Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Dr. Yannan Gao

Yannan Gao is a postdoctoral scholar at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology. She focuses on the developmental heterogeneity of STEM career trajectories. She also conducts real-world interventions to promote STEM motivation and reduce the STEM achievement gap.

 

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Starr, C.R., Gao, Y., Lee, G., Safavian, N., Rubach, C., Dicke, A., Eccles, J.S., & Simpkins, S. D. (2023). “Who’s better at math, boys or girls?”: Changes in adolescents’ math gender stereotypes and their motivational beliefs from early to late adolescence in two longitudinal datasets. Education Sciences.
  • Rubach, C., Lee, G., Starr, C., Gao, Y., Safavian, N., Dicke, A., Eccles, J. S., & Simpkins, S (2022). Is there any evidence of historical changes in gender differences in American high school students’ math competence-related beliefs over the last 40 years?. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology.
  • Starr, C.R., Gao, Y., Lee, G., Safavian, N., Rubach, C., Dicke, A., Eccles, J.S., & Simpkins, S. D. (2022) Have parents’ gender stereotypes about math and their correlates changed over the past three decades?. Sex Roles.
  • Gao, Y., & Eccles, J. (2020). Who lower their aspirations? The development and protective factors of college-associated career aspirations in adolescence. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 116, 103367.
  • Hsiao, Y., Gao, Y., & MacDonald, M. C. (2014). Agent-patient similarity affects sentence structure in language production: evidence from subject omissions in Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1015. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01015 

 

Curriculum Vitae

since 2024
Postdoctoral Scholar

Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany 

2023
Senior Researcher

Psychometrics and Survey Design, Beijing Yide Social Development Center, China 

2023
Postdoctoral Fellow

Applied Developmental Psychology, New York University, Shanghai, China

2022
Ph.D in Education

University of California, Irvine, USA

2016
B.A. with Comprehensive Honors in Psychology

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA