Awards & Media Coverage
Awards
· Association for Psychological Science Fellow 2024
· Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award
for Transformative Early Career Contributions 2023
· The Behavioral Science & Policy Association’s Best Publication in Behavioral Policy 2023
· Association for Psychological Science Rising Star 2021
· UCLA Anderson’s Dean George W. Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award 2021
· Poets & Quants Selection: “World’s 40 Best B-School Professors Under the Age of 40” 2020
· UCLA Anderson’s Eric and E Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award 2020
· UCLA Hellman Fellows Award 2020
· UCLA Faculty Career Development Award 2020
· 2019 SPSP Cialdini Prize 2019
- Awarded annually to an outstanding publication that best explicates
social psychological phenomena through field research methods and demonstrates
broad relevance
· BX Award for Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student 2015
· The Academy of Management Outstanding Reviewer Award – OB Division 2013
· The Academy of Management Outstanding Reviewer Award – MOC Division 2014
· Duckworth Doctoral Fellowship 2013
- Awarded to one outstanding female PhD student at Wharton
· Paul R. Kleindorfer Scholar Award 2013
- Awarded to one outstanding PhD student in the PhD program
· Outstanding Undergraduate in Beijing 2010
· Leo KoGuan Academic Scholarship 2008
- Awarded to the top 1% of students at Peking University
Media Coverage of Research
· How to get back on track with your New Year’s resolutions, NBC News, 2/10/2024
· Want Your New Year Goals to Stick? Make Use of the ‘Fresh Start’ Effect, HRM, 1/9/2023
· The Power of Nudges, CNN Chasing Life Podcast, 10/12/2021
· Friend Shares Conservative Vaccine Denier's Last Words to Her, CNN, 9/1/2021
· Will Pfizer’s FDA Approval Spell an Uptick in COVID Vaccination? Popular Science, 9/1/2021
· It’s Academic, FanGraphs Effectively Wild Podcast Series, 7/2/2021
· This Simple Text Message Can Encourage People to Get Vaccinated, Researchers Say, CNN, 6/29/2021
· Setting High Performance Expectations Can Lead To Failure, Ideas for Leaders, 4/2/2021
· Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? Freakonomics, 3/17/2021
· The Science of How to Stick to New Year's Resolutions and Truly Change Your Habits, CNN, 1/1/2021
· 新年要立flag吗？要，如果你在2020年过得不咋样的话, 果壳网, 1/1/2021
· It’s Been 1,000 Years Since 2016. The Atlantic, 11/02/2020
· How Consumers Really Use Online Reviews. Wall Street Journal, 10/25/2020
· Here’s How to Design Your Quarantine Fresh Start. Forbes, 04/28/2020
· How ‘Emergency Reserves’ Can Help You Stick to Your Goals. BBC, 10/14/2019
· Invite Consumers to Pop-up, and Pop Goes the Spending — Offline and Online. The Source, 09/16/2019
· Fresh Starts, Guilty Pleasures and Other Pro Tips for Sticking to Good Habits. NPR, 08/16/2019
· Research Explores How “Fresh Starts” Affect Our Motivation at Work. Harvard Business Review, 02/04/2019
· The Unexpected Science of Fresh Starts and Failures. Psychology Today, 11/22/2018
· Double-Edged Fresh Slate: Not All Second Chances Are Good Ones. Quartz at Work, 08/23/2018
· Solving Health Care’s Hand-Washing Puzzle. KevinMD.com, 03/09/2018
· You’re Most Likely to Do Something Extreme Right Before You Turn 30. The Atlantic, 01/05/2018
· Head to Head with Hengchen Dai. Medium, 11/02/2017
· Is There a Perfect Time to Set Goals? - BBC, 10/17/2017
· The Tech that Tracks Your Movements at Work - BBC, 06/14/2017
· The Most Popular - and Best - Days to Start a Diet - Today, 05/22/2017
· September Is Your Second-chance January. The Cut, 09/01/2016
· The Long-Term Effects of Tracking Employee Behavior - Harvard Business Review, 07/18/2016
· What Studying Hand-washing is Teaching About Compliance - Science Daily, 05/10/2016
· Is It the Right Time for a Fresh Start? - Scientific American, 03/01/2016
· The New Era of 30-Day Fitness Challenges - The Wall Street Journal, 02/09/2016
· Can Psychology Teach Us How to Stick to New Year's Resolutions? NPR, 01/01/2016
· Why It’s So Hard to Keep Your Professional New Year’s Resolutions — and How to Change That. The Washington Post, 12/30/2015
· The Science of Habit Formation Explains How to Make Goals That Stick - Quartz, 12/29/2015
· My New Year’s Resolution: Regress to a Better Mean, Huffington Post, 12/23/2015
· Want to Keep New Year's Resolutions? Timing is Key, Researchers Find - Chicago Tribune, 12/22/2015
· New Year's Resolutions Often Fail. Good Thing the Year is Full of Fresh Starts - The Washington Post, 12/15/2015
· Why Monday is the Best Day for Setting New Goals - Association for Psychological Science, 11/10/2015
· When Willpower Isn't Enough. Freakonomics, 03/13/2015
· Health Experts Don't Always Sanitize Their Hands, Data Show. NPR, 03/02/2015
· How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions, Bloomberg View, 12/30/2014
· Hand-Washing Compliance in Hospitals Suffers During Long Shifts - ABC News Radio, 11/12/2014
· Hospital Workers Wash Hands Less at End of Shift, Study Finds - U.S. News & World Report, 11/12/2014
· Visit Hospital in the Morning to be Sure of a Doctor with Clean Hands - The Telegraph, 11/11/2014
· Hospital Workers Wash Hands Less Frequently Toward End of Shift, Study Finds. APA, 11/10/2014
· Take Advantage of a Fresh Start - Men’s Fitness, 10/31/2014
· The Exact Perfect Amount of Time to Take a Break, According to Data - Time, 10/20/2014
· Managers Cannot Wash Their Hands of Employees’ Routine Tasks - Financial Times, 09/29/2014
· We're Too Busy to Follow the Rules - Harvard Business Review, 09/10/2014
· Want to Make Better Choices? Contrive a ‘Fresh Start’ Out of Thin Air - New York Magazine, 06/27/2014
· Psychological Studies Reveal How to Be More Likable - The Daily Pennsylvania, 01/27/2014
· Need a Fresh Start? Here's How to Begin. Knowledge@Wharton, 01/06/2014
· Study Demystifies How People Keep New Year's Resolutions - The Daily Pennsylvania, 01/16/2014
· Why We Form New Year's Resolutions - The Huffington Post, 12/31/2013
· Why We Make Resolutions (and Why They Fail) - The New Yorker, 12/30/2013
· Want People to Trust You? Apologize - CBS MoneyWatch, 11/01/2013