Anthropology
Junehui Ahn
junehuia@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Children’s understanding of emotions,
anthropology of childhood, folk psychology, domain-specificity.
Research Interests: Children’s Acquisition of Emotional
Understanding in the U.S.: A Case Study of Storybook Reading Practices.
Populations/areas: Children in the U.S.
aleana@umich.edu
Maria Alejandra Perez
mperez@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Anthropology of Science, Science and Technology
Studies
Research Interests: nature, caving, patrimony
Populations of Interest: Latin America, Venezuela
Psychology
Laith Alattar
alattar@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Cognition and Perception and Social Psychology
Research Interests: Decision Making
Populations/areas: Middle East
Nick Bowman
nabowman@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Social class differences in independence,
interdependence, and well-being; impact of
experiences with racial/ethnic diversity among college students and
older adults; effects
of U.S. News college rankings on institutional prestige and student
choice
Populations/areas: Working-class and middle-class Americans
Igor Grossmann
igrossm@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Emotions, Globalization, Social Cognition,
Well-being, Wisdom
Populations/areas: North Americans across age and class; Western and
Eastern Europe; rural and urban Russia
Toshie Imada
timada@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology.
Research Interests: Subjective well-being in socio-cultural contexts.
Populations/areas: Americans, Japanese.
Xuezhao Lan
xuezhao@umich.edu
Research Interests: Cross-cultural comparisons in Executive Functions
(e.g.
inhibition, task switching ) and Self-regulation in children and adults
Populations/areas: East Asians & North Americans
Christine Legare
chlegare@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: I am interested in cognitive developement,
specifically causal reasoning, problem solving, and social cognition.
My interests also include theory and research in cultural psychology
and ethnographic methodology
Populations/areas: sub-Saharan Africa
Chiemi
Kan
chiemik@umich.edu
Research Interests: Positive Functioning, Eastern and Western cultures,
Emotion Experiences
Populations/areas: U.S., Japan.
Sasha
Kimel
skimel@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology
Research Interests: American culture, Social Cognition, Globalization,
Social-Neuroscience, Health
Populations/areas: U.S., working- and middle-class, regional variation,
religion
Jonathon
Kopecky
jkopecky@umich.edu
Research Interests: Basic cultural differences, especially in
multi-tasking and attentional allocation strategies.
Jinkyung Na
jinna@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Motivation, Social Cognition, Aging
Population/areas: East Asians & North Americans
Yu Niiya
yniiya@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social and Cultural
Research Interests: learning from failure, universality and cultural
specificity of emotions
Populations of Interest: mostly US and Japan
Hyekyung Park
parkz@umich.edu
Area of Specialization: Social Psychology
Research Interests: Universality and cultural variation in self-serving
bias, cultural differences in management of attention
Populations/areas: Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Asian American (esp.
bilinguals)
Jiyoung Park
pjiyoung@umich.edu
Research interests: Cultural similarities and differences in self,
cognition, and Well-Being
Populations/areas: American, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Asian
American
Vera
Sacharin
vsachari@umich.edu
Research Interests: Cultural differences in close relationships,
Cultural differences in communication style, Emotion and cognition
Populations/areas: US, Germany, Russia
Michael
Varnum
mvarnum@umich.edu
Department of Psychology
Area of Specialization: social psychology, cultural psychology
Research Interests: Holistic vs. Analytic cognition, cultural change,
implicit independence/interdependence, theory of agency, values
Populations of Interest: Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, US
Irene
Yeh
ireney@umich.edu
Research Interests: Ethnic and religious identities, Implicit theories
(fixed and malleable) about intergroup conflict, Perceptions of
justice, Diversity and multiculturalism, Intergroup dialogue
Populations/ Areas: Hui Muslim minority in China, East Asia, Ethnic
minorities in the U.S. (American Indians, Asian Americans), Immigrant
groups.
