Lab News
Awards & Recognitions
■ April 2019: Dashalini Katna receives HTBSC Student Research Award from the Ministry of Home Affairs
■ February 2019: Dashalini Katna receives Diversity Graduate Travel Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
■ December 2017: Bobby Cheon receives Rising Star recognition from the Association for Psychological Science
■ August 2017: Bobby Cheon awarded the Michael Harris Bond Award for Early Career Research Contributions from the Asian Association of Social Psychology
■ 2016: Regine Cassandra Lau awarded 2nd place at the URECA poster presentation competition (Humanities and Social Sciences category)
Conference Activities
Pamela Goh (Ph.D. Candidate) presented her Ph.D. dissertation (Study 1) at the Asian Conference of Criminal & Operations Psychology (ACCOP) 2019. Her presentation has garnered the interest of both academics and practitioners, include world renowned negotiation experts.
Press Coverage of Lab Research
■ Why merely feeling poor makes you feel hungry. Market Watch, July 11th, 2019.
■ Perception of lower socioeconomic standing stimulates appetite. July 9th, 2019.Feeling deprived makes you want to eat more: Study. Straits Times, February 2nd, 2017.
■ Simply identifying as lower class could be enough to trigger junk food cravings. Science Alert, December 30th, 2016.
■ Feeling inferior makes people eat more. Asian Scientist, December 28th, 2016.
■ Just thinking you’re poor makes you more likely to eat unhealthy foods, study says. Miami Herald, December 28th, 2016.
■ Experiments show people who feel socially inferior yearn for fattier foods. Medical Xpress, December 21st, 2016.
■ Why you’re more likely to eat fatty foods if you’re at the bottom of the pecking order at work. Daily Mail, December 19th, 2016.