Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (Social Psychology)

University of California, Berkeley

     Ph.D. in Social / Personality Psychology, 2002

 Chinese University of Hong Kong

     M.A. in Social / Cultural Psychology, 1997

 Bemidji State University

     B.S. in Psychology, 1995

• Inaugural Sage Young Scholars Award, Foundation of Social and Personality Psychology, 2008
• Identified as a Psychological Science’s Rising Star, American Psychological Society, 2007 (Featured in Observer, October, 2007)
• Elected Member, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2007-present
• Old Dominion Fellow, Princeton University, 2005-2007
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2004 – 2005
• Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2002
• The best article published in the Journal of Research in Personality, 2002
• UC Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2001 - 2002        
• Departmental Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Spring, 2001
• Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1997 - 1999
• Award of Excellence in the Minnesota State Undergraduate Statistics Contest, 1994
• New Writer Award, Bemidji State University, 1993