Huajian Gao is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology. Before joining the Social Psychological Approaches to East Asian and Asian American Education lab, Gao worked in the Chinese Families Lab at New York University with Dr. Niobe Way, as well as a lab at Shenzhen University in China. Gao's current research interests focus on understanding social emotional development in childhood and adolescence across family systems. He is now working on a study to investigate how overprotective parents influence emerging adults emotional autonomy development and their feeling of loneliness and aloneness.
Huajian Gao's current research interests focus on understanding social emotional development in childhood and adolescence across family systems. He is now working on a study to investigate how overprotective parents influence emerging adults emotional autonomy development and their feeling of loneliness and aloneness.
Toni Falbo (Supervisor)Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.
The mechanism of escaping self-discrepancy through video gaming and college students academic commitment, America Educational Research Association (AERA), (2021)
Explorations of the Motivations for One-Child Families in the U.S., Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA), Washington, D.C. (2020)
A Gendered View of Campus Carry and Safety at a Large Research University, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)
