Mengyin Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Self bias, processing of self-relevant information, perception, attention

Introduction

Maggie received a DPhil and a MSc in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford after having graduated with a BA in Psychology (with Honors) from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Maggie’s currently doing a postdoc at The Future Lab and her main areas of interests are self bias, self-relevant processing, independent and interdependent self construal, perception and attention.


Previous experiences:

  • National Science Foundation for Postdocs: Cross-modal perception in self related processing

  • European Research Council: Personal perception

  • Wellcome Trust: The role of sleep in memory consolidation

  • National Institute for Health Research: Sleep and attention

  • University of Michigan Office of Vice-President for Research: Social science annual institute on cultural neuroscience

  • National Science Foundation: Independence, interdependence and analytic vs. holistic cognition

  • Center for Japanese Studies in Faculty Grant: Cultural variation in attention


Previous publications:

  • Jiang M., Wong S.K.M., Chung H.K.S., Sun Y., Hsiao J.H., Sui J. and Humphreys G.W. (2019). Cultural Orientation of Self-Bias in Perceptual Matching. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1469. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01469


Mengyin Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Self bias, processing of self-relevant information, perception, attention

Contact information

jiangmy@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn