Shengjie Lin, PhD
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Postdoctoral Associate in the Child Study Center
Biography
Shengjie Lin is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Child Study Center, Yale University. His research, situated at the intersection of educational and developmental psychology, adopts a social-contextual approach to examine the motivational and social-emotional development of students within contexts (e.g., classroom, family). Shengjie has employed a broad range of methodological approaches in his research, including cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, semi-structured interviews, experience sampling method, and meta-analysis. He has conducted studies with diverse populations, including middle/high school students, college students, and educators in the US and China.
Three intertwined lines of research address his overarching research goal. First, he examines how students’ motivation in STEM fields is shaped by the beliefs of those around them, such as their parents, siblings, teachers, and peers. Second, he investigates how students' emotions and emotion beliefs are related to their creativity and achievement. Last, he examines the effects of sibling status on adolescents’ motivation and social-emotional development, with a particular focus on only children. Ultimately, by illuminating these factors, Shengjie aims to contribute to knowledge about future interventions designed to enhance students’ motivation and social-emotional development and support all students’ learning and flourishing.
Shengjie received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a Master’s in Quantitative Methods from the University of Texas at Austin (UT). He was also a graduate student trainee in Demography at the UT Population Research Center. At the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, his work focuses on examining individuals’ daily emotions and behaviors from the large-scale longitudinal How We Feel project.
Appointments
Child Study Center
Postdoctoral AssociatePrimary
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Education & Training
- PhD
- The University of Texas at Austin, Educational Psychology (2021)
- MEd
- The University of Texas at Austin, Quantitative Methods
- Non Degree Program
- The University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center (Graduate Research Trainee)
Research
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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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News
- January 08, 2024Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Daily positive and negative affect during the COVID-19 pandemic
- April 17, 2023Source: EdWeek
What School Leaders Can Do to Ease Teacher Stress
- April 11, 2023
Yale @ AERA 2023 Annual Meeting
- March 08, 2023
"Evaluation and Metacognition in Creative Thinking" Accepted to APA 2023