Yin Chen, PhD
@yinchen.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Educational Psychology @ UT-Knoxville 🧡 | 🔎 Socialization of Motivation in Education | Appal-Asian ✨
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Yin Chen, PhD
@yinchen.bsky.social
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Investigating academic and demographic similarities to career role models for motivating diverse college students in STEM
Similar role models can be powerful tools to motivate participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, but it is unclea…
www.sciencedirect.com
🚨 New Open Access Publication Alert! 🚨
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
新年快乐! Happy lunar new year to all who celebrate! 🧧🎉
Two lovely CNY events this season - in Harlan, KY (with my family) and at @rrachelwonggg.bsky.social’s. What a lovely way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse 🐎
Two lovely CNY events this season - in Harlan, KY (with my family) and at @rrachelwonggg.bsky.social’s. What a lovely way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse 🐎
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
新年快乐! Happy lunar new year to all who celebrate! 🧧🎉
Two lovely CNY events this season - in Harlan, KY (with my family) and at @rrachelwonggg.bsky.social’s. What a lovely way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse 🐎
Two lovely CNY events this season - in Harlan, KY (with my family) and at @rrachelwonggg.bsky.social’s. What a lovely way to kick off the #YearOfTheHorse 🐎
So excited to announce our webinar series, "Doing the Work When It Matters Most" 😤 on behalf APA Div 15's Committee on Social Justice and Equity in Education!
Join us on Friday, Feb 20 to learn about using student voice to inform educational policy and practice! 🤩
#EdPsych #Policy #StudentVoice
Join us on Friday, Feb 20 to learn about using student voice to inform educational policy and practice! 🤩
#EdPsych #Policy #StudentVoice
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
So excited to announce our webinar series, "Doing the Work When It Matters Most" 😤 on behalf APA Div 15's Committee on Social Justice and Equity in Education!
Join us on Friday, Feb 20 to learn about using student voice to inform educational policy and practice! 🤩
#EdPsych #Policy #StudentVoice
Join us on Friday, Feb 20 to learn about using student voice to inform educational policy and practice! 🤩
#EdPsych #Policy #StudentVoice
‼️ Graduate student travel funding for #AERA2026 ‼️
We are awarding up to 5 graduate student travel awards for students presenting at #AERA2026!
✅ Eligible if you are:
• A graduate student
• AERA member
• TEP SIG member
• Presenting author at AERA 2026
📝 Apply by Jan 31, 2026: forms.gle/VTUpECjkMN2V...
Please share with your students! #EdPsych
✅ Eligible if you are:
• A graduate student
• AERA member
• TEP SIG member
• Presenting author at AERA 2026
📝 Apply by Jan 31, 2026: forms.gle/VTUpECjkMN2V...
Please share with your students! #EdPsych
AERA TEP SIG 2025 Graduate Student Travel Award
The Leadership Team of the Teaching Educational Psychology SIG is pleased to share that we will be supporting graduate student travel to present at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting. This year, we will dis...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:18 PM
‼️ Graduate student travel funding for #AERA2026 ‼️
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Our first lab graduate…Congratulations, Michelle! Michelle graduated with her master’s degree in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Adult Learning.
Way to pave the way for those that will come after you. We are SO proud!! 🎓🎉
Way to pave the way for those that will come after you. We are SO proud!! 🎓🎉
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Our first lab graduate…Congratulations, Michelle! Michelle graduated with her master’s degree in Educational Psychology with a specialization in Adult Learning.
Way to pave the way for those that will come after you. We are SO proud!! 🎓🎉
Way to pave the way for those that will come after you. We are SO proud!! 🎓🎉
APA Division 15's (Educational Psychology) Call for Proposals is out now (due January 14): apadiv15.org/2025/11/04/c...
Please also don't forget to sign up to review proposals :) It takes a team to put together a great convention!
Sign up to review: forms.gle/9inMBVEDZxyz...
See you all in D.C.!
Please also don't forget to sign up to review proposals :) It takes a team to put together a great convention!
Sign up to review: forms.gle/9inMBVEDZxyz...
See you all in D.C.!
Call for Proposals: Division 15 at the APA Convention (Washington, D.C.)
