Yi-Tai Seih

Yi-Tai Seih (謝亦泰)

PhD student / Social & Personality Psychology

University of Texas at Austin

RESRAECH INTERESTS

Applied Psycholinguistics, Health Psychology, & Cross-cultural psychology

EDUCATIONS

2009 - present Ph.D, Social & Personality Area, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

(Advisor: Professor James W. Pennebaker)

2005 - 2007 M.A., Social & Personality Area, Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

(Advisor: Professor.Yi-Cheng Lin)

2001 - 2005 B.A., Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

PUBLICATIONS

Seih, Y. T., Chung, C. K., Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). Experimental Manipulations of Perspective Taking and Perspective Switching in Expressive Writing. Cognition and Emotion, 25(5), 926-938.
Seih, Y. T., Lin, Y. C., Huang, C. L., Peng, C. W., & Huang, S. P. (2008). The Benefits of Psychological Displacement in Diary-Writing When Using Different Pronouns. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13(1), 39‐41.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

Seih, Y.T., Buhrmester, M. D., Lin, Y. C., Huang, C. L., & Swann, W. B., Jr. (in preparation). Self-verification concerns in Eastern vs. Western cultures.
Seih, Y.T., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in preparation). Nouns and verbs in everyday language: Links with social and personality process.

PRESENTATIONS

Seih, Y. T., Swann, W.B., Jr., Lin, Y. C., & Huang, C. L. (2011, Jan.). Striving to be known or to be accepted: Cultural differences in self-verification process. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio
, United State.
Seih, Y. T., Chung, C. K., Pennebaker, J. W. (2010, Jan.). Experimental Manipulations of Perspective Taking and Perspective Switching in Expressive Writing. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, United State.
Huang, C. L., Lin, Y. C., Chang, J. H., & Seih, Y. T. (2008, Jul.). Where do I see me? Evaluation of a new emotional writing method of psychological displacement and its beneficial effects. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany.
Seih, Y.T., Pong, C.W., Lin, Y.C., Huang, C.L., & Huang, S.P. (2007, Jul.). How do I see me? The

emotion alleviating effect of psychological displacement. Oral presented at Proceeding of The Seventh Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, Sabah, Malaysia.

Seih, Y.T., Lin, Y.C., & Lee, Y.C. (2006, Oct.). Gender differences in mechanisms of ambivalence

over emotional expressiveness. Poster presented at Proceeding of Asia’s Educational Miracle: Child Development in Family, School and Cultural Contexts, Incheon, Korea.

Lin, C.L., Lin, Y.C., Lee, Y.C., & Seih, Y.T. (2006, Oct.). Attentional bias of Emotional

ambivalence. Poster presented at Proceeding of Asia’s Educational Miracle: Child Development in Family, School and Cultural Contexts, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.

SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 SPSP Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (US $ 500)

2010 Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, University of Texas at Austin (US $1,000)

2009 Burton Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin (US $1,000)

2008 The scholarship of government sponsorship for overseas study, Taiwan (US $ 50, 000 for two years)

   2004 National Science Council, College Student Research Scholarship (US $ 1,200)

HONOR
   2005 Dean Award in College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Sep.2011‐Dec.2011 Teaching Assistant in Introductory psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

(Weekly lecture for one hour)

Sep.2005‐Feb.2007 Teaching Assistant in Statistics, Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

AD HOC REVIEWS
Stress & Health

Motivation & Emotion

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