Yang Wu
First Name:
Yang
Last Name:
Wu
Email :
yangm.wu@utoronto.ca
Title:
Assistant Professor
Biography :
Yang is interested in how humans reason about emotion or affect, an emerging research domain called Affective Cognition. She investigates affective cognition in humans from infancy to adulthood, using interdisciplinary approaches including behavioral experiments, exploratory play, and computational modeling. Yang received her postdoctoral training at Stanford University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at MIT in 2018 and her B.S. in Psychology at Peking University in 2012.
Education:
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Peking University
Personal Website:
https://yangwulab.com
People Type:
Areas of Interest:
- Affective cognition
- Emotion understanding
- Social learning
- Theory of mind
- Causal reasoning
- Infants and children
- Computational modeling
- Open science
