Yan Chen Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• Research project: Developing in digital worlds – the impact of digital learning on child and adolescent cognitive and social development• Responsible for identifying core social skills (i.e., self-regulation, empathy, and pro-social behaviour) that children need and benefit from participating in the digital world, and to map these social skills on to NZ Curriculum• Responsible for designing and testing instructional tools that can foster the development of social skills in the digital… Show more • Research project: Developing in digital worlds – the impact of digital learning on child and adolescent cognitive and social development• Responsible for identifying core social skills (i.e., self-regulation, empathy, and pro-social behaviour) that children need and benefit from participating in the digital world, and to map these social skills on to NZ Curriculum• Responsible for designing and testing instructional tools that can foster the development of social skills in the digital learning framework Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

• Assessment evaluation in undergraduate medical training and workplace-based settings• Research projects include: 1). The impact of Progress Testing on medical students’ approach to learning and levels of stress; 2). The reliability of mini-CEX and its impact on anaesthesia training and supervision• Responsible for conducting interviews (focus group and individual participant), qualitative research methods (e.g., thematic analysis) and quantitative data analysis• Teaching… Show more • Assessment evaluation in undergraduate medical training and workplace-based settings• Research projects include: 1). The impact of Progress Testing on medical students’ approach to learning and levels of stress; 2). The reliability of mini-CEX and its impact on anaesthesia training and supervision• Responsible for conducting interviews (focus group and individual participant), qualitative research methods (e.g., thematic analysis) and quantitative data analysis• Teaching experience in clinical education courses Show less

Dunedin, New Zealand

• Conducted and analysed experiments on age-related differences in emotion perception and social understanding that involved human cognitive and physiological data • Research projects include: 1). Age-related differences in gambling behaviour among young and older adults; 2). The impact of serotonin on young and older adults’ emotion recognition and social understanding; 3). Holistic face processing in childhood• Supervised and managed undergraduate research projects

Dunedin, New Zealand

• Conducted and analysed experiments on face recognition and emotion understanding in adulthood, based on programming E-Prime experiments• Conducted and analysed experiments on the development of autobiographical memory and language in childhood, thus designing coding schemes to measure memory development in childhood

Ph.D., Psychology

Ba(Hons), Psychology, First Class