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Faculty Profile

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Jacinth TAN

Full-time Faculty
Associate Professor of Psychology; Lee Kong Chian Fellow
School of Social Sciences SOSS

Dr. Jacinth Tan received her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. She then received the START Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship and pursued a two-year postdoctoral training in psychophysiology at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health & Community. Jacinth studies how social class relate to intrapersonal, interpersonal and health-related processes, and how these processes vary with sociocultural contexts. She specializes in using correlational, experimental, meta-analytic methods, as well as psychophysiological tools. Jacinth’s research has been published in Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Social Psychological and Personality Science. She is also a Social Science and Humanities Research Fellow.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Social Psychology), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2016
  • BSocSc (Honors), National University of Singapore, 2009

Research Interests

  • Social Status & Inequality
  • Emotions, Health & Well-being
  • Social Psychophysiology

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Course(s) Taught in SMU

  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Health Psychology