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Irene MELANI

Research Associate

Irene Melani joined CLIC Social Workgroup on 30th April 2021 as a Research Associate. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Psychology from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and obtained a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. Her research interests lie broadly at the intersections of culture, cognition, and intra/intergroup processes. Specifically, her research examines the cognitive mechanisms underlying cultural variations and the ways individuals organize themselves within groups. She seeks the use of interdisciplinary methods in her research, with a focus on neuroscience and behavioral economic games approaches. At CLIC, she investigated how cognitive flexibility relates to the construal of the self as independent versus interdependent.

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Tong, Ke. 2022. “Cognitive Flexibility and Its Association with Linguistic Preferences, Decision-Making, Tolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support,” April. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AY9GR.

Berg, M. K., Yu, Q., Salvador, C. E., Melani, I., and Kitayama, S. 2020. Mandated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination predicts flattened curves for the spread of COVID-19, Science Advances, 6(32), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc1463

Cheon BK, Melani I, Hong Y. 2020. How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(7), 928-937, doi:10.1177/1948550620927269



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