Wicia M. Fang

Hello! I'm Wicia Fang, a PhD candidate in Social Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at Cornell University.  

My research examines social status—one's relative standing within a certain social context—in human cognition and person perception. I study how status emerges in and has consequences across multiple levels of analysis: individual (emotions, behaviors, well-being), dyadic (verbal and non-verbal communication), and network (social ties and structures). 

I design experiments with use mixed-methods approaches and leverage large, public datasets to answer questions at the intersection of social hierarchy, perception, and behavior.

Prior to graduate school, I was a researcher in the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab and earned my B.A. in Economics and in Cognitive Science (with honors) from UC Berkeley. 

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