Reiner Ng
Senior Member of Technical Staff at DSO National Laboratories

(Wei Jie) Reiner NG, Ph.D.

I graduated with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology (Nov 2024) from the National University of Singapore. I study attitudes—specifically attitudinal strength—and how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to provide clarity on how these cognitive properties inform and guide downstream behaviors in humans and agents over time.

My work combines experimental design, cross-sectional surveys, and social media data with advanced quantitative techniques including network analyses and multilevel meta-analyses in R.

(Wei Jie) Reiner NG
Focus: Cross-Cultural Differences Attitudinal Strength and Persuasion Affective-Cognitive Messaging

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Publications

Peer-reviewed empirical studies and meta-analyses

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The influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: A cross-cultural meta-analysis

JOC 2024

Wei Jie Reiner Ng, Ya Hui Michelle See, Mike W.-L. Cheung

Published in the Journal of Communication (IF: 7.10). A cross-cultural meta-analytic synthesis assessing how cultural factors moderate the efficacy of affect- versus cognition-based persuasive messaging.

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When objective ambivalence leads to subjective ambivalence: An affect-cognition matching perspective

PSPB 2022

Wei Jie Reiner Ng, Ya Hui Michelle See, Laura E. Wallace

Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (IF: 4.38). Investigates when evaluative inconsistency between positive and negative attributes translates into introspective, experienced subjective ambivalence.

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Defensive confidence and certainty in unchanged attitudes: The role of affect-cognition matching

PSPB 2022

Wei Jie Reiner Ng, Chi Bu, Ya Hui Michelle See

Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Examines how matching persuasive appeals to underlying affective vs. cognitive attitude bases affects defensive confidence and attitude certainty after resisting persuasion.

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Selected Experiences

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Nov 2024 – Present

DSO National Laboratories

  • Sensemake behavioral patterns at various levels of analysis (intrapersonal, interpersonal, group) using quantitative and computational methods.
  • Develop and test research approaches, analytical pipelines, and coding frameworks.

Research Manager

May 2022 – Jul 2023

NUS Business School

Managed research projects and research group initiatives for Asst. Profs. Karsten Muller, Fazio Dimas, and Ben Charoenwong.

Graduate Lab Member & Lab Manager

Aug 2021 – Oct 2024

Group for Persuasion and Evaluative Processes (Director: Assoc. Prof. Michelle See)

Oversaw data collection, cleaning, and modeling (SPSS, R) across attitudinal ambivalence studies. Chaired bi-weekly meetings and mentored Honours and independent research students.

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2021 – Oct 2024

National University of Singapore (Department of Psychology)

Taught Statistics and Research Methods I & II (PL2131 & PL2132); advised undergraduate cohorts on empirical research design.

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology Nov 2024

National University of Singapore

M.Soc.Sci. in Psychology Dec 2020

National University of Singapore

B.Soc.Sci. (Hons, Highest Distinction) Dec 2020

National University of Singapore

Honors & Fellowships

Dean PhD Fellowship 2021 – 2024

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS

NUS Research Scholarship 2021 – 2024

National University of Singapore

Dean’s Scholar List & Dean’s List 2018 – 2019

Top 1% and 5% of academic cohort at NUS

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