So Young Choe, Ph.D. in Psychology

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology, the University of Southern California

Worked with Dr. Stephen J. Read (Psychology) about parenting and personality development.

Collaborated with Dr. Jungeun Olivia Lee (Social Work) regarding data analyses/statistics and developmental science.

Learned from Dr. Penelope Trickett (parenting and child maltreatment) and Dr. John McArdle (Item response theory and structural equation modeling)

Doctoral dissertation: Reframing parental psychological control: The role of insecure attachment

M.A. in Psychology, the University of Southern California

Master's thesis: How parental psychological control is related to adolescent anger and aggression

M.A. in Psychology, Seoul National University (South Korea)

Master's thesis: Who makes utilitarian judgments? An experimental and fMRI study

B.S. in Biology education, Seoul National University (South Korea)

Health Research Training

PI of a K99 funded by NICHD & Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-2026

Department of Psychology, University of Washington

train for family observation and interviews (mixed methods) and Latine parenting.

published the Two Facet Parental Psychological Control Scale (Choe et al., 2026).

published cultural values beyond cultural orientations (collectivism vs. individualism).

the Respect based on Age Scale (Choe & Schoppe-Sullivan, 2025).

the Indebtedness and Repayment Expectation Scale (Choe et al., 2026).

learn how to write fundable grant applications.

NIAAA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

train to research adolescents' alcohol use and connect it to parenting.

published the Two Facet Model of Parental Psychological Control (Choe et al., 2023).

analyze my Korean adolescents data about my new scale of parental psychological control, adjustment, and cultural values.

learn how to write fundable grant applications.

NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2022

Center for the Study of the Prevention Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center

train for prevention methods (e.g., observe a parenting education intervention, learn how to engage low-income and ethnic minority parents).

analyze nested and longitudinal data to connect parenting to adolescent suicide from the Sources of Strength intervention data.

learn how to write fundable grant applications.

Academic appointments

Dr. SoYoung Choe, Ph.D.’s Research and Consultation, 2026-

[Between my K99 and R00 grants by NICHD]

continue to publish my parental psychological control research from my Korean adolescents' data (Choe et al., 2026).

write books about grantsmanship (e.g., what not to do to earn training grants) and my parental psychological control research, to benefit parents, children, students, junior scholars, etc.

make and upload videos on parental psychological control research, grantsmanship, and culturally sensitive training, to benefit parents, children, students, junior scholars, etc.

consult on research methods or grantsmanship (e.g., K grant writing) or academia.

Assistant Research Psychologist, 2020-2021

Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

Applied for grants to research Latinx and Asian American populations.

Analyzed data on parental psychological control from Latinx populations.

Visiting Professor, 2019-2020

Institute for Child Development and Family Relations, California State University, San Bernardino

Consulted on various projects regarding longitudinal study designs and data analyses (statistics) for grant applications.

Trained Latinx and first-generation college students to analyze data of incarcerated parents.

Visiting Scholar, 2011-2013

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder (Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory)

Analyzed fMRI data.

Performed advanced statistical analysis of my Master’s fMRI data.

Designed and conducted emotional pain observation study.

Worked the brain stem wiki project.

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