(Wei Jie) Reiner NG
National University of Singapore, Department of Psychology
Biography
I am a graduate student (PhD expected in Aug 2024) at the National University of Singapore. I have interests in understanding how conflicting evaluations can influence our attitudes, and how such attitudes and its properties may affect the downstream behaviors (e.g., intentions, attitude position over time).
Primarily, I focus and work on social- and health-related topics using experimental design, survey design, and social media analytics. I hope to integrate these understandings with dyadic and cross-cultural research.
Recently, I am also trying to integrate other research techniques such as sentiment analysis and network analysis into my research repertoire. I mainly use SPSS and R in my analyses.
Interests
- Attitudes and Persuasion Related Research
- Health Communications
- Close Relationships
- Cultural Differences
Education
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Ph.D. in Psychology, Expected in 2024
National University of Singapore
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M. Soc. Sci. in Psychology, Dec 2020
National University of Singapore
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B. Soc. Sci. (Hons) in Psychology (Highest Distinction), Dec 2020
National University of Singapore
Skills
R
Using Rstudio and Jupyter notebook
SPSS
Statistics for Social Sciences
Experimental and Survey Design
Qualtrics, Medialab, Amazon M-Turk
Scientific Writing
APA Format
Experiences
Research Manager
NUS Business School
Manage research projects and research group for three finance professors:
- Asst Prof. Karsten Muller, Asst Prof. Fazio Dimas, and Asst Prof. Ben Charoenwong.
Tasks include:
- Onboarding of new research members.
- Creating manuals for onboarding and offboarding.
- Leading pilot research projects and brainstorming research with members.
- Scheduling meetings and ensuring timely delivery of tasks assigned for stakeholders.
- Other administrative tasks.
Teaching Assistant
Modules taught:
- Statistics and Research Methods I (PL2131)
- Statistics and Research Methods II (PL2132)
Responsibilities include:
- Guided and advised students on semestral research projects
- Performed teaching duties to supplement lecture’s content
- Administrative and marking duties
Lab Manager
Responsibilities include:
- Administering protocols and regulations for lab members in using of the lab resources
- Providing assistance to lab members when statistical issues arise.
- Resolving tasks as needed when requested by the principal investigators.
- Up-keeping, troubleshooting, and maintaining the computer labs (three labs in total) and administrative issues.
- Managing purchases and logistics for the labs.
Graduate Lab Member at Group for Persuasion and Evaluative Processes
Responsibilities include:
- Drafted and revised manuscripts for submission to premier journals (e.g., Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin IF: 4.38)
- Generated new research questions and extended on existing research projects
- Coordinated and chaired bi-weekly lab meetings
- Mentored Honours and independent research project (IRP) students for research designs (e.g., panel survey, A/B testing) statistical analyses (e.g., General Linear Modeling, Regressions), and report writing
- Oversaw data collection, data cleaning, and data analyses for research studies
- Tools used: SPSS, R - Managed and updated lab’s webpage with latest information
Student Research Assistant at Department of Psychology, Quantitative Psychology Lab
Professor Mike Cheung (Lab Director)
Responsibilities include:
- Synthesized and review literature on advanced meta-analytic techniques (e.g., two-stage structural-equational modeling)
- Extract relevant data for further analysis
Contract Researcher at Group for Persuasion and Evaluative Processes
Responsibilities include:
- Drafted manuscripts for submission to premier journals (e.g., Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
- Developed new research projects and extended current research projects
- Mentored students for statistical analyses (e.g., General Linear Modeling)
- Oversaw data collection, data cleaning, and data analyses for research studies
- Tools used: SPSS, R - Managed and updated lab’s webpage with latest information
Student Research Assistant at Department of Psychology, Quantitative Psychology Lab
Professor Mike Cheung (Lab Director)
Responsibilities include:
- Systematic review on non-linear growth model, missing data in meta-analysis
- Data extraction-related tasks
Part-Time Research Assistant (data)
Social Service Research Centre
Responsibilities include:
- Data cleaning, data analyses, and writing syntax to simplify data-related research
- Tool used: SPSS, Python (e.g., scikit-learn) - Other administrative-related tasks
Lab Member at Group for Persuasion and Evaluative Processes
Responsibilities include:
- Recruited and trained research assistants for various research tasks (e.g., statistical analyses, experimental design and material creation)
- Conducted independent research related to attitudinal ambivalance and affect-cognition properties
- Tool used: SPSS, R - Managed participant reimbursement and other research-related administrative processes.
Research Assistant at Group for Persuasion and Evaluative Processes
Responsibilities include:
- Designed and created materials for computerized experiments related to attitudinal research
Tools used: Medialab, Qualtrics, Photoshop - Data collection, data cleaning, and data analyses for several research studies
Tools used: SPSS, R - Participant reimbursement and other research-related administrative processes
Research Intern
Responsibilities include:
- Systematic review on psychosocial factors’ (e.g., personality) predictive utility for a broad range of behaviours
- Assisted in sentiment analyses and explored possible explanations for outputs
Research Intern
Responsibilities include:
- Reviewed and synthesized current research related to mental stresses and big data analytic techniques
- Examined the utility of a big-data approach towards predicting mental health outcomes from a range of biopsychosocial factors
Research Intern
Responsibilities include:
- Review extant literature for relationship between the relationship of teacher qualifications and teaching quality
- Weigh advantages among major international education system’s curriculum and the existing benchmarks for preschool teachers’ entry
Research Intern
Responsibilities include:
- Systematic review on extant literature related to enhancing mental resiliency among correctional officers
- Develop self-help tools targeted for enhancing officers’ mental resiliency
Accomplishments
NUS Research Scholarship
The University offers Research Scholarships to outstanding PhD candidates to pursue a full-time graduate research degree at NUS. A limited number of scholarships is available each academic year. They are therefore awarded on a very competitive basis.
Dean PhD Fellowship
This new and prestigious Fellowship will provide the best incoming FASS PhD candidates with an additional year of funding. Up to three Fellowships of S$45,000 each will be awarded to the most promising candidates.
FASS Graduate Research Support Scheme
Research grant of SGD1500 given to support relevant research studies related to the Masters Programme.
Dean’s Scholar List and Dean’s List
Recognition given by the faculty for being in the top 1% and top 5% of the academic cohort for the semester.
Dean’s Scholar List
AY17/18 Sem 1
AY18/19 Sem 1
Dean’s List
AY17/18 Sem 1 & 2
AY18/19 Sem1
Dean’s Scholar List
AY17/18 Sem 1
AY18/19 Sem 1
Dean’s List
AY17/18 Sem 1 & 2
AY18/19 Sem1
Singapore Prison Service Psychology Prize
Top student in course AY2017 Sem 1.
Publications and Poster
Presented posters and publications can be found here
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(2022).
When objective ambivalence leads to subjective ambivalence:An affect-cognition matching perspective.
In PSPB.