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Department of Psychology

YIWEI CHEN

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Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
B.A., M.A., Nanjing University,P.R. China
M.S., Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998

PHONE	(419) 372-2462
Email	ywchen@bgnet.bgsu.edu
OFFICE	Room 244,Psychology Building
PERSONAL PAGE	http://personal.bgsu.edu/~ywchen/

Research Interests:

Please visit my lab page: Aging Lab
Social cognition and aging
Mental control and health promotion
Age differences in decision-making
Stereotypes toward aging
Cross-cultural differences in dialectical thinking

My research focuses on adult development in social cognition. In contrast to the traditional view that development stops at early adulthood, I believe that development is a lifelong process. I am especially interested in examining how social reasoning changes from young adulthood to old adulthood with accumulated life experience. I am also curious about how our intention and abilities to control our behaviors change throughout the life span. For example, what factors predict success or failure in maintaining a healthy lifestyle? Do our mental control abilities increase or decrease with age? Another line of my research concerns aging and communication. How would our stereotypical beliefs of old adults influence our communication styles and satisfaction with an old person? In the information age, how does the fastest growing population of our society cope with age-related decline in basic information processing mechanisms such as perception speed and memory? And finally, what can we do to train older adults using modern technologies?

Selected Publications:

Chen, Y. (in press). Reconstructing the reality: Unwanted memory in the courtroom. A book chapter in D. E. Eber and A. Neal (Eds.). Memory and representations: Constructed truths and competing reality. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press.

Hertzog, C., Chen, Y., Dixon, R., & Hultsch, D. (in press). Memory Self-Efficacy, Performance Predictions, and Memory Task Performance: Hacking at the Gordian Knot. Multivariate Behavioral Research.

Chen, Y., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (2000). Unwanted Thought: Age Differences in the Correction of Social Judgments. Psychology and Aging, 15, 475-482.

Blanchard-Field, F., Chen, Y., Schocke, M., & Hertzog, C. (1998). Evidence for content-specificity of causal attributions across the adult life span. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 5, 241-263.

Chen, Y. (1998). Unwanted memory: Age differences in susceptibility to the influence of false information on social judgments. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Chen, Y. & Blanchard-Fields, F. (1997). Age differences in stages of attributional processing. Psychology and Aging, 12, 694-703. Blanchard-Fields, F.,

Blanchard-Fields, F., Chen, Y., & Norris, L. (1997). Everyday problem solving across the adult life span: The influence of domain-specificity and cognitive appraisal. Psychology and Aging, 12, 684-693.

Blanchard-Fields, F., Chen, Y., & Herbert, C. E. (1997). Interrole conflict as a function of life stage, gender, and gender-related personality attributes. Sex Roles, 37, 155-174.

Blanchard-Fields, F., & Chen, Y. (1996). Adaptive cognition and aging. American Behavioral Scientist, 39, 231-248.

Courses Taught:

PSYC 240. Lifespan Developmental Psychology
PSYC 309. Psychology of Aging
PSYC 734. Adult Development and Aging

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