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| Lisa Kiang, PhD Faculty member, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University Tel: 336.758.5750 Email: kiangl@wfu.edu |
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Lisa Kiang is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. She is a developmental psychologist who earned her doctorate from the University of Denver in 2004. Before coming to Wake Forest, she spent two years as an NIMH Family Research Consortium-IV postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.Lisa's research interests center broadly on the intersection between self and identity, social relationships, and culture. In particular, her work incorporates a positive approach to development by identifying protective aspects of ethnic or cultural identity. Although much of her work has focused primarily on adolescents, she is currently exploring issues of cultural socialization and early ethnic understanding in younger cohort of children. Her target populations of interest are primarily Asian and Latin American youth.
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