Shannan Chen

I'm an incoming PhD student at the University of Kansas for the social psych program. After earning my B.A in Psychology at New York University, I worked as a research associate at the Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences Lab at UC Riverside (working with Dr. Ian Ballard).

My research interests include the contextual factors-- situational, individual difference, and cultural-- that impact people's experiences of emotional processes. Specifically, I'm interested in using naturalistic methods-- experience sampling, mobile sensing and ambulatory physiology-- to capture how emotions are experienced in daily life contexts. Additionally, I'm curious about the individual difference factors that impact someone’s capability to implement expertise in emotion (such as emotional granularity).