Division 15 invites submissions for the annual APA convention, to be held August 6-8 in Washington, D.C. Division proposals are due no later than January 14, 2026, at 5 p.m. ET. The Presidential Th…
apadiv15.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
APA Division 15's (Educational Psychology) Call for Proposals is out now (due January 14): apadiv15.org/2025/11/04/c...
Please also don't forget to sign up to review proposals :) It takes a team to put together a great convention!
Sign up to review: forms.gle/9inMBVEDZxyz...
See you all in D.C.!
Please also don't forget to sign up to review proposals :) It takes a team to put together a great convention!
Sign up to review: forms.gle/9inMBVEDZxyz...
See you all in D.C.!
🚨 New Open Access Publication Alert! 🚨
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Investigating academic and demographic similarities to career role models for motivating diverse college students in STEM
Similar role models can be powerful tools to motivate participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, but it is unclea…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🚨 New Open Access Publication Alert! 🚨
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m so excited to share a paper based on my dissertation research 😎 So thankful for @emilyqr.bsky.social’s support on this one!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So excited and proud of this paper! What an exciting opportunity it was to work with STELLAR scholars from across the U.S. to investigate infrastructures to support equity in STEM! 🤩
Open-access publication alert!! This is a special one; it represents two years of work with an amazing team of researchers, teachers, educational stakeholders, and technology experts to identify infrastructure that would advance equity in STEM education: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A field-initiated vision of research infrastructure for STEM education - International Journal of STEM Education
STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen i...
link.springer.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So excited and proud of this paper! What an exciting opportunity it was to work with STELLAR scholars from across the U.S. to investigate infrastructures to support equity in STEM! 🤩
My lab’s BlueSky debut…🥹 Check out our amazing grad student presenters at #SCIPIE2025!
So excited to make our BlueSky debut to highlight two excellent graduate student researchers, presenting at #SCIPIE2025! 🤩
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My lab’s BlueSky debut…🥹 Check out our amazing grad student presenters at #SCIPIE2025!
Not that it matters, but I beat @benheddy.bsky.social to a ed psych jobs posting 😎🤣
Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!
Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!
#edpsychjobs
The Educational Psychology program at the University of New Mexico is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognition and Learning!
Link to posting: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
The Educational Psychology program at the University of New Mexico is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognition and Learning!
Link to posting: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology: Cognition and Learning
University of New Mexico's College of Education and Human SciencesAssistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Educational PsychologyStarting in August 2026T...
unm.csod.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Not that it matters, but I beat @benheddy.bsky.social to a ed psych jobs posting 😎🤣
Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!
Guess y’all should go follow @aeratepsig.bsky.social job postings too!!
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First Motivation Monday of the year! We’re kicking things off with a panel on how to run a research lab featuring Drs. @andreicimpian.bsky.social , @nikkilobczowski.bsky.social, Dionne Cross-Francis, and Daeyon Jong. Don’t miss it!
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
September 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
First Motivation Monday of the year! We’re kicking things off with a panel on how to run a research lab featuring Drs. @andreicimpian.bsky.social , @nikkilobczowski.bsky.social, Dionne Cross-Francis, and Daeyon Jong. Don’t miss it!
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
Register here: tinyurl.com/MotMondays25...
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👀 We are seeking nominations for…
✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨
✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨
Please e-mail any nominations to lisa.bendixen@unlv.edu by Oct 15.
Include the following:
*Full Name
*Institution
*Email address
*200-word bio statement
We are excited to expand our team! 🤩
✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨
✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨
Please e-mail any nominations to lisa.bendixen@unlv.edu by Oct 15.
Include the following:
*Full Name
*Institution
*Email address
*200-word bio statement
We are excited to expand our team! 🤩
September 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
👀 We are seeking nominations for…
✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨
✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨
Please e-mail any nominations to lisa.bendixen@unlv.edu by Oct 15.
Include the following:
*Full Name
*Institution
*Email address
*200-word bio statement
We are excited to expand our team! 🤩
✨ Chair-Elect/Program Chair ✨
✨ Graduate Student Coordinator ✨
Please e-mail any nominations to lisa.bendixen@unlv.edu by Oct 15.
Include the following:
*Full Name
*Institution
*Email address
*200-word bio statement
We are excited to expand our team! 🤩
So grateful to share my work in beautiful Graz 🇦🇹 at #EARLI2025 🌍✨
I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!
