41, 391–414. [pdf]
Wang, Y. A., Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2023). Egocentric anchoring-and-adjustment underlies social inferences about known targets varying in similarity and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1011–1029. [pdf]
Wang, Y. A., & Todd, A. R. (2021). Evaluations of empathizers depend on the target of empathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121, 1005–1028. [pdf] [OSF]
Selected media coverage: Forbes, Psychology Today, Cosmos Magazine, KCRA-TV, The California Aggie
Wang, Y. A., & Rhemtulla, M. (2021). Power analysis for parameter estimation in structural equation modeling: A discussion and tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4, 1–17. [pdf] [Supplemental Materials] [Shiny App: pwrSEM] [Github] [OSF]
2017–2020
Wang, Y. A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2020). Solutions to the problems of incremental validity testing in relationship science. Personal Relationships, 27, 156–175. [pdf] [OSF] [Supplemental Materials]
Ledgerwood, A., & Wang, Y. A. (2018). Achieving local and global shared realities: Distance guides alignment to specific or general social influences. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 62–65. [pdf]
Wang, Y. A., Sparks, J., Gonzales, J., Hess, Y. D., & Ledgerwood, A. (2017). Using independent covariates in experimental designs: Quantifying the trade-off between power boost and Type I error inflation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 118–124. [pdf] [Code] [Flexible Covariate Analysis Registration Form]
SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION
Wang, Y. A. (invited revision). How to conduct power analysis for structural equation models: A practical primer. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Nagy, T., Hergert, J., Elsherif, M. M., Wallrich, L., Schmidt, K., Waltzer, T., Payne, J. W., Gjoneska, B., Seetahul, Y., Wang, Y. A., Scharfenberg, D., Tyson, G., Yang, Y.-F., Skvortsova, A., Alarie, S., Graves, K., Sotola, L. K., Moreau, D., & Rubínová, E. (under review). Bestiary for questionable research practices in psychology.
Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H. T., Kovacs, M., Schulz-Kümpel, H., Holzmeister, F.,…, Wang, Y. A., … & Nosek, B. A. (in prep). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences.
Onyeador, I. N., Lassetter, B., Wang, Y. A., Todd, A. R., Shapiro, J. R., & Neel, R. (in prep). Bias intolerance: Predicting condemnation of apologetic perpetrators of prejudice.
SELECTED CONFERENCE &
INVITED TALKS
Wang, Y. A. (2023, June). The GoodPower Project: Using registered reports to examine the usefulness of effect size specification in power analysis. Hackathon led at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Conference, Padova, Italy.
Wang, Y. A. (2022, June). How to preregister a study that uses structural equation modeling for data analysis? Talk presented at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Adkins, M. C., Alter, U., Beribisky, N., Chalmers, R. P., & Wang, Y. A. (2021, June). Understanding and incorporating data simulation into the research pipeline: A practical guide for the novice simulator. Workshop presented at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Conference.
Wang, Y. A., Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (2021, February). Egocentric anchoring-and-adjustment underlies social inferences about known targets. Talk presented at the Judgment and Decision Making Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Wang, Y. A. (2020, June). SIPS Reflections by an Early Career Researcher: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Closing remarks presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. [slides]
Wang, Y. A., da Silva Frost, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2020, May). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Talk presented at the Distance in Organizations Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Wang, Y. A., & Rhemtulla, M. (2020, February). Power analysis for parameter estimation in structural equation modeling: A discussion and tutorial. Talk presented at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. [slides]
Wang, Y. A., da Silva Frost, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2020, February). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Talk presented at the Attitudes and Social Influence Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Wang, Y. A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2019, May). Ideas about liking predict situation selection at a distance. Talk presented at the 2nd Uber Behavioral Science Symposium, San Francisco, CA. [Summary on Uber Engineering Blog]
Wang, Y. A. (2018, August). Moving beyond heuristic statistical thinking to improve replicability of research. Talk presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Wang, Y. A., & Rhemtulla, M. (2018, May). Connecting unreliable measurement to power: Current practices and recommendations. Talk presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. [Summary by Eiko Fried]
Wang, Y. A., & Ledgerwood, A. (2018, May). Construal level switching: Costs and Consequences. Talk presented at the Distance in Organizations Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Wang, Y. A. (2017, March). The cognitive cost of changing construal levels: Evidence from perceptual and conceptual tasks. Talk presented at the Annual Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Psychology Conference, Berkeley, CA.
Wang, Y. A. (2016, June). Using Open Science Framework (OSF) for reproducible research. Talk presented at the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Summer Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Wang, Y. A. (2013, November). The facts and follies of lie detection. Talk presented at TEDxAmherstCollege, Amherst, MA. [YouTube link]