Background

Yihan is a doctoral student  in Developmental Psychology working with Lin Bian and Susan Goldin-Meadow. She graduated from McMaster University with a B.A in Psychology and a specialization in Mental Health. Prior to graduate school, Yihan worked as a lab manager in the EArly Social Thinkers Lab at the University of Chicago.

Research Interests

Broadly, Yihan is interested in children’s reasoning and attitudes about social categories, and how they make inferences about social hierarchies and abilities. Specifically, she plans to study how verbal and nonverbal modalities can play a role in these processes.