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From left to right: Jasmin, Bhavya, Dr. Yue Yu, Dr, Yang Yang, Desiree
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Dr. Yue Yu
Research Scientist
Dr. Yu Yue is the Assistant Centre Director for Infancy & Early Childhood Research at the Centre for Research in Child Development and an Education Research Scientist at the Singapore Centre For Character & Citizenship Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He received a BS from Peking University and a PhD from Cornell University (PhD adviser: Tamar Kushnir). Before moving to Singapore, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the CoCoDev Lab and CoDas Lab in Rutgers University-Newark, USA.
Yue studies children's development of 21st Century Competencies (21CC), such as curiosity, persistence, challenge-seeking, intellectual humility, and social-emotional competencies (SECs). He also studies how the development of 21CC is influenced by children's early environments, such as parenting, formal and informal education, and cultural values. He currently leads the BE POSITIVE study and its follow-up, which are longitudinal cohort studies examining how early environments affect children's development of 21CC. His research is funded by multiple sources, including the Singapore Ministry of Education, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation.
Yue has authored over 40 scholarly publications, including articles in top developmental journals (e.g., Child Development, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychology) as well as journals aimed at a broader audience (e.g., Open Mind, Scientific Reports, Topics in Cognitive Science). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Education, a Consulting Editor for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and a Guest Editor for a special issue in Infant and Child Development.
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Dr. Yang Yang
Research Scientist
Dr. Yang Yang is a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Child Development at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science in psychology from Peking University in China, her Master of Education from Harvard University, and her PhD in developmental psychology from Cornell University. Prior to joining NIE, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University. Her research has been focused on :
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the development of emotion recognition, emotion knowledge, and emotion regulation from infancy to middle childhood in different cultural contexts,
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the factors that affect children’s socioemotional development, such as cultural backgrounds, parenting behaviors, parent-child interactions, and child temperament,
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how children’s emotional development relates to their later psychological wellbeing and academic achievement.
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Desiree Toong Wee Ling
Full-time Research Assistant
Desiree obtained her BSc (Hons) in Psychology from SIM-UB in 2022 and has newly joined the Centre for Research in Child Development, National Institute of Education in 2023. Her keen interest in statistics naturally gravitated her towards the field of research. Her research interests lie broadly in social cognition as she is deeply intrigued by human behaviour. As such, her ultimate goal is to cultivate a thriving community where everyone feels valued and heard through education.
