Yin Chen, PhD
@yinchen.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Educational Psychology @ UT-Knoxville 🧡 | 🔎 Socialization of Motivation in Education | Appal-Asian ✨
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!
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 💕
‼️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! 🥂🎉
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
Annual business meeting of the powerlifting SIG at Club Forum’s “Meat Locker” this morning 😤💪🏼
We are growing in membership! 🤗
@pnbeymer.bsky.social
#AERA2025
We are growing in membership! 🤗
@pnbeymer.bsky.social
#AERA2025
April 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Annual business meeting of the powerlifting SIG at Club Forum’s “Meat Locker” this morning 😤💪🏼
We are growing in membership! 🤗
@pnbeymer.bsky.social
#AERA2025
We are growing in membership! 🤗
@pnbeymer.bsky.social
#AERA2025
Attending #AERA2025? 👀 Might I recommend adding this exciting Division C invited session focused on navigating ✨messy✨ educational research?
Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h
Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h
April 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Attending #AERA2025? 👀 Might I recommend adding this exciting Division C invited session focused on navigating ✨messy✨ educational research?
Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h
Friday, April 25th
11:40am - 1:10pm MDT
Colorado Convention Center
Meeting Room Level, Room 102
tinyurl.com/26yk9g7h
Join us THIS Friday (3/14) at 11am PT/2pm ET to learn about using testimonio methods to enact anti-racist and anti-colonial research in educational psychology with Dr. Julieth Diaz Benitez! 🤩
➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/TestimonioMe...
➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/TestimonioMe...
March 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Join us THIS Friday (3/14) at 11am PT/2pm ET to learn about using testimonio methods to enact anti-racist and anti-colonial research in educational psychology with Dr. Julieth Diaz Benitez! 🤩
➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/TestimonioMe...
➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/TestimonioMe...
I’m just a baby 🥹👉🏼👈🏼
February 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’m just a baby 🥹👉🏼👈🏼
A lot of unknown happening in the U.S. these days, making it feel weird to continue business as usual. But, alas, we persist!
Just finished a 1st round of interviews with HS students. How privileged and lucky I am to be in a position to find ways to support equitable learning!
Keep it up, fam. ✊🏼
Just finished a 1st round of interviews with HS students. How privileged and lucky I am to be in a position to find ways to support equitable learning!
Keep it up, fam. ✊🏼
January 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A lot of unknown happening in the U.S. these days, making it feel weird to continue business as usual. But, alas, we persist!
Just finished a 1st round of interviews with HS students. How privileged and lucky I am to be in a position to find ways to support equitable learning!
Keep it up, fam. ✊🏼
Just finished a 1st round of interviews with HS students. How privileged and lucky I am to be in a position to find ways to support equitable learning!
Keep it up, fam. ✊🏼
happy birthday, taylor swift. 💖
December 14, 2024 at 12:49 AM
happy birthday, taylor swift. 💖
Every year, my siblings and I try to complete a lego set without instructions.
Here is my mom’s TikTok recap of this major event (and yes, my mom is on TikTok). 🫰🏼
Here is my mom’s TikTok recap of this major event (and yes, my mom is on TikTok). 🫰🏼
December 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Every year, my siblings and I try to complete a lego set without instructions.
Here is my mom’s TikTok recap of this major event (and yes, my mom is on TikTok). 🫰🏼
Here is my mom’s TikTok recap of this major event (and yes, my mom is on TikTok). 🫰🏼
🗓️ On Nov. 19, 2014, I got into an ed psych research lab to work Dr. Ellen Usher as an undergrad RA to study students’ motivation.
🕐 10 yrs later, I’m now meeting with students to join my own ed psych research lab!!
What a full circle moment…the dream came true 🥹💖
🕐 10 yrs later, I’m now meeting with students to join my own ed psych research lab!!
What a full circle moment…the dream came true 🥹💖
![Screenshot of a facebook post from November 19, 2014:
“Good news today: […] Acceptance into a PSY research lab/independent study. Nothing can make my day bad.”
Added comment:
“This lab is perfect for me because it students motivation and learning in places like Appalachia. It also studies the ‘big-fish-small-pond effect’ where students that were ‘big fishes’ in HS (small pond) went on to a huge university—just like me!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tnprlswt54zsvld2qn4223wj/bafkreiasctf5airdsydfmc72i3el6lybmsnnv73h43nezltn2tfx5jwfcy@jpeg)
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
🗓️ On Nov. 19, 2014, I got into an ed psych research lab to work Dr. Ellen Usher as an undergrad RA to study students’ motivation.
🕐 10 yrs later, I’m now meeting with students to join my own ed psych research lab!!
What a full circle moment…the dream came true 🥹💖
🕐 10 yrs later, I’m now meeting with students to join my own ed psych research lab!!
What a full circle moment…the dream came true 🥹💖
One of my first papers from my PhD program is finally out into the world!🎉
📝 “What feathers flock together? Examining college students’ perceptions of social model similarity” in the Journal of Experimental Education
So thankful @emilyqr.bsky.social for all her support on this one!
📝 “What feathers flock together? Examining college students’ perceptions of social model similarity” in the Journal of Experimental Education
So thankful @emilyqr.bsky.social for all her support on this one!
April 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
One of my first papers from my PhD program is finally out into the world!🎉
📝 “What feathers flock together? Examining college students’ perceptions of social model similarity” in the Journal of Experimental Education
So thankful @emilyqr.bsky.social for all her support on this one!
📝 “What feathers flock together? Examining college students’ perceptions of social model similarity” in the Journal of Experimental Education
So thankful @emilyqr.bsky.social for all her support on this one!