Research

Hi! I am a first-year master’s student at NYU Gallatin working with Prof. Madalina Vlasceanu in the Collective Cognition Lab at the Psychology Department. Here is my CV.

My research asks:

• • How do people’s attitude and emotion synchronize and polarize at group-level, especially in online context?
  • Why people are becoming increasingly extreme online and how such extremism will affect us?
  • What new insights can we gain by combining methods from computational social science, computational cognitive modelling and neuroscience with research in social psychology?

Publications, Papers & Presentations

• • Ma, J., Zeng, Z., & Fang, K. (2022). Emotionally Savvy Employees Fail to Enact Emotional Intelligence When Ostracized. Personality and Individual Differences, 185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111250
  • Fang, K. & Wang, Y.X. (2022). The More You Think, the More Proactive You Will Be? Investigating the Reciprocal Effect Between Work-Related Rumination and Job Crafting. [Manuscript In Preparation]. School of Management, Lanzhou University.
  • Fang, K. (October, 2020). How Does Multitasking Influence Employee’s Performance and Well-Being: The Role of Cognitive Appraisals and Time Management Skills. Paper presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium of Lanzhou University, Gansu, China.

Education

New York University (Sep. 2022 – Present) Master’s Student Advisor: Prof. Madalina Vlasceanu (Ph.D.)  General Interest: Social Psychology, Computational Social Science; Social Neuroscience Research Topics: Polarization and synchronization in social networks, Role of extremism in group dymanics Scholarships and Awards: Gallatin Master’s Scholarship (USD 10,500 for full-time graduate study); NYU Dean’s Award for Summer Research (2023 Summer; USD2,500 awarded to individual research); Horn Family Fund for Environmental Research (2022-2023; USD1,500 awarded to research relevant to environmental study) Thesis: Overestimating Group Norms: How Online Extremist Speech Fuels Polarization (Ongoing Proposal)

Lanzhou University (Sep. 2018 – Jul. 2022) Bachelor of Management, GPA: 3.67/ 4 Thesis: Who is to Blame? Corporate Social Responsibility Information Buffers Investors’ Blame and Reaction towards Negative Earning Surprise (Awarded Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis) Scholarships and Awards: Academic Excellence Scholarship for 2020-2021 (Top 8%), Model Student for 2020-2021 (Top 10%), Award for Outstanding Student Services for 2020-2021 & 2018-2019 (Top 4.5% in Student Service)

• Research Awards & Fellowships
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  • • 2023 NYU Gallatin Dean’s Award for Summer Research (Ongoing)
      • Grants: USD 2,500
      • Project Title:  How Online Extremist Speech Amplify Polarization: The Misperceived Group Norm
      • Combining behavioral experiments with agent-based model to investigate how individual-level bias in norm perception could give rise to polarization at collective-level. 
      • Faculty Advisor: Madalina Vlasceanu, Ph.D.

• • • 2023-2024 The Horn Family Fund for Environmental Studies (Ongoing)
      • Grants: USD 1,500
      • Project Title: The Impact of Social Norms and Ingroup Loyalty on Climate Beliefs and Polarization in the US
      • Research funding to support projects related to environmentalism, environmental studies for NYU students.
      • Aiming to combine moral-rooted framing and social norm intervention to address political polarization on the climate.
      • Faculty Advisor: Madalina Vlasceanu, Ph.D.

• • • 2021-2022 China National College Student Innovation Training Program (No.202110730055)
      • Grants: CNY 7,500
      • Project Title: The More You Think, The More Proactive You Will Be? The Reciprocal Effect Between Work-related Rumination and Job Crafting
      • Awarded for Excellent Research Project of 2022
      • Faculty Advisor: Yanxia Wang, Ph.D.

• • • 2021 Lanzhou University Undergraduate Research Training Project
      • Grants: CNY 1,500
      • Project Title: Does After-work ICT Use Promote Performance or Threaten Health? An Experience Sampling Study
      • Faculty Advisor: Yanxia Wang, Ph.D.

• • • 2020 Lanzhou University Undergraduate Research Training Project
      • Grants: CNY 1,000
      • Project Title: The Effect of Cultural Distance on the Cross Border Merger and Acquisition Performance Under OBOR – From a Time Perspective
      • Faculty Advisor: Lei Wang, Ph.D.

• • • 2018 Lanzhou University Undergraduate Research Training Project
      • Grants: CNY 1,000
      • Project Title: How Does Multitasking Influence Employee’s Performance and Well-Being: The Role of Stress Appraisal and Time Management Skills
      • Faculty Advisor: Jie Ma, Ph.D.

• Experiences

	Collective Cognition Lab Master’s Student (2022-Present) Department of Psychology, New York University Principal investigator: Madalina Vlasceanu, Ph.D.
	Occupational Health Psychology Lab Research Assiatant (2018-2022) School of Management, Jinan University Edited manuscripts and drafted three literature reviews with one published on Personality and Individual Differences. Also, reviewed and tracked literature on relevent topics from top social and organization psychology journals. Principal investigator: Jie Ma, Ph.D.
	Workplace Mental Health Lab Research Assistant (2019-2022) School of Management, Lanzhou University Assisted in several dairy and longitudinal studies, including preparing and collecting surveys,  performing data cleaning and analysis using R and Mplus Principal investigator: Yanxia Wang, Ph.D.

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