I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!
September 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So grateful to share my work in beautiful Graz 🇦🇹 at #EARLI2025 🌍✨
I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!
I’m feeling so inspired by global perspectives and thankful for new colleagues & friends I met during my stay!
My (WFH) partner and I have a daily “floor time” ritual, where we lie on the home office floor for 10 minutes with our pugs and let the existential dread wash over us. 😃
We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.
We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.
August 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My (WFH) partner and I have a daily “floor time” ritual, where we lie on the home office floor for 10 minutes with our pugs and let the existential dread wash over us. 😃
We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.
We get up feeling…weirdly better? Honestly a surprisingly good coping strategy for…ya know, ✨everything✨ 10/10 recommend.
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My first, first author publication is out! It was a joy to be with and write about Black girls in math! ✨
July 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My first, first author publication is out! It was a joy to be with and write about Black girls in math! ✨
Life of the eldest daughter of immigrants ✨
Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕
Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕
July 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Life of the eldest daughter of immigrants ✨
Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕
Back home today to help out with our family restaurant! This place put me through college and grad school. I’ll forever be thankful 💕
Did you miss it? Don't worry, we recorded the session here: youtu.be/GjZsiyFVeCw!
June 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Did you miss it? Don't worry, we recorded the session here: youtu.be/GjZsiyFVeCw!
🚨 TODAY!! 🚨 Join us to learn about using Sharing Circles at 2pm ET. Hope to see you there!
Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨 TODAY!! 🚨 Join us to learn about using Sharing Circles at 2pm ET. Hope to see you there!
‼️New Publication Alert! 🎉
1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it?
In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating.
Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...
1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it?
In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating.
Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
‼️New Publication Alert! 🎉
1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it?
In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating.
Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...
1/Ever wonder who inspires high school students to pursue STEM careers and how they do it?
In our new study, @emilyqr.bsky.social and I asked high schoolers about who their real-life STEM career models are and what makes them motivating.
Read ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s112...
I have been ✨influenced✨
June 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I have been ✨influenced✨
Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Join us on Friday, 6/20 at 2pm EST for the APA Div 15's Anti-Racist & Anti-Colonial Research Methods series! Our final event will focus on using Sharing Circles (a method rooted in traditional practices of many Indigenous communities) w/ Macy Bowman 🤩
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
Register ➡️: tiny.utk.edu/APADiv15SharingCircles
Ended the spring semester with a picnic and rock painting in the park with my grad TAs ☀️
Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉
Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉
May 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ended the spring semester with a picnic and rock painting in the park with my grad TAs ☀️
Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉
Cheers to a successful year 1 here at UTK! 🥂🎉
If you missed APA Div 15's Race & Diversity webinar last Friday, don't worry - we recorded it!
"A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby.
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...
"A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby.
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...
Division 15 Race & Diversity Webinar: A Critical Quantitative Measurement Perspective
YouTube video by APA Division 15
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May 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you missed APA Div 15's Race & Diversity webinar last Friday, don't worry - we recorded it!
"A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby.
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...
"A CritQuant Measurement Perspective: MIMIC Models to Identify & Remediate Racial (and Other) Forms of Bias" by Drs. Matthew Diemer, Aixa Marchand, & Michael Frisby.
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHZb...
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Our first AERA with all the PhDs in line!! 🎓🎓🎓 🥹
It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰
@drbrookeedu.bsky.social
& bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai
It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰
@drbrookeedu.bsky.social
& bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai
April 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our first AERA with all the PhDs in line!! 🎓🎓🎓 🥹
It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰
@drbrookeedu.bsky.social
& bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai
It’s more fun when your colleagues are friends! 🥰
@drbrookeedu.bsky.social
& bluesky-less Dr. Kori Nicolai
Reposted by Yin Chen, PhD
I’m going to give my FIRST talk ever at AERA tomorrow morning during a Div C symposium on parents’ academic socialization. Thinking about presenting the study closet to my heart to the audience to which I call academic family hypes me up! Come and find out what I’ve been working on!
April 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’m going to give my FIRST talk ever at AERA tomorrow morning during a Div C symposium on parents’ academic socialization. Thinking about presenting the study closet to my heart to the audience to which I call academic family hypes me up! Come and find out what I’ve been working on!