CV (Updated November 26, 2019)
PUBLICATIONS
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] [Syntax] [Flexible Covariate Analysis Registration Form]
MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION
Wang, Y. A., & Eastwick, P. W. (invited revision under review). Solutions to the problems of incremental validity testing in relationship science.
Wang, Y. A., & Rhemtulla, M. (invited revision under review). Power analysis for parameter estimation in structural equation modeling: A discussion and tutorial.
Wang, Y. A., & Todd, A. R. (under review). Evaluations of empathizers depend on the target of empathy.
Wang, Y. A., da Silva Frost, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (in prep). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences.
Ledgerwood, A., Wang, Y. A., & da Silva Frost, A. (invited chapter in prep.) Best practices in social cognition. In D. E. Carlston, K. L. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd Edition.
Onyeador, I. N., Neel, R., Lassetter, B., Wang, Y. A., Todd, A. R., & Shapiro, J. R. (in prep). Bias intolerance: Predicting condemnation of apologetic perpetrators of prejudice.
SELECTED CONFERENCE TALKS
Wang, Y. A., da Silva Frost, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (2020, February). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Talk to be 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.
Ledgerwood, A., Wang, Y. A., Sparks, J., Gonzales, J. E., J., & Hess, Y. D. (2016, September). Modeling tradeoffs to identify optimal research strategies: The case of covariates. Talk presented at the annual conference of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Santa Monica, CA.
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.
INVITED TALKS
2020, June Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)
2018, February UC Davis oSTEM
2017, November UC Davis Queer Student Union
2016, May UC Davis LGBTQIA Resource Center
2015, March UC Davis Principles of Community Week
2014, March Amherst Explorations
2013, November TEDxAmherstCollege, Amherst, MA [YouTube link]
