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
2024 - today
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