PUBLICATIONS
Wang, Y. A., & Todd, A. R. (in press). Evaluations of empathizers depend on the target of empathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [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]
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] [Syntax] [Flexible Covariate Analysis Registration Form]
MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION
Wang, Y. A., da Silva Frost, A., Eastwick, P. W., & Ledgerwood, A. (revising for resubmission). Summarized attribute preferences have unique antecedents and consequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Wang, Y. A., Simpson, A. J., & Todd, A. R. (revising for resubmission). Egocentric anchoring-and-adjustment underlies social inferences about known targets varying in similarity and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Wang, Y. A., Liwag, M., & Ledgerwood, A. (in prep). Sticky frames and what’s in a name: Frames stick to particular objects.
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.
Ledgerwood, A., da Silva Frost, A., Kadirvel, S., Maitner, A. T., Wang, Y. A., & Maddox, K. B. (invited chapter). Methods for advancing an open, replicable, and inclusive science of social cognition. In D. E. Carlston, K. L. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, 2nd Edition.
SELECTED CONFERENCE & INVITED TALKS
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]
